Tagged Indie

Melbourne’s Strange Talk are the luckiest strikers around, having survived both a label shift and a name change. Prior to gaining recognition from Australia’s Triple J (a radio station that spotlights emer...

Electropop duo Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of I Break Horses have been making a scene since 2011, when they appeared with their misty debut album Hearts. Their prowess and years of hard work landed them a s...

The Oakland-based folk fusion musician will be back next Friday and recommends The Starry Plough’s classic hearty food. Dawn McCarty (otherwise known as Faun Fables) met us last week mid-tour at a local pl...

After playing the Oakland Metro Opera House with Hop Along, Waxahatchee played a second East Bay show on Upper Sproul as part of SUPERB's Spring 2014 concert series. Berkeley locals, The New Tenants, opened th...

Spring is here, the sun is out, and love is in the air, but Florida's Matt Hires is too familiar with the charming games that arise with spring romance. Hires is a heartache machine and "all knows is to br...

It's a Sunday night and they’re thirty minutes behind schedule. Christopher Heinz walked straight from the bar to his seat behind the drum kit, and Walking Shapes took off, running headlong into “Whoa Tig...

Representing the East Bay at SFSU, Berkeley’s own Art Nikels lulled The Depot into an experimental indie reverie of alternating beats and chordal melodies. Within their dynamic six-song set, the five-piece...

Yesterday, The War on Drugs played The Independent for the first of two sold-out San Francisco shows. The Philadelphia-based band has been touring for the past few weeks promoting their new album, Lost in Th...

Indie contortionists Walking Shapes traverse a variety of genres on their sophomore effort, Taka Come On. It’ll be their debut album, however, as the band’s prior release was a 13-track mixtape. They wan...

There are nights when the openers are openers; there are nights when the openers steal the show. Tuesday night’s stacked lineup at Rickshaw Stop could’ve gone either way. During local one-man act Yalls, we...

Monday nights are usually unfruitful when it comes to live music. But fans who wandered into The Chapel during this month's Martin Luther King Jr. Day were in for a treat. A couple of West Coast acts managed ...

Katie Stelmanis sings with her band Austra at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Toronto-based band Austra returned to San Francisco on Saturday for the second time this year to promote their well praised sophomo...