Outside Lands is just three weeks away so mark your calendars and prep with awesome, entirely unrelated to the festival live music. There is still…
It’s probably the Warriors’ lethargy in Game 2 but this week wasn’t something to write home about. This weekend’s music, however, is stellar. Check it…
I survived Wrestlemania and I got a t-shirt out of the whole deal. This weekend is made for chilling out and decompressing after three days…
It’s Noise Pop! Everybody check under your seats! Just kidding, but seriously, rad music is all around SF to begin with, but this week-plus long…
Remember when SFians didn’t really care about rain? You know, back when there wasn’t a drought. Those were the days and I’d suggest we recapture…
In lieu of artist interviews, (at least for now) I’m starting a weekly column for show recommendations that should get you through your weekend and…
California native Rocco DeLuca kicks off his one month tour tonight in San Francisco. A month of touring may seem pretty banal to most, but…
It’s been two months since Craft Spells‘ Justin Paul Vallesteros left for Seattle, WA and already he’s thrown himself into a place that feels more…
It’s always fascinating to hear what a musician may cite as inspiration for an album, a style; anything really. The idea of creative forces feeding…
Be it brand partnerships a la Lady Gaga’s selling-in or the more DIY home studio approaches of musical acts like Appeal favorite Galactic, whose latest…
There’s little barrier between a singer-songwriter and their audience, it seems. Sure, you may hear a guitar for musical impact or rather ambiguous lyrics for…
Royal Teeth are the perfect pick-me-up in a week spent stressing about Valentine’s Day (in one capacity or another). Whether you’re still figuring out where…
Local throwback act Hunx And His Punx aren’t your typical ’50s style doo wop group shoop shooping their way through the malt shop. Choice tracks…
The fine folks over at Young Money Entertainment may have started a movement with “The Motto” (the originator of YOLO; sorry, Yolo County) but so…
Sonny Smith is uncomfortable with the notion that he’s prolific. The iconoclastic musician and artist balks at the label as if he’d been lauded for…
Beth Orton is not one to be confined. The songstress is known as a pioneer in the combination genre of folktronica, finding success in the…