Previews

Mike Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, is defined by his music's honesty. While "Let Her Go" shot Rosenberg into worldwide fame, his realism and truthful storytelling style has continued to...

Bay Area and Nor Cal subscribers, stop what you are doing and clear your calendars for the weekend of September 17-20. Just outside of Oakdale on the Woodard reservoir -- a mere two-hour drive from the bay -- a...

Streaming across the celestial spheres and riding the ripples made by their latest Orcas (2015) off David Sulgaski’s (The Polish Ambassador) Jumpsuit Records, Colombian and Argentinian duo Lulacruza is de...

Welcome to now. Enjoy this moment. The now is all we have. Remember this sentiment. String Theory Labs is a progressive group of recent Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley graduates who want to deliver an...

Each year – and despite drought -- the grass at Golden Gate Park is greener this second week of August, particularly for Bay Area soundhounds out scavenging for as many headliners in three days as possibl...

With all three of his albums hitting number one on the Billboard charts, high energy showmanship, and comparisons to greats like Tupac, J. Cole has been taking the hip-hop world by storm. Back in March...

From two internationally-respected artists proven limitless in both time and place comes Ifé, an orchestral illustration of the Yorùbán creation land and holy city. The collaboration between visionary co...

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edpYl_3p6O8 Upon haphazardly encountering Flesh World’s music while browsing bandcamp, we were welcomely surprised to find that they were far more local than our internet di...

Teenagers left, right, and centre are trading guitars for turntables these days in hopes of becoming the next big thing. Having won his first DMC World Championship at age 15, Fool’s Gold founder A-Trak is bo...

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...

She's witty, crisp, and talented, the perfect listen for early summer nights, for blues and joy alike. Emma-Lee Moss (stage name Emmy the Great), born in Hong Kong but brought up in England, is yet another...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs British garage rock four-piece Palma Violets are well-entrenched in a sweaty tour of their fresh-out-of-the-studio sophomore record Danger in the Club. After they ...

Portland-by-way-of-Oklahoma trio Other Lives are due to commence a month-long North American tour next week after releasing third full-length album Rituals, due May 4 via TBD Records. This third record, c...

We’ve been anticipating Mark Dobson’s forthcoming and ever-elusive debut record… for years. By way of Brighton under the deceivingly-French moniker Ambassadeurs, Dobson’s been producing a distinct, ...