Stories about Punk
In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience
The author and tattoo artist's 'Sigh, Gone" tells how a love of literature helped him adjust to US life after Vietnam.
Bandcamp Day picks: Support these great California artists directly
This Friday, the music sales site waives its fees again to benefit artists—and later this month it supports NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Out of the crate: 6 vinyl re-issues that are pretty damn dope
Fanny, Kleeer, Electric Prunes, and more get another spin, along with a timely compilation of '80s Japanese City Pop
Screen Grabs: Great new docs, from global inequality to SF thrash metal
Johnny Cash's wife, Guatemalan genocide, the unassuming couple behind LA's notorious adult bookstore, more
Support musicians directly this Friday!
Music sales platform Bandcamp waives its fees: Here's a clutch of snaggable releases, from post-punk reverie to out-there R&B.
New Music: The bleary-eyed kaleidoscope of Once & Future Band’s ‘Deleted Scenes’
The Oakland outfit's jazzy psyche-rock sound makes rejection sound like dawn spreading out from the previous night.
Screen Grabs: New flicks (yes, they still exist)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Selah and the Spades, Why Don't You Just Die!, and more intriguing new releases
Burger Boogaloo, other big fests reschedule in COVID wake
Fall festival season gets packed full of options as Mutek, BottleRock also move dates.
Leading drag and performance venue closes indefinitely
Like many spaces, SoMa nightclub Oasis tries to figure out how to survive without any live audiences.
New Music: ‘Who Sent You?’ asks free jazz combo Irreversible Entanglements
In an uncertain time, the quintet asks essential questions and pushes improvisation into a moving statement.