seiji oda is a Japanese-American rapper and producer from Oakland, California. his signature sound “lofi-hyphy” combines ambient soundscapes with his Bay Area hyphy roots. this juxtaposition represents seiji’s unorthodox approach to creating music that feels both familiar and futuristic.
Bay Area artist/producer Trackademicks has captivated the attention of those who have a taste for soulfully-charged synth chords, mobbin’ bass lines, slappin’ drums, and genre-defying sounds.
Heavily influenced by the textural undertones of R&B and Sophisti-Pop of the mid 1980’s, Trackademicks has crafted tracks for everyone from Kamaiyah to Teedra Moses, Phonte (Little Brother) to Lyrics Born. In addition to his early involvement with Atrak’s Fool's Gold Records and his own crew, the HNRL (pronounced Honor Roll), Trackademicks has been a fixture in the Bay Area music scene since the Hyphy Movement during the mid-aughts, producing the cult classic remix to E-40’s hit Tell Me When To Go. His penchant for remixing is expressed through his masterful, dancefloor-friendly [Re]Mixtape series, featuring remixes of artists like SZA, Don Tolliver, and Little Dragon.
Originally from Los Angeles, Tetza is now Oakland-based after years in Brooklyn and NYC. Blending groovy pop with R&B influence and Y2K nostalgia, she pairs clever and often unserious lyricism with smooth walls of self-arranged background vocals and a soothing yet surprisingly powerful voice. Entering the industry as a professional freelance songwriter and session vocalist, Tetza released her recent EPs summer reading and good morning from neptune, showcasing her signature mix of playful confidence, emotional honesty, and cinematic pop production. She has also built a fast-growing online audience through her Ariana Grande x Wickedmashups, as well as her signature “If I Had a Verse On…” series on TikTok and Instagram, reaching millions of viewers. She has performed at venues including DROM and The Meadows (NYC) and O’Reilly’s and Music City SF (San Francisco), and has received praise from online publications for both her music and her dance-forward visuals - elevating self-produced pop into a fully realized and colorful world.
With multiple songwriters, sinuous harmonies, and rock riffs born out of an intensely communal creative process, Galore — bassist Ava Rosen, guitarist Griffin Jones, guitarist Ainsley Wagoner, and drummer Hannah Smith — embodies the spirit of a true musical collective.
Galore released their second full length album, Dirt,on July 25, 2025, on Speakeasy Studios SF. The album’s theme is in its name. In ten songs, Galore takes us back to the sandbox of creativity on an exploration of what makes us human through layers of jangly, off-kilter guitars, interwoven harmonies, and incredible pop sensibilities.
The brainchild of composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Liam McCormick, orchestral indie band The Family Crest was started as a recording project with co-founder John Seeterlin (bass) as a final release before bowing out of the industry. Instead of leaving music, they were inspired by their peers to set out to reinvent how a band could be created, starting The Family Crest with an audacious and bold vision of cultivating a musical community. “We always liked making music with people - getting a bunch of people together and singing. So we put ads everywhere,” says McCormick. “We posted on Craigslist, distributed flyers, and emailed old friends from school.” The outcome was greater than the original duo imagined, with over 80 people credited on the first recording the band produced and over 500 musicians credited throughout their catalog.
You can’t know Beats Antique until you’ve been a part of its journey, and experienced the act as an entity with a life of its own. A stage show that demands more music; music that needs costumes, ships and masks and shadow dances; an audience that comes for art, and takes away stories to feed their imagination.
Commitment to the full performance art form is how Beats Antique fuses musical worlds, pulling on global sounds for experiments on the fringes of cinematic cabaret, informed by electronic mash-ups and inspirations who have joined them on the journey such as Les Claypool, Alam Khan, The Glitch Mob, Too Many Zooz and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Dubbed the African Dracula, Hugo de la Lune is an Ethiopian American vocalist and composer whose work merges soul, psychedelia, and indie R&B into a sound that feels both ancient and otherworldly. His music carries the pulse of ritual and the tension of transformation, moving through themes of desire, divinity, and rebirth with haunting precision. Each performance evokes a cinematic intensity that is as vulnerable as it is commanding.
Two Shows: 7:00 PM and 8:30
Sarah Tudzin is in high demand these days. Not only is she a lauded engineer and producer who has helmed recent records by boygenius, Weyes Blood, and Speedy Ortiz, but her own band, Illuminati Hotties, has also emerged as one of the sharpest and most sensitive acts on the pop-punk side of indie rock this century—“tenderpunk,” she has often called it. On Illuminati Hotties’ radiant and bittersweet third LP, Power, Tudzin pairs that sense of modern professional busyness with scenes inspired by the extreme highs and lows of her personal life in recent years. To wit, the day before Tudzin released 2020’s surprise Free I.H, her mother died. But weeks before that, Tudzin had met the person who has since become her longtime partner, the one with whom she can share all these troubles. It’s not hard to imagine, then, all that propels Power.
Presented by Popscene and Noise Pop Festival 2026
Clover County grew up under the sweet orange blossoms and the spiky palms of sunny Central Florida. She began songwriting at the age of 13, teaching herself to play from her dad’s collection of 1980’s songbooks. She drew inspiration from documentaries and interviews with influential women in music, such as Stevie Nicks, Carol King, Taylor Swift, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dolly Parton.
The name “Clover County”, is a tribute to all the places she's called home. After moving from Orlando to Denver, Atlanta to Birmingham, to Athens, Clover grew tired of seeking a sense of home and relying on the next city to be the “lucky one” where things would fall into place.
CFCF is the moniker of Mike Silver, an indie electronic producer from Montreal, Canada, who established himself as an inventive remixer before making his commercial production debut in 2008. A self-taught musician, Silver's style has evolved and matured throughout the years, ranging from his earliest hip-hop production experiments to chiptunes, progressing to the Balearic disco of debut full-length Continent (2009) and ambient/new age explorations like 2015's The Colours of Life. Throughout much of his work during the 2010s, Silver has exhibited a sincere appreciation for "uncool" genres such as soft rock and smooth jazz. He is also co-credited with developing the concept of "night bus," an Internet-spawned movement that encompasses feelings rather than specific genres of music. CFCF was nominated for Best Remixed Recording at the 2015 Grammy Awards, for his remix of 's "Berlin by Overnight." His subsequent work has explored his formative influences, with 2019's Liquid Colours re-creating the commercial side of atmospheric drum'n'bass and 2021's Memoryland evoking several styles of electronica and alternative rock.
Bay Area artist and songwriter Trinity Ace strings together themes of family, religion, violence, redemption, and forgiveness under a seven-piece orchestral ensemble. She brings her evocative lyrics and earworm melodies to her band of close friends and collaborators—Reid Devereaux, Declan Lewis, Tammer Bagdasarian, Korey Loberg, Ben Stolz, and Patrick Madden—whose respective projects, including Double Helix Peace Treaty and Poor Image emerged from a tight creative ecosystem in San Francisco's Richmond District. Her new singles, Martyr and Talisman are sprawling and ambitious tracks that settle into stunning, indie-folk-rock amalgamations that combine the blunt yet poetic storytelling and wry sincerity of Silver Jews and Leonard Cohen's biblical, slow-burn imagery. Unmistakably idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar, Trinity Ace and her band conjure a transfigured vision of Americana that reckons with the mythologies haunting our national imagination.
Poor Image is a 7 piece americana tinged slowcore band based in the Bay Area. The project came to fruition when members Reid Devereaux, Nick Ferguson, Keenan Lewis, Declan Lewis, Patrick Madden, Tammer Bagdasarian and Nick Ross, who spent their formative years between Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and San Jose, decided to join forces. Poor Image’s recent debut self titled album out on American Death Records is about coming of age strife and trying to “make it” in the age of supersaturation.
Melina Duterte is a master of voice: Hers are dream pop songs that hint at a universe of her own creation. Recording as Jay Som since 2015, Duterte’s world of shy, swirling intimacies always contains a disarming ease, a sky-bent sparkle and a grounding indie-rock humility. In an era of burnout, the title track of her 2017 breakout, Everybody Works, remains a balm and an anthem.
Duterte’s life became a whirlwind in the wake of Everybody Works. In November of 2017, seeking a new environment, Duterte left her home of the Bay Area for Los Angeles. Reckoning with the relative instability of musicianhood, Duterte turned inward, tuning ever deeper into her own emotions and desires as a way of staying centered through huge changes.
Pity Party is an emo/pop-punk band formed in the SF/Bay Area now based between Portland and Los Angeles. Renowned for their frenzied, unforgettable live shows and deep commitment to community care through food distributions, sexual violence prevention, and mental health advocacy, Pity Party's been spreading their wild, barely-holding-it-together energy across the US and internationally since 2014, sharing stages with bands like Jawbreaker, The Ergs!, Otoboke Beaver, and Bad Cop/Bad Cop. They coined the term “care punk” to name what they’ve always practiced: looking out for each other, protecting their community, and making shows safer, onstage and off. The band is made up of Rikki DeLuna, Rachel Moon, Sarah Levy, JD Tonnesen, Ty Dykema, and Sasha Guleff, pulling members from multiple projects into a loud, emotional supergroup. After a two-year hiatus, they’re back with a new record and more urgency, care, and connection than ever.
On February 20, 2026, Tammy Ealom, the snarling creative force behind Denver’s legendary Dressy Bessy, presents her debut solo album The Tammy Shine, Ok Shine Ok, via Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records (HHBTM). This release marks a pivotal moment: for the first time in her three-decade career, Ealom has taken complete command—writing, performing, producing, and engineering the record entirely on her own.
British/Greek singer, songwriter and producer Eleni Drake’s hauntingly beautiful sound is at once refreshing and timeless, uplifting and introspective, inspired by a deep love of music that spans from Mazzy Star and Adrienne Lenker to Mac Miller and Cleo Sol. With over 40 million streams to date and still only just getting going, 2025 promises to be Eleni’s biggest year yet with her most personal and profound music on the way.
Nate Salman has been making music since childhood, using anything they can get their hands on to express the magic they find beneath the surface of daily life. Channeling stories from somewhere beyond, they have worked obsessively to refine their unique sound, seeking always for deeper meaning and authenticity. With influences ranging from Björk, Kate Bush, FKA Twigs, Arca and Radiohead to old British folk songs, their music is a tapestry of experimentation.
Buzzed Lightbeer, the Dionysian fuzzy slop rock trio from San Francisco, is taking the music scene by storm with their raw energy and unapologetic queerness. Described as “the groovy, queer antithesis to Charlie’s Angels,” this unholy trinity delivers a blistering, over-the-top rock show that defies convention. (Psyched! Records)
Pink Breath of Heaven is a reverie of shimmering guitars, haunting melodies, and introspective lyricism. The project of Liv Field and Rex John Shelverton blends expansive textures and emotional depth to create music that feels immersive and deeply personal. Following the breakout success of “Blue Is the Morning,” the band released their debut album Colors Make a Sound in 2025. With performances alongside The Dandy Warhols, Alison’s Halo, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Pink Breath of Heaven continues to carve out a distinct presence through music that moves from hypnotic intimacy to expansive intensity.
Ethansroom is the tangible form of Ethan Fortenberry's inner world. A versatile creator, Ethan is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and visual artist. For fans of oversharing, reading, and indie music from the mid-2000’s, Ethansroom is an invitation listeners to step into a space that feels lived-in and honest.
His most recent release, ULTRA LIGHT, finds Fortenberry coming to terms with the years that have shaped him. Blending bedroom pop, indie folk, and post blog-era-indie, ULTRA LIGHT is Fortenberry following the light—even when it feels out of reach.
Over the past year, Fortenberry has remained active both in his own work and as a collaborator. Alongside writing, recording, and visually shaping his own projects, he has recorded with Zach Bryan at Electric Lady Studios, played Red Rocks, and worked with artists including Flipturn, Jack Van Cleaf, and Hayden Everett as a producer, instrumentalist, or both.
Sun Ra founded the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago in the mid-1950s. Sun Ra was among the earliest pioneers of the synthesizer and the free jazz revolution of 1960s. Sun Ra sent a strong spiritual and musical message to his Arkestra wanting them to help make the universe better through positive vibrations and music.
The Sun Ra Arkestra are known worldwide for their live shows that combine big-band swing, space-age free jazz, be-bop, singing, dancing, chanting and Afro-pageantry. The Arkestra has been at the forefront of Afro-futurism since their inception.
Veotis Latchison is an innovative songwriter, producer, and vocalist from Oakland, California. His artistic expression is deeply influenced by a mix of hip hop, R&B, soul, and jazz, drawing inspiration from artists like James Brown, D’Angelo, Donny Hathaway, Big Yuki, and Robert Glasper. widely known as a strong spirited Vocalist Veotis plays extensively throughout the bay and beyond. His original music is best described as “Epic story tellings of a young man trying for better”. Incorporating colorful and expansive melodies with poetry comparable to Nat king Cole, Cy Colman and Biggie Smalls.
Veotis released his debut album titled “Minutiae” in 2023. Keeping the momentum, he followed with his latest 2025 release, “Feelings to Run From”, featuring some of the Bay Area's finest young talent.
Two shows! 6:00 PM / 7:30 PM
Esther Rose was on a long solo drive when she started writing the opening title track of Want, her stunning fifth album. At first, the words seemed almost like a joke, something to keep herself amused as the miles passed. “I want a puppy, but I don't want a mess. I want to know where I’m going without GPS,” she sang from behind the wheel. Soon, the idea snowballed into a list of desires that spanned existential, spiritual, and mundane; romantic to platonic to familial; at once wildly ambitious yet piercingly relatable; all set to a catchy melody that blends her pop instincts with country storytelling and the raw immediacy of a basement punk show. In other words, she was on her way to another classic Esther Rose song.
Five-piece emo-fusion band hailing from the California Valley, known for their high-octane performances, creating an atmosphere that is overwhelming with emotion.
Drive All Night is a new extended play from Thomas Dollbaum, six songs serving as a brief reintroduction to a singular and stirring voice on the southern landscape. Dollbaum’s debut Wellswood was released in 2022, drawing comparisons of Justin Vernon and Damien Jurardo (Popmatters) to Richard Buckner and Arthur Russell (AllMusic) for his “compelling lyricism drawing as much from the dark caricatures of Harry Crews and Denis Johnson as Springsteen’s realism” (Beats Per Minute). Shortly after its release, Dollbaum drove along the gulf from his adopted hometown of New Orleans back to his family in Tampa. There, he learned an old friend had passed unexpectedly. “We hadn’t been close in years, and finding out about his death sent me on a sort of journey through memories we had together,” reflects Dollbaum, “places we grew up in and how sometimes you don’t understand how or why relationships change over time.”
Clarion is a three-piece that places their own spin on shoegaze, rock, and post punk. Mixing powerful dance beats with loud amplifiers to make live shows energetic, this trio will leave you wanting more after every performance.
Killgurls is a Sacramento-based band formed in 2024. The group explores a multitude of sounds consisting of moody noise paired with pretty melodies. Their debut single “Cradle” showcases their aggressive energy and unapologetic punk roots. The band draws inspiration from a wide range of influences, allowing their creativity to evolve authentically while remaining unconfined by boxes, gender norms, or societal expectations. The lineup includes Aidan Jacques (Guitar/Vocals), Vanna Rose (Bass/Vocals), and Sal Stinson (Drums).
In songwriting, inspiration can come from just about anywhere. People, places, and events are all too common examples. But for an artist like Meric Long, one half of famed Bay Area duo The Dodos, and in-house recording engineer for Tiny Telephone Studios (American Football, Moses Sumney) – it’s sound, perhaps unsurprisingly, that serves as his most elusive and rewarding muse.
When Long first stepped out on his own in 2017, under the FAN moniker, it was the cyclical hum of a broken bathroom fan that sent him down an obsessive synth hole in an attempt to recreate its oscillating siren. As time has a way of repeating itself, his latest wave of inspiration came crashing in, sweetly and literally, from his young daughter's toy drum kit.
Caleb Nichols is a genre-blurring artist whose work bridges the worlds of music and poetry, crafting songs and verses that pulse with emotion, queer identity, and a deep connection to the natural world. Hailing from California, Nichols has carved out a space in the indie music scene with his shimmering, poetic lyricism and evocative storytelling, earning comparisons to icons like Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens.
Nichols first gained recognition as a musician in the early 2000s, playing bass in indie rock band Grand Lake and lending his talents to projects like Port O’Brien and Release the Sunbird. His solo work, however, has cemented his reputation as a singular voice in indie folk and power pop. His 2022 album Ramon, released via Kill Rock Stars, is a lush, Beatlesque concept record that explores queerness, longing, and self-discovery, drawing critical acclaim for its intricate melodies and literary depth. His 2023 Follow-up, the Rogue Wave-produced Let's Look Back, found Nichols exploring new sonic territory, pushing past earlier influences and demonstrating Nichols' versatility as a songwriter and singer.
Beyond music, Nichols is a published poet and writer, weaving themes of memory, desire, and identity into his literary work. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals, and his chapbook One For Sorrow, Two For Joy (Broken Sleep, 2024), showcases his gift for vivid imagery and lyrical precision. His ability to translate the emotional resonance of songcraft into poetry—and vice versa—sets him apart as a multidisciplinary artist who refuses to be confined by medium.
Returning to the stage for the first time in eight years, Rogue Wave will perform two records — Out of the Shadow and Descended Like Vultures to celebrate the re-release by Sub Pop in March.
Early Performance of Out of the Shadow
with support by Meric Long (Dodos)
Late Performance Descended Like Vultures
with support by Caleb Nichols
Rogue Wave
Over the decade and a half that Rogue Wave has made music, Zach Rogue has continued to expand his band’s emotional spectrum. Drawing inspiration from the inevitable delusions of everyday American life, Rogue, his longtime bandmate Pat Spurgeon, and their fellow members have returned reinvigorated, and with a fresh sound founded on the art of patience, the fearlessness of experimenting, and the unbridled joy of creating something meaningful to help us navigate through these vacant times. Trusting in its own abilities and leaning on each other, Rogue Wave has seized creative control of its identity and sound and is set to smash any preconceptions of its music, revealing the most truthful, powerful, and urgent sonic blueprint of the band to date.
Meric Long
In songwriting, inspiration can come from just about anywhere. People, places, and events are all too common examples. But for an artist like Meric Long, one half of famed Bay Area duo The Dodos, and in-house recording engineer for Tiny Telephone Studios (American Football, Moses Sumney) – it’s sound, perhaps unsurprisingly, that serves as his most elusive and rewarding muse.
Caleb Nichols first gained recognition as a musician in the early 2000s, playing bass in indie rock band Grand Lake and lending his talents to projects like Port O’Brien and Release the Sunbird. His solo work, however, has cemented his reputation as a singular voice in indie folk and power pop. His 2022 album Ramon, released via Kill Rock Stars, is a lush, Beatlesque concept record that explores queerness, longing, and self-discovery, drawing critical acclaim for its intricate melodies and literary depth. His 2023 Follow-up, the Rogue Wave-produced Let's Look Back, found Nichols exploring new sonic territory, pushing past earlier influences and demonstrating Nichols' versatility as a songwriter and singer.
