Audio Archives - Page 11 of 20

Onstage

Take that, 2020: The Mime Troupe pivots to web

Caitlin Donohue - July 20, 2020

It’s a rough time for live theater. As San Francisco arts organizations brainstorm ways to carry their message into the COVID era, some of...

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Marke B. - July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

Movies

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Johnny Ray Huston - June 24, 2020

As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with...

Bandcamp Day picks: Support these great California artists directly

John-Paul Shiver - June 3, 2020

Music fans spent $7.1 million dollars the last time Bandcamp waived its 15% sales fee, on Friday, May 1st That's a new daily record...

Techno-arts fest Mutek.SF recreates a trippy rave blueprint online

John-Paul Shiver - May 21, 2020

Last year's iteration of MUTEK.SF, the off-shoot of the the original MUTEK festival—an event dedicated to electronic music and the digital arts that began...

Arts + Culture

Rediscovering the fantastic music of Akiko Yano

Johnny Ray Huston - May 20, 2020

Few forms of exhilaration quite match that of discovering a vital artist who is in fact deep within their story, having created a rich...

New Music: Vinyl Williams’ visionary sunshine pop goes ‘Azure’

John-Paul Shiver - April 26, 2020

When the Los Angeles based musician Lionel 'Vinyl' Williams—grandson of acclaimed film composer John Williams, whose 1977 Star Wars score remains an idyllic cinematic feat—speaks about...

New Music: The bleary-eyed kaleidoscope of Once & Future Band’s ‘Deleted Scenes’

John-Paul Shiver - April 21, 2020

From their 2012 start, eclectic Oakland's Once & Future Band always reached for a simple goal—never mind the Kodachrome, dream-catcher, psych-rock veneer. "Progressive rock has a reputation for...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: New flicks (yes, they still exist)

Dennis Harvey - April 20, 2020

As a change of pace from our recent columns compiling lists of choice home-viewing items from the celluloid past, this week we’ll take a...

New Music: Daedelus pushes into the red with ‘What Wands Won’t Break’

John-Paul Shiver - April 15, 2020

The latest LP from Alfred Darlington aka Daedelus, What Wands Won't Break, finds the beatmaker—a long-lasting Southern California electronic music artist and DJ—using his observations...

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