Author Alice Markman

Last Friday, I got the opportunity to see two of my favorite modern indie pop icons: Molly Burch and Alina Moore of Tennis at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Shortly after arriving, I asked my friends what the v...

Upon first access into the Glass Animals “Live in the Internet” show, it was clear we had teleported back into the time of AOL messenger with the bandmates. The show was largely emulating the early 2000s, ...

As a lifelong lover of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and all things 1960s, I felt right at home the moment I stepped into the city of Berkeley. Our city is the soil on which this movement thrived, and no place wa...

When Paloma Macias walks into a room, she is hard to miss. She struts in, clad in a faux fur coat and bright pink hair as if straight out of a Doors song. She’ll introduce herself as if she’s famous, and li...

Growing up as a closeted indie kid means I’ve spent many nights being dramatic and crying to Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith, stressing out about some high school dramas that I was convinced would last forever ...

Up-and-coming NorCal-based indie rock band Carpool Tunnel don’t like to think of themselves as conventional. Instead, they describe themselves on Spotify as “an idea of what it means to be human, and to sha...

Nothing screams punk rock louder than ripped denim, raw vocals and an unapologetically volatile frustration with the “man.” No one brought this to the US with the same success and political charge as the De...

Five years after her debut solo album Crush Songs (2014), Karen O (former frontwoman of the iconic 2000s rock band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is back. And this time, she’s not alone.   On March 15, the ...