GalleryPremiere: The Sunset Shipwrecks release angst-fueled “Vengeance Will Be Mine”
What do you do when your band and your city meet their end? Start a new band and sing about it all.
Well, that's exactly what Ryan Massey did when [...]
GalleryPremiere: Meet Berkeley’s Bows and hear their dreamy, ambient “Should Have Known”
(photo: Emily Hayward and Marta Dymeck
The story of the Berkeley band Bows starts out with tragedy, but continues with desperation, fear, and a post-apocalyptic colony outside of Earth.
Wait, what?
We'll [...]
GalleryPremiere: OVVN’s debut LP is uncompromisingly dissonant art rock
(I Love Myself And Want To Live album art by Phil Elias)
Begun in late 2013, as a recording project with no intentions of live performance, OVVN have since expanded [...]
GalleryGet to know: Midnight Sons
When we released our Bay Area twang mixtape, we KNEW there would be some omissions. When there's so much going on around the Bay, it's inevitable when you try [...]
GalleryPremiere: Angelica Rockne’s new 7″ “When I See You/Joshua”
Angelica Rockne may live in Nevada City, but the former San Francisco resident remains closely tied to the Bay - she collaborated with western-pop band Evil Eyes for a [...]
GalleryGet To Know: Tanukichan
Tanukichan is the new solo venture of Hannah van Loon, who recently left Trails and Ways after a four year stint with the band. Just yesterday she released "Bitter [...]
GalleryCreepers release new song, support Bilinda Butchers at Swedish American Hall
Several iterations of Creepers have popped up throughout the years. The Bay Area group began in 2010 as a guitar and drum duo, but has since expanded into a [...]
GalleryVideo: For Now is “Ready to Die”
Oakland duo For Now quietly released a video for their track "Ready to Die" not too long ago, and well...it kinda blew my mind. Take a look:
The shaky tension [...]
GalleryPremiere: Listen to the dark sounds of Teal’s “See Myself to the Door”
James Rodgers of Teal is a busy man. When he's not drumming with Creative Adult, he's been recording and performing as Teal, which began as a solo project but [...]
GalleryMeat Market made a new album, “Dig Deep”
The word "catchy" is weird - I think it describes an ability. A catchy song does something a non-catchy song can't? I call a song catchy, and that's usually the final frontier in [...]
GalleryPremiere: Not the 1’s are “Not the Ones to be Gamed on”
We've heard several songs from Not the 1's off their forthcoming LP, and they seem to a have a pretty great formula: write rhymes that take great joy in [...]
GalleryDancing In the Dark: Abbot Kinney delivers haunting pop on new EP “The Night”
Tell Jared Swanson that his brainchild Abbot Kinney sounds like Radiohead and he'll probably respond with an exasperated sigh.
Every blogger and their mom (and their mom) has compared the [...]
