Tagged indie rock

Last Friday (4/8) the Starline Social Club in Oakland played host to two of the best working songwriters in indie rock: New York’s Mitski and Philadelphia’s Japanese Breakfast. While the former is a rapidly...

If you were around at The B-Side's original launch, you'll remember Glass Atlas. We caught up with them recently, after a long time no see and ahead of a show this Thursday at The Night Light, to discover the...

Too often, single female musicians are lumped in with some amorphous singer-songwriter genre that encompasses any female vocalist with some combination of guitars, pianos, and strings sans band. Puberty 2, the ...

Last Friday night, Rogue Wave and Floating Action performed at Los Angeles's Teragram Ballroom. Floating Action, hailing from North Carolina, displayed their lo-fi indie folk-rock style through their two gu...

After first stumbling upon BRONCHO a few months ago I was excited to see they would be on tour in my hometown. The Teragram Ballroom, located on the edge of downtown Los Angeles can be described as a more intim...

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird's music is so layered and lushly arranged that it’d be difficult to imagine his live renditions accurately representing his studio creations. But Bird makes excellent use of ...

Hip-hop and indie rock have always existed as largely separate genres, complete with their own musical touchstones, cultures, and roles in society, outside of the odd collaboration or sample. However, despite t...

Next to an overpass of the 101 Freeway in San Francisco is a music venue called the Brick & Mortar Music Hall. It is the evening of Easter Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, yet in this darkly lit h...

Wet’s debut was a long time coming. Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow have been creating and playing music together in different incarnations for nearly a decade. After coming together in Brooklyn...

West Grove, Pennsylvania-based sextet Dr. Dog’s bona fide sound has permeated the ears and hearts of countless adoring fans for years. The band have been a mainstay of the American indie rock scene for more...

You may not have heard of Kishi Bashi, but you probably have heard him. Since 2011, he has recorded with and opened for artists like Sondre Lerche, Regina Spektor, of Montreal, and Alexi Murdoch. He is also a f...

Mac DeMarco doesn't just play, he performs. And on Monday night, the whole Bay Area was on hand to see it. One got the sense that this show was destined to be a special experience when, nearly an hour before hi...

Django Django was nothing but electricity at the Regency Ballroom Friday night. On tour for their second album Born Under Saturn (2015), the performers came out in a cloud of smoke, greeted to enormous cheer. B...

October 24, British art rock band Django Django make their way to San Francisco's Regency Ballroom. Earlier this year they released their second album, Born Under Saturn (2015); Friday marks their third to...

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 ...