GalleryBeach Slang set for show at the Rickshaw Stop on Tuesday night
I listened to Beach Slang’s The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us for the first time in a while recently and immediately remembered why I [...]
GalleryBlack Mountain bringing spacerock act to the Independent
With their name and their penchant for bone-crunching riffs, Black Mountain would seem like a perfect fit for the Southern grindcore canon that includes outfits like Mastadon and Baroness.
Yet [...]
GalleryQ&A: The Younger Lovers premiere new music video for “Poseur”
The Younger Lovers is one of those bands that, if you live in the Bay Area, and like the alternative DIY scene, but don't listen to them, I don't [...]
GalleryGiveaway: Grouper at Swedish American Hall
Photo by Jason Bokros
Liz Harris, the artist known musically as Grouper, has a Bay Area connection that many people don't remember. Though she's now based in the Portland, OR [...]
GallerySerious and stern, Savages playing Fillmore Tuesday night between Coachella appearances
It’s kind of funny to think of Savages, the severe and principled British post-punk band, hanging out in the California desert sun, waiting to play their set at Coachella. [...]
GalleryPremiere: FASIV collect footage of police brutality in raw video for “Police”
Sometimes the truth lies in the details. FASIV , FKA Strange Hotel, tackle this head-on in their new video for song "Police." In the video, they take the song's theme [...]
GalleryIs the San Francisco music scene dead? We search for clues.
I recently heard the music scene in San Francisco was dead, and being a writer for a website dedicated to covering the music scene in San Francisco, I was [...]
GalleryLet’s all go see Laura Stevenson and Crying this Friday at Thee Parkside
In the end, music is art and is used as a means of self-exploration and explanation by many. Laura Stevenson (based out of Long Island, New York) originally began [...]
GalleryOutside Lands 2016: Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Lionel Richie to headline
Nine years after Radiohead became the first music act to play at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park after dark at the first Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, the [...]
GalleryCullen Omori, former frontman for Smith Westerns, making most of second chance
Cullen Omori - Photo by Alexa Lopez
Editors Note: Cullen Omori's show at the Independent on April 5th has been cancelled.
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Left For Dead.
That ominous three-word phase is the opening [...]
GallerySXSW darlings Car Seat Headrest play Rickshaw Stop March 31
Will Toledo. Photo by Niffer Calderwood.
Lately I have been staying up late just trying to catch up to all the amazing music being created. I am constantly amazed by [...]
FASIV releases new music video for “Everybody Knows”
FASIV has released the first music video in support of their new record Ride, a sprawling, double-album showcasing the group's expanding range of influences and forays into genre experimentation.
The [...]
