All The City Lights

A Bay Area music / urban planning blog

Skip to content
Menu
  • Home
  • About This Blog
    • About that title …
  • Music
  • Urban Planning
  • Contact

Author: Bill

Portrait of the four members of Oakland alt-rock band Blues Lawyer
Bay Area MusicPosted onMarch 2, 2023March 2, 2023

Most Intriguing New Releases by East Bay Musicians of February 2023

OK, so you might argue the Oakland alt-rock quartet is overplaying the “endearingly awkward” schtick. But those melodic riffs? The casual Teenage Fanclub mention in album PR write-up? The goofy DIY music videos? That genuinely funny bio (“internationally ignored song stylists”)? Objection overruled!

Read More
Double exposure publicity photo of Oakland afro-psychedelic-rock band Orchestra Gold
Bay Area MusicPosted onFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Most intriguing new releases by East Bay musicians of January 2023

It can be time consuming to hunt for actual new releases by actual East Bay musicians. Is anyone crazy enough to do all that work and blog about it once a month for a non-existent readership and zero compensation from Bandcamp? We shall see!

Read More
Collage representing the Top 10 featured songs
End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 11, 2023January 11, 2023

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2022

If you’re a Dad Rock and ’90s Nostalgia aficionado, have I got 30 tunes for you to check out.

Read More
Collage of featured album covers
Bay Area MusicPosted onDecember 31, 2022December 31, 2022

Rankstravaganza: Five Great 2022 Albums (+ Two EPs) by Oakland/East Bay Musicians

Diverse influences mix together to create genre-defying sounds, particularly laid-back grooves that conjure up carefree summer afternoons hanging with friends? That’s the Oakland sound in 2022.

Read More
SillinessPosted onAugust 1, 2022August 2, 2022

Car ‘Flash Mobs’ Causing Problems for Bay Area Cities

Across the Bay Area, swarms of drivers are popping up twice a day or more. Police say these “flash mobs” are dangerous to everyone and prevent virtually any other uses of the public right of way.

Read More
MusicPosted onFebruary 5, 2022February 5, 2022

I guess it’s cool to share some thoughts on Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever and Ever Amen” or something

A plodding piano ballad about abortion was being played on mainstream radio stations across the country. Only in 1997 could something like this happen. It seemed weird at the time. But so did the Spice Girls.

Read More
Bay Area MusicPosted onJanuary 8, 2022January 18, 2022

Rankstravaganza: Five Great 2021 Albums (+ Two EPs) by Oakland/East Bay Musicians

I miiiiight have mentioned it before, but Bandcamp Fridays have been a great excuse for me to reconnect with local music over the last 22…

Read More
End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 2, 2022January 10, 2022

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2021

On the whole, I’d say these songs are a hopeful bunch, rooted in the possibility of muddling through somehow and reclaiming a semblance of fellowship, cohesion, progress, and well-being. Perhaps 2022 will deliver on that promise.

Read More
MusicPosted onOctober 29, 2021October 29, 2021

25 Perfect Little Moments from Wilco’s “Being There”

Being There still feels monumental 25 years later. It also announced the arrival of Wilco: The Band That Jams and Takes Risks. Risks like recording a double album, opening it with a 45-second drums-and-feedback freakout, and then spending the next 76 minutes alternating between ennui-filled ballads and surreal-nonsense-filled bangers.

Read More
Cover art of Weezer's Pinkerton
MusicPosted onSeptember 24, 2021September 24, 2021

A Brief History of My Relationship with Weezer’s “Pinkerton”

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its release The details of that night are fuzzy, but I remember it was bitter cold. I…

Read More

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 21 Next Page
© Copyright 2023 – All The City Lights
Allium Theme by TemplateLens ⋅ Powered by WordPress
SHARE WIDGET

http://www.share-widget.com