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Daniel Bromfield

Daniel Bromfield
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Daniel Bromfield is a second-generation San Franciscan and a prolific music and arts journalist. His work has appeared in Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Stereogum, and various publications in the Bay Area. He lives in the Richmond district.
Music

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,...
Art

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...
Music

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...
Music

‘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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

In Chuck Johnson’s ambient ‘Rain Shadow,’ a sound of high desert ecology

Oakland-based guitarist Chuck Johnson was never in the same room as his collaborators, the Portland duo Golden Retriever, during the making of their new...

His marathon rap for COVID relief broke the Guinness World Record

When George Watsky turned 33, his roommate looked him in the eye and told him it would be the best year of his life....
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