While everyone’s been waiting for local eclectic soul singer-songwriter Anya Kvitka to record a debut full length, she decided to switch gears and instead put out a four EPs, released each week this month, and one song at a time.
Continue reading »
The members of Las Kumbia Queers didn’t start off liking cumbia—punk was their first love. Maybe that’s why this all-female six-piece band from Argentina approaches cumbia as if it were punk rock. Their instrumentation is raw, the energy is intense and they’re totally irreverent, playing covers of Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Madonna…
Continue reading »
Drugs, violence and just plain rock & roll madness were major themes covered in the 2004 rockumentary Dig! as viewers watched San Francisco psychedelic rock band the Brian Jonestown Massacre fall apart at the seams. Yet, it was their goofy, flamboyant and not-nearly-as-volatile tambourine player Joel Gion who became a favorite with…
Continue reading »
Not Everyone could pull off an entire art show inspired by a single shoe design, but then most shoes don’t carry the significance that local skateboarder Steve Caballero’s Half Cabs do.
Continue reading »
Cassette tapes have returned and they’re taking over the music industry. Well, maybe they’re not that popular, but within certain underground punk and indie circles, they have become a popular way once again for bands to release their music. One band that’s taken advantage of this format is Portland indie rock band…
Continue reading »
Jason Stollsteimer was never known to be a tortured artist. His old band, the Von Bondies, were a fun rock & roll band, part of the early 2000s garage-rock revival alongside the Strokes and the White Stripes. But toward the end of the decade, as they fizzled out, he focused on a…
Continue reading »
San Jose’s the English Language are in love the year 1967. It almost goes without saying. Yet it’s an important point to make when discussing their new album, This is Science / Rock & Roll because while their self-titled debut is has more than a couple moves taken from the summer of…
Continue reading »
Kentucky-based Musician J.D. Wilkes has found a true muse: the South. It inspires him whether he’s touring the country with his unhinged country-punk group the Shack Shakers, directing a documentary about the music and mythology of the American South, writing a book that comprehensively catalogs all the barn dances and jamborees in…
Continue reading »
Food. Wine. Amour. France is known for many things, but folk music is not one of them. However, when French native Morgan Manifacier started playing guitar at the age of 14, it was American folk music that he wanted to play. He particularly felt a connection to American songwriters like Bob Dylan,…
Continue reading »
The Clash sang about the plight of the working class, Bikini Kill advocated for women’s rights, Minor Threat gave a voice to straight-edge kids and Earth Crisis were staunch environmentalists. There has always been a segment of punk rock dedicated to advancing progressive political ideologies.
Continue reading »
