As Ikebe Shakedown’s Nadav Nirenberg talked about his band over the phone last week, a kaleidoscope of muffled horns echoed in the background. The funk band was in the middle of a recording session at its Brooklyn studio, Hive Mind Recording. The Brooklyn instrumental septet is comprised of two…

Not only is Jay Watson an accomplished musician, but he’s also the type of person to become distracted by a daddy long-legs mid-conversation and embark on a rescue mission, scooping it up with an empty tissue box and freeing it outside. That’s what Watson was up to early in…

Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Under a stark white spotlight, Real Estate keyboardist Matt Kalman kicked off the band’s Oakland Noise Pop show Saturday with the first few notes of the appropriately titled “Saturday,” from 2017 album, In Mind. The Fox Theater was flooded with yellow light as lead…