Two local bands to headline Downtown Brew

Templeton-based rock band PK will co-headline a show with The Mighty Fine at Downtown Brew in San Luis Obispo on Friday at 7 p.m.

BLOG: Metal rocks my studious socks

While many people probably default to classical, soft or easy-listening music during intense study sessions, I go for metal.

Student band brings humor to any situation

Purewater Constuction Band, made up of four Cal Poly students, brings the

BLOG: Get off Pandora! Five new ways to find music

When your looking for new music, there are a bevy of sites ready to give you what your looking for.

Drowning with the Underwater Peoples

It took the soaring guitar of Alex Bleeker and the Freaks and their self-titled album to give me the balls (or the naiveté) to try to describe the kind of music that this label puts out.

Musicians take over Steynberg Gallery

The Steynberg Gallery knows how to set an intimate mood: a single silhouette in front of a sequined red backdrop, a dusting of dim lighting and a window looking out to an early evening sky.

The Magnetic Fields’ latest album leaves us awaiting the next

The Magnetic Fields have released a companion piece to their 2008 album, “Distortion.” The new offering, “Realism,” was intended to be the technical obverse to “Distortion’s” reverse.

SLO Mission plays host to various musical groups

Cal Poly’s Music Ensembles will give a benefit chamber concert at Old Mission church Feb. 6 at 8 p.m.

Criticnue rounds out Sounds of SLO series

If you’re anywhere near Backstage Pizza tomorrow at 11 a.m., you’ll hear something different, something unique, something you recognize, but haven’t heard in a long time.

Album embraces a “dear diary” lyric style

For some artists, the diary format and the immediacy of the day can provide enlightenment and beauty in ways that artistic refining could never do.

Murphy’s rounds out album of the decade series with nostalgia, melodramatic lyrics

Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. The past was not how we remember it and we simply will never relive whatever warm-and-fuzzies we try to remember.