San Francisco – Ah, Treasure Island Music Festival. It’s such a glorious event: beautiful weather, no overlapping sets, minimal panic-inducing crowd swarms. The annual two-day event is a great festival for locals, due to its conveniently close-to-everything location smack dab in the middle of the bay between San Francisco and Oakland, and the price is
San Francisco – Well, it’s that time of year again: it’s fall in the Bay Area (at last!) and while a very dramatic El Niño is on its way to (hopefully) dump a ton of rain on the Golden State, festival season is drawing to its inevitable close. Fortunately, for those of us who live
San Francisco – Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian project is a hard one to pin down when it comes to genre. Generally, the whole concept of genres—in terms of modern musical expression—are thought of in either one of two ways: there are those that find comfort in their specifications, and there are those who see those
San Francisco – “The title comes from marketing jargon,” Autre Ne Veut helmsman Arthur Ashin explains in a statement. “It’s a term for the place we’re in now, where truth and transparency are just ways to sell things and honesty is its own kind of performance.” The eagerly awaited follow-up to Autre Ne Veut’s breathtaking
San Francisco – Fraternal UK electronic/garage-throwback duo Disclosure are no strangers to the theatrical. The brothers Lawrence—Guy (24) and Howard (21)—and their debut LP Settle released back in 2013 (which spanned fourteen gorgeous tracks), re-introduced the world to the forgotten genre of garage electronica, casting a diverse crew of collaborators to embody their vision. Settle
San Francisco – As one of the first pioneers of the recently popularized genre of chillwave, Alan Palomo’s Neon Indian has been a steady source of entertainment, mixing glitchy electronic beats with catchy hooks and airy, heavily reverberated vocals. Neon Indian’s next LP VEGA INTL. Night School—released next month via Mom + Pop—is perhaps his
San Francisco – “And now, it’s show time.” So begins the full-length commercial debut from Skylar Spence, Prom King: an eleven-track nu-disco opus from 22-year-old wunderkind Ryan DeRobertis. Some may remember DeRobertis from his days as a producer of “vaporwave” music (a genre of electronica that relies heavily on samples that have been drastically slowed-down)
San Francisco – Chris Baio now finds himself in somewhat of a unique position, at least amongst his bandmates. The bassist for the unstoppable indie quartet Vampire Weekend may not be as recognizable as frontman Ezra Koenig or keyboardist/producer to the “indie elite” Rostam Batmanglij, but things are looking bright for the multi-talented Baio, seeing
San Francisco–This past Thursday, psych-dance rock duo and former San Francisco residents–‘We don’t live here anymore, but it’s still our favorite place to play!’–Painted Palms brought down the house at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop in celebration of their upcoming sophomore release Horizons, which is due to hit shelves next Friday (September 4th). On their second
San Francisco – Hardly anything is shocking anymore when it comes to the twisted lyrics and aching melodies that escape from the lips of Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd. The 25-year-old Ontario native has spilled more than the lion’s share of heartache, self-deprecation, and raunchy details of his lust-fueled escapades into the microphone over the