Oakland's Tumbleweed Wanderers are basically the musical equivalent of a feel-good story on Oprah — especially in today's economic climate in San Francisco, it's…
So did every songwriter in the Bay Area retreat into their bedroom last year with the entirety of the Replacements' and Big Star's catalogs…
It's been a busy year for Oakland's Waterstrider: When the electro-tinged indie-pop five-piece wasn't busy winning “Best Song From Oakland” in this year's Mayhem…
“We're kind of in our Joan Didion phase,” says David Lowery, co-founder of Cracker, when asked what inspired the band's new California-centric double album,…
It was a rainy evening as I approached Easy Breezy, a frozen yogurt spot in the heart of Noe Valley. It seemed like as…
Cass McCombs is many things — a semi-famous musician who semi-famously hates interviews, a nomad who keeps circling back to the Bay Area, an…
Attention Bay Area Garth Brooks mega-fans! You exist, right? Well dust off your boots and sidle on up to the Independent, where the country…
A famous musician who doesn't especially enjoy interviews isn't really that rare a concept. But unlike so many other divas and rock stars who…
Yesway, the local duo whose magic rests heavily on the otherworldly harmonies made by singer-songwriters Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing, have a way of…
Some may think of Australian outfit Pond as the unruly younger stepbrother of better known Down Under psych rockers Tame Impala, but the band…
