Author Natalie Gott

LA-based Kid Hastings took over the A-Side Sessions on an episode filmed in July 2020. After the long wait, Kid Hastings is ready to prove to the A-Side audience that acoustic music doesn’t have to be boring....

After sitting on the album through much of the pandemic, San Francisco band, Carpool Tunnel releases their first full album, Bloom. This eleven track album is a full-bodied Carpool Tunnel experience, swelling w...

For our second A-side Session this year, local Bay Area band, The Moondrops, joined us for what naturally feels like our best session yet. Their dreamy riffs and cosmic vocals perfectly matched the night sky an...

Some of my most cherished memories in life are of dancing around my kitchen, hand in hand with my mom, singing “Everyday is Like Sunday,” or driving across country with her and leaning over the center conso...

To juxtapose the mayhem of 2020, Emma Gerson debuted our 2021 A-side Sessions with a performance so graceful, it had us doubting the short extent of her career thus far. This up-and-coming musician is merely a...

As Room 308 joined us for our last A-side Session of the year, 2020 suddenly didn’t seem so bleak. The local Bay Area band seamlessly melded jazz and “R&Beach” to transcend us into a far more enchanti...

For our fourth A-side Session, Just Leevs joined us to expand our repertoire of genres with his captivating rapping, as well as to sit down for an interview where we dove into the difficult decision Leevs made ...

Just as is our dream here at The A-side Sessions, Maddie Liu, or Oddity joined us on a sunny November morning to offer up a diverse set of soulful genres. Joe Biden had just been announced as President-Elect of...

Sometimes, when just the right song comes on, it feels as if the music is writing out your emotions for you. Like ironing out wrinkles in a sheet, it smooths out everything you couldn’t understand alone. Th...

As we near eight months without live music, we’ve all been forced to find creative ways to enjoy and showcase our favorite artists. Our A-side Sessions accomplish just that, bringing people together with int...

On a Saturday afternoon that felt far too brief, the longing for live music was put to ease as solo artist Juhuhn Kim of No Room No Sweetener plays the debut set of our mutli-media series, The A-side Sessions....

Keep fighting! Black Lives Matter has gained so much traction these past few months, and the next step is remembering that movements require long term internalization into one’s way of living. Times are gett...

On April 10th, my love saga with The Buttertones made a sudden shift to feel like a brisk affair with an older man when they released their fifth album, Jazzhound. This album holds all of the integrity of thei...

On the night of January 25th, 2020, Reverend Horton Heat had Slim’s swelling with pin-ups and psychobillies for a sold-out show. A line stretched out the door well before the show was set to begin, crowding ...

I’m still not sure how Muni or cable cars work, but that sure as hell didn’t stop me from following the call of Shannon Shaw like a siren. The trek to Bimbo’s 365 from the East Bay on a Thursday night is...