Daniel Bromfield
Daniel Bromfield is a San Francisco native and arts journalist whose work has appeared in the Bay Guardian, San Francisco Magazine, Resident Advisor, and various music sites. He ran the SF Rebirth blog, documenting all-ages shows in the Bay Area, from 2010 to 2013. His work can be found at danielbromfield.com
Star producer Ricky Reed steps back from the mic on ‘The Room’
Grammy-winning beatmaker talks life after notorious electro project Wallpaper., and how catching up with friends morphed into new album.
Bottoms up for spirits-lifting Oakland Cocktail Week (now a month)
Support local bars and drink in good company, as the festival pivots to a vital fundraiser.
On experimental duo Matmos’ latest, 99 is the magic number (and collaboration is key)
M.C. Schmidt of Matmos waves a limp assemblage of taped-together scraps of paper in front of his computer camera. “This is the third hour, this is the second hour,”...
Artist Tim Presley rediscovers spark robbed by addiction in new book
These painted figures that fill the pages of Tim Presley's new book Under the Banner of Concern seem to know your secrets. No matter what bizarre and erotic contortions...
How San Francisco changed the sound of Christian music
The Summer of Love was as fruitful a time for music as its long winter of discontent. As the hippie dream dissipated and mellow highs curdled into drug-induced paranoia...
‘Cosmo’s Factory’ at 50: Creedence Clearwater Revival members on landmark album and ’70s SF
Even locals would be forgiven from thinking they were from the steamy swamps of the South given their sound and subject matter, but Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of...
Deerhoof’s ‘Future Teenage Cave Artists’ scrawls a calamitous fairy tale
Deerhoof’s new album is about the end of the world. Climate change is irreversible, infrastructure has collapsed, death is dealt out undiscerningly, and a small band of hopeful youth...
Diving into Sespool’s genre-agnostic indie rap
Before Rin Tin Tiger, Westwood & Willow, Pericardium, or the weird-ass Christmas album, he was Sespool—the “SES” coming from his initials, Sean E. Sullivan. The music he released under...
This could be the best (and queerest) Outside Lands yet. If it happens.
After this week's announcement that its August hopes were dashed, Outside Lands is coming back in 2021. Maybe. Seeing as pretty much the only thing we could’ve predicted in...
The Golden Gate Bridge is singing. Here’s a matching playlist
As many who participated in Saturday's massive George Floyd demonstration across the Golden Gate Bridge noted, the sound of high winds passing through the the iconic landmark's new sidewalk...
