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Teeming with life and movement, the album flaunts Laufey’s extensive classical training and strays from her prior, more simple bedroom pop aesthetic.

Drinking coffee in an unhappy relationship, packing up a childhood bedroom, sharing dumplings with neighbors — Laufey, born Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, distills life’s singular moments into spellbinding, romantic accounts of the human experience.

Cultivating her eclectic, Berlin-based style, which combines indie-folk, jazz and blues elements, Shelter is the magnum opus of Lou’s career so far.

The singer slipped onto the San Francisco stage with ease and belonging, like a good friend who’s been away for far too long.

Masego had San Francisco at his fingertips — and he knew it. Enveloped in smoke and a sultry, amber glow, he took The Warfield stage with sheer magnetism on the night of March 14.

Lizz Wright has an alto to cut butter and melt leather. She proved it to a sold-out crowd at Yoshi’s in Oakland on June 29.

I realized that studying straight for hours on end may have worked for me for the past decade, but it certainly wouldn’t be sustainable.

The band’s consistent incorporation of funk, jazz and bossa nova make the album a unique and immensely satisfying listen.

If we’re using the past to see what our future holds, it’s forecasting a period of sex-crazedness, partying and drinking once our world returns to normal.

At age 19, Whitaker has already achieved massive feats as a growing musician, being the youngest person ever to be endorsed by Hammond Organ USA.