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A quintessential fall album: Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago

Anthony Fig
November 29, 2024
Album Preview, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, folk, Opinion
Following the warm weather and constant sunshine of the summer, it is almost ironic how it is followed by autumn, marked with rain, gloom, and for a lot of people, the beginning of a new school year. These elem...

Love like religion: A Dollface album review

Katie Hulse
March 18, 2024
Creative Writing, Album Preview, Album Review, Columns and Opinions, folk, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music Composition, Opinion, Pop, Reviews, women in music, women's music
  Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...

Welcoming SASAMI into your life

Dylan Medlock
March 1, 2019
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LA-based and singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth is a rising musical force. In addition to being the former synth player for indie rock group Cherry Glazerr, she’s also contributed her multi-instrumentalist ...

Robin Pecknold left the nest and returned with a new Fleet Foxes album

Delaney Gomen
March 10, 2017
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For the first time in almost six years, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold’s distinctive voice has brought life to new lyrics with the release of their new single, “Third of May / Ōdaigahara.” The track was jo...

Cue the violins: Trump’s emo boy band to release masochistic debut album Sad!

Natalie Silver
February 28, 2017
Album Preview, Columns and Opinions
On February 12, Donald J. Trump, blubbering rocker who is recognized by less than half of the American population as "their president," and his boy band of puppets — together known as the Sad Hombres — drop...

Talking Please Help Me with Funeral Advantage’s Tyler Kershaw

Ally Mason
February 23, 2017
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After releasing an initial demo in 2013 and a few split 7”s (including one with labelmates Former Ghosts) Funeral Advantage's debut LP Body Is Dead (2015) and subsequent Body Is Dead (Demos) (2015) found its ...

The Last Shadow Puppets: synopsis of dream or delusion?

George Green
October 28, 2016
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Following the release of Everything You’ve Come To Expect (their second album) earlier this year, The Last Shadow Puppets have promised the release of their The Dream Synopsis EP on the 2nd of December 2016. ...

Howard recreate their own sound in Please Recycle

Erica Munson
March 22, 2016
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On March 25, the Brooklyn-based folktronic band, Howard will be releasing their new EP, Please Recycle. With green initiatives in full swing, the EP title may sound like a friendly PSA of some kind- telling...

Wet announce release date for debut album, Don’t You

Brendan Gibson
September 26, 2015
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Brooklyn-based electronic pop trio Wet have announced via Twitter that their highly anticipated debut album, Don’t You, will be released on January 29 through Columbia Records. Preceding the announcement ...

It’s time to get silly with Hungry Skinny at Elbo Room

Conner Smith
September 25, 2015
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The winds of change sweep across San Francisco’s Mission District once again as Valencia Street’s renowned Elbo Room prepares to shut its doors for good come January. Luckily, San Francisco local out...

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

Joanna Jiang
June 10, 2015
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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...

Shlohmo returns to the Bay with two dates after sophomore album

Darius Kay
April 26, 2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVR10CD2Alk Los Angeles avant-garde EDM DJ Shlohmo will be playing two shows next week in the Bay Area: Thursday night in San Francisco at The Fillmore and Friday night on UC ...

My Morning Jacket: Rainbows, Big Decisions, and The Waterfall

Conner Smith
March 5, 2015
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Nothing short of a bursting ray of sunshine, My Morning Jacket’s latest single “Big Decisions” shows us just how worth it the almost four-year wait since the release of Circuital (2011) has been and s...

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