Tagged Indie

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...

  Photo by Nicolita Bradley Arca: She/Her/It/They/Them Arca, our extraterrestrial goddess. Arca knows no limits and chooses to defy every border within music. Arca is a legend. A Venezuelan artis...

The iconic Primavera Sound festival finally made its way to Los Angeles, California on the weekend of September 16th-18th. For two decades Primavera Sound has been spreading music throughout the world. The fest...

On Thursday, April 14, indie punk group Mannequin Pussy rocked Upper Sproul, sparking a daytime mosh that triumphed over the gloomy weather conditions and chased the rainy day blues away. This was an unexpected...

In the wake of her sophomore album Valentine (2021), an LP that marked a sonic shift in the Snail Mail catalogue, Baltimore’s Lindsey Jordan and her band voyaged west to pay a visit to the Fox Theater on Apri...

In the words of Clem Zimmer, Cal alum and synth punk virtuoso, the Bay Area has a rich DIY music tradition. Zooming in on UC Berkeley and its adjacent co-op houses, backyard stages, and student stomping grounds...

By the time my friend and I arrived at the Fox for the Mitski concert on March 5, the formidable line was already snaking down the block, terminating on the far side of the adjacent parking lot. With Mitski’s...

Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association —  allo...

This past Monday night at the Warfield in San Francisco, Still Woozy and company gave their audience the performance of a lifetime. The night's concert consisted of three hour long sets featuring Legwurk, Walli...

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...

Since Japanese Breakfast’s newest album Jubilee was released  in June 2021, I’ve played it on repeat on virtually every occasion of my life: when I moved into my new apartment, when I binge-read Chainsaw M...

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...

It’s been 18 years since we lost the legendary singer-songwriter, Elliott Smith. Although he died shortly after I was born, I’ve always related to his music, since his music is often intimate and conversati...

Spotify Blend is the newest feature on Spotify. It syncs your music taste with whoever you send the Spotify blend link to and generates a playlist with similar songs you each would like. It has a song compatibi...

  It’s Saturday the 16th and the line for the Greek theater entrance is miles long. Crowds of fans in Doc Martens stomp down Piedmont and there’s a palpable feeling of excitement and anticipatio...