GalleryVideo Premiere: 1988 – “Feria”
Oakland's 1988 caught our ear with their spooky, distorted, synth-heavy pop. 1988's Luis Gutierrez tells me they've been working on a ton of material, and luckily they've asked us [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Gentle Spirit, “Ram Van”
San Francisco's Gentle Spirit, the project of San Franciscan Marcus Stoesz, brings us the sweet "Ram Van" video. A twinkling ode to lost friends, loved ones, and, heartbreakingly, pets, [...]
GalleryMakeunder unveil video for ‘Great Headless Blank’
Makeunder, the Oakland-based orchestral rock troupe led by Hamilton Ulmer, revealed their first work as a full band just over a year ago. Now the Great headless Blank EP [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Stag Frenzy delivers warm indie pop on “California (You Can Have It All)”
Stag Frenzy is a new project, but it's not Ayal Nistor's first songwriting endeavor. The musician previously recorded and performed as My Second Surprise, which started in Israel, where [...]
GalleryTap the Flow 24: How a Santa Cruz artist transforms inspiration into positive change
When you combine the restless spirit of an artist with a globally-focused entrepreneur that wants to save the world, incredible things can happen.
One Santa Cruz-based artist, Rob Ball, is [...]
GalleryDoodling with Hazel English
You'd never except to meet a possible pop star while you are both repetitiously steaming secondhand designer clothes, but that's how I met Hazel English. I've had a lot [...]
GalleryPlush share video for “Sheer Power” and set off for East Coast tour
Sometimes the only way for you feel larger than you really are is to put all your love into something else. Put it in a song, a poem, a [...]
GalleryMarielle V Jakobsons debuts video for “White Sparks” using her innovative macro-cymatic instrument
To the untrained eye, macro-cymatic looks like something related to plants, or movies, but definitely something scientific. When I read that Oakland-based Marielle V Jakobsons, the electronic musician who [...]
GalleryGlobelamp to bring shimmery, introspective West Coast psych-folk to Brick & Mortar
If you don't know Globelamp, you probably know her voice. Equal parts warbly and sultry, and unique as all, she's most known for her contributions in Foxygen and especially [...]
GalleryHey now: Don’t Dream It’s Over to bring art exhibition to life at SFMOMA
Hey now, hey now, let's catch our '80s nostalgia "deluge in a paper cup," as Neil Finn of Crowded House lightly crooned in their 1986 breakout hit "Don't Dream [...]
GalleryTim Cohen of The Fresh and Onlys playing Rickshaw Stop on Wednesday
Aside from a few scattered appearances here and there, The Fresh and Onlys — one of San Francisco’s longest-tenured and most-revered bands — have been dormant in recent times.
Although [...]
GalleryPremiere: Oakland’s undō debut stark video in anticipation of EP
Conceived during a three month stint in solitary confinement, Oakland's undō perform a jarring brand of screamy, freewheeling grind.
The trio features members of long time East Bay electropunk group [...]
