Last Wednesday, following an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and the day before a sold-out show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, rising New York duo Phantogram treated San Francisco to a (free!) four-song set at Amoeba Records, highlighting material from their new record, Voices. This was their first Bay Area appearance since a dominating performance at last year’s Treasure Read More
The Rap: The Rap is a series of op-eds with mp3s that highlight local musicians and upcoming events in the Bay Area. Each week a band writes about their favorite local band, and the following week, the band that was chosen gets to chooses their favorite Bay Area group. If you’re a Bay Area musician Read More
About 30 min ago, Immortal Technique released the link to download his new album Martyr free of cost. As he stated on Twitter he wants you to share it: “@ImmortalTech As soon as I give you the link please RETWEET it to everyone @ everyone you know and tell them to RETWEET” I spent the last two Read More
The Rap: The Rap is a series of op-eds with mp3s that highlight local musicians and upcoming events in the Bay Area. Each week a band writes about their favorite local band, and the following week, the band that was chosen gets to chooses their favorite Bay Area group. If you’re a Bay Area musician Read More
This song first caught my attention because I thought it was Chrissie Hynde, and as a lifelong Pretender’s fan, I don’t say that lightly. Calvi’s flippantly cool, I-won’t-wallow-in-my-pain, track is reminiscent of one of my favorite Pretender’s songs, “Don’t Get Me Wrong.” Brian Eno referred to her as “the best thing since Patti Smith.” Comparison’s Read More
The Rap: The Rap is a series of op-eds with mp3s that highlight local musicians and upcoming events in the Bay Area. Each week a band writes about their favorite local band, and the following week, the band that was chosen gets to chooses their favorite Bay Area group. If you’re a Bay Area musician Read More
The Rap: The Rap is a series of op-eds with mp3s that highlight local musicians and upcoming events in the Bay Area. Each week a band writes about their favorite local band, and the following week, the band that was chosen gets to chooses their favorite Bay Area group. If you’re a Bay Area musician Read More
The Rap: The Rap is a series of op-eds with mp3s that highlight local musicians and upcoming events in the Bay Area. Each week a band writes about their favorite local band, and the following week, the band that was chosen gets to chooses their favorite Bay Area group. If you’re a Bay Area musician Read More
Souncloud submissions. Simply put, bands we’ve taken note whom have submitted their music to us via Soundcloud. Each track is accompanied by the message sent to us. We just cut and paste (artist take notice). Now we leave it up to you. Yes, scary that we should trust the tastemakers that follow us, but we’ll Read More
Boy Eats Drum Machine – Hoop + Wire Boy Eats Drum Machine: “Hoop +Wire” DL [audio: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11598506/Boy%20Eats%20Drum%20Machine-%20Hoop%2BWire.mp3] Boy Eats Drum Machine is the multi-instrumental project of Jon Ragel based in Portland, Oregon. Ragel writes the lyrics, sings said lyrics, mixes, and plays the saxophone, and is on the super-hip Portland-based label Tender Loving Empire. It’s Read More