Total Accord Fest takes overs a bunch of SF venues from June 3-20 with an amazing variety of live concerts, drag performances, music video screenings, documentary premieres, DJ sets, craft food pop ups, and other special events showcasing the Total Accord roster and Bay Area music and arts community.
Unfamiliar with some of these artists? We got you.
Scroll on for selections of new music by the six artists playing Total Accord Fest!
“Really step in this shit 850 credit score I’m getting money in this bitch”
Celebrating success in finance and community: What more do you need? Oaklanders Jammy and Sonny B team up for a fresh and clean cut of hip hop swagger on “850.” You know it bumps, you know it’s hyphy.
“Sometimes I wonder if people really see my art in its totality.” — AroMa
We have wondered the same. A shapeshifter in the lineage of Prince and David Bowie (no hyperbole), AroMa produces magnetically charged art wildly liberated from the usual genre boundaries, as evident again on their latest EP Smitten. Sound and vision: It’s the whole package.
“Long nights, early mornings, will I grow Like the tree You imagined for me?”
Mellifluous songstress Marika Christine returns with “Enjoy the Clouds,” a down-to-earth folk rock arrangement blending gorgeous harmonies and a welcome reminder to open your eyes to life.
“ I just love my music friends so much.’” — Yea-Ming
With 60s pop-rock and 90s/early aughts college radio references, I Can’t Have It All was one of our favorite albums of 2024. This year, Yea-Ming and the Rumours return to Dandy Boy Records with their fourth studio album, Residue. The lead single “Paper Doll” promises more heart-and-mind-massaging fog pop.
Devoted to Black American dance music, Oakland DJ and Strapt co-founder Discnogirl arrives on program audio next month with the five-track EP it’ll pass. The lead single “back” distills the hook from Ice Cube’s 1999 hit “You Can Do It” into a raunchy bass bomb designed for big rooms and sweaty bodies.
“Five beat offerings meant to ionize the rave’s atmosphere into a paranoiac charge.”
Is “paranoia” a new techno sub-genre? Oakland producer Tom Marsi manifests the strange and wonderful on her recent five-track EP PARANOID CUNT, featuring polyrhythmic beats, polyphonic cowbell solos, and polyamorous club sounds.
