Music

Lara Price’s Unique Journey to The Blues

Seizing the Opportunity Lara Price landed in San Francisco on a flight from Vietnam when she was just a couple of weeks old. She celebrates her birthday on March 18, but only because the doctor who examined her upon arrival to the United States estimated that to be her birth…

Young Aundee on Making Music, and Connections

Visceral Sound Creation While most teenagers in the ’90s were navigating their way through the precarious world of acne, young love and algebra, Andrew Southard—also known as Young Aundee—was honing his skills as a musician and launching his career as an electronic, hip-hop and trip-hop beat maker while learning to…

Happy Fangs’ varied influences yield rocking results

Perfect Strangers On Sept. 26, 2015, a wedding was held at The Chapel nightclub in San Francisco. While the event may not have been the King of Pop marrying the King of Rock’s daughter, or even the media events that revolved around Bennifer or Brangelina, two Bay Area personalities—Rebecca Bortman,…

Joy and Madness Strikes a Nerve

Funky Love Is All You Need Peeling back the years, it’s almost preordained that the members of Joy and Madness have united in each other’s good company. A gaggle of motley neighborhood misfits, they’ve chain linked themselves as one to stand for something tried-and-true in the vast sea of the…