Mick Jenkins is an American hip-hop recording artist born in Huntsville, Alabama on April 16th, 1991. That’s right…1991. Which means that he’s not only younger than anyone on the BAS editorial staff, but that we are obviously doing this whole “life” thing all wrong. In 2014, Jenkins released “The Water[s]”, a project

CONFESS is a story telling event that features highly entertaining performances while providing a sacred space to celebrate the greater sense of connection and vulnerability available to us all. The highlight of each CONFESS show is the participation of audience members, who have a chance to share their own secrets, wishes

An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo, Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. They’ve been compared to New Order, Future Bible Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a

 image from Bloomberg I was in a Lyft Line the other day. Since Lyft Line is the company’s carpool service, there was another stranger in the car, other than the driver. We’ll call her Madison since I don’t recall her name. Madison works in tech and I was telling her how

Ah, the hanky: Our community’s polychromatic tradition of flagging the way we like to fuck. Being a perv and a nerd, I’m obviously a fan, with it’s origins supposedly going back in the mists of time to square dances full of randy forty-niners and wayward sailors out for a hot

At one point of the whole process, I found myself telling my family, “Funerals aren’t for the dead, they’re for the living.” — David Fisher (played by Michael C. Hall) From the ages of 1 to 14, I spent four days a week with my nana. She was my second

Cass McCombs, who’s from Concord, played in countless bands at various DIY spaces in the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in the 90s, until he relocated to New York. But don’t worry, he relocated to SF in 2011. See him play tracks from his 2013 album, Big Wheel and Others. Wednesday,