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"content": "\u003cp>When it came time to decide the cover image for Wet Leg’s sophomore album, the British \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/indie-rock\">indie rock\u003c/a> band packed items that might provide inspiration — velvet worms sewn by guitarist Hester Chambers, an oversized head of hair from a music video shoot, lizard-like gloves — and headed to an Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted it to be something that was both super girly and feminine, but then at the same time, just totally repulsive,” said lead singer Rhian Teasdale, who art-directed the \u003cem>Moisturizer\u003c/em> cover with Iris Luz and Lava La Rue. “That juxtaposition, I don’t know, it just creates something that’s evocative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13985738']The final image, inspired by a photo from that weekend, earned Teasdale, Luz and La Rue a Grammy nomination for best album cover — a category that will be awarded this year for the first time in over 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other evocative covers nominated are Bad Bunny’s \u003cem>Debí Tirar Más Fotos\u003c/em>, Tyler, the Creator’s \u003cem>Chromakopia\u003c/em>, Perfume Genius’ \u003cem>Glory\u003c/em> and Djo’s \u003cem>The Crux\u003c/em>. The award goes to the project’s art directors: This year, the recording artists are included as nominees in all cases except for \u003cem>Glory\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, covers had been assessed as part of the best recording package category, which considers all physical materials and images. The package for \u003cem>Brat\u003c/em>, with its pop culture-infiltrating green, earned Charli XCX, Brent David Freaney and Imogene Strauss a Grammy last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13985805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/2000x2000bb_b4f9966a-89fc-4c4e-97e8-858b0431a7cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13985805\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/2000x2000bb_b4f9966a-89fc-4c4e-97e8-858b0431a7cc.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/2000x2000bb_b4f9966a-89fc-4c4e-97e8-858b0431a7cc-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/2000x2000bb_b4f9966a-89fc-4c4e-97e8-858b0431a7cc-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/2000x2000bb_b4f9966a-89fc-4c4e-97e8-858b0431a7cc-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for Tyler, the Creator’s ‘Chromakopia.’ \u003ccite>(Columbia Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Grammy.com that the split is an effort to recognize the impact of cover art in the digital age. It also aligns with the Academy’s goal to recognize more of the artists that shape music, Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the creative teams, the revived award amplifies what goes into building the visual worlds of music. “When a cover in a campaign hits right,” said photographer Neil Krug, nominated for \u003cem>The Crux\u003c/em>, “it’s part of the language and the fabric of what makes a great record a great record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Capturing an energy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The defining portrait of \u003cem>Chromakopia\u003c/em> — a monochrome close-up of Tyler, face concealed by a mask — was the last shot captured. Luis “Panch” Perez, the director of photography, said the expression in Tyler’s eyes stood out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting there, he said, required tapping into a shared “unspoken language,” built by pulling references for the project’s surrealist, old Hollywood aesthetic — and by years of collaboration. “Tyler knows exactly how to move his body, he’s so well in control of that. I just have to be ready for whatever he’s going to do in front of the lens,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perfume Genius worked with art directors Cody Critcheloe and Andrew J.S. on the cover for \u003cem>Glory\u003c/em>. He splays on a patchwork carpet inside a dark, homey interior, his stiletto boots extending toward a bright window. Colorful cords snake across the floor like microphone cords onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13985803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/perfume-genius-glory-exclusive-blue-vinyl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1999\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13985803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/perfume-genius-glory-exclusive-blue-vinyl.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/perfume-genius-glory-exclusive-blue-vinyl-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/perfume-genius-glory-exclusive-blue-vinyl-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/perfume-genius-glory-exclusive-blue-vinyl-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for Perfume Genius’ ‘Glory.’ \u003ccite>(Matador Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the image reflects the push and pull he found himself exploring while writing the album: the comfort and avoidance of an introverted, private life, versus the confidence required of his “maximal” public-facing persona: “How do I have each of those things season my life?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal wasn’t to capture a specific scene, or choreography. “It was mostly about an energy,” said Critcheloe, who photographed the cover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have said to both of us that they can’t figure out what the aesthetic of the album cover is,” he added. “That’s the best thing to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The creature-like version of Teasdale that appears on Wet Leg’s \u003cem>Moisturizer\u003c/em> cover — squatting, hands outstretched, eerie grin trained toward the camera — is also meant to evoke friction. “The album explores themes of love and longing. But also, there are a couple moments on the album that are so, you know, just feral,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crafting, casting and styling a world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The pivotal setting of \u003cem>The Crux\u003c/em> — the third album by Djo, the musical moniker for actor Joe Keery — was a fictional hotel on the Brooklyn-inspired section of the Paramount Studios backlot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krug, Djo and collaborator Jake Hirshland looked at dense scenes, like Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film \u003cem>Rear Window\u003c/em> (also shot on a Paramount Studios lot), for inspiration. They considered locations in (the real) New York and Atlanta, where the artist was filming \u003cem>Stranger Things\u003c/em>, before locking the lot in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13985804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/20000000273413_1d6cf227_thumbnail_4096.jpg\" alt=\"a four-story brick building with various scenes in its windows stands in front of a street with cars and people\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13985804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/20000000273413_1d6cf227_thumbnail_4096.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/20000000273413_1d6cf227_thumbnail_4096-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/20000000273413_1d6cf227_thumbnail_4096-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/20000000273413_1d6cf227_thumbnail_4096-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for Djo’s ‘The Crux.’ \u003ccite>(AWAL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next came casting the characters that make up the scene. “Anything that we could come up with, we were just like throwing it at the canvas,” Krug said. A couple kiss in a window. A man fights a parking ticket in the foreground. Djo is seen only from the back, dangling from a window in a white suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art director William Wesley II oversaw production details, including designing the neon sign that bears the album’s name — an homage to iconic hotels like the Chateau Marmont. “Everything is intentional,” he said. “It’s really a sum of its parts and it’s the sum of many people’s contributions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of white plastic chairs are the only props on the cover of \u003cem>Debí Tirar Más Fotos\u003c/em>, which translates to “I should have taken more photos.” Art directed by Bad Bunny himself, the image by Puerto Rican photographer Eric Rojas also features plantain trees — a symbol of the island, but also of the Caribbean and Latin America overall. There is a nostalgia to the simple combination — conjuring a day at the beach, or a backyard gathering — that also mirrors the album’s diasporic, history-making storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debí Tirar Más Fotos” and “Chromakopia” are also nominated for album of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13985801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/197020-680e20078d4ad-l.jpg\" alt=\"Two white plastic patio chairs sit amongst tropical foliage on the lawn\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13985801\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/197020-680e20078d4ad-l.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/197020-680e20078d4ad-l-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/197020-680e20078d4ad-l-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/197020-680e20078d4ad-l-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The album cover for Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos .’ \u003ccite>(Rimas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What makes a cover Grammy-eligible?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Official Grammy rules say albums do not need to exist physically to be considered in this category — a key point in differentiating the award from its package counterpart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s nominees, however, are all available on vinyl or CD. Krug, who has worked on covers for Lana Del Rey and Tame Impala, said the vinyl presentation is often the first point discussed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have the physical vinyls in your home or your apartment, that stuff lives with you. It’s out in your space, whether you’re having a good day or a bad day, you’re getting married or breaking up with whomever,” Krug said. “There’s this rediscovery of the art form.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters must consider the cover’s creativity and design, alongside the illustration, photography or graphic elements. Trophies go to the winning art directors, and certificates to designers, illustrators or photographers, if applicable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of the growing pains of a new category, this year’s list of nominees saw edits ahead of the voting window’s opening — a process not uncommon in other categories with multiple nominees. 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"content": "\u003cp>St. Vincent has a soft spot for San Francisco. Bathed in red light beneath Grace Cathedral’s high ceilings Sunday night, the artist remembered first arriving here from suburban Dallas as a teenager to visit her aunt and uncle, the jazz duo Tuck & Patti. Showing her around town, they took her to Amoeba Music on Haight Street, where a cashier with a cool haircut and Replacements T-shirt invited the young St. Vincent to start a band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, there’s life outside. There’s a whole city of fuckin’ freaks,” St. Vincent remembered realizing. The former teenage misfits in the audience approvingly cheered. “There’s some place I belong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming off an incredibly hot streak — performing at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13971898/how-to-watch-saturday-night-live-snl-50th-anniversary-special\">SNL50\u003c/a>, winning three Grammys, fronting Nirvana at FireAid LA — St. Vincent came back to San Francisco on Sunday night to have some fun. 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With a slower tempo, and drums and electronics stripped away, St. Vincent’s unfiltered voice came through with striking clarity, tenderness and range as the keyboardist from her band, Rachel Eckroth, accompanied her on grand piano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This minimalist approach to St. Vincent’s new material offered space to contemplate her existential lyrics, all about embracing, almost in a Buddhist way, the agony and ecstasy that make up our short time here on Earth. 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Co-workers’ demos are played on shared rides home, and employees cover shifts when others play shows or go on tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mainly, The Laundromat’s supportive, tight-knit staff show that the artist’s tradition of working behind a counter on the nights not spent on stage is alive and well in an increasingly unaffordable, tech-centered city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-75-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert serves orders at The Laundromat, where he works alongside other musicians from San Francisco bands. Wolfert plays in Uncle Chris, Double Helix Peace Treaty and Starfish Prime. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a typical shift, Wolfert, with his easy smile, might step outside to wipe down a table, passing the hour-long line and white horizon of Ocean Beach. His thoughts will race: He needs to text Joey he can record this week; Korey wants to rehearse next week; that one party needs water; two tables need to be set. Then he’ll grab a mushroom combo, balancing dipping dishes of honey and ranch between his fingers, and slide them all onto a crowded table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the phone rings, he’ll notice the Groove Armada record is on the penultimate track of Side B.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One! More! Song!” he chirps in these moments over the beat to co-workers, Max Edelman, 29 (drummer for alt-rock band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sourwidows\">Sour Widows\u003c/a> and black metal band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rokeblackmetal/\">Roke\u003c/a>), and Eva Treadway, 29 (guitarist in the ’60s-style pop band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theshesmusic/\">The She’s\u003c/a> and the noisy ’90s-style rock group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/world_smasher/\">World Smasher\u003c/a>). Edelman might be pouring a skin-contact orange wine into one patron’s glass while Treadway — wearing a baseball cap with the word “Laundromat” in a squiggly font, designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/secret.cobra.information/\">Trey Flanigan\u003c/a> of local band \u003ca href=\"https://pardoner.bandcamp.com/\">Pardoner\u003c/a> — pours a chilled red into another. A sausage pie’s ready for delivery. The phone’s ringing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway and Max Edelman work behind the bar at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Busy nights like these are exhilarating to Wolfert. It’s like when his fingers are on the bass strings at Kilowatt or the Knockout. He plays with the jazz-inspired indie-pop group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985883/uncle-chris-dove-on-the-ocean\">Uncle Chris,\u003c/a> the rock-driven songwriting-forward alt-pop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/starfishprime999/\">Starfish Prime\u003c/a> and the gritty, edgy sounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a>. Working at The Laundromat can be like the climax of a song, he says. The crowd is rapt. The band’s locked in. The sound engineer is waving a symbol he can half see. His friends are in the front row making heart hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a beast flowing through the air at that moment, he says. At The Laundromat, it’s caught and upheld by his co-workers, who are also his friends and some of his favorite musicians, similarly running pizzas or laughing in passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parallels in service as in performance,” says Treadway just before their shift on a recent Wednesday. “We have our flow and we’re putting on a little bit of a show. Like, you’re providing this environment, you’re helping to curate it and you’re helping it to run, and you’re really fucking leaning on the people around you as your team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating this organized chaos comes naturally to people who’ve worked together in a collaborative way artistically, Treadway adds, “because so much of being in a band is compromise and truly working together and doing hard things together. I don’t know anyone that’s a working musician in San Francisco that’s not working really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Treadway plays in The She’s and World Smasher. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musicians have worked service jobs since the beginning of undercompensated music and undercompensated labor. But the marriage’s harmony largely depends on institutional support – especially in San Francisco, where rents are always going up, prices are high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-san-francisco-18168899.php\">anyone making less than $100,000 a year is considered low-income\u003c/a>. The Tenderloin rehearsal space shared by two of Wolfert’s bands, a tight room split between five bands total, costs $800 a month. He lives with four roommates, one of whom is a bandmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how to best support San Francisco’s musicians, Treadway says to tip well and pay in cash. Break out of the “transaction” mindset. Sometimes people forget their waiter is “a cool person who’s working really hard, who has their own interests, who maybe has their own band,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting your local restaurant is supporting your local musicians,” says Treadway. “Never forget it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Edelman poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Edelman plays in the bands Sour Widows and Roke. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s music scene is a fragile ecosystem, one supported through ticket and merch sales and prenegotiated percentages of the bar. And it’s supported most directly by the musicians themselves, waiting tables and humming a song idea as they grab Table Three’s vegan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local music survives, says Wolfert, because of places like The Laundromat, and because people in the scene help each other out. Musicians hook other musicians up with places to practice or record; they ask local acts to open when they headline; they let them know when their neighborhood pizza place is hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert talks with a co-worker at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a musician, I feel like you’re working so many different jobs all at once,” says Edelman. “And then you work your job. And you’re not being paid, usually, for the music aspect.” Edelman, who’s tended bar at The Laundromat for more than a year, learned about the job from an Instagram post by Treadway, right after the two returned to San Francisco from playing South by Southwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treadway calls The Laundromat “a project”; Edelman opts for a musician-artist space as well as a culinary spot. Wolfert jokes that people say from the outside, it looks like “a little cult.” (The Laundromat’s musician staff also includes Keith Frerichs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a>, who is absent on this particular day to prepare for a North American tour.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wolfert worked at a prior pizza place, he says he felt validated as a musician. But there’s validation, and then there’s encouragement from managers and owners. Here, your co-workers and bosses will proactively sit down around a calendar of your upcoming tour dates. They’ll work together to cover shifts; they’ll make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumper stickers by Christopher DeLoach (@thatscoolthankyou on Instagram) hang at the entrance to The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laundromat co-owners Kevin Rodgers and Jenna O’Connell don’t play music themselves, but both have histories of working with musicians in the service industry. The Laundromat, Rodgers says, is the most musician-concentrated workplace in his career. With so many band members and music lovers on staff, Rodgers says, they all just get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Feeling like you’re in a place where your actual artistic endeavors are supported, that feels really important to me as someone who has played music my whole life,” says Treadway. “What makes people whole is being able to participate in their artistic endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Treadway started in San Francisco’s music scene, people have said that the scene is dying. That everyone’s moving to L.A. They don’t think that’s true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always going to be music in San Francisco,” Treadway says. “It’s in the DNA of the city, and has been since before any of us even were considered to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a> are currently touring North America, and play \u003ca href=\"https://dice.fm/event/wkpon-the-umbrellas-pocket-full-of-crumbs-and-latitude-29th-jun-kilowatt-san-francisco-tickets?\">Saturday, June 29, at Kilowatt in San Francisco\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sourwidows.com/\">Sour Widows\u003c/a> begins a U.S. tour this month, and plays \u003ca href=\"https://theindependentsf.com/event/13375114/sour-widows/\">Saturday, July 13, at the Independent\u003c/a> in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a> plays \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/credit-electric-w-dutch-interior-amp-double-helix-peace-treaty-doors-700-pm-music-730-pm\">Wednesday, August 14, at the 4 Star Theater\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One! More! Song!” he chirps in these moments over the beat to co-workers, Max Edelman, 29 (drummer for alt-rock band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sourwidows\">Sour Widows\u003c/a> and black metal band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rokeblackmetal/\">Roke\u003c/a>), and Eva Treadway, 29 (guitarist in the ’60s-style pop band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theshesmusic/\">The She’s\u003c/a> and the noisy ’90s-style rock group \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/world_smasher/\">World Smasher\u003c/a>). Edelman might be pouring a skin-contact orange wine into one patron’s glass while Treadway — wearing a baseball cap with the word “Laundromat” in a squiggly font, designed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/secret.cobra.information/\">Trey Flanigan\u003c/a> of local band \u003ca href=\"https://pardoner.bandcamp.com/\">Pardoner\u003c/a> — pours a chilled red into another. A sausage pie’s ready for delivery. The phone’s ringing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-76-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway and Max Edelman work behind the bar at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Busy nights like these are exhilarating to Wolfert. It’s like when his fingers are on the bass strings at Kilowatt or the Knockout. He plays with the jazz-inspired indie-pop group \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985883/uncle-chris-dove-on-the-ocean\">Uncle Chris,\u003c/a> the rock-driven songwriting-forward alt-pop of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/starfishprime999/\">Starfish Prime\u003c/a> and the gritty, edgy sounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doublehelix.peacetreaty/\">Double Helix Peace Treaty\u003c/a>. Working at The Laundromat can be like the climax of a song, he says. The crowd is rapt. The band’s locked in. The sound engineer is waving a symbol he can half see. His friends are in the front row making heart hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a beast flowing through the air at that moment, he says. At The Laundromat, it’s caught and upheld by his co-workers, who are also his friends and some of his favorite musicians, similarly running pizzas or laughing in passing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are parallels in service as in performance,” says Treadway just before their shift on a recent Wednesday. “We have our flow and we’re putting on a little bit of a show. Like, you’re providing this environment, you’re helping to curate it and you’re helping it to run, and you’re really fucking leaning on the people around you as your team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigating this organized chaos comes naturally to people who’ve worked together in a collaborative way artistically, Treadway adds, “because so much of being in a band is compromise and truly working together and doing hard things together. I don’t know anyone that’s a working musician in San Francisco that’s not working really, really hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-59-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eva Treadway poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Treadway plays in The She’s and World Smasher. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Musicians have worked service jobs since the beginning of undercompensated music and undercompensated labor. But the marriage’s harmony largely depends on institutional support – especially in San Francisco, where rents are always going up, prices are high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-san-francisco-18168899.php\">anyone making less than $100,000 a year is considered low-income\u003c/a>. The Tenderloin rehearsal space shared by two of Wolfert’s bands, a tight room split between five bands total, costs $800 a month. He lives with four roommates, one of whom is a bandmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how to best support San Francisco’s musicians, Treadway says to tip well and pay in cash. Break out of the “transaction” mindset. Sometimes people forget their waiter is “a cool person who’s working really hard, who has their own interests, who maybe has their own band,” they add.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supporting your local restaurant is supporting your local musicians,” says Treadway. “Never forget it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Edelman poses for a portrait at The Laundromat. Edelman plays in the bands Sour Widows and Roke. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s music scene is a fragile ecosystem, one supported through ticket and merch sales and prenegotiated percentages of the bar. And it’s supported most directly by the musicians themselves, waiting tables and humming a song idea as they grab Table Three’s vegan cheese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local music survives, says Wolfert, because of places like The Laundromat, and because people in the scene help each other out. Musicians hook other musicians up with places to practice or record; they ask local acts to open when they headline; they let them know when their neighborhood pizza place is hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-72-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Wolfert talks with a co-worker at The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a musician, I feel like you’re working so many different jobs all at once,” says Edelman. “And then you work your job. And you’re not being paid, usually, for the music aspect.” Edelman, who’s tended bar at The Laundromat for more than a year, learned about the job from an Instagram post by Treadway, right after the two returned to San Francisco from playing South by Southwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treadway calls The Laundromat “a project”; Edelman opts for a musician-artist space as well as a culinary spot. Wolfert jokes that people say from the outside, it looks like “a little cult.” (The Laundromat’s musician staff also includes Keith Frerichs of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/theumbrellassf/\">The Umbrellas\u003c/a>, who is absent on this particular day to prepare for a North American tour.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wolfert worked at a prior pizza place, he says he felt validated as a musician. But there’s validation, and then there’s encouragement from managers and owners. Here, your co-workers and bosses will proactively sit down around a calendar of your upcoming tour dates. They’ll work together to cover shifts; they’ll make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/240605-TheLaundromatRestaurant-65-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumper stickers by Christopher DeLoach (@thatscoolthankyou on Instagram) hang at the entrance to The Laundromat. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laundromat co-owners Kevin Rodgers and Jenna O’Connell don’t play music themselves, but both have histories of working with musicians in the service industry. The Laundromat, Rodgers says, is the most musician-concentrated workplace in his career. With so many band members and music lovers on staff, Rodgers says, they all just get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Feeling like you’re in a place where your actual artistic endeavors are supported, that feels really important to me as someone who has played music my whole life,” says Treadway. “What makes people whole is being able to participate in their artistic endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Treadway started in San Francisco’s music scene, people have said that the scene is dying. That everyone’s moving to L.A. They don’t think that’s true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always going to be music in San Francisco,” Treadway says. “It’s in the DNA of the city, and has been since before any of us even were considered to exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lizzie Killian is an overnight success two decades in the making thanks to her new project, Teens in Trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band’s debut full-length album, \u003ca href=\"https://teensintrouble.bandcamp.com/album/whats-mine-2\">\u003cem>What’s Mine \u003c/em>\u003c/a>(out March 29 via \u003ca href=\"https://asianmanrecords.com/\">Asian Man Records\u003c/a>), graduates this Bay Area original from the background to the lead. With contemplative slacker protests in sonically punchy packages, Killian’s songwriting excels with melodic tracks that linger. From the anthemic opening single, “You Don’t Want to Mess with Me,” to the record’s finale, “I’m Not Perfect,” there’s a musical maturity that complements her own journey laid bare on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/EAtv3MtHmis?si=V2sxH5M-rmKC8xff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weird thing is I’ve just been trying to use this project as a way to dig into my authentic self or whatever, hokey stuff like that, and really trying to tune into what feels good for me,” Killian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approach seems to be working: Teens in Trouble recently came off a tour run supporting veteran rockers RX Bandits. “Ever since I’ve been doing that, these opportunities have been presenting themselves,” Killian reflects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset district in a Filipino immigrant household, Killian got her first taste of D.I.Y. when she saved enough money to buy her first electric guitar. She spent her teen years waiting outside 21-and-up venues to play with the band she joined, the Filipina-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nunYEBLbrPQ\">Sputterdoll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a Filipina woman myself, it made me realize there was more than the white guy-fronted bands that I had been listening to, that we can rock just as hard,” she says. [aside postid='arts_13954914']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sputterdoll played Warped Tour’s Shiragirls stage in 2005. They played The Pound — a great rock club out of horror movie central casting on Pier 96 — with Plain White T’s before Plain White T’s churned out a national hit. Of course, rocking DNA Lounge is part of her local lore. Unfortunately, pursuing music caused her to clash with her parents. She eventually worked three jobs to support herself, all while trying to keep her music dreams alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Killian became a certified musical veteran, she noticed her contemporaries in the Bay Area’s music scene mostly moved on or moved out. Teens in Trouble was born from a need to be independent and active, but she was twisting in the wind, and the project immediately stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brain was so focused on work, that I didn’t know how to write songs anymore. At least, that’s what it felt like,” she says. “There was a point in 2017 where I was like, ‘Maybe that’s it for me. I guess I’m done with music or something.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3779175158/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Killian loves to bet on herself, though, and music is her gamble of choice. So in 2022, she doubled-down, asserting herself as a songwriter and performer, launching Teens in Trouble in earnest. Killian’s D.I.Y.-ethos meshes well with the label that signed her. San Jose’s Asian Man Records is Mike Park’s long-running operation out of his mom’s South Bay garage. That support energized Lizzie to assemble musicians to fully realize Teens in Trouble under her guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/9NvLKmCjK30?si=Z5GzC2pYBMEjJ85i\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite moving to Raleigh, North Carolina right before the pandemic, Killian’s Bay Area network has been key to her momentum for \u003cem>What’s Mine\u003c/em>, recorded at District Recording in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A slew of music videos with her best friend, director and cinematographer Aja Pop (another San Francisco Filipina), have amplified Teens in Trouble’s presence in the Bay and beyond. The visuals for the singles on \u003cem>What’s Mine\u003c/em> — “You Don’t Want to Mess with Me,” “Playlist” and “It’s Up To Me” — all feature Aja Pop’s quirky and dreamy creative signature, inspired by French filmmaker’s Michel Gondry’s work with The White Stripes, and bolster Teens in Trouble’s proper arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not at all surprised that [Lizzie] figured it out, and got her act together — so to speak — to make this project happen,” says Pop. “I encourage all my friends to get their act together literally and figuratively because once you got that, that’s a sign of self-love.” [aside postid='arts_13954771']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Moore, a San Jose-based bassist and producer, became part of Teens in Trouble through working with Asian Man Records. In a strangers-must-be-friends scenario, Killian entrusted Moore to produce her music — his first time producing an entire album for someone other than himself. A shared love of early Weezer’s vulnerability informed their common goals. Killian’s only directive? If the song didn’t make her move, it had to be reworked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the topics Lizzie talks about are vulnerable subjects, but instead of doing a somber overall record, guitars are big, guitars are heavy — we still like to rock out, but we still like to talk about our feelings,” Moore says. “That was the mantra going into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounding out the lineup are lead guitarist Mike Huguenor of San Jose, whose old band Shinobu was often found on bills with Sputterdoll, and drummer Henry Chadwick from Santa Cruz, now based in Portland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Killian, it all happened so fast — assembling a reliable team, getting onto a label, playing shows regularly again and now a full-length album. So it goes for an overnight success decades in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kind of a wild ride. In some regards, it feels like it went from zero to 100,” Killian says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Ly3z1QG5EjM?si=cMm5Gb4FJgmJtkFx\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aja Pop adds: ”We’re Filipino-American girls living out our creative fantasies, not only in the Bay Area, but coast to coast, in places you wouldn’t expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Lizzie’s relationship with her parents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get along great now. They love Teens in Trouble,” she says. “Every time I visit, my mom’s always watching the same four videos that are on YouTube right now. I’m like, ‘Mom, we have other songs too, I swear.’” [aside postid='arts_13954854']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>What’s Mine\u003c/em>, Killian is making music that would feel at home blasting out of an Outer Sunset garage, from a surf van at Ocean Beach or out of someone’s headphones on the N Judah train on another foggy day of hating work. It’s a cohesive, well-sequenced listen that invites an immediate replay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s kinda funny about putting music out, especially in this time where everything is so visible for people. People are watching my growth as a musician or artist through these releases,” Killian reflects, “which is both scary, but also I’m proud of the music I’m putting out and my progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Teens in Trouble celebrates ‘What’s Mine’ with a \u003ca href=\"https://teensintrouble.bandcamp.com/merch/whats-mine-listening-party\">virtual listening party\u003c/a> on Bandcamp on Friday, March 29, at 9.a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in a decorated car, with a fisheye lens effect on the photo\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933792\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Jeepney.Andre_.FULL_-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toro Y Moi, a.k.a. Chaz Bear, and Eric Andre ride in Bear’s jeepney. The jeepney is being donated to the Filipino Cultural District in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Philips Shum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, musical artist Toro y Moi handed over the keys to his car in front of Westfield Mall in San Francisco. But it wasn’t just any car: It was the jeepney that graces the cover of his 2022 album \u003cem>Mahal\u003c/em>, and which became a recognizable symbol of his music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty emotional,” Bear said. “But I think this is the start of something that can leave a lasting impact on the city and hopefully inspire others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the Oakland singer and songwriter — real name Chaz Bear — donated his festively adorned jeepney to San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District, where it will become a mini tour bus, says SOMA Pilipinas Director Raquel Redondiez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13926503']“For me, the jeepney represents the community, and SOMA will carry that torch really well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the mall, Filipinos jumped out of their cars and crowded the sidewalk to take pictures on Mission Street, said Redondiez, recalling the celebratory handoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jeepneys are probably one of the most iconic cultural symbols for Filipinos as relics of American colonial occupation that’s been transformed into mass transit,” Redondiez said. “They’re really colorful and personalized, and representative of Filipino creativity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1698px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1698\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933789\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-scaled.jpg 1698w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-800x1206.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-1020x1538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-768x1158.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Inside-1358x2048.jpg 1358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1698px) 100vw, 1698px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Toro Y Moi’s jeepney, which is being donated to the Filipino Cultural District. \u003ccite>(Paulina Zepeda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A relic turned cultural icon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a short film for \u003cem>Mahal\u003c/em> starring Bear and comedian Eric Andre, an opening shot shows the sun rising over the Transamerica Pyramid as Bear listens to “Jeepney Rock” radio. When Bear’s gull-wing Tesla runs out of battery, Andre comes to the rescue via the jeepney, cackling maniacally as the car swerves and screeches to a halt like a Looney Tunes cartoon. (“You smell like my ex-wife,” Andre says in true, out-of-pocket form.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear says the broken-down Tesla was a bit of cheeky commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With San Francisco being a tech-centric city, the jeepney — this old relic that’s been through World Wars — symbolizes how culture can live throughout technology and surpass it,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Bear and Andre’s pursuit of Andre’s lost pug becomes a psychedelic adventure as Bear narrates a brief history of the jeepney. “Each vehicle was customized to reflect the personal identity of the driver and handed down from generation to generation,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cultural district is interested in converting the Jeepney to an electric vehicle, Redondiez said, but will retain its unique design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up on the decor utilized in Toro Y Moi’s jeepney. \u003ccite>(Ginger Fierstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jeepneys are known for being ornate and distinctive, and SOMA’s new jeepney is no exception — it’s downright gorgeous. Its cobalt blue exterior is accented with elaborate geometric and organic patterns. Bear hit up Bay Area jeweler Gretchen Carvajal for laser-cut Filipino suns and diamonds inscribed with “mahal” that now dangle like jewels along the perimeter of the car’s roof. The co-mingling of contemporary flourishes with the car’s original features, like its 1942 engine, makes for a spectacular melding of time periods and cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bear, the jeepney’s cultural hybridity runs parallel with his own identity as a Black and Filipino American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905208/a-new-generation-of-filipino-hip-hop-builds-on-a-deep-bay-area-legacy\">hip-hop in the Filipino community\u003c/a>,” he said. “And before there were cars with rims and crazy sound systems, jeepneys were some of the first forms of expressional vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Toro Y Moi with the jeepney, in a cover photo from his 2022 album 'Mahal.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toro Y Moi with the jeepney, in a cover photo from his 2022 album ‘Mahal.’ \u003ccite>(Chris Maggio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A vehicle for the culture, literally\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Bear found the jeepney on eBay in 2021, it became a “pandemic-friendly” vehicle for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912444/toro-y-moi-new-album-mahal-bay-area-filipino\">pop-up performances of \u003cem>Mahal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which Bear has characterized as an Americana album for its subliminal reflections on life in the States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Filipino Cultural District had been looking for a jeepney for several years. Redondiez even visited Sarao Motors, the “premier jeepney manufacturer” in Manila, to look for one, but came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really because of the waves of displacement that so many Filipinos are spread across SOMA, so it’s been really hard to cover our landmarks on a walking tour,” she said. “The hope was to use a jeepney for our cultural tour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When SOMA Pilipinas heard Toro y Moi had one, the organization reached out and asked if he’d ever be interested in selling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a surprise that he would just be donating it to us,” Redondiez said. “Every time we would go to check out the jeepney, I could tell how much Chaz loves it. Even as we were towing it away, you could see how much joy it gave him.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(“You smell like my ex-wife,” Andre says in true, out-of-pocket form.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear says the broken-down Tesla was a bit of cheeky commentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With San Francisco being a tech-centric city, the jeepney — this old relic that’s been through World Wars — symbolizes how culture can live throughout technology and surpass it,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, Bear and Andre’s pursuit of Andre’s lost pug becomes a psychedelic adventure as Bear narrates a brief history of the jeepney. “Each vehicle was customized to reflect the personal identity of the driver and handed down from generation to generation,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cultural district is interested in converting the Jeepney to an electric vehicle, Redondiez said, but will retain its unique design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933790\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Jeepney.Closeup-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up on the decor utilized in Toro Y Moi’s jeepney. \u003ccite>(Ginger Fierstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jeepneys are known for being ornate and distinctive, and SOMA’s new jeepney is no exception — it’s downright gorgeous. Its cobalt blue exterior is accented with elaborate geometric and organic patterns. Bear hit up Bay Area jeweler Gretchen Carvajal for laser-cut Filipino suns and diamonds inscribed with “mahal” that now dangle like jewels along the perimeter of the car’s roof. The co-mingling of contemporary flourishes with the car’s original features, like its 1942 engine, makes for a spectacular melding of time periods and cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bear, the jeepney’s cultural hybridity runs parallel with his own identity as a Black and Filipino American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13905208/a-new-generation-of-filipino-hip-hop-builds-on-a-deep-bay-area-legacy\">hip-hop in the Filipino community\u003c/a>,” he said. “And before there were cars with rims and crazy sound systems, jeepneys were some of the first forms of expressional vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Toro Y Moi with the jeepney, in a cover photo from his 2022 album 'Mahal.'\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933791\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/ToroYMoi.Mahal_.Cover_.Jeepney-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toro Y Moi with the jeepney, in a cover photo from his 2022 album ‘Mahal.’ \u003ccite>(Chris Maggio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A vehicle for the culture, literally\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Bear found the jeepney on eBay in 2021, it became a “pandemic-friendly” vehicle for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912444/toro-y-moi-new-album-mahal-bay-area-filipino\">pop-up performances of \u003cem>Mahal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which Bear has characterized as an Americana album for its subliminal reflections on life in the States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Filipino Cultural District had been looking for a jeepney for several years. Redondiez even visited Sarao Motors, the “premier jeepney manufacturer” in Manila, to look for one, but came up empty-handed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really because of the waves of displacement that so many Filipinos are spread across SOMA, so it’s been really hard to cover our landmarks on a walking tour,” she said. “The hope was to use a jeepney for our cultural tour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When SOMA Pilipinas heard Toro y Moi had one, the organization reached out and asked if he’d ever be interested in selling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of a surprise that he would just be donating it to us,” Redondiez said. “Every time we would go to check out the jeepney, I could tell how much Chaz loves it. Even as we were towing it away, you could see how much joy it gave him.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Light drizzle shakes through sun-pierced gray skies at West Oakland’s Ghost Town Brewing on a Tuesday evening. The Warriors/Lakers playoff game buzzes inside and a taco truck hums as \u003ca href=\"https://fakefruitmusic.bandcamp.com/\">Fake Fruit\u003c/a> bandleader Hannah D’Amato saddles up in an outdoor booth. She and the band’s new bassist, Bee Wright, are grabbing a drink before one final practice session ahead of their West Coast tour with Deerhoof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging by D’Amato’s serene yet sprightly disposition, you wouldn’t guess how much the singer of the Bay Area’s best emerging band has been through since arriving here in 2018. Yet her time in the Bay almost ended as soon as it began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to the Bay pissed off,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Southern California, D’Amato is a Chicana — mostly Mexican and part Sicilian — who came to the Bay Area to live with her sister in early 2018. Her plans were quickly thwarted when her sister’s partner moved in instead, leaving D’Amato looking for a place. Before that, she had a stint on the East Coast that culminated in an audition for the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where one of the all-white male panelists took it upon himself to turn down the volume on her guitar amp — a metaphor for the plight of women in the music industry if there ever was one. D’Amato still got accepted, but she wasn’t feeling it (can you blame her?) and soon made her way West. [aside postid='arts_13928586']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in Oakland that she met guitarist Alex Post (a Massachusetts transplant) and drummer Miles MacDiarmid (a Santa Rosa native) and formed Fake Fruit. Their debut self-titled album came out in 2021 on Sonny Smith’s \u003ca href=\"https://rockshead.bandcamp.com/\">Rocks In Your Head Records\u003c/a>, offering a much-needed glimmer of polished post-punk pizazz. The arresting collection of pointed, abrasive tracks floated on Post’s jangly guitars. D’Amato’s lyrics were full of sharp, biting wit — think a young Karen O singing over a Preoccupations tune. Songs about fractured relationships, scene anxiety and people flat out not holding up their end of the bargain were the outlet for the whirlwind of life events that had brought D’Amato to the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had to scream and be loud and take up this space… in my world where dudes are typically occupying it,” D’Amato says as Post and MacDiarmid join us at the table. “If I had a dollar for every time I walked into Guitar Center and they were like, ‘The mics are that way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09XNN3nfNlk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this controlled release of daily frustrations that caught the ear of Smith, the local music scene veteran who continues to deliver with his eponymous Sonny & The Sunsets band while running his workhorse label. “I thought it was refreshing to really hear someone belt out vocals again, because at that time we were sort of hearing a lot of whispery My Bloody Valentine-type music,” Smith says via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D’Amato met Smith when she was DJing a show at SF’s Balboa Theater. Through their friendship, Smith offered to release their music, but D’Amato wanted to hold out for an indie label that had more reach. “Understandable by me,” Smith says, who then told the band that he’d leverage his industry contacts to help them try to get a deal. They were seemingly at the finish line with a notable imprint, but then the pandemic hit, and the label said they were pausing on signing new acts. “This [too] was understandable,” Smith adds. “This was when the whole world was kind of paralyzed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were stuck. But when Smith got his first unemployment check, he decided to put out Fake Fruit’s debut. “I just said ‘fuck it,’ let’s do interesting things even if we have to be in our bedrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3060143921/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t just Smith who was struck by the sound of the band. The records started selling out. First the initial 250 vinyl pressing, then another 250, then another 500, and then another run of 1,000. “I was able to actually give an artist a decent royalty check, which was very rewarding for me personally,” Smith adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, Fake Fruit probably played more high-profile gigs than any other local band on the rise. They toured with recent Grammy winners Wet Leg, headlined a Noise Pop show at Rickshaw Stop, opened for Canadian jangle pop outfit Alvvays, British post-punk band Dry Cleaning and Brooklyn trio Sunflower Bean, among others. They graced the stage at Mosswood Meltdown, are booked for this August’s Outside Lands Festival, and are currently on a \u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Deerhoof/528089?afflky=GreatAmericanMusicHall\">West Coast tour swing with Deerhoof\u003c/a> that comes to San Francisco Monday, May 8, Great American Music Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see, there’s something about Fake Fruit that sticks with you like butter on bread. At that Rickshaw Stop show, there was a moment where D’Amato sang one of the band’s new songs while solving a Rubik’s Cube. Sure, it was a gimmick, but she charmed the crowd by owning up to it and going for it. Then came an undeniable confluence of thunderous drums, transcendent guitar, raucous sax and a newfound melodious delivery from D’Amato, filled with “oohs.” She proclaimed “you’re gonna love me!” on the hook while holding up the solved cube in triumph. It was flat out fascinating, jaw-dropping and so punk. I couldn’t get the song out of my head for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_6943.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fake Fruit rehearses at their practice space. \u003ccite>(Adrian Spinelli )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re exercising the more melodic muscles that we were shy about in the first record,” D’Amato says of a new album they’ve just about finished with producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, King Woman) at Oakland’s Atomic Garden Studio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whenever the new album comes out, their managers won’t hear it until we all do. That’s because at the beginning of the year, Fake Fruit’s managers cut ties with the band when they embarked on a new business venture. For a band called Fake Fruit, life sure keeps throwing a lot of lemons their way. Perhaps it’s why the new album will be called \u003cem>Mucho Mistrust\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to take a long look in the mirror and be like, ‘We don’t trust like that anymore,’” D’Amato says. “We got burned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"A blurry photo of a four-piece band, a young woman and three men, in the hallway of an Oakland practice space.\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-1020x783.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-768x590.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095-1536x1179.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IMG_1095.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fake Fruit prepares to open for Deerhoof at Great American Music Hall on May 8. \u003ccite>(Adrian Spinelli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Later in the evening at the band’s lofted practice space that they share with two other groups, I finally hear them play the song from the Rickshaw Stop show again. It’s magical. D’Amato is in top form with the Rubik’s Cube in hand — even at practice. Except this time, she can’t solve it. She says it’s the first time that’s ever happened and later texts to explain that, “There was one piece that was physically rotated, making it literally impossible to solve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s as if that faulty Cube is where Fake Fruit finds themselves right now, trying to solve this puzzle. Even the best emerging band in the Bay Area hasn’t gotten snatched up by a notable indie label looking to vault the next breakout act, while a series of mechanisms around them continue to push against that realization. Can a Bay Area band even get signed by a significant label anymore these days? Fortunately, Fake Fruit is nowhere close to giving up — quite the opposite, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the best version of this brutal anticipation,” Post remarks, before D’Amato chimes in. “It’s been a couple years of holding our breaths while experiencing this growth and feeling the momentum. We just want to be touring more months on than off and quit these day jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13849223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Guitar.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Guitar.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Guitar.Break_-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Guitar.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Deerhoof/528089?afflky=GreatAmericanMusicHall\">Fake Fruit performs at Great American Music Hall\u003c/a> in San Francisco on May 8.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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