N’Essaie pas, parce que demain est une autre nuit
“They’re really good,” I tried to convince my friend of Essaie pas. “I’m just really tired.”
The Montreal duo, spinning track after track from their latest Demain est une autre nuit at the SF...
Beacon fascinate with sophomore LP, a brooding exercise in time
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“I cannot let you walk I am you.”
It is with this bold proclamation that Thomas Mullarney III leads Escapements. Provocative lyrics (“I am not a servant / To...
Brooklyn’s POP ETC sparkle on fourth release
Started by Berkeley alum Chris Chu and friends as The Morning Benders, POP ETC is a sunny songwriting machine that encapsulates its title with their recent fourth record, Souvenir, out January 29 via Rough ...
Majical Cloudz release Wait & See EP, to play The Chapel Tuesday
Canadian minimalists Majical Cloudz exploded late last year with their third record, Are You Alone?, the latest installment of a steady climb from critically acclaimed obscure pop to... popular indie obscure po...
Arca demystifies, simultaneously remains a mystery with Mutant
Directed with his boyfriend -- a German photographer who’s worked previously with M.I.A. and Woodkid -- Arca (real name Alejandro Ghersi) is several unexplained movements away from revealing himself entirely ...
Keep Shelly in Athens return to Rickshaw Stop November 19
Two years ago, we interviewed Keep Shelly in Athens before their performance at Rickshaw Stop. The Greek duo were then comprised of producer RΠЯ and a “petite young girl with large eyes that go from worried...
Kylesa’s singular southern sludge to return Sunday at The Fillmore
Staying power is something to be marvelled in a discipline as technically-nuanced, theatrical, and rare (relatively-speaking) as metal. So when a mammoth force perseveres and pioneers for over a decade, it's re...
Neon Indian returns retro on VEGA INTL. Night School
Yup, that’s your doctor. He’s in. At the party. It’s something we call “alternative remedies.” The kitschy lo-fi disco coming from that yellowed ceiling speaker? It’s the new Neon Indian.
In a mo...
Princess Century projects phantoms, scatters sound, makes Progress
Bass ostinati, a healthy dose of polyrhythm, and the acute feeling of it all existing within a foxhole best captures Maya Postepski’s new record, Progress, out 10/16 via Paper Bag Records. Writing and pro...
RATATAT get loud at a sold-out Regency Ballroom
“Thank you” – over and over again. These were the only two words uttered by Evan Mast and Mike Stroud Monday evening as they tore through two hours of new and old RATATAT material at San Francisco’s Reg...
The B-Side Picks: Outside Lands 2015
Each year – and despite drought -- the grass at Golden Gate Park is greener this second week of August, particularly for Bay Area soundhounds out scavenging for as many headliners in three days as possibl...
Jamie xx brings late-century rave music, In Colour to mid-century Bimbo’s 365 Club
If any a place in San Francisco could conceal a Shoreditch club, it would be Bimbo’s 365. The mid-sized mid-20th century concert hall doesn’t often see electronic acts, so Jamie xx’s first Bay Area ap...
RATATAT return triumphant, Magnifique after five years
The fifth studio full-length from Brooklyn duo RATATAT, Magnifique is an album on steroids from a band on steroids. Strengthened by the making of more experimental records LP3 and LP4, Mike Stroud and Evan ...
Interview: Porcelain Raft on moving around, his latest EP, and first cassettes
Well-traveled musician Porcelain Raft (real name Mauro Remiddi) prefaced our pre-show chat last Thursday with, "You'll have a lot of editing to do," but we later realized there was no cause for concern. There w...
Angélique Kidjo to premiere Philip Glass composition stateside with SF Symphony
From two internationally-respected artists proven limitless in both time and place comes Ifé, an orchestral illustration of the Yorùbán creation land and holy city. The collaboration between visionary co...