Battles perform at The Independent in San Francisco on Dec. 3, 2019. Sean Liming/Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — One of the most basic oppositions in our lives is the one between chaos and control. New York duo Battles, comprised of guitarist-keyboardist Ian Williams of the influential instrumental group Don Caballero, and John…

Photos: Tune-Yards and Thao and the Get Down Stay Down: Jon Bauer. Sudan Archives: Steve Carlson OAKLAND — We live in the future. Sure, people focus on the fact that we don’t have flying cars, and that our hoverboards neither hover nor are boards, but if someone from the…

  The sound of Tune-­Yards is at once organic and meticulously constructed. The songs from on I can feel you creep into my private life, like those on 2011 breakout Whokill, share a common DNA. Often, they begin with a low-fi, glitchy and sometimes out­ of­ tune sample that…

Art design: Scott Hansen/ISO50 Bay Area musicians Thao Nguyen, Tune-Yards, Tycho, Primus and others will headline the largest-to-date Oakland Ghost Ship Fire benefit show Wednesday at the Fox Theater. The fire, which left 36 people attending an underground concert dead, shook the Bay Area’s DIY arts community and the country.…