A Place To Bury Strangers, courtesy. The haunting vocals of Jacqie Rivera, the balls-to-the-walls guitar playing by A Place To Bury Strangers, the funky grooves of Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, and catchy hooks of Daisy Glaze make the cut for this week’s Tuesday Tracks. We round out this list…

Kehlani performs at the Greek in Berkeley on June 23, 2017. STAFF file. Every year, while I’m at Outside Lands, I do a column of five bands I think you should see at Outside Lands. You may have noticed that Outside Lands is next weekend, and yet my column of…

Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2020. L to R; Row 1: Tame Impala, Caribou, Washed Out, Trace Mountains, The Big Moon, Future Islands. Row 2: Strfkr, Surfer Blood, Surf Rock Is Dead, Of Montreal, Hazel English, Suburban Living. Row 3: Jack River, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever,…

Let’s get this out of the way first: Mordechai, the third album from Khruangbin, is very good. It’s better than the trio’s first two for a variety of reasons we’ll get to in a bit. First we have to attempt to describe the band and its sound. Mordechai Khruangbin Dead…

The Kills perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 6, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. It is rare that I am ever in a camp of “bigger is better” when it comes to concerts, but sometimes, I really am. And sometimes, everything really is bigger and better in…

Khruangbin performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Nov. 9, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins. OAKLAND – Khruangbin transported the Fox Theater audience of youthful millennials and older crate-digging record store nerds to a relaxed place Friday night. Bassist Laura Lee, guitarist (and birthday boy) Mark Speer and drummer Donald Johnson walked…