Clockwise from top left: Riz La Vie, Jaga Jazzist, Marem Ladson, Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini, Shred Kelly, Adam Brookes of Dangermaker. 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…

Dave Keuning performs at The Independent in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer. SAN FRANCISCO — With the Killers, Dave Keuning helped build a forward-looking yet nostalgic sound. The band’s influences rested somewhere between new wave and roots rock. With his new solo project, Keuning takes…

UPDATED AT 12 P.M. THURSDAY: The Contra Costa County Event Park has cancelled the XO Music Festival, alleging festival promoters failed to fulfill a contractual obligation to provide liability insurance for the event. The insurance would have covered such things as security, lighting and production of the event. The…

San Francisco synth-rock quartet Dangermaker is currently hard at work on its next album, and today is debuting the first song. The uplifting “In A Dream” is about overcoming obstacles and making dreams come true, but frontman Adam Burnett said the song has a tragic, personal beginning—one that he has not talked…

Photo: Brandon Jernigan The year 2016 officially turned dreadful with the death of David Bowie, but the world’s shared grief temporarily provided a Band-Aid. In San Francisco, Popscene commemorated the icon with a tribute show. One of the bands on that bill was Dangermaker, which played a terrific cover…

Photos: Brandon Jernigan and Che Holts Opposing forces with similar traits ruled the night Saturday at Great American Music Hall, where four synth-rock bands with San Francisco shared a single bill. Highlighted by the dark pop of Dangermaker and the happy-go-lucky dance pop of Panic Is Perfect, the lineup…

San Francisco synth-rock quartet Dangermaker just released a brand new track, “I Won’t Let You Down,” and its accompanying video. “I Won’t Let You Down” will appear on their forthcoming EP, Light The Dark 3. Saturday the band will debut the song and possibly some other new material at…

Photo: Jon Ching The music of San Francisco band Dangermaker may sound happier than it did in the past. The four piece pulls heavily from influences like The Killers, Interpol and their late ‘70s predecessors. It was a conscientious effort the band made by naming their last two EPs,…

The producers of the BottleRock Napa Valley festival scored big when they booked Stevie Wonder, Florence and the Machine, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline the 2016 event, which takes place May 27 to 29 in downtown Napa. Even the undercards are impressive, with Grouplove, Death Cab…