Natalye Childress Smith

Goodriddler "I wanna reach my hands out through the speakers and grab your head"

In the past three years, Sonoma County-based solo artist Goodriddler (real name: Nicholas Philip Sprague-Wolch) has garnered quite a following. A uniquely engaging musician, the sounds he creates stand in sharp contrast to his person. Intensely...

This Will Destroy You: "it's a big ol' soundscape soap opera"

This Will Destroy You isn’t a band for the faint of heart. The Texas-based, instrumental rock four-piece is calculated in sound, yet intense and explosive, at times coming across as either delicately lush or fiercely herculean...

Tremor Low: "it's just become a part of our lives"

In March of this year, former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy played a show at San Francisco’s Mezzanine. During the show, a member of Oakland, Calif.-based band Tremor Low, attempted to throw a copy of its newest single...

Mirah: "there's...a real beauty in just being"

When Mirah answered her phone last week, she was on her bike, riding through Golden Gate Park. It was Tuesday afternoon – April 26 – and she was celebrating the release of her new album, “Thao & Mirah,&rdquo...

Pancho-san: making music is "like a puzzle"

Patrick Abernethy first started playing music the same way many musicians with siblings did: by picking up his older brother’s guitar and messing around on it.“I was playing it upside-down ‘cause I’m...

Yuck: "focus on the things that you really love"

When Daniel Blumberg, lead singer of indie rock band Yuck, answers the phone, he is inside City Lights Books in San Francisco, perusing the shelves in search of new reading material. In a hushed tone, he excuses himself and steps...

Foxtails Brigade: "devote yourself to the sound of the music"

Laura Weinbach, singer and guitarist of Oakland, Calif.-based band Foxtails Brigade, is no stranger to overcoming obstacles.Weinbach, now 28, first began playing the guitar at 18. Although she spent her younger years learning piano from her mother and...

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Goodriddler "I wanna reach my hands out through the speakers and grab your head"

This Will Destroy You: "it's a big ol' soundscape soap opera"

Tremor Low: "it's just become a part of our lives"

Mirah: "there's...a real beauty in just being"

Pancho-san: making music is "like a puzzle"

Yuck: "focus on the things that you really love"

Foxtails Brigade: "devote yourself to the sound of the music"

Freelance Whales: "living and breathing and changing"

Foals: "we're proud of our mistakes and our tuneless warbling"

YACHT: "it's like the most current version of what we are"

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