GalleryTicket Giveaway: Caveman at The Independent on 3/26/13
We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to see Brooklyn’s indie rock band Caveman at The Independent on Tuesday, March 26th. With the band’s debut album, Coco Beware, now [...]
GalleryCool Ghouls releasing debut LP on Empty Cellar, playing release party tonight at Brick & Mortar Music Hall
San Francisco's Cool Ghouls are gaining some serious momentum so far in 2013. Shortly after the New Year, they may or may not have played a brilliant gig in [...]
GalleryWax Idols celebrate album release with The Mallard and Chasms at Brick & Mortar, 3/30/13
Oakland post-punk quartet Wax Idols are making a big stand this year, already having recovered from standout festival performances at SXSW and Noise Pop showcases. The band will headline [...]
GalleryAnimal Friend – "Just Fine"
San Francisco's Animal Friend caught our ear last year with the upbeat, falsetto, and synth-heavy "Sunset". They've come back with even more synthesizers on the track "Just Fine", which [...]
GallerySonny & the Sunsets offer teaser for new album, 'Antenna to the Afterworld'
Polyvinyl just offered up this teaser of "Dark Corners," the first track on Sonny & the Sunsets' new album, Antenna to the Afterworld. The album comes out on June [...]
GalleryMakeunder set to play first live show at El Rio, 3/23/13
San Francisco's Makeunder began in Hamilton Ulmer's childhood home in rural California, where he recorded his entire debut with a laptop mic, a violin, a saxophone, and drums. The [...]
GalleryDonCat – "Ride On"
DonCat, the solo project of Duncan Nielsen, is taking a bit of a unique approach to crowd funding for his first album. From his website:
In this brave year of [...]
GalleryHear Chaz Bundick's Les Sins' new 12", "Grind"/"Prelims"
Chaz Bundick may have just recently released Anything In Return, the third LP of his main moniker Toro Y Moi, but he is already back in action and offering [...]
GalleryBears! Bears! Bears! – "I Guess We're Both Lonely"
Bears! Bears! Bears! are one of those bands that I dearly love, but wish would have considered the search-engine ramifications of potential names before deciding on the one they [...]
GalleryCazadero set to release 'Old Friends' LP
Cazadero's criminally under-the-radar Dusk to Dawn was one of my favorite albums of 2012 – from anywhere, not just the Bay Area. The album hit a sweet spot where [...]
GalleryTeenage Sweater become latest addition to Tricycle Records
Imagine if New Wave had a kid brother. A kid brother who ran laps around a playground's swing set but was still kind of morose on the inside. Teenage [...]
GalleryMorgan Manifacier – "Cold Countries"
File this one under ‘one to watch’: Oakland-via-France songwriter Morgan Manifacier has dropped his first single, “Cold Countries,” from his upcoming record Hues and Calm. A darker-than-dark waltz made [...]
