GalleryInterview: Two Gallants talks new LP We Are Undone
I don't always remember the exact moments when I discovered many of the bands I've come to love over the years, but I do distinctly recall the first time [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: The Things of Youth – “Eleventeen”
Did you check out the premiere of The Things of Youth’s "Eleventeen" on The Bay Bridged last month and think to yourself, "Damn, wish there was a video"? Well [...]
GalleryWilliam Ryan Fritch drops “Thankless Deeds” video
My colleague Jason has been keeping you posted on Oakland songwriter, composer, and our new favorite person, William Ryan Fritch, since Fritch wowed us with his Heavy EP last [...]
GalleryLast chance to party in the MEGADOME! This Saturday with Delmarva and Slouching Stars
The Octopus Literary Salon will open its doors in the next few weeks at 2101 Webster in Oakland. They present the very last pop-up in their killer MEGADOME series [...]
GalleryWeyes Blood brings winter to San Francisco
New York City-based artist Natalie Mering is rolling through San Francisco tonight with her solo project Weyes Blood. Though she's been honing her own brand of psychedelic piano music [...]
GalleryTwerps to release new album Range Anxiety, announce Bottom of the Hill show in March
Shortly after Twerps formed and premiered their self-titled debut album in 2011, they were already onstage at SXSW and CMJ and hitting tours with Mac DeMarco and Real Estate. Since then, they've [...]
GalleryStrange Hotel releases new music video for “Double Life”
Strange Hotel, a rock band so cool they make the Strokes look like the cast of The Big Bang Theory, has just released a new video for their song "Double [...]
GalleryPrince Rama play CULT Gallery’s first birthday this Saturday
According to their Instagram, Brooklyn-based post-apocalyptic pop duo Prince Rama has been hanging out in California for a few days now, and we can only imagine what kind of [...]
GalleryJoel Gion & The Primary Colours round up SF psych favorites at The Independent
We're off to a killer start here in 2015, from the Soft White Sixties’s ongoing Brick & Mortar residency to Lee Gallagher and The Hallelujah’s celestial, family-studded epic of [...]
GalleryBay Area bands in the NPR Tiny Desk Concert Contest
The deadline recently passed for entries into the Tiny Desk Contest, a contest run by NPR that will reward one lucky winner with an appearance on their famous video [...]
GalleryWill Sprott releases Vortex Numbers on his new label
Photo: Shana Cleveland
It's been over four years since Will Sprott has released new material, but he's back with the release of Vortex Numbers, out January 20 on his very [...]
GalleryBerkeley’s POP ETC. release video for new single “Running In Circles”
Berkeley's POP ETC. seem to have spent a lifetime consuming popular music's nuances. They can funnel decades' worth of synthesizers and crushing melodic textures into a bright pastiche of a song, but still [...]
