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Indie-pop-grunge face with an Oakland Booty
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Oakland artist Kevin Nichols blends his love of pop melodies and Nirvana guitar tones on this first single from an upcoming full-length.
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Press Play Volume 2
by Loose Grip Records
Cracking compilation of unreleased songs from punk and garage bands in support of the recent Ghost Ship fire in Oakland.
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Super tough hard rock with spoken word interludes and an experimental bent featuring members of San Francisco's early punk band Crime.
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Lo-fi, low-key garage punk with submerged female vocals sounds like a long lost volume from the "Girls in the Garage" series.
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Everyone's Okay
by Kevin Dickerson
Brainy but equally heartfelt, this experimental pop record uses specific situations to get to universal truths.
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South Philly band Grocer has all the sly disaffection of classic ’90s indie rock in their wonderfully unruly songs.
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Emotional punk rock with the raw honesty and unvarnished quality of In Utero from Oakland artist Kevin Nichols.
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