Author Joanna Jiang

The buildup was tremendous at The Warfield on Friday, May 9. After uninspiring sets by overly glossy Penthouse Penthouse and Bay Area DJ Ana Sia, the three beat masters who comprise LA-based The Glitch Mob -- O...

Melbourne’s Strange Talk are the luckiest strikers around, having survived both a label shift and a name change. Prior to gaining recognition from Australia’s Triple J (a radio station that spotlights emer...

Electropop duo Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of I Break Horses have been making a scene since 2011, when they appeared with their misty debut album Hearts. Their prowess and years of hard work landed them a s...

DWNTWN sounds like a fairly ordinary indie pop four-piece. A good indie pop four-piece, though; one that has two EPs under their belt and the Kitsune stamp of approval. The band's formation in 2010 after a bot...

“We have one more song,” Mogwai's bassist Dominic Aitchison lied before his band played four more tracks -- three of which were in an encore. “But first, I have a question. Are a lot of you wasted?” ...

The Oakland-based folk fusion musician will be back next Friday and recommends The Starry Plough’s classic hearty food. Dawn McCarty (otherwise known as Faun Fables) met us last week mid-tour at a local pl...

It's a Sunday night and they’re thirty minutes behind schedule. Christopher Heinz walked straight from the bar to his seat behind the drum kit, and Walking Shapes took off, running headlong into “Whoa Tig...

Indie contortionists Walking Shapes traverse a variety of genres on their sophomore effort, Taka Come On. It’ll be their debut album, however, as the band’s prior release was a 13-track mixtape. They wan...

There are nights when the openers are openers; there are nights when the openers steal the show. Tuesday night’s stacked lineup at Rickshaw Stop could’ve gone either way. During local one-man act Yalls, we...

Yesterday night, San Franciscans could simultaneously go out and feel at home, hugged by the fuzzy timbre of layered keys and sweet falsetto. Milagres waxed and waned on The Brick & Mortar stage, opening fo...

Having accumulated over 10,000 views in a day, the new Black Lips video is probably one of the most successful high school film productions the Internet has ever seen. But Black Lips isn't a high school band. ...

photo by Reuben Wu Tycho is driving music. The swirling, forward-moving, polyphonic symphonies on his latest album, Awake, couple with the static horizon of the Mojave desert in the distance, the boulders and...

Milagres Brooklyn phenomenon, Milagres, released Violent Light, a follow-up to 2011’s Glowing Mouth last week. The new album embodies the same lo-fi Brooklyn glitz of their first album, with big falsetto cho...

Max Cooper has a Ph.D., a real affinity for Twitter, and a critically acclaimed music career that seemed to come out of nowhere. The UK producer showcased his raw, but expert chops with an electrifying perfo...

At this point in time, the sultry pop of London's KALEIDA is the strongest contender for a soundtrack to a Little Mermaid film reinvented Her-style, if it ever were to happen. (Hello, Spike Jonze.) The musical...