Population II. Courtesy. When people compare a band to Black Sabbath, they rarely mean the self-titled album, but Population II embodies the spirit of that record in more way than one. Hailing from Quebec, the trio manifests a period where heavy bands didn’t know whether they should play rock…

Charles Darwin rarely used the term “evolution,” even as he popularized the concept that species change over successive generations. Instead, Darwin preferred the phrase “descent with modification.” His groundbreaking idea was that organisms randomly mutate over generations, and that the mutations that helped the creature survive would be passed…

With all of his many side projects, John Dwyer has become a fairly complex geometric shape. The Osees frontman is dropping no fewer than three albums this summer. Bent Arcana is Dwyer’s latest supergroup, and its self-titled debut album is a cosmic slop of funky influences performed by a…

Oh Sees perform at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2018. Photos: Joaquin Cabello SAN FRANCISCO — Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer was at the top of his game Wednesday night at the Great American Music Hall, turning in a blistering set and spending nearly…