In a once-pink house, atop a hill where San Francisco and Daly City collide, freak folk four-piece Little Teeth practices its trash thrash in a small living room decked with tawdry holiday tchotchkes year round, as if suspended in a never-ending Christmas. When I arrive, pajama-clad vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Sofia Bell is baking Christmas tree-shaped vegan cookies.… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
Hunter Mack is many things — visual artist, U.C. Berkeley mechanical engineering PhD, new dad — but music fans know him best as the owner and president of Oakland-based, 7-inch-centric Gold Robot Records. The indie label’s releases include the now-disbanded Volunteer Pioneer, San Francisco’s Man/Miracle, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy of Drag City Records, among others.… [Read more…]
January 10, 2011
Conceived of lover’s scorn, a lot of booze, and a night in the slammer, the indie pop darling – The Love Language – is the brainchild of songwriter/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, Stuart McLamb. Following his exile from garage rockers, the Capulets, and bad break-up with his girlfriend, the North Carolina native woke up in his friend’s apartment in… [Read more…]
September 28, 2010
“It’s one more hour they’re not on the streets,” Debbie Neigher said when asked about her position as the Art Program Counselor at Larkin Street Youth Services, one of San Francisco’s largest non-profit organizations that provides supportive services to homeless youth ages 12 – 24. By day, Neigher teaches piano and voice lessons, film production,… [Read more…]
September 22, 2010
With an open guitar case and a 8.5” x 11” white sheet of paper that read “The Secrets Love You” scotched taped to it, songstresses – Demetra Delia (vocals/guitar/keys) and Montana Rose (vocals/mandolin/guitar) of The Secrets – cooed and crooned while oblivious passersby went on their way. While onlookers were few, Rose, sighed: “It was… [Read more…]
November 13, 2011
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