After witnessing Sleepy Sun's show at Bottom of the Hill last night (my first time seeing them live), I count myself amongst the convinced that San Francisco's newest stars have been born. The band put on a performance that burned into your memory--and your retina, thanks to a film projector beaming white geometric patterns on the band. Sleepy's sound is equal parts Brightblack Morning Light, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Black Mountain. It's psychedelic pop, it's droning stoner rock, it's ea
EKAphotographyStoned Raider: B-Real
It kind of says something about San Francisco's place in the pot-smoking pantheon of history that Stoner-hop icons Cypress Hill are playing not one but two shows on April 20th in San Francisco. Sure, B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs could have probably been in Amsterdam, Vancouver or Kingston, but by golly, they'll be at the storied Fillmore auditorium for what's sure to be a cannabis-laced, slightly hallucinogenic, munchie-inducing evening.
Though these "Ston
At the end of Eugene, Oregon trio Yob's list of influences on its MySpace page, the heavy doom band lists "100 decibels." That last item, tucked into a longer rundown of favorite bands (Sleep, High on Fire, Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Burning Witch) is just another way this group shows it means business when it comes to producing molten metal. Yob's songs are thickly bubbling affairs, with effects-laden guitars coming at you in expansive sonic flows during extended intros, the burly rhythm sectio
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