Bay area psych rockers The Gentle Cycle have just released their debut LP, and will give send anyone a copy in the US that donates $18 or more to Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Oxfam, PBS, or Dakota Access Pipeline Fund. A donation of $5 will give the donor a download link as well.

‘I have strong socialist beliefs, and in this current climate it feels right to do whatever we can to help get funding to these noble organizations’, says Gentle Cycle’s Derek See.

With a painstaking attention to detail, these songs were filtered through a cool grip of vintage guitars and components, like an antique Echoplex tape delay and a funky old spring reverb unit. They even recorded on a 1970s Tascam 388 analog reel-to-reel, replete with a deadstock spool of old quarter-inch tape. But Derek’s melodic musings come from an abstract foundation that’s more modern and forward thinking than most musicians beholden to period-correct tones. Listen to The Gentle Cycle and you’ll hear a band that somehow balances universal emotions with astral, atmospheric sonic architecture.

The San Francisco based punk/no wave band, Blank Square has released a new single, Charmer in anticipation for their upcoming album, Animal I. Their new album will be released on February 24th. Take a listen to Charmer and make sure you pick up a copy of Animal I.

Animal I. Leaning towards the weirder end of Flesheaters but with a sterility that can only be contemporarily compared to Total Control’s Aussie hardcore quarantine no wave and then a pinch of what made DNA and Mars amazing.

 It’s captured with plenty of concrete and sheet metal kept in the mix and a highlight towards dissonant syncopations. Recorded in what my minds eye makes into a empty room minus one chair and definitely down a flight of wet, cement stairs. Saxophone with a mild but nauseating-at-times rippling slap delay, cruising on a rhythm section that sounds like they’ve got another house show to play tonight after this one. Rectangular in all the right places, uncomfortable like sleeping in a car (but hey, you do what you have to do). If you love art in your sax punk, then you will what’s going on in the Bay like we do, but this reaches waaaay back into California’s punk history (SST would’ve undoubtedly dug this).

The Oakland based band, Bells Atlas has released a new single entitled, N C A T!

With a full length and two EPs released since forming in late 2012, Oakland-based pop-soul band Bells Atlas are gearing up to drop a new standalone single, “NCAT.” The track release comes timed with the Bells Atlas’ upcoming run of dates with the WNYC/NPR program Snap Judgment serving as the house band during live recordings.

Attempting to neatly describe the sounds that Derek Barber (guitar) Geneva Harrison (drums, percussion, keys) Sandra Lawson-Ndu (vocals, percussion, keys) and Doug Stuart (bass, vocals, keys) produce together is no easy task. Kaleidoscopic and richly layered, each new foray by the band expands the wide, colorful sonic palette from which they paint dazzling, vibrant structures from.

"Nothing Comes After This (NCAT) is about the feeling when you know a relationship has run it’s course. All of the little things have added up to something so big that they have eclipsed the light that the relationship once brought. It touches on feeling both empowered and heartbroken, because change is rarely easy."

You can catch Bells Atlas live
2/19 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA

Jay Som‘s new single, 1 Billion Dogs is a fuzzy, alternative pop track that we’re really into. We’re happy to hear new music from Jay Som and can’t wait to check out the full album!

Bay Area-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Melina Duterte – recently announced Everybody Works, her proper debut album, which will be out on March 10th via Polyvinyl Records. 

On her first proper album as Jay Som, 22 year-old Melina Duterte solidifies her rep as a self-made force of sonic splendor and emotional might. Everybody Works – which Duterte wrote, recorded, played and produced entirely by herself, save a few backing vocals – was made in three furious, caffeinated weeks in her bedroom studio throughout October. Duterte even ditched most her demos, writing half the LP on the spot. If last year’s aptly named Turn Into compilation showcased a fuzz-loving artist in flux, chronicling her mission to master bedroom recording, then Everybody Works is the LP equivalent of a mission accomplished.

The San Francisco based band, Owl Paws has released a new music video for their recent single, Animal Brain. The has dropped this new single in anticipation of their upcoming EP entitled, Smoke Rings & Diamonds. Check out this video and make sure you keep and ear out for their new collection of music that is due out this year!

Don’t miss ENTRANCE at Starline Social Club in Oakland on Saturday, February 4th w/ Bill Callahan in support of his upcoming album, Book of Changes.

ENTRANCE‘s Book of Changes (out Feb. 24th) is a poetic song cycle about the seasons of the heart, tracing an emotional journey through longing and emptiness to peace and redemption. The record achieves a seamless melding of the personal, political and philosophical, a vibrant document of an artist hitting a creative stride and discovering an expansive new sound. The first single "Always the Right Time" takes the same energy of ENTRANCE’s protest track, Not Gonna Say Your Name and points that energy towards the positive, grabbing life by the horns and celebrating what’s most important: "It’s always the right time for love".

We’re excited for you to check out Slaptop’s new music video for his singer, Another Life (feat. Geneva White).

San-Francisco producer Slaptop revealed the plans for a debut artist album, With You, due out March 3rd, 2017 via his own newly founded label Sunsquad Records. So far, fans have been treated to two cuts from the project- "Passenger" a magnetic indie-dance cut co-signed by The Magician for his label Potion Records, and "I Try," a dance-pop cross over single featuring a mesmerizing vocal line from Olivia Florentino.

Taking us deeper into the upcoming LP, Slaptop has now released the third album single, "Another Life." Featuring vocalist Geneva White, "Another Life" comes to fruition thanks to hypnotic four-on-the-floor rhythms, deep synth, a sub quaking bassline, and finally a set of unforgettable lyrics that are sure to be lodged in your brain long after the tracks final beats. A strong indicator of what’s to come on the remainder of the album, "Another Life," proves to be an enigmatic dance track ideal for peak hour club play.

San Francisco based musician, Joel Gion has released a new single entitled, Tomorrow. This new neo psych pop track is a great new addition to his music catalog and rock and roll lineage. We love this song’s rebellious and super cool attitude where Joel sings:

"Don’t need a high place in a lowdown world
I’ll keep moving on
Where I can be myself and here’s something else
I’m doing nothing wrong
Seems everything is brought to extremes
Just to keep people runnin around…"

Tomorrow was written by Gion where he performed vocal, rhythm guitars, maracas and tambourine. The was produced and mixed by Collin Hegna at Revolver Studios in Portland, OR. Hegna also played bass on this track. Paul Dillon played guitars and Brian Gardner performed on drums.

It’s always a pleasure to hear new music from a San Francisco icon! Take a listen and support independent artists!

The San Francisco based indie rock band, Hibbity Dibbity will be performing on February 3rd with Whiskerman and Big Sticky Mess filling out the bill. Don’t miss this show!

Hibbity Dibbity is a dance rock n’ roll group from San Francisco. They blend together sounds and styles from numerous genres to create feel-good music that will move you. They are clever, ecstatic, and riotous. Timeless, but kinda dirty. Pelting rhythms that make your feet move. Their new single “Touchy Feely," is a happy tune with a swoon-worthy chorus. Super tight; then loose in all the right places.

Portland’s Daydream Machine has released a new neo-psych, single entitled, "Modern Prophecy." The band is gearing up to release their full length album, The Show Must Not Go On LP in March 2017 and features appearances by: The Dandy Warhols’ Peter Holmström, Federale’s Colin Sheridan, The Upsidedown’s Matt Moore, and M. Ward/Rick Bain keyboardist Nathan Junior. It’s been three years since we’ve seen anything from Daydream Machine so we’re super excited to see new music coming from them!

Take a listen to "Modern Prophecy" below and keep an ear out for the band’s full length album.

-Jordannah (Deli SF) and Cervante 

San Francisco based artist, Drea. m has released a brand new music video entitled, Riptide!

Drea. m commands the heart to listen. With soulful grit, haunting vocals, and entrancing live performances, this indie noir songstress entices the listener into a world of lush imagery and unveiled emotion. Reminiscent of Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Imogen Heap, what drives her music is a dark-edged honesty about what it means to feel vulnerable, powerful, and profoundly alive.

"Inspiration for the video: I was inspired to shoot most of the video in rural New Mexico because I wanted a world that reflected the one I was singing about–one of vastness, of solitude, of mystery…a world where time moves differently among the elements. Earlier in the video, you see me in a half-crumbled stone house with a window still intact, and later in the song I am in another dilapidated house with newspapered walls–newspapers from the 1940s!–and both of these structures were on the land where we shot, just waiting for us, perfectly representing perseverance through the long passing of time. Ultimately, though, the song is about inhabiting solitude, and all of the seeking and searching that tugs at our souls when we are truly enveloped by all that space…Inspiration for my music: What inspires me is the need to explore what lies beneath a particular emotion, a dark emotion, and the desire to tease out the story that surrounds that emotion. I get very stuck in rumination sometimes, and somewhere between my over-analytical mind and my emotionally-driven, heart-on-the-skin self, a song is born." – Drea M.

We’re excited to premiere folk artist, Chase McBride’s new music video for the single, On the Other Side from his upcoming album, Cold Water!

San Francisco singer-songwriter, Chase McBride announces his arrival as a rising west-coast folk artist with the release of his third full-length album, Cold Water on January 18, 2017. Independently recorded and produced by French Cassettes’ Mackenzie Bunch and Scott Huerta, the album is comprised of live, full band performances of songs written in the wake of a heartbreak. Fans of Dawes, Vetiver, and Sean Hayes will enjoy McBride’s confessional lyrics, understated instrumental arrangements and earnest vocals.

​"This collection of songs was written after a jarring shift in my life. I had a lot of plans and a lot of comforts prior to that terminus, and the reality of starting from scratch at the age of 27 was painful. At the time, I thought it was wholly bad. Now I see that it was wholly good."​ ​-Chase McBride​

​Don’t miss Chase’s live performance in San Francisco at Amnesia on January 22nd!​