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Digging into SF IDM from the late 1990s, and singer-songwriter folk tales from the post-COVID Mission
This week, we share two older releases: One ambient industrial from 1999 and the other indie folk from 2023.
Revisiting great 2025 releases by Grey Causeway and Ripped to Shreds
Dandy Boy Records is on a poppy post-punk hot streak, a great live recording from San Jose death metal band Ripped to Shreds, plus our weekly show recs
Free local music showcase this Saturday! Bay Beats presents Neutrals, Back pOrchEstra, and MakrĂș Trio
Staying in the Bay for the long weekend?

June 2025

Glorious disco house, Nob Hill jazz, music for aliens, and so much more "In the Crate"
See our weekly show recommendations + new reviews of the latest disco house EP from C3DO Recordings and bass clarinet bebop from SLUGish Ensemble
Goats, chickens, and free live music! See a bunch of Bay Beats artists at the New Farm
Our weekly show recs + new reviews of voice-and-ambient explorations by Mills alum Briana Marela and deep space techno by SF producers Pteron and Oso

Music for aliens, grads, and people who've had their catalytic converters stolen
New reviews of spaced out electronic synthesis by Pale BlĂŒ Dot, bouncy house by Lu's Room, funky swift twisting bars by Casey Cope + our weekly show

June Gloom is back, and so is EMO! Dance to the emoest new pop punk outta SF
New reviews of pop punk by gloomy june, outlaw country by Josiah Flores, and Hindustani industrial by Only Now aka Kush Arora + our weekly show recs

May 2025

In the Crate: Family Not a Group, Only Now, Rainbow City Park, and more great local artists featured in our monthly playlist
See our weekly show recommendations + new review of Bill Orcutt's latest punk-infused, Reich-inspired minimal music masterpiece "The Four Louies"
30 performers. 6 shows. 4 days. 4 venues. Total Accord starts tonight!
Join us for an epic celebration of Bay Area music at a weekend concert series hosted by Total Accord Agency and White Crate across four iconic San

Pop and impermanence: New interviews with Anna Hillburg and Mild Universe
See our weekly show recs + new reviews of psychedelic shoegaze by Pink Breath of Heaven, rifftastic rock by Milk for the Angry, and ambient sax magic by

Finally: A BBQ for the Bay Area music lover
See our weekly show recs + new reviews of a three-track hard techno EP by Agropol and hooky pop rock by SF-to-Sacramento five-piece Rainbow City Park
“I didn’t have to explain my African sound.” See Piwai in Golden Gate Park this weekend
WEEKLY SHOW RECS + NEW REVIEWS: A warm, orchestral folksy slice of life from Lizzy Dutton and thrashy doom from Snakemother's debut album
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