Author Jack Austin

On their fourth album and their second for the Mexican Summer label, Lahs (2019), the Allah Las produce a solid psychedelic indie rock record that, however, regrettably sounds very similar to most of their othe...

Ma (2019), the tenth album from American-Venezuelan freak-folk artist Devendra Banhart is a fully articulated contemplation on love and all that binds humans together. Musically, the album carries over electron...

The 8th year of Desert Daze is returning to Moreno Beach at Lake Perris in Southern California. The festival has been called one of the “most aesthetically pleasing” because of the surrounding mountains and...

Kevin Morby’s latest album (his fifth since 2013), Oh My God (2019), presents a masterpiece “non-religious religious” concept album, that is epic in ambition as it digs for explanations of what it means ...

Fishing for Fishies (2019), King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album, contains enough good tracks to make it worth a listen, but is the band’s most boring album to date (no theatrics, drama, murders o...

It’s 1:45 pm at Coffee Lab & Roasters in Evanston, Illinois and the place is packed with students with espresso drinks, spread out with laptops studying for exams. The Berkeley B-Side wanted to find out w...

Groove Denied (2019), Stephen Malkmus’s latest album released on March 15, is the veteran indie-rocker’s experimentation with electronic music, inspired by his days living in Berlin. While the album is not ...

Already at his 19th album since his first solo release in 2007, Steve Gunn’s latest effort, The Unseen in Between (2019) marks itself as one of Gunn’s most polished albums to date, with mature songwriting a...

Lost Dog Street Band performs. On February 2 at the Concord Music Hall in Chicago, two bluegrass bands sang about death, drugs, alcohol, love, and sin. Opening up for The Devil Makes Three was the Lost Dog ...

Kingston Mines was filled with music from 7:30 pm until 3 in the morning. This is a pretty typical night at this famous blues bar in Chicago and, on November 23, the crowd of mostly local Chicagoans was treated...

I have to confess, I was terrified the Dirty Projectors would put on a mediocre show filled with good moments. I had heard a couple tracks off their latest album, Lamp Lit Prose (2018), and was thoroughly unimp...

On April 16, 2018, King Krule played an unforgettable show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, and he absolutely rocked the house. Kelsey Lu opened the show with ethereal solos on her cello played softly and with em...

“I’m pretty sure we’re going the wrong way!” I yelled to my friend Jack, panting, as we sat on our bikes on top of an utterly ruthless San Francisco hill. After taking BART into the city, we had managed...