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New Music: Oakland collective SMARTBOMB has that feeling of futurism

John-Paul Shiver - July 23, 2020

Beat music, the defiant all-inclusive electronic aesthetic that seizes and chops up odd bits of hip-hop, library music, jazz, bass music, IDM, and anything...

New Music: A classic Oneness of Juju re-release jolts consciousness

John-Paul Shiver - July 21, 2020

Witness the rhythmic agency of soundtracking a movement. Prudent is the beat that moves your feet and mind simultaneously, jolting up new pathways of...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

New Music: Compilation recalls the greatness of Om Records’ city synthesis

John-Paul Shiver - July 17, 2020

Better go grab yourself a burrito and Jarritos before you sit down to assess the money behind today's electronic music. According to the Ibiza...

Forget what makes sense: Anteloper vaporizes on ‘Tour Beats Vol. 1’

John-Paul Shiver - July 16, 2020

Free jazz trumpeter Jaimie Branch, and drummer Jason Nazary—longtime friends and collaborators—recorded over two years ago in a shipping container-turned-recording studio in Brooklyn. They...

Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

Joanna Ladd - July 15, 2020

Pianist and composer Holly Mead picked the title Solitary Animals for her fourth album months before COVID-19 spun us all into cocoons of solitude....

Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

John-Paul Shiver - July 6, 2020

With this past weekend, summer's officially here—and while that may not mean dancing in the streets, you can certainly use some new protest and...

New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)

John-Paul Shiver - July 2, 2020

Here we are halfway through 2020, with so much to keep an attentive eye on that you might walk into the shower fully clothed....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

Dennis Harvey - June 26, 2020

The SF International Film Festival that wasn’t a couple months ago—one of COVID-19’s earliest cultural casualties—would have included a 20th-anniversary screening of Greg Harrison’s...

Culture

Score new music on Juneteenth—and support NAACP Legal Fund

John-Paul Shiver - June 17, 2020

Once again leaping to action when leaders, politicians, and other music platforms continually remain tone-deaf and tardy in response, Bandcamp will be donating 100...

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