Canyon Songs
(Music Video Premiere)
May these songs inspire you to know the fierce urgency of NOW and an unshakable faith in the call to action that will change the discords of our nation and world into a beautiful symphony. San Francisco noir novelist Peter Plate offers these words about the song Dreaming - "The auteur takes you on a journey with vocal primacy, a mosaic, a language of the people mildly breaking rules without being bombastic, a sonic demarcation, not a message but a heartfelt collective longing. A notation and a lyrical dream state about consciousness. A chrysalis, a butterfly."
For Your Pleasure
(Special Stripped Down Set)
Lead vocalist and guitar player Maria Weiss of the San Francisco lesbian rock band For Your Pleasure says she hopes listeners will feel empowered to take action for whatever causes they are interested in. Weiss has been playing guitar her whole life and joined her high school band. Her father also played drums in different bands and would send Weiss to a family dance camp every winter for years.
“I think that when I write songs, I don’t have a plan, or I’m not like, ‘I want to write a song about this,’ but somehow the lyrics just form what I’ve been thinking about, kind of like a diary or journal,” said Weiss.
She wrote music for years but was too shy to share it with others until she began playing at open mic events and meeting people. She formed the band in 2019, which includes her sister, Catherine, who plays drums and vocals. The band is in the process of recording their first album.
“This is the first time I’ve ever recorded in like a legitimate way,” said Weiss. “So we’re gonna release some singles, and we picked [“Teardown”] because it feels relevant to the political and cultural climate of our world.”
Regarding the song “Teardown,” Weiss said, “I wrote it in 2020 [during] peak COVID and [the] Black Lives Matter [movement] and just kind of really a lot of people grappling with the realities of our world, and so it’s really about like tearing down systems of oppression and hate and all that kind of stuff.” —Chloe Morizono, Spencer Whitney at KQED
Jenny Haniver
Jenny Haniver is a San Francisco based project with songs written and performed by Natasha Jong.
She is currently accompanied live by friends Ava Lynch, Charlie Persuk, Quinn Widener, and Nick Jong.
Jenny Haniver creates sounds that evoke both panic and peace; attempting to tow the line between what feels good and frightening. Sometimes dreamy, sometimes spooky, and sometimes chaotic, Jenny Haniver derives inspiration from many places but ultimately seeks to make music that is always honest, and always human
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