Chrissy and Clearcast co-headlining our next party at Mothership on June 22!
Classic house and freestyle in a new single by Chrissy, a reinvention by beloved indie singer-songwriter Taylor Vick (fka Boy Scouts), and our weekly show recs
We’re excited to announce our next night at Mothership. On June 22nd, we welcome two of the finest producers and DJs in the Bay Area: Chrissy and Clearcast.
While Chrissy—“a walking talking dance floor encyclopedia”—has been a producer, label head, and DJ’s DJ for some time now, Clearcast is a relatively fresh face and essential one to watch. Both share a knack for melding booty shaking bass, headspinning breaks, and anthemic melodies into cathartic dance floor bangers. And both have honed their mixing skills on the burgeoning internet radio scene: Chrissy has been featured on BBC 6 Music, NTS, Rinse FM, and The Lot Radio, just to name a few; while Clearcast has spun on Fault Radio, The Lot Radio, and hosts HydeFM monthly program CLOUDCONTROL.
Chrissy and Clearcast are two amazing eclectic selectors we know will bring energy and euphoria to our night at Mothership, and we hope you’ll join us <3
— White Crate
FREESTYLE IS FOREVER
“Like a facsimile of the late 1980s house/freestyle record that you never owned”
Freestyle heads rejoice: SF producer and DJ Chrissy took a brief step back from slanging other artist’s dance bangers on his label Maximum Airtime (just launched last year) to deliver juiced up throwback “Things Can’t Go on Like This Forever.” Featuring pleading, powered up vocals by Carrie Wilds, the club-ready track comes in both classic Chicago house and Latin freestyle flavors, each one scratching the itch for old-school dance fans. Stabby synths, throbbing bass, and that mind-elevating voice: It will be a thing of beauty on the dancefloor. The release also includes Gerd Janson’s remix of “So I Go Dancing,” a Chrissy track from 2019.
— Ronny Kerr
SILVERY INDIE RENEWAL
“This is a song I wrote about my attempt to locate the unlocatable — the ineffable and elusive ‘place’ inside of me where my beliefs are born from and exist within.” — Taylor Vick
Boy Scouts is no more. Well, the musician Taylor Vick is gratefully very much still here; but after receiving a cease and desist letter, she decided to move on from the alias under which she had been releasing music, including the warm, easy, yet melancholy album Wayfinder that made many best-of lists in 2021.
The Oakland-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist revealed all of this alongside the release of a new single, “Place That I Believe From,” produced in partnership with fellow local artist Stephen Steinbrink. Soft plodding piano chords accented by strings introduce the song, a profoundly inward-looking piece attempting to understand the self and how we become who we are. It feels as though as it ends as quickly as it begins, the time disappearing in those slow marching keys and Vick’s silvery crooning voice.
— Ronny Kerr
SHOW RECS
Our top show recommendations for the coming week:
[rock] B. Hamilton, Grace Sings Sludge, The Sluts — May 23 at the Golden Bull
[club] Shygirl, Adam Kraft, likeholywine, nonsuit — May 23 at 1015 Folsom
[guitar] Leo Nava, Louda y Los Bad Hombres — May 23 at Red Poppy Art House
[punk] Gumby's Junk, Loolowningen & the Far East Idiots, Feefawfum — May 24 at Thee Stork Club
[alternative] Little Arcs (album release), Sucker Crush, Judith Horn — May 24 at Ivy Room
[punk] Rip Room, Body Double, Diesel Dudes, Pink Stiletto, Rabbit, Mala Vida (DJ) — May 24 at Edinburgh Castle Pub
[club] NO BIAS ft. Alice Longyu Gao, Doggiechow, RITCHRD b2b Tom Marsi, Queermom — May 24 at 1015 Folsom
[rock] Shutups, Juicebumps, Buzzed Lightbeer — May 25 at Phoenix Hotel
[rock] Canyon Songs (record release), Freight Train Lady, Hail Dirt! — May 25 at New Farm
[rock] Country Risque, Often Easy, Mitch Rocket — May 25 at Golden Gate Park Bandshell
[club] BROWNSKINHAZEL, DJ JUANNY, LA FAVI — May 25 at Underground SF
[club] Bambii, b0nitababy, Beverly Chills, sfcowboy, Profesito, Discnogirl, and more — May 25 at DM organizers for location
[punk] False Flag, Ansible, George Crustanza, Mutilated Tongue, Doc and the Parasites, Bruja, Merked — May 26 at UN Plaza
[indie] Pillow Talk: Music and Community Building ft. Rowan Katz, Elizabeth Lubin, Freight Train Lady, Judith Horn, Julia Rolnick, Maiia — May 28 at Ivy Room
[experimental] Mind Mirage (record release), Gall, Zero Charisma, Beast Nest — May 28 at Thee Stork Club