Death Cab for Cutie

Before he was running the Bay Area's premier indie music festival, Noise Pop founder Kevin Arnold was an architecture student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Here’s a playlist for when all you want is a rainy day in New York, but the closest you can get is an Angelino film major who once served cold coffee to Woody Allen. No milk, no sugar.

While Asphalt Meadows is by no means perfect, it serves as proof that Death Cab for Cutie is here to stay.

With a string of music releases and a tour with popular alternative indie band TV Girl in the span of two years, Jordana has already built a robust resume.

With such a long, established music career, the Strokes need to reckon with their early success and reflect on the dilemma all bands eventually face: grow or die.

The entire album holds the atmospheric indie-rock vibe, which has become popularized by artists such as Tame Impala. It’s a much different sound than the band’s previous album, which holds a brighter, more classic indie-rock tone.

Universal Love takes classic love songs and puts a gay twist on them, featuring performances from Bob Dylan, St. Vincent and Kesha.

John Vanderslice doesn’t beat around the bush. A musician and record producer with 10 full-length albums released under his own name and engineering fingerprints on countless others, he is also the owner of Tiny Telephone Recording, an analog recording studio with locations in both San Francisco and Oakland.