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Q&A: Flor gains confidence, prepares tactful protest
Flor. Courtesy: Catie Laffoon NAPA — Zach Grace, McKinley Kitts, Dylan Bauld and Kyle Hill amble into the Napa Valley Expo bingo hall fresh off an energetic early set at Bottlerock, laughing and joking with each other, four voices crashing over each other. The four members of flor are…
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Q&A: Dorothy Martin on rock and roll without the sex and drugs
Dorothy Martin. Courtesy photo. Dorothy is redefining modern rock. The Los Angeles band, helmed by lead vocalist Dorothy Martin, does not shy away from its rock and roll image, embracing comparisons to classic rock icons and putting on a live show to rival them. Dorothy Spirit Animal 7 p.m.,…
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INTERVIEW: Ashlee Simpson & Evan Ross are the low-key power couple you need
Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross. Courtesy: Jiro Schneider. After living a relatively low-key life since their marriage in 2014, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross have been back in a big way since last fall. She, the former pop starlet, reality TV star and sister of Jessica Simpson; and he,…
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Q&A: Novo Amor on his musical ‘Birthplace,’ an ocean away from home
Welsh singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ali Lacey never expected to be selling out shows in 2018. “I feel as though I could have stopped making music as Novo Amor after the release of the [2014] Woodgate, NY EP,” Lacey said this week from the road, in an email exchange. “I felt as…
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Q&A: Watsky finds the beauty and the flaws in his family on next LP
Watsky The phrase “Welcome to the Family” means different things to Bay Area-born poet-rapper-author George Watsky. He named a new song that, and his current tour after the song. When he started writing the song he was introducing his significant other to his family. By the time he finished,…
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Q&A: CYN braces for her moment of truth and finds herself post-heartbreak
CYN photographed at the Independent in San Francisco on April 17, 2018. Photos: Lauren Low. After opening for Katy Perry in Mexico, Cynthia Nabozny, decided she could do even more to improve her songwriting chops and spike the trajectory of her already rising young career. The Michigan-born, L.A.-based pop…
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Q&A: LP on a forthcoming record, songwriting and wedding bells
LP photographed at Outside Lands Music Festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. SAN FRANCISCO — It took LP only six record label deals to find to find a label that believed in their musical vision wholeheartedly. They had their breakout…
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Q&A: The Soft White Sixties settle into L.A. without forgetting their roots
Octavio Genera of The Soft White Sixties in San Francisco on March 24, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles rockers The Soft White Sixties don’t like to be put in a box. Their second LP, Alta California, is an eclectic and dynamic record that sees the band…
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Q&A: Lyrics Born on the story behind ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ his 10th LP
Lyrics Born, courtesy Scott La Rockwell. In breakout smash hit Sorry To Bother You, one of the most talked-about films of the summer, a Black telemarketer living in Oakland finds a magic key that lets him speak like a white man. This opens his world to boundless opportunities. Lyrics…
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Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard and Calpurnia playing in the right-side up
Calpurnia, courtesy. Finn Wolfhard has wanted to play music since before he broke out as an actor on hit Netflix show Stranger Things. One of his first on-screen gigs was as a young stand-in for Canadian punk band PUP’s frontman Stefan Babcock in a music video. This was in 2014,…
