GalleryVideo Premiere: Sporting Life – “Dull & Safe / Forces At Play”
As we patiently wait for the forthcoming LP from San Francisco's Sporting Life, we're pleased to present a wonderful new video from the group for the tracks "Dull & [...]
GalleryThe Traveling ILLS release new music video “Rain On My Parade”
Photo: Shayna Hahn
Billy Bragg once lamented the near impossibility of mixing "pop with politics" over twenty years ago, but Santa Cruz-based rockers The Traveling Ills seemingly have no problem [...]
GalleryBlood brothers ‘SinSerious’ sign to MF Grimm’s label Day by Day Entertainment
SinSerious is the project of Alex and Jordan Powell - two brothers who have been refining their craft under various monikers for years now, honing their flow in San Diego and [...]
GalleryOakland’s Mansion to release experimental, no-wave album ‘Early Life’
Oakland's Mansion are a relatively new group. They make music that sounds like they've listened to a lot of the bands that identified with New York's No Wave scene, and [...]
GalleryCazadero releases ‘Domestic Refugee’
Cazadero, the project fronted by our good friend and former Bay Bridged contributor Joe Hayes, just released Domestic Refugee, their third LP in a little over four years. Hayes, [...]
GalleryEast Bay punk duo Street Eaters prepare for new album with single ‘Paralyzed’
(Street Eaters, photo by Leo Docuyanan)
Street Eaters are two friends who have been making music together since at least 2009. Any band that's been putting out music that long [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Down and Outlaws – “I Don’t Care (I Don’t Care)”
Down and Outlaws are back with a new music video for their latest single, “I Don't Care (I Don't Care)” (which we premiered last week). The true rock n’ [...]
GallerySummer Peaks share acoustic EP ‘Adorn the Night’
Brentwood pop darlings Summer Peaks just dropped the follow-up to one of my favorite releases of 2014 with the release of their acoustic EP Adorn the Night. It's just [...]
GalleryHappy Diving release “So Bunted” and record EP
This song is the combined feeling of resignation, frustration and exhaustion that immediately follows the exchange 'how are you?' 'good, and you?' 'good.' Which is by no means a [...]
GalleryPainted Palms – “Disintegrate”
I spent a significant part of 2014 listening to Painted Palms' Forever. The way the songs often looped in and out of themselves, all the while integrating new and [...]
GalleryFine Points release first single off debut album
I wish there was a way to translate the beginning of this song into written English – to literally spell out the way the guitar saunters front and center [...]
GalleryAlbum Premiere: DSTVV – ‘Target Demographic’
Ah, at long last, DSTVV is back. Fronted by Joel Cusumano, DSTVV has created smartass "industrial grungegaze" for the past three years. They even released the first (as far [...]
