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Austin Psych-Rock band Holy Wave Chase The Groove
Dustin "Dusty" Zozaya was organizing a pre-party for this year's Levitation, Austin's annual three-day psychedelic rock festival, when he got the news that it was cancelled. Heavy spring rains had...
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Chill Dads: For Two Decades, Slightly Stoopid Has Enthralled Fans With Its...
Slightly Stoopid spent its first decade on the road. The San Diego rock-reggae fusion band averaged about 200 shows a year, racking up 300,000 miles on a number of vans' odometers, co-frontman Miles...
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Of Montreal Frontman Kevin Barnes Talks Isolation, Producers, and The Cost of...
It's been over a year since Of Montreal released its last album, Aureate Gloom, but leadman Kevin Barnes isn't much for taking time off. When he's not relentlessly touring with the indie quintet or...
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John Waters Returns for Burger Boogaloo in Oakland
If you're going to book an emcee for a two-day festival focused on cult heroes and scuzzy punk-rock, you can't do better than John Waters. For the second year in a row, Oakland's Burger Boogaloo...
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Berkeley Rapper Rexx Life Raj is Feeling Like A Dad Right Now
On a recent Saturday night, upwards of a hundred millennials gathered in an Emeryville warehouse to gleefully chant "Got me feeling like a dad right now." Leading the chorus was a 6-foot-3 man with...
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Oakland's Piano Man
When I walk into The Alley in Oakland's Grand Lake district at 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday, Rod Dibble is leading a singalong. His fingers flit along the piano keys, playing the melody for "Oakland," a...
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Pop Duo Midi Matilda Plans Its Comeback One Single at a Time
Midi Matilda was in a pickle. The electronic-pop duo — consisting of drummer Logan Grimé and multi-instrumentalist and singer Skyler Kilborn — had dozens of three-foot-by-two-foot band posters printed...
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King Sol is San Francisco's Teenage Jewish Rapper
In advance of its annual Oracle Arena basketball games against Lick-Wilmerding High School, the spirit squad from University High School uploaded a video on YouTube in January. Called "Devil's...
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Seattle Rockers Tacocat Make Feminist Punk For A Post-Riot Grrrl World
Tacocat does not write hardcore songs — it's a pop-punk band. And yet, as of its latest European tour, it is officially an honorary hardcore band.…
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Rapper Larry June's New EP Reflects His San Francisco Origins
Rapper Larry June has a thing for Giants baseball caps. In a recent Instagram photo, he showed off eight of them, only a small fraction of the 65 he owns in total.…
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OIM Records: Breaking the Bay Area Band Exodus
You've heard it before, a thousand times: The Bay Area is really expensive to live in. And rising rents have made it harder than ever to be a working musician in San Francisco, Oakland, or Berkeley —...
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Fear Itself: Marcus Ghiasi of Your Fearless Leader
Musicians aren't always fearless. In fact, Marcus Ghiasi — the frontman for San Francisco indie-rock band Your Fearless Leader — was gripped by anxiety during his first performance under that moniker,...
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John Mayer Lives The Dream With Grateful Dead Offshoot Dead & Company
John Mayer had only 100 days to learn 100 songs. But not just any songs: Grateful Dead songs.…
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Singer-Songwriter Chuck Ragan and His Many Oddball Side Projects
Chuck Ragan has a "serious soft spot" for San Francisco. In fact, in 2001, the singer-songwriter and his future wife, Jill, had their first date in the city.…
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Sonic Soul Food: With His Debut Album, Jentrify, Elujay Speaks For Himself...
Elujay is no stranger to Interstate 5. A third-year business student at the University of Redlands, he's made the roughly 400-mile journey between SoCal and his hometown of Oakland multiple times in...
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Why Electronic-R&B Duo Lion Babe Will Forever be Tied to its Breakout Single
The song opens with a trickling keyboard melody, coated with a thick layer of analog fuzz that makes the tune sound old, and as if it were cascading through your speakers from a faraway place. Ten...
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Faith No More Will Re-Release Its Out-of-Print Debut After Founding Bassist...
It's San Francisco in the early '80s, and Faith No More is a little-known punk-rock band consisting of four musicians all under the age of 21. In their short time together, they've already had three...
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White Lung's New Record, Paradise, Is The Canadian Punk-Rock Band's Most...
Guitarist Kenneth William has been asked so much about White Lung's "new" sound that's he's beginning to wonder if the punk-rock band accidentally created a pop masterpiece with its latest album,...
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