Clockwise from top left: Sofi Tukker featuring Amadou & Mariam, Cola Boyy, Gunnar Gehl, Wye Oak, Ladyhawke, The Academic, BC Camplight and BOY. By now, at least in California, most of us have been vaccinated. If not, go see your local pharmacy. The hottest ticket may be your vaccination…

Head of Roses, the sophomore album from Jenn Wasner’s solo project Flock of Dimes, delivers an intimate, 40-minute record that seamlessly blends earnest indie rock with digital pop. Wasner, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of Wye Oak, describes the album as a journey about “learning to take…

Electronic duo Wye Oak has spent 12 years refining the its sweeping approach to indie folk. Its pleasant melodies, open chord progressions and dynamic shifts always kept one foot in staunch experimentalism. A willingness to incorporate electronics and ambiance into its style now gives the new album’s bold synthetic…

SAN FRANCISCO — Jenn Wasner is no stranger to performing in front of a crowd, but not in this way. One half of Baltimorean indie rock duo Wye Oak, Wasner is on her first solo tour under the nom de guitar Flock of Dimes, and her tour van made a stop…

Wye Oak, courtesy. It takes a certain strength for a musician to publicly say that she had lost a skill like songwriting, but that is the position Wye Oak‘s Jenn Wasner found herself in as she and Andy Stack tried to record a follow-up to 2011’s Civilian. Wasner spoke…

Wye Oak performs at Phono del Sol in San Francisco on July 12, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. This year’s Phono del Sol Music Festival headliner came close to not performing in the Bay Area this year. In fact, Baltimore duo Wye Oak nearly avoided playing at all. Vocalist-singer-bassist Jenn Wasner…