Last month, we highlighted Oakland’s Madeline Kenney in anticipation of her show with Astronauts Etc. After collaborating with Social Work and releasing her “Tricky Way” video, Madeline Kenney has announced a new EP and shared the album’s title track. Kenney’s Signals will arrive on June 3 via Chaz Bundick’s Company Records. The album’s title track also features […]
After a lone event or two last week, Noise Pop 2016 kicked into gear on Tuesday night. Elsewhere in San Francisco, you could’ve caught Metric, Makonnen, Kool AD and others. Meanwhile at the Independent, Naytronix (the project of tUnE-yArDs‘ Nate Brenner), Kid Trails (Toro y Moi guitarist Patrick Jeffords) and Hunny opened for Oakland’s Astronauts Etc. Originally […]
Damn. After a very prolific last few years including four mixtapes (51, 63, 19, Not O.K., Word O.K.), animated music videos, a collab album with Kassa, a novel, and hundreds of paintings, Bay Area rapper Kool A.D. just dropped a 100 track mixtape. Yeah, read that again: one hundred tracks on this thing. The Kool A.D. “O.K” […]
After releasing What For? earlier this spring, Chaz Bundick shared a number of varying tracks under his Toro y Moi moniker this summer. The range of tracks included “2 Late” with fellow East Bay musician Kool AD and “Room for 1zone“. While there was no word of another Toro y Moi album on the horizon, Chaz shared […]
After sharing “I Know” and “No Justice” earlier this spring, Oakland’s Astronauts Etc have shared another new track from their debut album Mind Out Wandering. Astronauts Etc “Eye to Eye” is one more glimpse of what’s shaping up to be one of the best albums out of the Bay Area thus far into 2015. The subtle grooves, tight […]