It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music on the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I love how platforms like YouTube, Bandcamp and Soundcloud have opened the floodgates of independent artists. But navigating…

Bay Area, something amazing happened: It stopped raining. I know, I know. I shouldn’t complain. We recently went through a three-year stretch with no rain at all. But if I wanted to live in Seattle…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to…

As you read this—assuming of course you’re frantically refreshing the site on the day it’s posted—I am in Mesa, Arizona to watch my beloved Oakland Athletics play baseball. Well… sort of, since they’re mostly players…

So much music, so little time. At least that’s what I hear from friends all too often. Even with so many options to hear so much new music, how do you find it all? You…

In my tireless quest to come up with a new topic every week, I’ve been lucky the past month or so. Holidays, awards shows; they’re conceptual gold. But my luck has run out. Do you…

  Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time…

The Oscars are tomorrow night. Obviously, this means I need to insult actors. I already insulted the Grammys but, amazingly, the Oscars are worse. They’re an interminable celebration of biopics and period dramas nobody actually…

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music on the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I love how platforms like YouTube, Bandcamp and Soundcloud have opened the floodgates of independent artists. But navigating…

Bad news. This is a Valentine’s Day column. Be aware that I absolutely mean the delay as a sign of disrespect. I know it’s cliche, and that I’ve expressed it before on this very site,…