League of Distortion, courtesy. This week we’ve got some quality metal from League of Distortion and Low Flying Hawks, some fantastic ’90s throwback courtesy of Lips Speak Louder, a good but hard to describe gem from St. Lucia and fun jangle pop by Peach Pit, before we we bring…

Singer Gabriella Wilson, aka H.E.R., performs at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, 2019, in Los Angeles. Photo: Robyn Beck/Getty Images. Artists like Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande racked up numerous nominations for Grammy Awards on Wednesday, creating an unusually diverse and forward-thinking lineup…

Tycho performs at The Independent in San Francisco on July 16, 2019. Photo: Joaquin Cabello/Staff. For all the talk about how San Francisco ambient electronica producer Scott Hansen’s music as Tycho has expanded wider than ever with the addition of vocalist Hannah Cottrell on new album Weather, Hansen views one…

Tycho performs at The Independent in San Francisco on July 16, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Tycho celebrated his new album, Weather, with an intimate show at the Independent Tuesday evening. Over the course of two sets, Scott Hansen and his bandmates evolved from a delicate solo showcase into a powerful…

Weather, the fifth album from San Francisco electronica artist Tycho, is a departure from his previous work in one big way: It has words. Weather Tycho Mom + Pop/Ninja Tune, July 12 This isn’t the first evolution of Tycho. It began as a solo project by Sacramento native Scott Hansen. He…

Florence and the Machine at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2018. Shawn Robbins. I can safely say that Outside Lands is the best large scale music festival running right now. Having been to my fair share of music festivals for about 10 years now, nothing beats…

Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on August 11, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins and Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Touting her new record, High As Hope, Florence and the Machine played her first U.S. show Saturday at Outside Lands with the new…

Photos: Jason Demetillo OAKLAND — With a colorful collage of ambient video backdrops and instrumentation, NorCal visual artist and ambient electronic music composer Scott Hansen kicked off the world tour supporting Grammy-nominated album Epoch at the Fox Theater. The album is the fifth for Hansen, who goes by Tycho. He set the sold…

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.…

Photo: Roman Gokhman Sacramento-born, San Francisco-grown musician and graphic artist Tycho (Scott Hansen) is preparing his next album, and today released the first song off the forthcoming work. “Division” swaps out his sunrise/sunset color scheme for something bordering more on the abstract, but the song retains his thinker’s mood…