Oakland trio T Sisters has music in its blood. The band of sisters started singing and writing music at a young age and haven’t looked back. In the process, Erika, Rachel and Chloe Tietjen have become one of the Bay Area’s most in demand talents for collaborations. Outside Lands Janet…

Twin Peaks stage at Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands 2017 on August 11, 2017. Photo: Alessio Neri. Now in its 11th year, the Outside Lands Music Festival is safely in the conversation for the best music festival in the U.S., right alongside Lollapalooza, Coachella and Bonnaroo as a destination…

It’s been just under a week since Irish songwriter Eoin French dropped a video for the second half of the “Odyssey” story on his 2017 debut album, Wild Alee. While the song is spellbinding enough in its own right, French, who records and performs as Talos, was awestruck when he saw…

Courtesy: Michelle Shiers Los Angeles folk-pop duo Freedom Fry didn’t need to be convinced to cover “Man on Fire,” a track by one of the bands to whom the two look up, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Marie Seyrat and Bruce Driscoll, who are also married, didn’t necessarily believe…

For English rock band Sea Girls, having the opportunity to play at this year’s prestigious and always stacked Reading & Leeds Music Festival, alongside Kendrick Lamar, Sum-41 and The Kooks, is hopefully just the beginning of their success. Considering the band used to record from the confines of a…

Jill Barber, courtesy. Seven albums in to her songwriting career, Jill Barber became known in her native Canada for jazz-inspired love songs. But for her new record, Metaphora, she was motivated by the inequality and injustice she saw worldwide, but specifically in the U.S. What she saw also informed a new…

Nineteen-year-old Grace Shaw couldn’t believe it: Playing her first non-industry show in L.A. in early April, she spotted superstar producer and collaborator Mark Ronson staring at her from the crowd. Shaw, the real name of Australian singer-songwriter Mallrat, made a bold assertion on Twitter the previous week: Ronson and…

Dean Lewis photographed at the Independent in San Francisco on April 17, 2018. Photos: Lauren Low Being the next big thing in Australian pop music machine comes with expectations and pressures. The country has been spitting out singer-songwriters with regularity seemingly month-over-month, from breakout major label success stories like…

The Alive (formerly known as The Helmets), courtesy. Early-arriving BottleRock fans have, over the past couple of years, become accustomed to getting their faces melted off—not from overcooked quiche and other brunch menu items, but by a group of head-banging kids called The Helmets who were equally as good…

Courtesy: Tessa Angus As Black Rebel Motorcycle Club was recording 2013 album Specter at the Feast, the trio was still reeling from the 2010 death of one of their own. Michael Been, the father of frontman Robert Levon Been, had died suddenly at one of their shows. The elder Been,…