GalleryPremiere: Makeunder – “What a Lovely Bandsaw!”
(Photo Credit: Ginger Fierstein)
Hamilton Ulmer finds weird ways to sing the blues. The music he creates as Makeunder is both maximalist and brutally raw, full of urgency while simultaneously [...]
GalleryPremiere: Seatraffic – “Spoken Reprise”
(Photo Credit: Madison Kotack)
The Seatraffic duo quickly became a favorite at The Bay Bridged by extorting our love for synthy underwater dreamscapes and the most visually stimulating of live shows. [...]
GalleryNever Young EP release show in March
Noisy rock group Never Young is releasing a self-titled EP on San Francisco label Father/Daughter Records, due out March 10th. So far the band has released two singles from [...]
GalleryPlanes of Satori releases eponymous LP on Germany’s Who Can You Trust? Records
On Planes of Satori’s Facebook page, the Oakland-based quartet lists their joint interests as "enhancing perception, space, the future," and they all describe their music as "pure light and [...]
GalleryPremiere: Leucrota – “Systematic Violence”
(Cover art by Brandt Robert Burgess)
Leucrota are a brand new band from Santa Cruz, having only just formed in the late fall of 2014; you wouldn't guess that from hearing their [...]
GallerySwervedriver to fill Great American Music Hall in March
Swervedriver are playing at The Great American Music Hall on March 6, four days after they release I Wasn't Born to Lose You, their first album in 17 years. They are [...]
GalleryThe Strange Land releases cassette under new name
One of our favorite up-and-coming bands of 2014, Michael & the Strange Land, has dropped the "Michael &" and are now simply The Strange Land. They've already released a [...]
GalleryNudity announces new album, comes to the Bay
Olympia-based Nudity is rolling through the Bay Area this weekend and bringing some pretty heavy new songs along with them. Their upcoming LP Astronomicon is full of psychedelic rock [...]
GalleryPremiere: Teal – “Moving Out”
Teal is a new solo project from Santa Rosa's James Rogers, who also mans the drums for Creative Adult. With Teal, Rogers has crafted a sound that refreshingly avoids [...]
GalleryOakland’s Crush joins Mayfly Records
(cover art by Stacie Willoughby)
Mayfly Records, a label based out of Cleveland, have made a name for themselves curating the first releases of bands like Code Orange and Pianos Become [...]
GalleryPOW! announces new LP, out on April 6th
San Francisco local synth punk band POW! is back with a sophomore LP Fight Fire out on Castle Face Records on April 6th. The group emerged in early 2014 [...]
GalleryWin tickets to see Kirpatrick Thomas, Jordannah Elizabeth at Hotel Utah
A night filled with psychedelic music, enticing visuals, and a film screening: what else could you want?
Join local artists, Kirpatrick Thomas of Spindrift, and the California Raga Association for [...]
