Dave Cantor

Crows, ravens, and their broader corvid family represent a profound symbol for Oakland guitarist Chuck Johnson. Johnson's third album, Blood Moon Boulder, is due...

Up until 2005's Everything Ecstatic, the music of Four Tet (aka producer Kieran Hebden) included at least small nods to the physical presence of...

Over the last year, the Bay Area has seen a ridiculous amount of rock 'n' roll perfection, from the Fresh & Onlys to Thee...

Despite the clamor surrounding the disc, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion isn't the best album of the year. It's not even the most rewarding...

The funk and soul that served as background music for barbeques in the Sixties and Seventies has a bastard child. Its name is the Aggrolites. Comprising Jesse...

Getting passed off as North Carolina natives might help explicate the music Spider Bags concocts, but the moniker is disingenuous. Dan McGee, who simultaneously fronts New...

Last year's self-titled effort from Bay Area resident Ty Segall somehow managed to make less of an impact on the general rock culture than it might...

Capturing a band's sound at any given moment requires some gutsy maneuvering. And the media can forget that. Even writers who are able to keep this...