Scowl, courtesy. This week Butterfly Black evolves R&B, Dylan Chambers captures the spirit of soul music, Can’t Swim gets pop-punk just right, Scowl exudes punk rock, The Storm Windows reimagine a classic, and Altın Gün gives our lives a needed dose of psychedelic Turkish folk rock. Butterfly Black, “Lifetime”…

Altin Gün is an Amsterdam-based psychedelic rock band with funk and Turkish folk influences. Yol Altin Gün ATO Records, Feb. 26 7/10 Usually that description wouldn’t be required in a review of a band’s third album. In this case it’s necessary, because while the band is still from Amsterdam…

Clockwise from top left: Altin Gun, K.Flay, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Boy Harsher, Carly Rae Jepsen, Battles, Tyler, the Creator, and American Football. We’re nearing the end of our countdown of the top 50 albums of 2019! A lot of these records would have…

Lizzo performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Nov. 9, 2017. Staff photo. As regular readers of my column are well aware, I don’t much like the Grammys. Sure, occasionally Fantastic Negrito or Weird Al wins a trophy, and they absolutely deserve it. But they win the non-televised…

CupcakKe performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Photo: Martin Lacey. It’s been a week since Outside Lands, so I’ve had enough time to mostly recover, which means it’s time to get all nostalgic. If you didn’t attend…

Twenty-One Pilots perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 11, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello and Martin Lacey. Outside Lands Music Festival lineups are always strong, but having Twenty One Pilots, Childish Gambino and Paul Simon closing each night was a…

Tierra Whack performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey and Joaquin Cabello. Day 2 of Outside Lands is behind us, so it’s that time we’ve all been waiting for… some of us have been waiting…

Childish Gambino, Courtesy: Jerm Cohen/Outside Lands. Other photos by Joaquin Cabello and Martin Lacey. Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — Childish Gambino made the announcement shortly after taking the stage: He had just been told that his performance at Outside Lands had drawn the largest single crowd in the festival’s decade-plus history.…

Altin Gün, including Merve Dasdemir (second from left), and Daniel Smienk (third from left). Courtesy photo. NEW YORK — Merve Dasdemir and Daniel Smienk are outside the Rough Trade record store in Brooklyn, taking a smoke break and chatting about their Amsterdam-based Turkish psychedelic folk band Altin Gün while their…

Clockwise from top left: BAILEN, August Eve, Altin Gün, WHIPPED CREAM, PUP, Kailee Morgue. 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…