Most of us know that spending summer in the Bay Area means you’re not going to get three months of sunshine and blue skies. It looks like the weather gods are feeling especially gloomy this week, because we’re being treated to cloudiness and an off-chance of rain, which is perfect Read More…
If there’s one thing that wields the power to firmly establish or brutally shatter a band’s creative endurance in a transient music scene, it’s the sophomore release. Colossal amounts of hype tend to build over successful debuts – see The Strokes’ Is This It, Interpol’s Turn On the Bright Lights Read More…
At the end of each month, I’ll be posting a feature highlighting five quality tracks released during that month. We start with January 2013. This is going to be a good year. I can feel it. Bands are announcing upcoming albums by the truckload. The year got off to a Read More…
