So much more than ripe persimmons: Michelle Zauner is in season Stanley Quiros June 2, 2021 Columns and Opinions, News Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast may be one of the most important rockers to arise in the 2010s. Since 2016’s Psychopomp, Zauner has experienced personal loss and indie success. She now holds a strange, ...
Love music? Try Bandcamp! Stanley Quiros March 5, 2021 Opinion As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches its first anniversary, the music community is still hurting. Workarounds like live streamed concerts and online merch still cannot replace live shows. The ecosystem of music ven...
After darkness comes light: an interview with Sh8peshifter Erika Badalyan November 25, 2019 Interview, women in music Rare is the quality of an artist who so purely and cohesively inhabits the persona they have created for themselves. Sh8peshifter is the artistic project of Zakiya Harris, a California native who has worn ma...
The five weirdest music genres you’ve never heard of, live from Bandcamp Clementine Zimmer April 1, 2019 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Staff Pick I’ve decided to give up honest music writing for the sake of pure clickbait, so here we are. This list is absolutely not the definitive top five, but hopefully, it can give a glimpse into the dustier corners ...
Why Alex G Should and Shouldn’t Be Our Selfish Secret Gabriel Giammarco June 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...
The Syncopated Sun of Palm’s Rock Island Gabriel Giammarco March 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Guitarist Eve Alpert (left) and bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos (right) Palm at the Rickshaw Stop, a classic San Francisco spot termed by Google Maps as a “hip indie music venue” (haha). Conseque...
Deakin feels on startlingly sublime solo debut Sleep Cycle HR Huber-Rodriguez May 1, 2016 Album Review, Reviews Animal Collective’s Deakin (real name Josh Dibb) perhaps comes across as the ‘quiet one’ of the group, a moniker attributed to shy, mysterious members of popular bands since the conception of the band as ...