Clockwise from top left: San Cisco, Ben Watt, Morning Midnight, COMA, Brian Dunne and Cailin Russo. 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…

San Cisco may be a west coast band, with a name that could pass for a tourist’s abbreviation for San Francisco and an upbeat Californian pop sound, but the quartet actually calls the west coast of Australia home. San Cisco, Wooing 8 p.m., Aug. 28 Great American Music Hall…

Bastille performs at then Warfield in San Francisco on April 10, 2014. Photos courtesy: Jon Ching. This is the third in a five-part series. Read how I’m scoring my list and find out about my “special consideration” acts in Part 1, HERE, and the runners-up in Part 2, HERE. 15. Bastille at…

San Cisco, courtesy. Jordi Davieson has known Scarlett Stevens since he was a toddler. Their parents are friends and they grew up together in the coastal town of Fremantle, Australia – just south of Perth on the country’s west coast. “There’s a photo of Scarlett and me and I’m…