Author Archives: Roman Gokhman
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INTERVIEW: Lydia Loveless looks to find herself on ‘Daughter’
Lydia Loveless, Courtesy: Megan Toenyes. After crisscrossing the country in support of her 2016 album, Real, singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless was emotionally and physically spent. By that point, the alt-country artist had followed one critically acclaimed album (2014’s Somewhere Else) with another and toured with the likes of Lucinda Williams…
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SF’s Town Hall Restaurant reopens with outdoor dining, hope for more help
L to R: Town Hall Restaurant co-owners Björn Kock, Steven Rosenthal and Mitchell Rosenthal photographed on Sept. 18, 2020. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Mitchell Rosenthal, the executive chef and co-owner at acclaimed Town Hall Restaurant in San Francisco, seemed beyond happy to unbutton his shirt to reveal another…
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Joe Biden’s election campaign kickstarts streaming concert series ‘Team Joe Sings’
Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s election campaign, Biden for President, today announced a new online concert series titled Team Joe Sings. Beginning tonight and continuing each Thursday at 5 p.m. PST, a new batch of artists will perform one to two songs virtually in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.…
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Classical music meets hip-hop with Kev Choice, AÏMA the DRMR in SF Symphony video series
Kev Choice in SF Symphony’s ‘From Scratch,’ Courtesy: Kim Huynh. The San Francisco Symphony, not able to play any concerts since March, has pivoted to alternative programming over the last couple of months, including video and podcast series CURRENTS, illustrating the connection between classical music and the music of…
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Stockton poet and America’s Got Talent hopeful Brandon Leake: ‘The poem changes as the years go on’
Brandon Leake performs in season 15 of ‘America’s Got Talent’ in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 2020. Courtesy: Trae Patton/NBC. By the time Stockton poet Brandon Leake blew the “America’s Got Talent” judges and audience away on Sept. 1 with “Pookie”—about his mother’s fear every time he left their…
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INTERVIEW: Julie Budet on the more mature YELLE, ‘The Age of Aquarius’
YELLE, Courtesy: Jerome Lobato. Julie Budet, one-half of French dance pop duo YELLE, points to the penultimate track on new album L’Ère du Verseau as one of numerous examples at the group’s more serious and mature direction. L’Ère du Verseau (The Age of Aquarius) YELLE Recreation Center, Sept. 4 “Peine…
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Q&A: Biffy Clyro calls for action to avoid ultimate ‘endings’
Biffy Clyro, Courtesy: Ash Roberts. A Celebration of Endings, the new album from Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro ends with a screamo-prog-metal-funk journey “Cop Syrup,” on which singer-guitarist Simon Neil feverishly and repeatedly declares, “Fuck everyone! Whoo!” It may sound like the retort of someone who’s given up all hope,…
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Q&A: All We Are find an eternal summer in ‘Providence’
All We Are, Courtesy: Rebecca Hawley. From the Liverpool band’s home inside a 160-year-old decommissioned school near the center of the city, the three members of All We Are—all immigrants to England—have been watching how the last four years have seemed to turn the world from its axis. In…
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Q&A: VINCINT out to prove ‘what I am is enough’
VINCINT, Courtesy photo. Vincint Cannady was already a rising vocalist and didn’t want or need to compete on Fox’s “The Four” reality singing competition. The Philadelphia native, who blends his powerful pipes with soulful falsettos and huge dance hooks as VINCINT, twice rejected the show’s producers to try out.…
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REVIEW: The talented Mr. Greene grapples with broken hearts on ‘Purple Noon’
After experimenting with jazzy psychedelia and abstract songwriting on his third record, 2017’s Mister Mellow, Georgia producer-songwriter and chillwave artist Ernest Greene, better known as Washed Out, is back to his bread and butter on his return to Sup Pop Records with Purple Noon. Purple Noon Washed Out Sub…
