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What’s routinely more valuable, and coherent, are the focused histories of smaller underground scenes and their figureheads, bands and record labels.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-768x531.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Link 80, with singer Nick Traina, pictured in 1995. 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A tireless label owner with a strong set of personal ethics and penchant for pranks, Park may be best known to a certain generation of Bay Area kids as the leader of the early-’90s ska band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050384534253&locale=es_LA#\">Skankin’ Pickle\u003c/a>. 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Those who come for the bigger-name bands (or mini-scandals about, say, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/jisdi/ben_weasel_gives_official_statement_and_talks_a/\">misfortune of signing Screeching Weasel\u003c/a>) will also get a constellation of adventures, tour stories and scene politics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-768x583.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-1536x1165.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An early incarnation of Less Than Jake, who would leave Asian Man Records after becoming the label’s very first success story. 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He turns down offers — $100,000 from a major label wanting to acquire an album from his roster, or $2 million from another label wanting to acquire his entire enterprise.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A typical load of mailorder packages from Asian Man Records, headed to the post office. 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It was four packed nights, 16 bands, surprise reunions, and Park’s own return to the stage with the Bruce Lee Band.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And, after the shows, Park went back to what he’s always done: still filling orders by hand, more than 30 years in, at his parents’ garage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the location of Asian Man Records’ garage headquarters. It is in Los Gatos, not Los Altos. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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What’s routinely more valuable, and coherent, are the focused histories of smaller underground scenes and their figureheads, bands and record labels.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1384\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993781\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-768x531.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/1995_Link-80-Book-Three_0108_a.MATT-BERTINELLI-OLPIN-copy-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Link 80, with singer Nick Traina, pictured in 1995. (Matt Bertinelli-Olpin)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s part of what makes Mike Huguenor’s book \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/elvis-is-dead-im-still-alive-mike-huguenor-signed\">Elvis Is Dead, I’m Still Alive: The Story of Asian Man Records\u003c/a>\u003c/em> such a necessary addition to the canon. While decidedly a South Bay operation, Asian Man Records, run since 1996 by Mike Park out of his parents’ Los Gatos garage, has released more than 400 albums by a global who’s-who of punk, ska and emo music, including Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, Joyce Manor, Link 80 and Lawrence Arms.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The rightful star of \u003cem>Elvis is Dead\u003c/em>’s 344 pages, though, is Mike Park himself. A tireless label owner with a strong set of personal ethics and penchant for pranks, Park may be best known to a certain generation of Bay Area kids as the leader of the early-’90s ska band \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050384534253&locale=es_LA#\">Skankin’ Pickle\u003c/a>. Through Asian Man, he’s also changed the underground scene for the better, and inspired and/or changed the lives of thousands of fans and musicians around the world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Scan_20241210-51.-MURRAY-BOWLES-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993779\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Scan_20241210-51.-MURRAY-BOWLES-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Scan_20241210-51.-MURRAY-BOWLES-copy-160x127.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Scan_20241210-51.-MURRAY-BOWLES-copy-768x607.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Scan_20241210-51.-MURRAY-BOWLES-copy-1536x1215.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Skankin’ Pickle, with Mike Park (L) and Lars Nylander (R), performing at 924 Gilman in Berkeley. (Murray Bowles)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Park managed to do this as the Korean son of immigrant parents who settled in Los Gatos when the official city demographics for Koreans was 0.0%. Raised in an era of scant few Asian icons in American pop culture, and incessant “slant-eye” taunts on the playground, Park found a home in the underground scene and gradually expanded it to welcome many, many others.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Huguenor, a musician himself once signed to Asian Man, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/author/ichibanhuguenor/\">columnist\u003c/a> who’s chronicled the South Bay scene for years, approaches the Asian Man story with a fan’s enthusiasm and a cultural historian’s interest. Those who come for the bigger-name bands (or mini-scandals about, say, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/comments/jisdi/ben_weasel_gives_official_statement_and_talks_a/\">misfortune of signing Screeching Weasel\u003c/a>) will also get a constellation of adventures, tour stories and scene politics.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-768x583.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/01.-1000011690-copy-1536x1165.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An early incarnation of Less Than Jake, who would leave Asian Man Records after becoming the label’s very first success story. (Josh Gardner)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Those include some of Park’s absurd volume-eating challenges to friends, right alongside his founding of the Plea for Peace Foundation and the Ska Against Racism tour. Bands like Slow Gherkin pile 10 members in a 1970s van, a “clown car” rivaled only by sedans headed to the post office, packed to the ceiling with Asian Man LP mailers. Nick Traina, singer for Link 80 and the son of romance author Danielle Steel, dies of an overdose at age 19. Fans spend a day hashing out PunkNews.org message board drama during the early stages of the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For his part, Park tries to stay above the fray, with the slow, steady ritual of filling mailorder in his parents’ garage serving as a nearly spiritual practice. He famously tells newly signed bands “I don’t do anything,” meaning tour support and promotion. He blithely exits business negotiations when he finds himself uninterested. He turns down offers — $100,000 from a major label wanting to acquire an album from his roster, or $2 million from another label wanting to acquire his entire enterprise.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13993777\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/02.-Mail-Order-Car.HIRO-TANAKA-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A typical load of mailorder packages from Asian Man Records, headed to the post office. (Hiro Tanaka)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In cutthroat Silicon Valley, this might seem self-sabotaging. But Park knows himself too well. Unlike the billionaires in tech with their own garage origin myths, he stayed in the garage. He didn’t sell out. In the process, as \u003cem>Elvis Is Dead, I’m Still Alive\u003c/em> shows in detail, he gained the respect and love of virtually the entire underground music scene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That much was evident at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DalM6HQp6sA/?hl=en\">Asian Man’s 30th Anniversary celebration\u003c/a> at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco in early September, which despite not announcing performers in advance sold out in minutes on the Asian Man name alone. It was four packed nights, 16 bands, surprise reunions, and Park’s own return to the stage with the Bruce Lee Band.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And, after the shows, Park went back to what he’s always done: still filling orders by hand, more than 30 years in, at his parents’ garage.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the location of Asian Man Records’ garage headquarters. It is in Los Gatos, not Los Altos. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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In front, the bass player wears a red velvet suit.\" class=\"wp-image-13993719\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-now-crop.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-now-crop-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-now-crop-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-now-crop-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The power pop trio Now (from left to right: Oli Lipton, Hannah Forrester and William Smith) performs a song in the produce section at Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco. The band’s set was part of “Under the Rainbow,” a new series in which the collective-owned grocery store highlights local Bay Area musicians. (Courtesy of Rainbow Grocery)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The venue for tonight’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/concerts\">concert\u003c/a> is the produce aisle at the local supermarket. The power pop trio \u003ca href=\"https://nowww.bandcamp.com/album/now-does-the-trick\">Now’s\u003c/a> drummer, who’s set his kit up just in front of the onions and the artichokes, taps out a four count with his sticks. Then the mop-haired guitar player breaks into the opening chords of The Clash’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZw23sWlyG0\">Lost in the Supermarket\u003c/a>” — a winking lead-in to the first song of their set. A single shiny apple sits on top of his guitar amp.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Behold the first edition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DcyWTTMSGd9/\">Under the Rainbow\u003c/a>, Rainbow Grocery’s answer to NPR’s popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/\">Tiny Desk\u003c/a> concert series. Aldo de la Cruz-Falcon, a member of the collective-owned Mission District staple’s PR team, says the plan is to post these short concert videos — all filmed on site in the market’s produce section — on social media every other week. The idea is to highlight Bay Area indie bands while also showing a different side to your friendly neighborhood grocery store. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DcyWTTMSGd9/\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Something about Rainbow that’s different from other grocers is that we’re part of the community,” de la Cruz-Falcon says. “We’re a co-op; we’re not owned by billionaires. We like to do things for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>De la Cruz-Falcon, who also works in Rainbow’s bulk foods department, says he was first inspired to put the project together after seeing a similar concert series at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiestafreshmarket/\">Fiesta Fresh Market\u003c/a>, a Latino grocery in Delaware, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DZECt3tuvUD/\">go viral\u003c/a> earlier this year. He teamed up with coworkers Britta Leijonflycht (vitamins) and Nico DeEulio (herbs), both avid musicians themselves, to organize the first edition of Under the Rainbow, reaching out to local bands to come to the store for an unconventional recording session. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On a Saturday night in August, four bands showed up ready to rock: the aforementioned \u003ca href=\"https://nowww.bandcamp.com/album/now-does-the-trick\">Now\u003c/a>, the shoegaze-inflected indie pop collective \u003ca href=\"https://aprilmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/double-life-beat\">April Magazine\u003c/a>, gothic cumbia crooner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/edgarmusicx/\">Edgar\u003c/a> and folk punk singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mistermodee/\">Ryan Modee\u003c/a>. Now’s set is the only video that Rainbow Grocery has posted so far. It will release the others every other Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the Rainbow does differ from the Tiny Desk series (which in recent months has featured everyone from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/g-s1-126162/shaboozey-tiny-desk-concert\">Shaboozey\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/20/g-s1-136140/weird-al-yankovic-tiny-desk-concert\">“Weird Al” Yankovic\u003c/a>), in a few important ways. Most notably, at least for now, the musicians won’t be playing in front of a live audience, other than a handful of grocery store workers and the other bands in attendance. The logistics of doing a live show inside the supermarket during business hours felt too daunting, de la Cruz-Falcon explains — especially not knowing how unsuspecting customers might respond, and not wanting to make any other workers’ jobs more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee.jpg\" alt=\"A musician, seated in the produce section of a grocery store, plays the guitar.\" class=\"wp-image-13993723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Punk folk singer Ryan Modee performs with a pineapple on his guitar amp. (Courtesy of Rainbow Grocery)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For the time being, the project will mostly consist of videos shared on Rainbow Grocery’s YouTube and Instagram accounts. For the first session, the four bands — plus sound engineer Dylan Edrich — arrived at the supermarket shortly after its 9 p.m. closing time. By the time each band finished playing and recording its three-song set, it was around 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>William Smith, guitar player and singer for Now, says the idea of performing inside a grocery store was immediately appealing and a natural fit for his band’s DIY aesthetic — they’d done previous shows on highway overpasses and inside vintage clothing stores. (Coincidentally, drummer Oliver Lipton’s father had worked at Rainbow Grocery in the ’80s, so there was a nostalgic personal connection as well.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I love pop art, and I thought, what could be more pop art than having our band play in a grocery store?” Smith explains. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Smith, the whole experience felt like a dream. “It was surreal, like it was such an odd place to be wheeling my amp into,” he says. But everyone was so professional and kind — and the snacks, of course, were second to none. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I ate a really good apple,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For viewers watching the final product on YouTube, the surprising contrast between the vibe of the performance and its homey, lo-fi, out-of-the-studio setting is exactly what makes it so appealing. And the response, already, has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1332\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar.jpg\" alt=\"Two musicians in gray suits performing in the produce section of a grocery store. The man in sunglasses on the left dances energetically. \" class=\"wp-image-13993724\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar.jpg 1332w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar-1023x1536.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1332px) 100vw, 1332px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edgar (left) dances during his gothic cumbia set. (Courtesy of Rainbow Grocery)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within a couple of days, more than 3,000 people liked the initial \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DcjJ9lVsYGw/\">trailer for the series\u003c/a> that Rainbow Grocery posted; nearly 75,000 viewed the video. (“It’s probably some of the best exposure we’ve gotten,” Smith says.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>De la Cruz-Falcon says one of the other exciting things about the project is that so many of the worker-owners at Rainbow Grocery are talented musicians, many of whom have their own bands. He hopes some of those bands will play at future Under the Rainbow recording sessions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The next one will happen sometime in October, and the store is in the process of putting an application link up on its website. “Everybody’s welcome to submit,” de la Cruz-Falcon says. “We would love to have all kinds of music.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" />\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rainbow Grocery will release new Under the Rainbow videos every other Wednesday morning — full sets on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@rainbow-grocery\">\u003cem>YouTube\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and clips on \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DcjJ9lVsYGw/\">\u003cem>Instagram\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. The next edition, featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DdEiK8uyqJI/\">April Magazine\u003c/a>, will come out on Sept. 16.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Something about Rainbow that’s different from other grocers is that we’re part of the community,” de la Cruz-Falcon says. “We’re a co-op; we’re not owned by billionaires. We like to do things for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>De la Cruz-Falcon, who also works in Rainbow’s bulk foods department, says he was first inspired to put the project together after seeing a similar concert series at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiestafreshmarket/\">Fiesta Fresh Market\u003c/a>, a Latino grocery in Delaware, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DZECt3tuvUD/\">go viral\u003c/a> earlier this year. He teamed up with coworkers Britta Leijonflycht (vitamins) and Nico DeEulio (herbs), both avid musicians themselves, to organize the first edition of Under the Rainbow, reaching out to local bands to come to the store for an unconventional recording session. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On a Saturday night in August, four bands showed up ready to rock: the aforementioned \u003ca href=\"https://nowww.bandcamp.com/album/now-does-the-trick\">Now\u003c/a>, the shoegaze-inflected indie pop collective \u003ca href=\"https://aprilmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/double-life-beat\">April Magazine\u003c/a>, gothic cumbia crooner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/edgarmusicx/\">Edgar\u003c/a> and folk punk singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mistermodee/\">Ryan Modee\u003c/a>. Now’s set is the only video that Rainbow Grocery has posted so far. It will release the others every other Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under the Rainbow does differ from the Tiny Desk series (which in recent months has featured everyone from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/g-s1-126162/shaboozey-tiny-desk-concert\">Shaboozey\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/20/g-s1-136140/weird-al-yankovic-tiny-desk-concert\">“Weird Al” Yankovic\u003c/a>), in a few important ways. Most notably, at least for now, the musicians won’t be playing in front of a live audience, other than a handful of grocery store workers and the other bands in attendance. The logistics of doing a live show inside the supermarket during business hours felt too daunting, de la Cruz-Falcon explains — especially not knowing how unsuspecting customers might respond, and not wanting to make any other workers’ jobs more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee.jpg\" alt=\"A musician, seated in the produce section of a grocery store, plays the guitar.\" class=\"wp-image-13993723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-ryan-modee-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Punk folk singer Ryan Modee performs with a pineapple on his guitar amp. (Courtesy of Rainbow Grocery)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For the time being, the project will mostly consist of videos shared on Rainbow Grocery’s YouTube and Instagram accounts. For the first session, the four bands — plus sound engineer Dylan Edrich — arrived at the supermarket shortly after its 9 p.m. closing time. By the time each band finished playing and recording its three-song set, it was around 2 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>William Smith, guitar player and singer for Now, says the idea of performing inside a grocery store was immediately appealing and a natural fit for his band’s DIY aesthetic — they’d done previous shows on highway overpasses and inside vintage clothing stores. (Coincidentally, drummer Oliver Lipton’s father had worked at Rainbow Grocery in the ’80s, so there was a nostalgic personal connection as well.)\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I love pop art, and I thought, what could be more pop art than having our band play in a grocery store?” Smith explains. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For Smith, the whole experience felt like a dream. “It was surreal, like it was such an odd place to be wheeling my amp into,” he says. But everyone was so professional and kind — and the snacks, of course, were second to none. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I ate a really good apple,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For viewers watching the final product on YouTube, the surprising contrast between the vibe of the performance and its homey, lo-fi, out-of-the-studio setting is exactly what makes it so appealing. And the response, already, has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1332\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/rainbow-grocery-edgar.jpg\" alt=\"Two musicians in gray suits performing in the produce section of a grocery store. 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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. 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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. Djo, Krug, Hirshland and Taylor Vandergrift were added alongside Wesley for \u003cem>The Crux\u003c/em>; Perez and photographer Shaun Llewellyn were removed for \u003cem>Chromakopia\u003c/em>, replaced by just Tyler. Luz and La Rue joined Teasdale for \u003cem>Moisturizer\u003c/em>, while several others — including the rest of the band — were removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super surprised and really excited because I wasn’t aware that it was a category,” Critcheloe said of his nomination. “I love the idea of making things that are strange and subversive and irreverent, and having an audience that is bigger than it’s supposed to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The 68th Grammy Awards are held Feb. 1, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The show will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Djo, Krug, Hirshland and Taylor Vandergrift were added alongside Wesley for \u003cem>The Crux\u003c/em>; Perez and photographer Shaun Llewellyn were removed for \u003cem>Chromakopia\u003c/em>, replaced by just Tyler. Luz and La Rue joined Teasdale for \u003cem>Moisturizer\u003c/em>, while several others — including the rest of the band — were removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super surprised and really excited because I wasn’t aware that it was a category,” Critcheloe said of his nomination. “I love the idea of making things that are strange and subversive and irreverent, and having an audience that is bigger than it’s supposed to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. During “Violent Times,” she followed up a line about the petrified lovers of Pompeii with a raw, emotional vocal run; chills passed down my spine, and my eyes welled up with tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972241\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" alt=\"white woman in black jacket and skirt laughs while holding mic on stage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417761-Enhanced-NR-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Vincent laughs on stage during her sold-out Feb. 23, 2025 show at Grace Cathedral. \u003ccite>(Paige K. Parsons/Noise Pop Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For all the poetry and beauty of her music, St. Vincent is also goofy as hell, and posseses impeccable comedic timing. When choosing her setlist from her vast catalogue, she stayed away from the punchy synth-pop of “Loss Ageless” or snarling guitar licks of “Broken Man,” and leaned into her older ballads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here’s another blast from the past — another \u003ci>finger\u003c/i> blast from the past,” she said impishly as she introduced “Marry Me,” a love song addressed to a man, which put St. Vincent on the map in 2007. Delayed giggles rang throughout the church as people got the joke. She sweetly sang the line, “You won’t realize I’ve gone,” before breaking out of character and exclaiming her truth: “’Cause I’m gay!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Vincent: rock ‘n’ roll genius and … secret comedian?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR.jpg\" alt=\"woman in black outfit lays on top of piano facing piano player on stage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/St-Vincent-Grace-Cathedral-PARSONS-2025-02-24-0417708-Enhanced-NR-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Vincent at Grace Cathedral. \u003ccite>(Paige K. Parsons/Noise Pop Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, let’s \u003cem>gooo\u003c/em>, San Francisco, it’s another motherfuckin’ heartfelt ballad,” she called out in the deep bellow of a sports bro before coyly perching up on the piano to sing the love song “Candy Darling” from \u003ci>Daddy’s Home\u003c/i>, her 2021 album oozing with early ’70s sleaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She might’ve been relaxed and playful, but St. Vincent’s singing and guitar playing never faltered. The gorgeous 90-minute set came to a close with a sparse, downtempo version of her funk song “The Melting of the Sun,” which she ended with a guitar solo delicate as a spider web as she ushered us into the foggy, moonlit night.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.noisepop.com/\">Noise Pop concerts continue\u003c/a> at San Francisco venues through March 2.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Wednesday evenings, Alex Wolfert feels like he’s on stage — even if none of his three bands is performing that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Wolfert, 24, works Wednesdays at \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaundromatsf.com/\">The Laundromat\u003c/a> — a bagels-in-the-morning, pizzas-and-wine-in-the-evening spot in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond that doubles as a micro-community of the city’s indie musicians. Hours pass to the hum of vinyl LPs from its sizable collection; dough and industry advice are thrown and caught; band tees are complimented. 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>\u003cp>On Wednesday evenings, Alex Wolfert feels like he’s on stage — even if none of his three bands is performing that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because Wolfert, 24, works Wednesdays at \u003ca href=\"https://www.thelaundromatsf.com/\">The Laundromat\u003c/a> — a bagels-in-the-morning, pizzas-and-wine-in-the-evening spot in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond that doubles as a micro-community of the city’s indie musicians. Hours pass to the hum of vinyl LPs from its sizable collection; dough and industry advice are thrown and caught; band tees are complimented. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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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. 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