Ryan PangilinanSeahaven came across my inbox as something that was for fans of Crime In Stereo. I usually hate the “RIYL” stickers because they usually sound nothing like those bands. Case in point: Seahaven. While I can understand the Crime In Stereo...
I know you think you go off, get crazy with your friends, party like a “rock star” on the weekends and such, but let me make something clear: YOU DO NOT GO OFF AS HARD AS LES SAVY FAV’S TIM HARRINGTON. No fucking way. Some people...
Anvil
Anvil
Aterciopelados
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
The Redwood Plan
The Whigs
Fences
Feral Children
HEALTH
HEALTH
Hole
Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets
THEEsatisfaction
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Man Man
Man Man
Man Man’s Crowd
Sleep
Sleep
Thee Oh Sees
Thee Oh Sees
Man Man
Man Man
Dead Man’s Bones
Dead Man’s Bones
Local Natives
Wavves
Wavves’ crowd
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Two years ago, I took the train across the bay to Oakland to see José González perform the best acoustic set I’ve seen to date, while he was touring for In Our Nature. I didn’t know much about him really, except that his cover of The...
This year’s Bumbershoot may have been a bit smaller, rainier, and less musically-sophisticated than it usually is, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some amazing performances. Here are some of the best from this year’s...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Buke & Gass certainly make music that is both adorably charming and unbelievably grating. Their latest album, Riposte, clocks in at just under 45-minutes, but its 14 tracks seem to go on forever in what feels like an off-the-wall, high-energy...
Maybe it should be said as a precursor to this review that I’m a complete sucker for most of what the music world likes to call “shoegaze,” so it goes without saying that I was an enormous fan of both of this Bay Area band’s...