Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2022. L to R; Row 1: Fontaines D.C., Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Julia Jacklin, GIFT, The Linda Lindas. Row 2: Automatic, The Eaves, The National Parks, Ron Gallo, Love’n’Joy, Blitz Vega. Row 3: Bellows, Heart Racer, Oliver Marson, CVC, The Steens,…

Fredrik Saroea, courtesy Dag Sandven. A stripped-down cover by Geographer, riffs (for days) of ERRA, dark beats of Hercules & Love Affair, and the jangly sound of Diane Coffee make the cut for this week’s Tuesday Tracks. We round out this list with new releases from Goose, Daryl Hall…

Note from the editor: The new album by Geographer (Mike Deni) had been postponed twice, most recently to Dec. 4. After the publication of this review we found out it has been pushed out again, to April 2021. The review now reflects this. As with so many artists in…

Clockwise from top left: Maddie Jay, BANNERS, Remo Drive, Geographer, Video Age and Maceo Parker. 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…

Duncan Nielsen, Andrew St. James and Cody Rhodes comprise new band Fast Times. Years of past collaborations, national tours and musical experimentation carried three friends to the start of a new journey earlier this year. The birth of Fast Times came about as Bay Area natives and veteran musicians…

Photos: Jane Hu SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area favorite Geographer‘s Noise Pop show Thursday at The Independent was a glimpse of an artist in movement: Experimenting and changing, yet confident of his own skills and fully in command of his voice. Mike Deni has one of the best rock…

If you don’t have the financial resources, you work with what you’ve got and make due. Such is the case with folk and psych-pop singer-songwriter Duncan Nielsen, who’s had the songs for a second solo album written since 2014, but has patiently bided his time, balancing other work and…

Geographer performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Feb. 27, 2015 for Noise Pop. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. I missed opening band Bells Atlas, but caught the rest of the show. Both Empires and K.Flay had strong sets. Geographer started out OK, and then really turned it up a few…

Minna Choi (left) and Magik*Magik Orchestra, Courtesy: 7X7. For five years, Magik*Magik Orchestra has played the role of sidekick to artists from San Francisco’s The Dodos to singer-songwriter John Vanderslice to Sting. When We Were Young: Magik*Magik Orchestra with The Dodos, Geographer, Rogue Wave and more 8 p.m., Tuesday,…