Giveaway: You’re Going To Die’s 10-year anniversary with Rainbow Girls + Whiskerman
A couple local favorites are playing the Independent on January 18 and we're pleased to offer you a set of freebies. Special shout-out to those harmonizing hunnies, Rainbow Girls, who are bringing their good vibes, lovely voices, and killer horns and keys. They're sharing the bill with Whiskerman, the Feelings Parade, Chelsea Coleman for You're Going to Die's 10-year anniversary. YG2D has been a fixture on the local music scene for the last 10 years, presenting programs of local performers (and, at their open mics, everyday people) confronting mortality through art. Check out Chelsea Coleman's installment of our 2017 series [...]
Get emotional with the Feelings Parade
(photo: Pete Lee) Scott Ferreter and Morgan Bolender are in the middle of a good old-fashioned Bay Area eviction. Right now, they live in a house in the Oakland hills that is...a lot. It’s a massive structure in the Oakland hills, an explosion of traditional signifiers of Western wealth: columns, high ceilings, and tile floors, all in agreeable shades of beige and white. “So contractors from Mexico built this for his family to live in; modeled it after the mayor’s house in his hometown he grew up in Mexico,” explains Scott of the original owner. Scott lives in what used [...]