Tagged bedroom pop

Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, try to rid yourself of the stench of your second overdue assig...

What happens when the Asian-Canadian thought daughter of our generation goes through a breakup? Luna Li's latest and greatest LP When a Thought Grows Wings (2024) provides a lush, heart-shattering answer. Captu...

In my six months of traveling, and after watching four seasons of Atlanta on FX, I’ve begun to feel more and more that life isn’t real, or at least parts of it. Music has helped me tremendously with homesic...

Friday, October 14 at Rickshaw Stop saw a radiant, arresting performance by the rising Asian Canadian indie sweetheart Luna Li, accompanied by the playfully moody up-and-coming Los Angeles project zzzahara. Emb...

Moving the audience to their feet and to tears, Clairo channeled Gen-Z bedroom pop and 70’s indie folk in a gentle, contemplative concert at Fox Theater on March 31. From the upbeat playfulness of “Bags” ...

Alex G’s 2010 self-released album, Race, is an ode to the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Released when Alex was a mere 17 years old, the pains of being a teenager growing up in suburban Havertown...

As the 2019 Bay Area Noise Pop Festival came to a close, Crumb, comprised of members Lila Ramani (guitar/vocals), Jesse Brotter (bass), Brian Aronow (synth/keys, percussion, reeds), and Jonathan Gilad (drums), ...

Five years ago, when he was just starting to make a name for himself and his band HOMESHAKE, Montreal-based artist Peter Sagar was best known as Mac Demarco’s guitarist. While Homeshake’s original sound dre...

I am always shocked by the number of people that show up for Gus Dapperton shows in San Francisco. The first shock came earlier this year in April at the Rickshaw Stop. I arrived twenty minutes after doors open...

Martin Roark, better known by his stage name Tomemitsu, first caught my eye when his song “In Dreams” appeared at the end of “Rachel,” a short from HBO’s High Maintenance released in 2014. I’ve been...

Austin Corona, the musician behind LILACS., has been writing music for a while now. I first heard something he’d written when his surf-punk band Subpar opened for my friend’s band at a bicycle repair shop i...

It was a quiet Saturday night. I sat on my friend’s couch, aimlessly browsing through the Spotify app on his television and hoping something would catch my eye. Eventually, something did— a Spotify playlist...