Sharon Van Etten performs at Treasure Island Music Festival at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland on Oct. 14, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. Kyle Kohner’s top 100 songs countdown gets one step closer to revealing his favorite song of 2018, with numbers 50 through 26. Catch up with part one and…

More straightforward and contrarily melancholic than ever before, neo-psych outfit Unknown Mortal Orchestra is back to operating between two realms with its latest, Sex & Food: frenetic psychedelia and fanciful daydreaming. The LP increases the energy and noise at times while sweetening familiar territories elsewhere, but fails to expand UMO’s horizons. That results in…

Photos: Diana Cordero BERKELEY — This is what Tame Impala looks like at the height of its powers: Glorious, swirling psychedelia via video screen, round, thudding bass mooring the beat and Kevin Parker singing in glorious falsetto underneath a blizzard of confetti. Tame Impala’s themes are often about self-doubt,…