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 […]
Rude by Spiritual Cramp
Rude kicks off like a pirate radio signal hijacking your brain—loud, chaotic, and absolutely essential. Frontman Michael Bingham, a reformed […]
Scarecrow II by The Telephone Numbers
The Telephone Numbers are a semi-supergroup, consisting of members from other SF psych pop bands like the Red, Pinks and […]
Novel Tea by Luke Sweeney
A longtime figure of the psych, pop, and everything in between scene in the Bay Area, Luke Sweeney is back […]
Redwood Highway by The California Honeydrops
“So until my final daysIn longing I will roamUpon this third stone from the sunThe only home I’ve ever known” […]
Making Room for the Light by Mae Powell
“I channel the flower power tender resistance of the 60s and 70s.” — Mae Powell, in an interview with White […]
“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 […]
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 […]
24th Street Blues by Tom Heyman
"Here come the lawyers and the landlords, and you can't tell which is whichAnd the Mission is on fire, and […]