Musical Monday – The End

Like the most glorious Star Wars marathon, or an extensive bout of food poisoning, our Musical Monday blog series has run its course and has reached its end. Needless to say, there are still countless incredibly talented female musicians in the Bay Area, and our...

Musical Monday – Bells Atlas

Some band names manage to sound pretty cool and ominous even if you have no idea what the heck they’re referring to, like Talking Heads, Beach House or The Men; there’s also a category of band names that take aim straight for your gut, like Diarrhea Planet or...

Musical Monday – The Best of 2014

With 2014 drawing to a close, our intern Max decided to put together a list of some of his favorite music of the year. However, his brain has been fried from a recent jaunt to the sauna, and so lacking the brain power to actually rank anything that he heard this year,...

A Note from Ira Glass: Support the Sisters

Dear Friends, For all of us doing documentaries on public radio, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva are iconic figures. The Senior Producer of the radio show I run, This American Life, got into radio because she heard one of their stories over two decades ago. She’d...