Osees perform at The Chapel in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2024. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Even as an established international act, John Dwyer’s Osees have worked to make their shows as punk as possible. This includes setting up their own gear as well as playing multiple-night stints…

SAN FRANCISCO — Psychedelic musical chameleons Osees played the first of four sold-out shows at The Chapel on Sunday night. One of the busiest bands in show business, was fresh off the release of new album Intercepted Message and a string of shows in Europe, with the San Francisco…

OSEES, “Intercepted Message.” There are certain things we’ve come to expect in the late summer: mostly short vacations, climate emergencies and back-to-school sales. But ’tis also the season for a new Osees album. Since 2003, John Dwyer and company have released at least one album per year, first as…

Osees perform at the Chapel in San Francisco on Sept. 5, 2022. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — While a sold-out Chapel watched his band set up their equipment onstage, Osees frontman John Dwyer apologized to the audience. The band had been delayed on their drive north from L.A. because…

Attendees at Halloween Meltdown at Mosswood Park in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. Sean Liming/STAFF. OAKLAND — One by one, they shuffled onto the small stage at Mosswood Park on MacArthur Boulevard; a squid, the Swedish Chef, David Bowie, the twins from “The Shining,” Cheech and Chong, Peg from…

One of the craziest things epidemiologists do is called “gain of function” research. This is where scientists take deadly communicable diseases and poke them with enzymes (or something) to make these microscopic killers even more powerful. Then these hopefully not-mad scientists can learn more about the virus and maybe…

One of the reasons it’s so important for everyone to continue wearing masks at this point in the pandemic is to mitigate the number of people from transmitting the virus to one another—as the chance the virus could mutate into something nastier becomes greater. Taking mutation into consideration, it’s great…

If only we could all have such a creative incubation as John Dwyer and company during the pandemic. Osees (or Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees or OCS) have released three albums this year, with Panther Rotate being the third. The usual energy the band puts into touring and traveling…

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…