Author Anna Nguyen

The term “dynamic duo” couldn’t be more appropriate for musicians Ivan Jackson and Conor Rayne who met at the Manhattan School of Music and started a joint project Brasstracks just a few years ago.  Sinc...

The first time I heard Charlotte Day Wilson’s voice was randomly at an Amoeba in L.A.  My ear caught a trace of a demurely soulful voice playing through the store’s speakers and I immediately whipped out m...

Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Jordan Rakei was a long way from home as he closed out his second North American tour in San Francisco at The Fillmore last Thursday, March 8th. Rakei brings his own...

The Chapel was graced by the presence of Bruno Major and his live band last Tuesday, February 20th as a part of Noise Pop Festival 2018.  Performing for a sold-out crowd, this is Major's first North American t...

Noise Pop’s annual Noise Pop Festival will bring singer/songwriter Bruno Major to the Chapel next Tuesday, February 20th. Noise Pop hosts the annual festival, which brings together one of the biggest gatherin...

Brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer performing as the electronic duo Hippie Sabotage came through the Warfield in San Francisco on Friday, February 2nd, as the second stop on their international, “Path of Righteou...

My own personal experience with Seal and his music takes me back to my high school choir days when my vocal jazz group sang an a cappella rendition of his Grammy-winning song “Kissed By a Rose”. It was one ...

I had been a fan of Fête Records (pronounced 'fet') since I discovered them earlier this year. So when they announced their debut event in the Bay Area featuring a full lineup at the New Parish in Oakland, I ...

What were you doing the summers you had off from school?  Well, probably like me, you weren’t doing a whole lot.  But if you were Luke and Tess Pretty, you might have been touring and performing jazz covers...

Moses Sumney is talented, majorly talented. If the first minute of his show couldn’t tell you that, his features on tracks of big name artists like Flume (“Weekend”) and Solange (“Mad”) should.  With...