Tagged Indie Folk

The journey to The Fillmore to see Michael Marcagi should have been simple. It wasn’t.  It was the evening of March 19th, and I had an hour-long trip on public transit ahead of me into San Francisco. The ...

Haley Heynderickx is always up. Her speaking voice curls up at the corners, lilting and genuine, like peeling wallpaper about to reveal something greater hidden behind. Delightful sentiments drift out of her mo...

The morning of April 1st, Alynda Segarra, lead singer of Hurray for the Riff Raff, tweeted:   used to sleep in golden gate park, playing august hall tonight — hurray for the riff raff (@HFTRR...

  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...

Nearly 13 years ago, Australian band The Paper Kites charmed the indie-folk community with the release of their debut EP Woodland (2011). Today, it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard the band’s fi...

On a chilly Sunday evening, the sky above downtown Oakland seemed indecisive. It was painted that shade of deep, mysterious blue that holds you in suspense. That shade of blue you find in the depths of the ocea...

On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...

2019 has been the year of Big Thief. The indie folk-rock band, headed by Adrianne Lenker, entered 2019 with a cult following and a repertoire of critical appraise, but everyone felt like they were on the cusp o...

Mumford & Sons was the banjo band, and can be cited as one of the leading forces behind bringing the indie-folk movement to the mainstream. They continue to be one of the twenty-first century’s strangest ...

Playing the first show of their 2018 North American tour in hometown San Francisco, indie rock duo The Dodos had a lot to be excited about. Not only were they embarking on their first tour since 2015, but they ...

If black coffee and cigarettes on a Sunday morning had a soundtrack, it would be the music of Caamp. Caamp is comprised of Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, two childhood friends who have been playing music since...

The past year has seen quite a transformation for the artistic trajectories of indie folk staple Fleet Foxes and experimental indie rock group Amen Dunes. For Fleet Foxes, the release of their third album Crack...

“I think male ego is at the root of society’s problems. Fuck if it’s not at the core of our issues.” So says Damon McMahon, better known as psychedelic folk-rock artist Amen Dunes in an interview with ...

As her steady guitar strums started to feel intensely meditative, building somber isolation in the darkness of The Fillmore, her voice closed the verse with a timid release:  “I was just wondering if there's...

On a Tuesday night, the Chapel opened its doors to a lukewarm audience that trickled in over the span of two hours. So lukewarm, in fact, that I was able to successfully save the two stools next to me for a fat...