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With the band’s latest, a radiant new album titled Jubilee, Zauner continues to reach new heights, arriving on the other side of grief with her most ambitious work to date.
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Music beat reporters Vincent Tran and Taila Lee are here to recommend a few highlights you might’ve missed in the music world this past month.
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One of the most heart-wrenching casualties of the pandemic was the loss of in-person concerts, as the performances that used to animate restaurants, bars and late-night venues seemed to vanish overnight.
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This year, celebrate Valentine’s Day by listening to songs that capture the complicated and contradictory parts of love.
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Over the course of the night, the Fox was filled with the sounds of not only guitar, bass and drums, but also keyboards, recorder, synth, cowbell, harmonica and various other instruments.
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Whether you’re attending the festival or just looking for some new music recommendations, all of these artists are well worth your time.
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As the shimmery, layered synths washed over the room, Zauner led the audience in remembering the earth-shattering heartbreak of a crush’s dismissal.
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Danceable, yet ethereally dreamy, built totally upon science-fiction pretenses yet still tangible and realistic, and interactive yet still grandly cinematic, Japanese Breakfast ended the show with a performance that lodged itself firmly into the vertex of the three modes that it had operated under all night.
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Various musical talents, from hit rapper Vince Staples to indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast, graced stages across the Bay Area for the 25th anniversary of the Noise Pop music and arts festival, which ran from Feb. 17 to Feb. 27.
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Visit Jay Som’s Facebook page and you’ll find that Melina Duterte, a lifelong Bay Area native and current Oakland resident, describes her music project’s genre as “Woozy.” Perhaps it’s an allusion to the fateful Thanksgiving night last year when Duterte got on Bandcamp and drunkenly posted Turn Into, a self-recorded
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