Will Craven
@wkcraven.bsky.social
writing novels
playing the hits of the bay area every monday on BFF.fm: https://bff.fm/shows/i-luv-mondays
Climate/Renewables, when prodded or paid.
~Oakland~
playing the hits of the bay area every monday on BFF.fm: https://bff.fm/shows/i-luv-mondays
Climate/Renewables, when prodded or paid.
~Oakland~
He's such a blowhard. Eno's worst friend (don't say Ferry, or Bono).
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
He's such a blowhard. Eno's worst friend (don't say Ferry, or Bono).
Jack Erin Brown, "Door 154": The title cut to an epic soundtrack, described by Brown as an exploration of the contrast between soft psychedlia and hard beats, it’s no surprise that Jack is soundtracking a snowboard film, because this is fucking tubular.
jackerinbrown.bandcamp.com/album/door-154
jackerinbrown.bandcamp.com/album/door-154
Door 154, by Jack Erin Brown
10 track album
jackerinbrown.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Jack Erin Brown, "Door 154": The title cut to an epic soundtrack, described by Brown as an exploration of the contrast between soft psychedlia and hard beats, it’s no surprise that Jack is soundtracking a snowboard film, because this is fucking tubular.
jackerinbrown.bandcamp.com/album/door-154
jackerinbrown.bandcamp.com/album/door-154
Luke Sweeney, "Probably Me": Bay indie’s greatest jump shooter has decamped for the hoops of Nevada City, and the Bay Area will be a little more full of shit in his absence, as he sings here: “Out of all the Luke Sweeneys I know only one will be me.”
lukesweeney.bandcamp.com/album/novel-...
lukesweeney.bandcamp.com/album/novel-...
Novel Tea, by Luke Sweeney
12 track album
lukesweeney.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Luke Sweeney, "Probably Me": Bay indie’s greatest jump shooter has decamped for the hoops of Nevada City, and the Bay Area will be a little more full of shit in his absence, as he sings here: “Out of all the Luke Sweeneys I know only one will be me.”
lukesweeney.bandcamp.com/album/novel-...
lukesweeney.bandcamp.com/album/novel-...
Beatcuntz, "No Interest": Leave it to these Croissant, Drama, and Irma all-stars to bring you that no wave hit you’ve been craving, is Mabuhay Gardens open because Beatcuntz has a Flipper-like ability to make something groovy out of the void...
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Beatcuntz, "No Interest": Leave it to these Croissant, Drama, and Irma all-stars to bring you that no wave hit you’ve been craving, is Mabuhay Gardens open because Beatcuntz has a Flipper-like ability to make something groovy out of the void...
Fieldress, "You Never Know": Subtitled 'for the giddy love peeps', this song is its album in microcosm: musically unpredictable, rich with incident, lyrically giddy, and soaring.
fieldress.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-...
fieldress.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-...
It's a Lot, by Fieldress
8 track album
fieldress.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fieldress, "You Never Know": Subtitled 'for the giddy love peeps', this song is its album in microcosm: musically unpredictable, rich with incident, lyrically giddy, and soaring.
fieldress.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-...
fieldress.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-...
(con't)... but to quote Lauryn it is also gloriously about that thing, that thing, that thing.
miss-hits.bandcamp.com/album/miss-h...
miss-hits.bandcamp.com/album/miss-h...
MISS HITS, by Miss Hits
6 track album
miss-hits.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
(con't)... but to quote Lauryn it is also gloriously about that thing, that thing, that thing.
miss-hits.bandcamp.com/album/miss-h...
miss-hits.bandcamp.com/album/miss-h...
Miss Hits ft. Veotis Latchison, "Daydreams": The like eleven things this song is doing is basically a recipe for a happy life— slow way down, emote in tribute to your lover, trill your windchimes, reflect on your feels...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Miss Hits ft. Veotis Latchison, "Daydreams": The like eleven things this song is doing is basically a recipe for a happy life— slow way down, emote in tribute to your lover, trill your windchimes, reflect on your feels...
15) Distant Reader, "Landscape with No Near End": When a song’s passion appears to strain the limits of recorded fidelity; when a member of The Noriegas releases a singer-songwriter album that matches that band’s gaze and intensity; what a beautiful world.
distantreader.bandcamp.com/album/place-...
distantreader.bandcamp.com/album/place-...
Place of Words Now Gone, by Distant Reader
7 track album
distantreader.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
15) Distant Reader, "Landscape with No Near End": When a song’s passion appears to strain the limits of recorded fidelity; when a member of The Noriegas releases a singer-songwriter album that matches that band’s gaze and intensity; what a beautiful world.
distantreader.bandcamp.com/album/place-...
distantreader.bandcamp.com/album/place-...
(con't)... Like two trains running, the play rendered the past as present, and Nzinga’s poem “Beyond Capacity” went out on the ledge, to look back, and dare us forward.
ayodelenzinga.bandcamp.com/album/ghetto...
ayodelenzinga.bandcamp.com/album/ghetto...
ghetto grimoire, by ayodele nzinga
14 track album
ayodelenzinga.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
(con't)... Like two trains running, the play rendered the past as present, and Nzinga’s poem “Beyond Capacity” went out on the ledge, to look back, and dare us forward.
ayodelenzinga.bandcamp.com/album/ghetto...
ayodelenzinga.bandcamp.com/album/ghetto...
14) Ayodele Nzinga, "Beyond Capacity": In August I saw Ayodele Nzinga’s Lower Bottom Playaz perform August Wilson’s 1990 play Two Trains Running, and the next week Rocks in Yer Head Records released Nzinga’s Ghetto Grimoire...
December 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
14) Ayodele Nzinga, "Beyond Capacity": In August I saw Ayodele Nzinga’s Lower Bottom Playaz perform August Wilson’s 1990 play Two Trains Running, and the next week Rocks in Yer Head Records released Nzinga’s Ghetto Grimoire...
13) MOEBAR HAYES, "СНЕГ": Walk around with this song in your head for a month, then we’ll talk.
moebarhayes.bandcamp.com/track/--5
moebarhayes.bandcamp.com/track/--5
СНЕГ, by MOEBAR HAYES
track by MOEBAR HAYES
moebarhayes.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
13) MOEBAR HAYES, "СНЕГ": Walk around with this song in your head for a month, then we’ll talk.
moebarhayes.bandcamp.com/track/--5
moebarhayes.bandcamp.com/track/--5
(con't)... Yet in the up-step of the chorus, in the extended bridge, in the begging of the question, I hear this song answer an equivocal but sincere ‘no’, that at least love’s illusion is real enough to live on, that it is felt.
hectorine.bandcamp.com/album/arrow-...
hectorine.bandcamp.com/album/arrow-...
Arrow of Love, by Hectorine
10 track album
hectorine.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
(con't)... Yet in the up-step of the chorus, in the extended bridge, in the begging of the question, I hear this song answer an equivocal but sincere ‘no’, that at least love’s illusion is real enough to live on, that it is felt.
hectorine.bandcamp.com/album/arrow-...
hectorine.bandcamp.com/album/arrow-...
12) Hectorine, "Is Love an Illusion": It made me nervous at first that the song would dare ask “Is Love an Illusion?”, like I feared that to voice the question would be to tempt oblivion...
Arrow of Love, by Hectorine
10 track album
hectorine.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
12) Hectorine, "Is Love an Illusion": It made me nervous at first that the song would dare ask “Is Love an Illusion?”, like I feared that to voice the question would be to tempt oblivion...
11) The Pennys, “One Million Things”: When R.E. Seraphin and Tony Jay went on tour together and someone called it the Whisper Tour, it clarified a kindred sensitivity between them, on each side of the Bay, and here united for this kindred classic.
mtstmtn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...
mtstmtn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...
The Pennys, by The Pennys
6 track album
mtstmtn.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
11) The Pennys, “One Million Things”: When R.E. Seraphin and Tony Jay went on tour together and someone called it the Whisper Tour, it clarified a kindred sensitivity between them, on each side of the Bay, and here united for this kindred classic.
mtstmtn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...
mtstmtn.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...
Then there's Home for the Holidays which is Christmas-y but actually about Thanksgiving (1995)
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Then there's Home for the Holidays which is Christmas-y but actually about Thanksgiving (1995)
10) Aux Meadows, “Permanent (for now)”: Every choice in an Aux Meadows track feels consequential, the beat here is conspicuous and so is the way the band slides into song with it, but maybe the band is in the moment and the songs are blessed for it.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
Draw Near, by Aux Meadows
11 track album
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
10) Aux Meadows, “Permanent (for now)”: Every choice in an Aux Meadows track feels consequential, the beat here is conspicuous and so is the way the band slides into song with it, but maybe the band is in the moment and the songs are blessed for it.
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-n...
9) Muffler, “Scheduled Depopulation”: Another life-changing bummer from Muffler, anthems for the negative zone never sounded so... Appropriate. I sure listened to this song a lot this year.
muff1er.bandcamp.com/album/the-da...
muff1er.bandcamp.com/album/the-da...
the dark is still around, by MUFFLER
5 track album
muff1er.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
9) Muffler, “Scheduled Depopulation”: Another life-changing bummer from Muffler, anthems for the negative zone never sounded so... Appropriate. I sure listened to this song a lot this year.
muff1er.bandcamp.com/album/the-da...
muff1er.bandcamp.com/album/the-da...
8) Josiah Flores, “Southside”: Flores follows up debut album Awful Feeling with this year’s Doin’ Fine and so are we, as he leads us on a shuffle down the 101 to south San Jose, where “there’s something in the southside wind, seems to blow my pain away.”
josiahflores.bandcamp.com/album/doin-f...
josiahflores.bandcamp.com/album/doin-f...
Doin' Fine, by Josiah Flores
10 track album
josiahflores.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
8) Josiah Flores, “Southside”: Flores follows up debut album Awful Feeling with this year’s Doin’ Fine and so are we, as he leads us on a shuffle down the 101 to south San Jose, where “there’s something in the southside wind, seems to blow my pain away.”
josiahflores.bandcamp.com/album/doin-f...
josiahflores.bandcamp.com/album/doin-f...
7) Ryli, “Break”: Call them Yea-Ming & the Heartbreakers for how they punch through each turn in the song, delivering an urgent chorus which this year felt far from hypothetical: “If I asked you to/ Would you break me out of here?”
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-a...
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-a...
Come and Get Me, by Ryli
10 track album
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
7) Ryli, “Break”: Call them Yea-Ming & the Heartbreakers for how they punch through each turn in the song, delivering an urgent chorus which this year felt far from hypothetical: “If I asked you to/ Would you break me out of here?”
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-a...
dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/come-a...
6) Flaco El Jandro, “Tio Gabriel”: Salinas’ own delivers the guitar performance of the year, while chronicling state terror against our loved ones: “Somos humanos y hasta más Americanos que el agente del hielo.”
flacoeljandro.bandcamp.com/album/salazt...
flacoeljandro.bandcamp.com/album/salazt...
SALAZTLAN, by Flaco El Jandro
8 track album
flacoeljandro.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
6) Flaco El Jandro, “Tio Gabriel”: Salinas’ own delivers the guitar performance of the year, while chronicling state terror against our loved ones: “Somos humanos y hasta más Americanos que el agente del hielo.”
flacoeljandro.bandcamp.com/album/salazt...
flacoeljandro.bandcamp.com/album/salazt...
5) Wife, "Until Then I'll Be Flying": If debut Starla’s Theme was a series of brief, uncontrolled detonations, this year’s The Importance of Daydreaming finds Wife wielding uncommon chemistry for some very special effects.
recessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-im...
recessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-im...
The Importance of Daydreaming, by Wife
13 track album
recessrecords.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
5) Wife, "Until Then I'll Be Flying": If debut Starla’s Theme was a series of brief, uncontrolled detonations, this year’s The Importance of Daydreaming finds Wife wielding uncommon chemistry for some very special effects.
recessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-im...
recessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-im...
4) Whine, “Gauntlet”: I really can’t say it better than Cartier-Bresson in the intro to this song, nor could my words possibly compare to Whine for the rest of it, you just kinda gotta hear it.
whine42069.bandcamp.com/album/guns-o...
whine42069.bandcamp.com/album/guns-o...
Guns on Television, by whine
14 track album
whine42069.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
4) Whine, “Gauntlet”: I really can’t say it better than Cartier-Bresson in the intro to this song, nor could my words possibly compare to Whine for the rest of it, you just kinda gotta hear it.
whine42069.bandcamp.com/album/guns-o...
whine42069.bandcamp.com/album/guns-o...