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TR/ST confirms upcoming album, to play West Coast run this weekend

Joanna Jiang
September 7, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview
After a relatively quiet year, Robert Alfons (main mastermind behind Canadian, dark electronic act TR/ST) posted on Facebook a video last month hinting at a third release. The surprise followed his June announc...

Interview: Glass Atlas chat about upcoming show, climate change, and coast rock

Vivian Chen
July 11, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview
If you were around at The B-Side's original launch, you'll remember Glass Atlas. We caught up with them recently, after a long time no see and ahead of a show this Thursday at The Night Light, to discover the...

Interview: Out for tea with Japanese Breakfast

Shino Takahashi
July 2, 2016
Blog, Interview, Photos
I wait to meet Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast in the darkened game room at the back of Brighton Music Hall.  After some time a woman that was unmistakably her walks in the room. She wore a black crop to...

John Mark Nelson tells us not to be afraid

Kenneth Zhang
May 3, 2016
Interview
Singer, songwriter, and producer John Mark Nelson has been crafting his introspective, ethereal sound since a young age, releasing four studio albums that reflect his personal, artistic growth and echo the tra...

Exclusive interview: Motown’s latest Malachiae Warren has got the juice

Kenneth Zhang
May 3, 2016
Interview, Mixtapes
Atlanta native and rising talent Malachiae Warren is about to become your favorite R&B singer of the summer. After making videos on YouTube, the 20-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer has captured ...

Interview: A chat with the genre-bending Grace Mitchell

Kenneth Zhang and Angelica Zocchi
March 8, 2016
Interview
Quirky singer and Portland native Grace Mitchell has been making waves in the music industry since she was thirteen. This weekend she played two shows as an opener for St. Lucia at The Fillmore and The Indepen...

Interview: Tim Baker of Hey Rosetta! looking forward to US tour dates

Erica Munson
October 31, 2015
Interview
Canadian indie-rock band Hey Rosetta! will be performing this Monday at Brick and Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco while on tour with their fourth studio album, Second Sight (2014). While they may not...

Interview: Creative expression with Raphaelle Standell-Preston of BRAIDS

Joseph Choe
October 9, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos
As the crowd dwindles and their conversations wind away, Raphaelle Standell-Preston of the Montreal-based BRAIDS joins me in a late night, post-show chat at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to talk about th...

Bully talks inspiration, recording, and vegetarian eats at Pitchfork Music Festival

Penelope Leggett
August 5, 2015
Interview
On the thin line separating grunge and polished rock, there stands Bully: a band that manages to blur, tear, and ultimately distort this distinction. While they render well-produced tracks, the Nashvi...

Interview: Porcelain Raft on moving around, his latest EP, and first cassettes

Joanna Jiang
July 15, 2015
Interview
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...

Interview: Guantanamo Baywatch talk Burger Boogaloo 2015

Patricia Villon
July 1, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview
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Guantanamo Baywatch recently released their album Darling... It's Too Late (2015) via Suicide Squeeze Records and are playing Burger Records' Burger Boogaloo festival in Oakland once again. The festival ret...

Q&A: Darryl Holter to perform early Radio Songs by Woody Guthrie Sunday

Joanna Jiang
June 10, 2015
Album Preview, Interview
The legend that is now Woody Guthrie was then, in the late 1930s, in his twenties. When the depression hit, the Oklahoma native headed west. He landed in California, on a specialty show with musical counter...

Interview: Shy Girls on growing up, moving west, and making The Dream

Joanna Jiang
May 28, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview
Dan Vidmar, or Shy Girls as he's better known, seemed a little roadworn when we spoke to him backstage last Friday, but he didn’t show it in his performance two hours later at Rickshaw Stop’s weekly POP...

Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson on songs, styles, strings, and singers

Maddy Smith
April 10, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview
1 Comment
Clean Bandit are just blowing up internationally. With their recently won Grammy and success of New Eyes (2014), they are getting more and more renowned throughout the world. The album’s fourth single ...

Noise Pop 2015: Cherry Glazerr and The Shivas meet youth with youthfulness

Linda Choi and Eda Yu
March 5, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews
There’s a place in Potrero Hill where the holidays come and never seem to leave. Still strung with Christmas streamers and red lights, and with a Valentine’s Day shrine still intact, the venue so candidly c...
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