Loco Tranquilo
Julián Armando Gervasi, known as Loco Tranquilo, is a singer-songwriter, composer and lyricist human from Buenos Aires, now enchanting audiences in San Francisco. He delved into the arts at a young age, crafting his musical identity at 17, influenced by the lively culture of his hometown. Since his move to San Francisco in 2016, he has risen as a key figure in the Bay Area music scene, celebrated for his innovative fusion of Argentine rock, psychedelic pop, and folk. With a genre-defying sound and a unique voice, Loco Tranquilo captures attention and establishes himself as a formidable force in the alternative and indie music realm.
Same Girls
Fun at times, moody at others, Same Girls writes music to process the ever changing landscape in which they grew up. All friends and all Bay Area natives, the band reflects on the striking shift in their lives and their surroundings through their songs. Drawing inspiration from classic movements, like Motown and Grunge, and playing with 21st century sensibility, the Oakland-based act has created an idiosyncratic sound that remains familiar to casual and passionate listeners alike.
Flanged guitars and crisp basslines over attacking percussion form the backdrop for vocalist Taifa Nia’s infectious hooks. Lyrically, Nia is vulnerable, reflecting on the changes in his relationships with those around him and confiding in listeners moments he’d like back.
Equal parts dramatic and animated, “Young Minded,” the band’s forthcoming studio album, swings the pendulum between droning riffs and buoyant melodies in an attempt to carve an identity for themselves amidst the upheaval.
Bloom
BLOOM is a shape-shifting San Francisco trio bending rock’s edges into something looser, stranger, and more cinematic. Formed in fall 2024 by poet Thomas Dunn, animator Sef Bursch, and bookseller Daniel Melendez, the group fuses post-punk urgency, shoegaze atmosphere, and unexpected nods to hip-hop and bossa nova. Their music plays like a well-worn novel filled with torn edges and surreal passages— equal parts raw emotion and widescreen ambition, always teetering between the familiar and the uncharted.
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