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It Is What It Is is less speculative and abstract: it’s more like Bruner licking the many wounds he’s accrued during his life — one being the death of his longtime friend Mac Miller — but purposely hiding behind a facade of nonchalance.
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To borrow some terminology from the Carters, this year’s Outside Lands “was a fucking zoo.”
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On Friday, Twenty One Pilots, The Lumineers and Flying Lotus boasted, respectively, the most risk-taking, nautical and surreal sets of the weekend.
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When an artist such as Flying Lotus warns Rolling Stone that his new album might “mess up the game a little bit,” fans are wise to take notice. In the eight years since his debut, FlyLo has progressed from a jagged, minimalistic blend of trip-hop to something more layered and
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With troubling news being delivered from all around, the chaos of this past week finally caught up to me, and I sought a little respite in my headphones as the world spun madly on. The fact that I’m writing this after watching/sobbing over “Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” (cue the Netflix
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Our lead critics recommend the latest and greatest in culture. MUSIC: A wide variety of albums await your ears this week — at least for those who haven’t already started torrenting them. Both the Berkeley-based hip-hop indie rock group Why? and Oakland’s own Zion-I will be releasing albums this Tuesday.
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While October generally means frights, candy, Halloween raves, there’s one show that stands out from the standard fall festivals. The Treasure Island Music Festival is one of the newer annual music festivals to arrive in the Bay Area. Since 2007, the festival has been quietly gaining attention. Now in its
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