GalleryCloud Nothings announce album, play Oakland next month
It’s been two years since Cloud Nothings released their pop-infused headbanger of a longplayer: Here and Nowhere Else. I fell hard for that record but came to it after [...]
GalleryPremiere: Feral Ohms showcases raw, heavy psych on new live album
Between the above picture of Ethan Miller in his element, and the killer song included below, any words spent describing the ferocity of Oakland heavy psych trio Feral Ohms [...]
GalleryBlossom share new LP ‘Pure Love’ for the first time
The San Francisco band Blossom has been sitting on their new LP, Pure Love, for a while now, debating endlessly when they should share it. Well, today is the [...]
GalleryPremiere: Listen to Light Fantastic’s dreamy new album ‘Out of View’
Even without learning that Light Fantastic is a San Francisco band, Out of View feels unmistakably like a Northern California album. The group's sound is equal parts jangly surf-rock [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Get to know Poor Things in “I’m Just Here”
Last week San Francisco's Poor Things premiered their debut EP, Bad Cursive, over on DoTheBay. Officially out today on Gaylord's Party Music, Bad Cursive is bedroom pop done right. [...]
GalleryListen to Jay Stone’s music from ‘Morris From America’
Jay Stone released one of my favorite albums in 2015, the collaborative project with Monster Rally, Foreign Pedestrians. We haven't heard a great deal from him since, but earlier [...]
GalleryTaylor Vick releases folky, heartfelt debut under moniker Boy Scouts
In the early 2000s, Apple debuted Garageband, and forever changed the relationship between recording artists and the 'studio.' Breaking down the costly barriers between DIY artists and spaces to capture [...]
GalleryPremiere: The Nopes to release noisy, relentless debut LP
Although they only released their first EP this time last year, The Nopes are already back with a 12- song LP. The Jack Shirley-produced Never Heard of It sees the [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Beekeepers, “Game Over”
Photo: Nicolas Cubillos Marroquin
After taking a brief hiatus over the last year, Oakland trio Beekeepers released their debut proper album last month, Varroa Mites on Vacant Stare.
Beekeepers are [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: 1988 – “Feria”
Oakland's 1988 caught our ear with their spooky, distorted, synth-heavy pop. 1988's Luis Gutierrez tells me they've been working on a ton of material, and luckily they've asked us [...]
GalleryMadeline Kenney covers Arthur Russell for non•market comp
Man, has it really just been a year since we first told you about Madeline Kenney? She's released a steady stream of material since then, and each release seems [...]
GalleryNever Young craft a noisy, urgent sucker-punch in “Beta Male Erotica”
Never Young are one of our favorite local bands to turn up all the way when we just want to scream into a pillow and thrash away all our [...]
