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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

Berkeley's Thorsen House -- lodge of UC Berkeley's Sigma Phi Society -- was completely packed Friday night in anticipation of a lineup that consisted of three student bands, the first of which was The Dr...

Though he may not be doing stage dives at Kingface shows anymore, director Scott Crawford is still a devout punk pundit. His recent feature Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation’s Capital docu...

Hillary Chillton isn't your typical southern California band. The independent music scene in the southern portion of the state has been pretty duo-directional, streamlined either towards emulating the tw...