Tagged Indie

“People are going hard at the Jay Som show!” someone in the crowd exclaimed. Jay Som, AKA Oakland-based musician Melina Duterte, looked up and beamed. “People are going hard at the Jay Som show!”...

Moses Sumney is talented, majorly talented. If the first minute of his show couldn’t tell you that, his features on tracks of big name artists like Flume (“Weekend”) and Solange (“Mad”) should.  With...

Last Friday night, Canadian-born, LA-based slacker-rock musician Mac DeMarco rolled through Berkeley’s Greek Theater, playing before a sold out crowd to kick off the North American leg of his tour in support ...

Lo Moon There’s a strange phenomenon in the Bay Area where concert-goers, more often than not, skip the opening act. As a Los Angeles native, I’m accustom to seeing most of a crowd line up before the do...

LIVE 105’s Big Fucking Day is the South Bay’s one-day music festival. It’s that one festival that’s kind of like a knock-off version of Coachella, but surprisingly not so hard on your wallet. That last ...

“1, 2, 3 will you list it off to me? How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream” is what the Girlpool girls whisper at the top of their third full-length -- and, of course, still wonderfully wr...

For the first time in almost six years, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold’s distinctive voice has brought life to new lyrics with the release of their new single, “Third of May / Ōdaigahara.” The track was jo...

Slim’s in San Francisco was absolutely packed on Tuesday night for the sold-out Hippo Campus concert. The four-person indie rock band, made up of high school friends from Twin Cities, Minnesota, just released...

Kevin Garrett is an authentic young/old soul, incredibly talented, and a little bit of a dork. His music (just two EPs so far) is a modern  iteration of Sam Cooke, Robert Johnson-era soul beats and vocal dexte...

Sometime in the last couple of years, British Columbia’s Teen Daze (Jamison) disclosed his last name (Isaak) and relocated to Abbotsford, a quieter part of the Fraser Valley he’s called home the entire time...

“I love you more than you love yourself,” croons Katie Stelmanis on a lead single of the same title from Austra’s recent album, Future Politics, out January 20 via Domino. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

On the evening of November 17th at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, front man Paul Klein of indie-pop band LANY opened the show in an unusual manner. Without any explanation, he sat down cross-legged on t...

Don’t be turned away by the 48,000 plays on their top song. Creature Comfort’s talent and originality are not reflected in their current popularity (or lack thereof). I had a chance to Skype with two member...

I learned about the term “torch song” a while ago, during a session of listening to covers of pop songs (my unfortunate guilty pleasure) when one was labeled “in a torch song style.” The majority of the...

Kristine Flaherty, known as K.Flay,  has come a long way since writing her first rap parody track over 10 years ago, performing in front of a sold out crowd in her hometown of San Francisco last Thursday, Octo...