GalleryQ&A: Told Slant shares the healing aspects of creating, and plays BOTH June 2
The day that "Tsunami" by Told Slant was released, I was in desperate need to have someone tell me "Isn't this silly and aren't you beautiful." So I replayed [...]
GalleryNPR Tiny Desk Contest winner Gaelynn Lea to bring Alan Sparhawk collaboration to Oakland
Photo: Eddy Gilmore
If you've followed NPR Music's Tiny Desk contests, you may remember that the first winner was Oakland's own Fantastic Negrito. One year and two months later, [...]
GalleryKendra McKinley dials up the sweetness in “Honey” video
There's still no official release date for her promised sophomore record Treat, but we get another look into the sweetly dramatic musical life of Kendra McKinley with her brand [...]
GalleryInterview + Giveaway: Lily & Madeleine @ the Swedish American Hall
Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz are two sisters from Indianapolis who have already put out three records. Between 2013 and now, they've made it their goal to put out 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 [...]
GallerySales comes to Rickshaw Stop May 11
Sales, coming all the way from Orlando, Florida, is the type of band that doesn't need help from anyone to be known. They are fully independent - no manager/label/publicist, and [...]
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 [...]
