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Spend enough time checking out live music in the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually you’re bound to cross paths with master percussionist and composer Dave Mihaly. A long-time San…
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With a sound that combines the hypnotic vibe of Mazzy Star and the drones of John Cale-era Velvet Underground, Annie Girl and The Flight soar like no other.
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The Blank Tapes follow up this year’s acclaimed ‘Vacation’ with a low key cassette release, custom made for a lonely Saturday night.
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The shamelessly rock n’ roll Ryan Parks of B. Hamilton sat down for an f-bomb laden Parlour to Parlour interview. Cover your kids’ ears for this one.
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Singer/pianist/songwriter Debbie Neigher has a voice that commands attention, one that could entrance the same audience that made a star out of Adele.
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One of the latest instrumental groups to spring up in the Bay, while new to most of us, is actually a duo with a long history and an uplifting story of hope.
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“I’m trying to write songs, not create a sound.” Jessi Phillips’ guiding philosophy for Eight Belles ought to resonate strongly with regular Popdose followers.
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Amethyst zooms in and out with might and musical muscle, sporting an all-killer-no-filler approach that improves upon the band’s idiosyncratic 14-track debut.
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The Boy With Astronaut Eyes finds The Purrs in a particularly joyful state of mind, and sounding perhaps the most invigorated and pumped up they’ve ever been.
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Rivers is a delicately beautiful perspective of this master musician’s artistry, and may even widen the acceptance of avant garde jazz, given the chance.
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Psychedelic hero Mark Matos explains the concept of the Family Folk Explosion and details his upcoming boxed set in part two of his Parlour to Parlour interview.
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Psych/folk/rock torch-bearer Mark Matos connects his music to a unique vision of “the New Weird West” in the first of a two-part Parlour to Parlour interview.
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Music festival season is upon us! Do you Roo, or do you Hickey?
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An all-women’s choir playing in the same venues on the same nights as indie rock and folk bands? That’s exactly what Conspiracy of Venus is.
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Could that new Chicago album that can stand tall with their best material finally be coming?
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Taken together Chicago’s catalog is fascinating, frustrating, brilliant and awful all at once. Read on and judge for yourself.
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The first ever Eight Belles video features a horse. If it didn’t, we’d be very worried.
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What do Fox & Woman and Country Joe McDonald have in common? Hint: it has nothing to do with Woodstock…
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“They’re so talented, I’d just hate them if they weren’t so damned nice!”
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California garage pop torch bearers The Blank Tapes go hi-fi for the first time with the first single from their forthcoming Vacation album.
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“It’s like hearing any of your five favorite primo-voiced pop princesses aiming for, and succeeding at, creating high art.”
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Parlour to Parlour is back! After a year-long hiatus, the beloved video interview series is reborn in 2013 in a live talk show format.
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Due to the extreme length of this 2012 year-end recap, Michael Fortes recommends that you skip ahead to the entry on Joey Dosik.
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Bay Area songstress Ash Reiter delivers a second full-length album that’s concise, full of exciting modern pop productions, and packed with hit-worthy tracks.
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Anna Ash’s new video for “Heartbreak Season” is full of dancers, sparklers, and flirtatious boys and girls.
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Pitch in to help fund the mastering and pressing of Ash Reiter’s new album and you could end up going on a skydiving trip!
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Gorgeous two-part harmonies match the natural seashore beauty of Berkely-based Big Tree’s brand new video.
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Sultry and smooth, DRMS (pronounced “dreams”) is a San Francisco Bay Area based band comprised of the cream of the crop of today’s young, jazz-trained working musicians.
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Chrystian Rawk gives an unlikely chamber pop treatment to a punk classic by Rancid. What?
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