Our favorite 25 Bay Area albums of 2025
Here it is. Yet again, we've done the impossible and ill-advised, narrowing down our favorite Bay Area releases of 2025—across […]
“Dark in the Light” by Hipp-E and Greg Eversoul
After more than a decade of making music together, Hipp-E and Greg Eversoul present the cavernous, thumping new house single […]
Professional Void by Astronauts, etc.
"The internet eats the world as its denizens crave the real." With a skin of shoegaze, and deep malaise churning […]
An intro to Locator
A new Bay Area imprint for high-quality acid house and techno? Yes, please. SF-based label Locator quietly arrived last October […]
Observation of Transcendence by Celestial Trails
Opening with what sounds like a foghorn—a familiar timbre to many who make their home near the Golden Gate—Observation of […]
blue bird rain cloud by dog eyes
They say Y2K is back, and it definitely sounds like it on blue bird rain cloud. A work as lowercase […]
Further by Gridlock
Characteristic 1990s IDM beats rise and fall away in a wash of atmospheric, cinematic soundscapes on Further, the second album […]
PLAYLIST: In the Crate – June 2025
The sixth edition of “In the Crate”, a monthly playlist featuring our favorite (mostly new) songs by Bay Area artists. […]
They’re Not Gonna Know by 3kelves & Dylan C. Greene
I write these words with humble audacity: If these tracks had been cut in the 90s, you probably would have […]
My Inner Rest by Briana Marela
"Thanks to my love Joel, and all my Mills friends/cohort & professors. This record was born from that time, & […]