What Does Bandcamp’s Sale to Epic Games Mean for Independent Musicians?
Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms
Dax Pierson’s New Album Confronts a Near-Death Experience and Turbulent Recovery
Wizard Apprentice Gets Real About Emotional Abuse on Their New Album
Experimental Music Festival Stasis Benefits ‘Hybrid’ Series at Pro Arts
Bay Area Record Fest Spotlights Local Indie Labels and Musicians
A Feminist and Queer Experimental Music Show at ProArts
Tyler Holmes Is Here For Your Inner Freak
Sponsored
window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={"attachmentsReducer":{"audio_0":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_0","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"}}},"audio_1":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_1","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"}}},"audio_2":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_2","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"}}},"audio_3":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_3","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"}}},"audio_4":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_4","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"}}},"placeholder":{"type":"attachments","id":"placeholder","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-160x96.jpg","width":160,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-800x478.jpg","width":800,"height":478,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1020x610.jpg","width":1020,"height":610,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-960x574.jpg","width":960,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-240x143.jpg","width":240,"height":143,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-375x224.jpg","width":375,"height":224,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-520x311.jpg","width":520,"height":311,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-e1514998105161.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148}}},"arts_13848951":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13848951","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13848951","found":true},"title":"Bandcamp.Sign","publishDate":1547771282,"status":"inherit","parent":13848866,"modified":1547771379,"caption":"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.","credit":"Sam Lefebvre/KQED","description":"Signage at Bandcamp's new Oakland offices goes up on Jan. 17, 2019.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-160x109.jpg","width":160,"height":109,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-800x546.jpg","width":800,"height":546,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-768x524.jpg","width":768,"height":524,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1020x696.jpg","width":1020,"height":696,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Bandcamp.Sign_.jpg","width":1100,"height":751}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13908923":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13908923","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13908923","found":true},"title":"sharmi4","publishDate":1643914053,"status":"inherit","parent":13908910,"modified":1643914487,"caption":"Composed in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire, Beast Nest's album 'Sicko' soundtracks the emotional ups and downs of healing from loss. The artist is using their work to open up important conversations around trauma, disability justice and mental health. ","credit":"Nastia Voynovskaya","altTag":null,"description":null,"imgSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-1020x680.jpg","width":1020,"height":680,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-160x107.jpg","width":160,"height":107,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi4.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13861812":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13861812","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13861812","found":true},"title":"dax_francisJohn","publishDate":1563577949,"status":"inherit","parent":13861305,"modified":1563578141,"caption":"On 'Live in Oakland,' lurching synths and mechanical percussion convey the challenging emotional aspects of Dax Pierson's recovery from a debilitating accident. ","credit":"Francis John","description":"On 'Live in Oakland,' lurching synths and mechanical percussion convey the challenging emotions of Dax Pierson's recovery from a debilitating accident. ","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/dax_francisJohn-160x86.png","width":160,"height":86,"mimeType":"image/png"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/dax_francisJohn-800x431.png","width":800,"height":431,"mimeType":"image/png"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/dax_francisJohn-768x414.png","width":768,"height":414,"mimeType":"image/png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/dax_francisJohn-672x372.png","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/png"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/dax_francisJohn.png","width":894,"height":482}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13856952":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13856952","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13856952","found":true},"title":"Wizard Apprentice","publishDate":1557433374,"status":"inherit","parent":13856737,"modified":1557433467,"caption":"In their new EP, 'Dig a Pit,' Wizard Apprentice attempts to understand an emotionally abusive relationship.","credit":"Wizard Apprentice","description":"In their new EP, 'Dig a Pit,' Wizard Apprentice attempts to understand an emotionally abusive relationship.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"complete_open_graph":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-1200x675.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/wizard-apprentice-dig-a-pit-cover-cropped.jpg","width":1500,"height":844}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13846559":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13846559","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13846559","found":true},"title":"TylerHOlmes","publishDate":1544138009,"status":"inherit","parent":13846529,"modified":1544138063,"caption":"Tyler Holmes.","credit":"Nastia Voynovskaya","description":"Tyler Holmes.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-160x100.jpg","width":160,"height":100,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-800x500.jpg","width":800,"height":500,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-768x480.jpg","width":768,"height":480,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/TylerHOlmes.jpg","width":800,"height":500}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13829093":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13829093","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13829093","found":true},"title":"spellling at feels bampfa","publishDate":1523429009,"status":"inherit","parent":13829045,"modified":1540407530,"caption":"Spellling performs at Wine & Bowties' Feels 6 announcement party at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Apr. 10, 2018.","credit":"Nastia Voynovskaya","description":"Spellling performs at Wine & Bowties' Feels 6 announcement party at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Apr. 10, 2018.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-960x540.jpg","width":960,"height":540,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-240x135.jpg","width":240,"height":135,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-375x211.jpg","width":375,"height":211,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-520x293.jpg","width":520,"height":293,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/04/spellling-at-feels-bampfa.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13842491":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13842491","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13842491","found":true},"title":"AnnaLuisa Credit David Park","publishDate":1539133982,"status":"inherit","parent":13842485,"modified":1539134020,"caption":"Anna Luisa Petrisko.","credit":"David Park","description":"Anna Luisa Petrisko","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"complete_open_graph":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1200x675.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-960x540.jpg","width":960,"height":540,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-240x135.jpg","width":240,"height":135,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-375x211.jpg","width":375,"height":211,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-520x293.jpg","width":520,"height":293,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/AnnaLuisa-Credit-David-Park.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13815228":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13815228","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13815228","found":true},"title":"DSC_0536","publishDate":1510861133,"status":"inherit","parent":13814982,"modified":1510861260,"caption":"Tyler Holmes' eclectic, DIY brand of electronic music is as off-kilter as their daring makeup looks. ","credit":"Nastia Voynovskaya","description":"Tyler Holmes' eclectic, DIY brand of electronic music is as off-kilter as their daring makeup looks. ","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-960x540.jpg","width":960,"height":540,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-240x135.jpg","width":240,"height":135,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-375x211.jpg","width":375,"height":211,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-520x293.jpg","width":520,"height":293,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1180x664.jpg","width":1180,"height":664,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-1920x1080.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-e1510861163942.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false}},"audioPlayerReducer":{"postId":"stream_live"},"authorsReducer":{"slefebvre":{"type":"authors","id":"11091","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11091","found":true},"name":"Sam Lefebvre","firstName":"Sam","lastName":"Lefebvre","slug":"slefebvre","email":"sdlefebvre@gmail.com","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":"Sam Lefebvre is an award-winning reporter at KQED Arts. He has worked as an editor and columnist at the \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em>, \u003cem>SF Weekly \u003c/em>and Impose Magazine, and his journalism and criticism has appeared in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>, the Guardian and Pitchfork.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"Lefebvre_Sam","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["author"]}],"headData":{"title":"Sam Lefebvre | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/143b570c3dec13ae74c6aa2369b04fc8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/slefebvre"},"nvoynovskaya":{"type":"authors","id":"11387","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11387","found":true},"name":"Nastia Voynovskaya","firstName":"Nastia","lastName":"Voynovskaya","slug":"nvoynovskaya","email":"nvoynovskaya@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":["arts"],"title":"Associate Editor","bio":"Nastia Voynovskaya is a Russian-born journalist raised in the Bay Area and Tampa, Florida. She's the associate editor at KQED Arts & Culture. She's the recipient of the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists-Northern California award for arts & culture reporting. In 2021, a retrospective of the 2010s she edited and creative directed, Our Turbulent Decade, received the SPJ-NorCal award for web design. Nastia's work has been published in NPR Music, \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, VICE, Paste Magazine, Bandcamp and SF MoMA Open Space. Previously, she served as music editor at \u003cem>East Bay Express\u003c/em> and online editor at \u003cem>Hi-Fructose Magazine\u003c/em>. She holds a B.A. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g","twitter":"nananastia","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"pop","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"podcasts","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"hiphop","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Nastia Voynovskaya | KQED","description":"Associate Editor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/310649817772dd2a98e5dfecb6b24842?s=600&d=mm&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/nvoynovskaya"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"arts","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"arts_13910312":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13910312","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13910312","score":null,"sort":[1646867088000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-does-bandcamps-sale-to-epic-games-mean-for-independent-musicians","title":"What Does Bandcamp’s Sale to Epic Games Mean for Independent Musicians?","publishDate":1646867088,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What Does Bandcamp’s Sale to Epic Games Mean for Independent Musicians? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On March 2, musicians who sell their work through Bandcamp got a surprise email: the Oakland-based music ecommerce platform was being acquired by Epic Games, creator of the video game \u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was really confused,” says Oakland electronic artist Sharmi Basu. Basu is the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a>, an experimental label with dozens of digital albums and vinyl records for sale on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how capitalism works, and we’re in a very twisted stage of capitalism right now where nothing is as it seems,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Bandcamp has been hailed as the anti-Spotify because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903547253/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-spotify-and-the-wide-open-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artist-friendly business model\u003c/a>. So as news of the acquisition spread through social media, many independent artists reacted with skepticism. After all, up until it was bought by Epic, Bandcamp was a small, privately-held company whose growth since its founding in 2008 has been slow, although profitable. Music and artist merchandise are its main products, but founder Ethan Diamond likens it to Etsy—a place for craftspeople to connect directly with customers—rather than the streaming giants one might assume are its competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13857471']For independent artists who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890093/2020-decimated-the-concert-industry-and-it-cant-rebuild-without-government-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost most of their income from pandemic show cancellations\u003c/a>, Bandcamp has been a life raft: \u003ca href=\"https://isitbandcampfriday.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">every First Friday\u003c/a>, it waives its service fees and allows artists to take home the full proceeds from their sales. And for the rest of the month, artists take home an average of 82% of what customers pay for their songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a tech company standpoint, it’s not the most lucrative way of doing things. But that’s the point: Bandcamp has grown a loyal global user base of people who take pride in supporting their favorite artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does Epic, a company with a $28.7 billion valuation as of 2021 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/announcing-a-1-billion-funding-round-to-support-epics-long-term-vision-for-the-metaverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ambitions in the metaverse\u003c/a>, plan to do with Bandcamp, a modest platform with just over 100 employees?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of electronic musician Sharmi Basu with their dog Beni at the Oakland rose garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electronic musician Sharmi Basu is the executive director of Ratskin Records. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just really worry about a company coming in and buying them for—I don’t know why,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.dadadrummer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damon Krukowski\u003c/a>, a musician and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose new book and podcast, \u003cem>Ways of Hearing\u003c/em>, examines music listening in the digital age. “I mean, that’s the problem, because [Bandcamp is] not profitable enough, it wouldn’t seem, to interest a multibillion-dollar business like Epic Games. And that’s what’s distressing. It’s like, ‘Well, what are they going to do with it?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really worrisome to me because I’ve lived through several cycles of creative, independent activities in music being absorbed by larger, more mainstream corporations,” says Krukowski, who has worked in the music industry since the late 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a representative for Epic Games and Bandcamp declined to comment for this story, Epic’s recent foray into the world of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/fort-nite-concert-series-soundwave-global-artists-tones-and-i-mohamed-hamaki-1233168/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual concerts\u003c/a> might offer some insight into why it could be interested in Bandcamp. Since 2020, when the pandemic shut down the concert industry, \u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i> hosted “shows” by Travis Scott, Ariana Grande and J Balvin within the video game, which operates as an ever-expanding virtual world. More recently, in the fall of 2021, its virtual concerts grew beyond stars with American followings to international artists like Egyptian singer Mohamed Hamaki, France’s Aya Nakamura, Brazilian rapper Emicida and Japanese singer Gen Hoshino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i> is evolving from a battle royale game to a global social entertainment platform. It’s really important we start on a regional level as we look for talent, and these regions we chose have some of the most positive and engaged \u003cem>Fortnite\u003c/em> communities,” Emily Levy, senior partnerships manager at Epic Games, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/fort-nite-concert-series-soundwave-global-artists-tones-and-i-mohamed-hamaki-1233168/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Rolling Stone\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, any speculation of what awaits Bandcamp and its artists is still just guesswork. The \u003ca href=\"https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press releases\u003c/a> Epic and Bandcamp put out about the acquisition promised to keep the business model the same and emphasized both companies’ dedication to supporting independent artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The products and services you depend on aren’t going anywhere,” wrote Diamond, the Bandcamp founder. “However, behind the scenes we’re working with Epic to expand internationally and push development forward across Bandcamp, from basics like our album pages, mobile apps, merch tools, payment system, and search and discovery features, to newer initiatives like our vinyl pressing and live streaming services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-768x488.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer Damon Krukowski is one half of musical duo Damon and Naomi. \u003ccite>(Anabel Vazquez Rodriguez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some industry insiders are worried that this promise won’t be guaranteed. “There’s almost no time in history that somebody who has been acquired has said, ‘Nothing is going to change, this is just a merger, or whatever you want to call it,’ and that that’s actually happened. It’s not a real thing,” says Patrick Brown, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.textmerecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Text Me Records\u003c/a>, a San Francisco independent label that sells music on Bandcamp. “Even if it takes a year, something eventually changes because it’s new management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that it creates opportunities and visibility for independent artists,” he adds. “Whether or not that’s the case, I’m not sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theoretically, song licensing in Epic’s video games could present a money-making opportunity for artists. But “it’s not something that I think any of us can make a determination on until they’ve already done this and released their financials,” says Marshall Moran, a Brooklyn musician and steering committee member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.unionofmusicians.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Union of Musicians and Allied Workers\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for fair wages. “But unfortunately, transparency is always a difficult issue.” [aside postid='arts_13893952']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Bandcamp’s transparency about its financials are a rarity in the music, tech and digital entertainment worlds. In contrast, artists have had to work backwards to calculate Spotify’s pay rates, which are widely believed to amount to $0.0038 per stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the digital music landscape, Bandcamp is the company artists perceive to be on their side. And because independent artists’ ability to make a living has been undermined over and over again—because of the pandemic, low streaming rates or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846754/in-2018-corporate-monotony-seized-san-francisco-music-venues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corporate giants Goldenvoice and LiveNation buying out independent venues\u003c/a>—many are looking at Epic’s acquisition of the platform with trepidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little scary,” says Tracy Wilson, a musician and owner of the Richmond, Virginia-based independent music distributor \u003ca href=\"https://courtesydesk.bigcartel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courtesy Desk\u003c/a>. “Genuinely the last thing any independent artist wants to be given is even more question marks and more uncertainty because our landscape has been nothing but a slippery slope of bad news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bandcamp is known for paying musicians fairly. Now, many worry this could change under new ownership.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007109,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1171},"headData":{"title":"What Does Bandcamp’s Sale to Epic Games Mean for Independent Musicians? | KQED","description":"Bandcamp is known for paying musicians fairly. Now, many worry this could change under new ownership.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What Does Bandcamp’s Sale to Epic Games Mean for Independent Musicians?","datePublished":"2022-03-09T23:04:48.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:05:09.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13910312/what-does-bandcamps-sale-to-epic-games-mean-for-independent-musicians","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On March 2, musicians who sell their work through Bandcamp got a surprise email: the Oakland-based music ecommerce platform was being acquired by Epic Games, creator of the video game \u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was really confused,” says Oakland electronic artist Sharmi Basu. Basu is the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a>, an experimental label with dozens of digital albums and vinyl records for sale on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how capitalism works, and we’re in a very twisted stage of capitalism right now where nothing is as it seems,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Bandcamp has been hailed as the anti-Spotify because of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903547253/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-spotify-and-the-wide-open-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artist-friendly business model\u003c/a>. So as news of the acquisition spread through social media, many independent artists reacted with skepticism. After all, up until it was bought by Epic, Bandcamp was a small, privately-held company whose growth since its founding in 2008 has been slow, although profitable. Music and artist merchandise are its main products, but founder Ethan Diamond likens it to Etsy—a place for craftspeople to connect directly with customers—rather than the streaming giants one might assume are its competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13857471","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For independent artists who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890093/2020-decimated-the-concert-industry-and-it-cant-rebuild-without-government-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost most of their income from pandemic show cancellations\u003c/a>, Bandcamp has been a life raft: \u003ca href=\"https://isitbandcampfriday.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">every First Friday\u003c/a>, it waives its service fees and allows artists to take home the full proceeds from their sales. And for the rest of the month, artists take home an average of 82% of what customers pay for their songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a tech company standpoint, it’s not the most lucrative way of doing things. But that’s the point: Bandcamp has grown a loyal global user base of people who take pride in supporting their favorite artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what does Epic, a company with a $28.7 billion valuation as of 2021 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/announcing-a-1-billion-funding-round-to-support-epics-long-term-vision-for-the-metaverse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ambitions in the metaverse\u003c/a>, plan to do with Bandcamp, a modest platform with just over 100 employees?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of electronic musician Sharmi Basu with their dog Beni at the Oakland rose garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electronic musician Sharmi Basu is the executive director of Ratskin Records. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just really worry about a company coming in and buying them for—I don’t know why,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.dadadrummer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damon Krukowski\u003c/a>, a musician and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose new book and podcast, \u003cem>Ways of Hearing\u003c/em>, examines music listening in the digital age. “I mean, that’s the problem, because [Bandcamp is] not profitable enough, it wouldn’t seem, to interest a multibillion-dollar business like Epic Games. And that’s what’s distressing. It’s like, ‘Well, what are they going to do with it?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really worrisome to me because I’ve lived through several cycles of creative, independent activities in music being absorbed by larger, more mainstream corporations,” says Krukowski, who has worked in the music industry since the late 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although a representative for Epic Games and Bandcamp declined to comment for this story, Epic’s recent foray into the world of \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/fort-nite-concert-series-soundwave-global-artists-tones-and-i-mohamed-hamaki-1233168/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual concerts\u003c/a> might offer some insight into why it could be interested in Bandcamp. Since 2020, when the pandemic shut down the concert industry, \u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i> hosted “shows” by Travis Scott, Ariana Grande and J Balvin within the video game, which operates as an ever-expanding virtual world. More recently, in the fall of 2021, its virtual concerts grew beyond stars with American followings to international artists like Egyptian singer Mohamed Hamaki, France’s Aya Nakamura, Brazilian rapper Emicida and Japanese singer Gen Hoshino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ci>Fortnite\u003c/i> is evolving from a battle royale game to a global social entertainment platform. It’s really important we start on a regional level as we look for talent, and these regions we chose have some of the most positive and engaged \u003cem>Fortnite\u003c/em> communities,” Emily Levy, senior partnerships manager at Epic Games, told \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/fort-nite-concert-series-soundwave-global-artists-tones-and-i-mohamed-hamaki-1233168/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Rolling Stone\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, any speculation of what awaits Bandcamp and its artists is still just guesswork. The \u003ca href=\"https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press releases\u003c/a> Epic and Bandcamp put out about the acquisition promised to keep the business model the same and emphasized both companies’ dedication to supporting independent artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The products and services you depend on aren’t going anywhere,” wrote Diamond, the Bandcamp founder. “However, behind the scenes we’re working with Epic to expand internationally and push development forward across Bandcamp, from basics like our album pages, mobile apps, merch tools, payment system, and search and discovery features, to newer initiatives like our vinyl pressing and live streaming services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12-768x488.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/damon_naomi.12.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer Damon Krukowski is one half of musical duo Damon and Naomi. \u003ccite>(Anabel Vazquez Rodriguez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some industry insiders are worried that this promise won’t be guaranteed. “There’s almost no time in history that somebody who has been acquired has said, ‘Nothing is going to change, this is just a merger, or whatever you want to call it,’ and that that’s actually happened. It’s not a real thing,” says Patrick Brown, owner of \u003ca href=\"https://www.textmerecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Text Me Records\u003c/a>, a San Francisco independent label that sells music on Bandcamp. “Even if it takes a year, something eventually changes because it’s new management.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hope is that it creates opportunities and visibility for independent artists,” he adds. “Whether or not that’s the case, I’m not sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theoretically, song licensing in Epic’s video games could present a money-making opportunity for artists. But “it’s not something that I think any of us can make a determination on until they’ve already done this and released their financials,” says Marshall Moran, a Brooklyn musician and steering committee member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.unionofmusicians.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Union of Musicians and Allied Workers\u003c/a>, a group that advocates for fair wages. “But unfortunately, transparency is always a difficult issue.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13893952","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Bandcamp’s transparency about its financials are a rarity in the music, tech and digital entertainment worlds. In contrast, artists have had to work backwards to calculate Spotify’s pay rates, which are widely believed to amount to $0.0038 per stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the digital music landscape, Bandcamp is the company artists perceive to be on their side. And because independent artists’ ability to make a living has been undermined over and over again—because of the pandemic, low streaming rates or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846754/in-2018-corporate-monotony-seized-san-francisco-music-venues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corporate giants Goldenvoice and LiveNation buying out independent venues\u003c/a>—many are looking at Epic’s acquisition of the platform with trepidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little scary,” says Tracy Wilson, a musician and owner of the Richmond, Virginia-based independent music distributor \u003ca href=\"https://courtesydesk.bigcartel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courtesy Desk\u003c/a>. “Genuinely the last thing any independent artist wants to be given is even more question marks and more uncertainty because our landscape has been nothing but a slippery slope of bad news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13910312/what-does-bandcamps-sale-to-epic-games-mean-for-independent-musicians","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1"],"tags":["arts_6425","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_3140","arts_3338","arts_21264"],"featImg":"arts_13848951","label":"arts"},"arts_13908910":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13908910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13908910","score":null,"sort":[1643928032000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"beast-nest-sicko-sharmi-basu-ghost-ship-ratskin-records","title":"Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms","publishDate":1643928032,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>An instrumental album about grief might make you imagine listening to calming tones in the dark. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharmi Basu\u003c/a>’s new release as Beast Nest, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> (\u003ca href=\"https://ratskin.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a>), splashes the canvas—no, actually, the wall—with all the strange, contradictory emotional hues that accompany healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basu composed \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> in the years since losing close friends and collaborators in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire, which killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">36 Oakland partygoers\u003c/a>. Billed as a “freak 4 freak, crazy 4 crazy wet blankie,” the album’s six electronic tracks embrace the messiness of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As danceable beats guide the listener from abstract to accessible terrain, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> takes us on an emotional ride that opens with the ambient, droning tones of a meditation. Quickly, sci-fi blips and bloops interrupt the connection to what sounds like a dispatch from the spiritual realm. Electronic noise blacks out pretty melodies like a swipe of spray paint. But moments of joy and hope bubble up as whimsical, fuzzy sounds, conjuring the textures of Koosh balls and cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compositions flow like the ups and downs that Basu went through in the months and years that followed the tragedy. “There was so much cuckoo energy going on, like any time you entered a space the grief was so thick you could touch it,” says Basu, who has been intimately involved in the Bay Area’s music scene for years as a performer, educator and executive director of Ratskin Records. Their work (notably their “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/decolonizing-sound-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decolonizing Sound\u003c/a>” workshop) has appeared in major museums and universities, but they’ve stayed firmly rooted in the D.I.Y. underground scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1141726104/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship, Basu’s way of coping with so much loss was to throw themself into organizing mutual aid efforts and fundraisers for the fire survivors, victims’ loved ones and the displaced warehouse tenants. They attended funerals and vigils, and spoke out in the media about how the Bay Area’s unaffordable housing market forces artists to live and perform in unsafe conditions. And they showed up for peers by attending and playing as many shows as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to be alone during that time,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people didn’t either, and powerful moments of togetherness came with inevitable tensions. Many people’s mental health suffered. “There were just so many different hard emotions that were bumping up against each other,” Basu says, calling the time “chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a sense of humor about it all on \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, which contains song titles like “Ur Doing Great Sweaty” and “Kim, People are Dying,” both references to \u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youre-doing-amazing-sweetie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kardashian memes\u003c/a> (the socialite family’s reality show was Basu’s comfort viewing during the most isolating moments of the pandemic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the levity, other tracks reveal the enormity of the artist’s loss. One simply titled “Jsun” pays tribute to musician and illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12479036/jason-jsun-mccarty-boundary-pushing-sound-artist-and-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jsun McCarty\u003c/a>. He and Basu dated for two years while Basu was getting their MFA in electronic music at Mills College. Jsun was also close friends, musical collaborators and roommates with Ratskin Records co-founder Mike Daddona, and Basu practically lived at their house during the relationship. [aside postid='arts_13816362']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just supported me so intensely around that time, especially around my music stuff in a way I really hadn’t had anyone do before,” Basu says. On the track named in his honor, there’s a weighty sadness. A sparse melody becomes increasingly abstract until glitchy static takes over and eventually quiets down. It’s as if the track is a portal to what might lie beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship and the COVID-19 pandemic—and with the ever-increasing cost of living—Oakland’s experimental, underground arts scene is definitely still here. But the free-spirited sense of possibility has given way to tough realities. “It’s difficult to keep in touch with each other,” says Basu. “And I think it’s like, we still don’t know how to hold each other in collective grief as well as we would like to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of electronic musician Sharmi Basu with their dog Beni at the Oakland rose garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharmi Basu and their dog, Beni. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an effort to facilitate better communication, Basu’s vinyl release of \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> comes with a workbook with 50 questions about conflict and repair. The offering came out of their ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/self-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i>\u003c/a> project, which has included interactive video installations, performance art pieces and workshops. “It first came out of thinking a lot about accountability and the ways that accountability processes fail within arts communities, within radical organizing communities,” says Basu, who is a trained conflict mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to learn how to work through shit together if we’re going to actually be able to organize, resist and have joy,” the artist explains. In their artist statement for \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, they thank the people that stuck by them despite some “not cute behavior” and listened when Basu “call[ed] them out on the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up next, Basu has a residency at \u003ca href=\"https://www.temescalartcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Temescal Art Center\u003c/a> starting in May, where they’ll continue their \u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i> project with an interactive installation that will cocoon visitors in a soothing environment and invite them to answer the self-reflection prompts from the workbook. (One light piece is activated by squeezing a teddy bear.) [aside postid='arts_13881725']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, related to the trauma-informed thinking around \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, the core Ratskin Records team of Basu, Daddona and Tieraney Carter are working on a virtual venue called \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/news-wav/2021/12/2/eggwater-holosuites-preview-of-mixed-reality-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records Holosuites\u003c/a>, while deepening their understanding of accessibility and disability justice activism. (A preview of Holosuites was featured in a \u003ca href=\"https://soex.org/projects-exhibitions/interconnected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">juried group show last fall\u003c/a> at the San Francisco gallery Southern Exposure, where Basu works as an administrator by day.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtual shows might have looked like they would fall out of favor when COVID vaccines first became available a year ago. But the unpredictability of the virus has proven that independent artists need to have multiple modes of performing and connecting with audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many different reasons people can’t go to shows, like accessibility physically if there’s stairs, if the door is too heavy, if the air is too cold—there’s all these things that we don’t think about. And then like, if your abusive ex is out at the show, or you work until 9pm or 10pm, or you have kids at home,” they explain. [aside postid='arts_13893843']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that desire to create more nourishing and accepting spaces that has made Basu’s work so impactful. And if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that alternative platforms can model how to best serve the physical and mental health needs of both audiences and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, Basu doesn’t come to us fully healed, with some profound insight that makes meaning out of all this senseless tragedy. But in opening up their scars, they let their listeners know that they’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Composed in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire, the album soundtracks the many contradictory emotions of loss. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007243,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1141726104/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1218},"headData":{"title":"After Ghost Ship, Beast Nest's 'Sicko' Holds Space for Grief | KQED","description":"The artist's music and projects with Ratskin Records are inspiring conversations about mental health and disability justice.","ogTitle":"Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms","ogDescription":"Composed in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire, the album soundtracks the many contradictory emotions of loss.","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms","twDescription":"Composed in the aftermath of the Ghost Ship fire, the album soundtracks the many contradictory emotions of loss.","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"After Ghost Ship, Beast Nest's 'Sicko' Holds Space for Grief %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","socialDescription":"The artist's music and projects with Ratskin Records are inspiring conversations about mental health and disability justice.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Beast Nest’s ‘Sicko’ Holds Space for Grief In All Its Messy Forms","datePublished":"2022-02-03T22:40:32.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:07:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13908910/beast-nest-sicko-sharmi-basu-ghost-ship-ratskin-records","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An instrumental album about grief might make you imagine listening to calming tones in the dark. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharmi Basu\u003c/a>’s new release as Beast Nest, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> (\u003ca href=\"https://ratskin.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a>), splashes the canvas—no, actually, the wall—with all the strange, contradictory emotional hues that accompany healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basu composed \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> in the years since losing close friends and collaborators in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire, which killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">36 Oakland partygoers\u003c/a>. Billed as a “freak 4 freak, crazy 4 crazy wet blankie,” the album’s six electronic tracks embrace the messiness of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As danceable beats guide the listener from abstract to accessible terrain, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> takes us on an emotional ride that opens with the ambient, droning tones of a meditation. Quickly, sci-fi blips and bloops interrupt the connection to what sounds like a dispatch from the spiritual realm. Electronic noise blacks out pretty melodies like a swipe of spray paint. But moments of joy and hope bubble up as whimsical, fuzzy sounds, conjuring the textures of Koosh balls and cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compositions flow like the ups and downs that Basu went through in the months and years that followed the tragedy. “There was so much cuckoo energy going on, like any time you entered a space the grief was so thick you could touch it,” says Basu, who has been intimately involved in the Bay Area’s music scene for years as a performer, educator and executive director of Ratskin Records. Their work (notably their “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/decolonizing-sound-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decolonizing Sound\u003c/a>” workshop) has appeared in major museums and universities, but they’ve stayed firmly rooted in the D.I.Y. underground scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1141726104/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship, Basu’s way of coping with so much loss was to throw themself into organizing mutual aid efforts and fundraisers for the fire survivors, victims’ loved ones and the displaced warehouse tenants. They attended funerals and vigils, and spoke out in the media about how the Bay Area’s unaffordable housing market forces artists to live and perform in unsafe conditions. And they showed up for peers by attending and playing as many shows as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to be alone during that time,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people didn’t either, and powerful moments of togetherness came with inevitable tensions. Many people’s mental health suffered. “There were just so many different hard emotions that were bumping up against each other,” Basu says, calling the time “chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a sense of humor about it all on \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, which contains song titles like “Ur Doing Great Sweaty” and “Kim, People are Dying,” both references to \u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youre-doing-amazing-sweetie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kardashian memes\u003c/a> (the socialite family’s reality show was Basu’s comfort viewing during the most isolating moments of the pandemic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the levity, other tracks reveal the enormity of the artist’s loss. One simply titled “Jsun” pays tribute to musician and illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12479036/jason-jsun-mccarty-boundary-pushing-sound-artist-and-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jsun McCarty\u003c/a>. He and Basu dated for two years while Basu was getting their MFA in electronic music at Mills College. Jsun was also close friends, musical collaborators and roommates with Ratskin Records co-founder Mike Daddona, and Basu practically lived at their house during the relationship. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13816362","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just supported me so intensely around that time, especially around my music stuff in a way I really hadn’t had anyone do before,” Basu says. On the track named in his honor, there’s a weighty sadness. A sparse melody becomes increasingly abstract until glitchy static takes over and eventually quiets down. It’s as if the track is a portal to what might lie beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship and the COVID-19 pandemic—and with the ever-increasing cost of living—Oakland’s experimental, underground arts scene is definitely still here. But the free-spirited sense of possibility has given way to tough realities. “It’s difficult to keep in touch with each other,” says Basu. “And I think it’s like, we still don’t know how to hold each other in collective grief as well as we would like to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of electronic musician Sharmi Basu with their dog Beni at the Oakland rose garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharmi Basu and their dog, Beni. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an effort to facilitate better communication, Basu’s vinyl release of \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> comes with a workbook with 50 questions about conflict and repair. The offering came out of their ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/self-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i>\u003c/a> project, which has included interactive video installations, performance art pieces and workshops. “It first came out of thinking a lot about accountability and the ways that accountability processes fail within arts communities, within radical organizing communities,” says Basu, who is a trained conflict mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to learn how to work through shit together if we’re going to actually be able to organize, resist and have joy,” the artist explains. In their artist statement for \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, they thank the people that stuck by them despite some “not cute behavior” and listened when Basu “call[ed] them out on the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up next, Basu has a residency at \u003ca href=\"https://www.temescalartcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Temescal Art Center\u003c/a> starting in May, where they’ll continue their \u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i> project with an interactive installation that will cocoon visitors in a soothing environment and invite them to answer the self-reflection prompts from the workbook. (One light piece is activated by squeezing a teddy bear.) \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13881725","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, related to the trauma-informed thinking around \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, the core Ratskin Records team of Basu, Daddona and Tieraney Carter are working on a virtual venue called \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/news-wav/2021/12/2/eggwater-holosuites-preview-of-mixed-reality-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records Holosuites\u003c/a>, while deepening their understanding of accessibility and disability justice activism. (A preview of Holosuites was featured in a \u003ca href=\"https://soex.org/projects-exhibitions/interconnected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">juried group show last fall\u003c/a> at the San Francisco gallery Southern Exposure, where Basu works as an administrator by day.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtual shows might have looked like they would fall out of favor when COVID vaccines first became available a year ago. But the unpredictability of the virus has proven that independent artists need to have multiple modes of performing and connecting with audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many different reasons people can’t go to shows, like accessibility physically if there’s stairs, if the door is too heavy, if the air is too cold—there’s all these things that we don’t think about. And then like, if your abusive ex is out at the show, or you work until 9pm or 10pm, or you have kids at home,” they explain. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13893843","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that desire to create more nourishing and accepting spaces that has made Basu’s work so impactful. And if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that alternative platforms can model how to best serve the physical and mental health needs of both audiences and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, Basu doesn’t come to us fully healed, with some profound insight that makes meaning out of all this senseless tragedy. But in opening up their scars, they let their listeners know that they’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13908910/beast-nest-sicko-sharmi-basu-ghost-ship-ratskin-records","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_9693","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1627","arts_4773","arts_3140"],"featImg":"arts_13908923","label":"arts"},"arts_13861305":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13861305","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13861305","score":null,"sort":[1563840031000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dax-piersons-new-album-confronts-a-near-death-experience-and-turbulent-recovery","title":"Dax Pierson’s New Album Confronts a Near-Death Experience and Turbulent Recovery","publishDate":1563840031,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Dax Pierson’s New Album Confronts a Near-Death Experience and Turbulent Recovery | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dax Pierson\u003c/a> was on tour as keyboardist with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eos8awdaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subtle\u003c/a>, an Anticon Records-affiliated dance-punk-meets-hip-hop sextet, when tragedy struck. The band’s tour van slipped on black ice on a freeway in Iowa. After the car flipped upside down, Pierson’s seatbelt gave out, and he fell on his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting injuries rendered Pierson partially paralyzed in all four limbs—including in his fingertips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 14 years later, Pierson has released his solo debut under his real name, and his first album in 11 years. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, out this month on Ratskin Records, introduces Pierson’s new style of freeform electronic compositions with a sprawling, ocean-like musical topography. With recordings of doctor’s visits and his wheelchair’s mechanical noise interspersed among droning synths and dramatic, reverb-heavy percussion, Pierson lets listeners into his recovery process, where the emotional challenges have sometimes been as heavy as the physical ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=328861811/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opening track, Pierson repeats the warning like a mantra: “Don’t take your physical abilities for granted. For you could lose them—at the snap of a neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something I was constantly thinking and saying to myself for a while,” Pierson says when I meet him at his sunny home studio in the Oakland hills, where warm, golden-hour light floods his nook of cables, controllers and towering shelves filled with vinyl records. “When I started getting those sets together, I wanted to incorporate my injury and my life into my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=large citation='Dax Pierson']“When they introduced the iPad, that’s when I knew there was a real possibility to make serious music, because I had a way to interact by touch instead of having to press keys, play chords and turn knobs.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compositions on \u003cem>Live in Oakland\u003c/em> were recorded during Pierson’s live shows from the last several years. At the now-defunct underground venue LCM, a West Oakland church-turned-noise music haven, and the art gallery ProArts, Pierson rediscovered himself as a performer before a supportive, tight-knit audience that had been awaiting his return since his Subtle days. [aside postid='arts_13861579']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the underground music community was an essential support system when Pierson got back to Oakland after eight months in a Houston rehabilitation hospital following the accident. When he returned, his friends, peers in the music scene and coworkers at Amoeba Music (where the other members of Subtle also worked at the time) organized benefit shows and fundraisers to get him a caregiver. They also formed an apartment-hunting squad that helped him get set up at his own place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting a lot of support from the Amoeba family,” says Pierson. “And thankfully the music community, like the way they have rallied around other types of events like Ghost Ship, they were able to rally together and have benefits. They helped me that first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13861811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13861811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dax Pierson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dax Pierson. \u003ccite>(Mike Daddona)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After getting back to Oakland, Pierson tried playing keyboard by hitting the keys with pointers, but found his physical abilities decreasing with time. Doctors offered little insight or emotional support, as heard on the track “Treading Water,” which mixes in a recording of Pierson’s doctor feebly attempting to reassure him about a situation that, realistically, looked bad from all angles. Amid woozy synths that lurch like pangs of nausea, Pierson’s doctor explains that his neck is fusing together, and even though he’ll lose mobility, “the good thing is if you have arthritis there and it fuses, you won’t have pain anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the recording is a snippet of Pierson’s shellshocked “oh” in acknowledgement. Now he reflects, “That appointment really left me hurt and angry, and putting that piece together was a form of therapy—just a way for me to get the frustration out of what he was saying and how unbelievable it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad=fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his recovery went on, Pierson helped co-write songs on Subtle’s 2006 and 2008 albums by singing bass lines, verbally giving his bandmates edits on compositions and teaching them Ableton. He wasn’t able to do much else musically until five years after the accident in 2010, when the advent of the iPad changed everything for him—and many other musicians with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they introduced the iPad, that’s when I knew there was a real possibility to make serious music, because I had a way to interact by touch instead of having to press keys, play chords and turn knobs,” he says. Showing me an app he uses to control Ableton on his computer, and another one that functions more like a mixing board, controlling multiple iPad apps at once, he adds, “I can do it all virtually.” [aside postid='arts_13856737']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pierson shares his Oakland hills home with his longtime partner, Chuck, a visual artist. In fact, the two of them met on a social networking site, Tribe.Net (pre-Facebook, post-MySpace), and were starting up a long-distance relationship during the year before that fateful tour. While on the road, Pierson was supposed to see him in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never made it, but we met and he came out to visit in Houston,” he says with a sweet smile. “And we’ve been together for 15 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visceral and stirring, \u003cem>Live in Oakland\u003c/em> is Pierson’s way of clearing his throat and letting people know that he’s still here—and why he’s been laying low. It doesn’t paint a falsely inspirational portrait of surviving a near-death experience or living with disabilities. Instead, the album allows listeners to course through the messy, uncomfortable and sometimes ugly emotions that have been part of his recovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson is already working on his next album—which he says could take a more poppy form, gesturing to an entire shelf of Prince vinyl he’s been collecting since the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Music] has kept my head out of the shit. And there’s a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of shit,” says Pierson with a sarcastic laugh. “Music has been a real lifesaver.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On a dark, droning electronic album, the artist works through the difficult emotions of acclimating to his disabilities.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022502,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=328861811/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1090},"headData":{"title":"Dax Pierson’s New Album Confronts a Near-Death Experience and Turbulent Recovery | KQED","description":"On a dark, droning electronic album, the artist works through the difficult emotions of acclimating to his disabilities.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Dax Pierson’s New Album Confronts a Near-Death Experience and Turbulent Recovery","datePublished":"2019-07-23T00:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:21:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13861305/dax-piersons-new-album-confronts-a-near-death-experience-and-turbulent-recovery","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 2005, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dax Pierson\u003c/a> was on tour as keyboardist with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eos8awdaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subtle\u003c/a>, an Anticon Records-affiliated dance-punk-meets-hip-hop sextet, when tragedy struck. The band’s tour van slipped on black ice on a freeway in Iowa. After the car flipped upside down, Pierson’s seatbelt gave out, and he fell on his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resulting injuries rendered Pierson partially paralyzed in all four limbs—including in his fingertips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 14 years later, Pierson has released his solo debut under his real name, and his first album in 11 years. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, out this month on Ratskin Records, introduces Pierson’s new style of freeform electronic compositions with a sprawling, ocean-like musical topography. With recordings of doctor’s visits and his wheelchair’s mechanical noise interspersed among droning synths and dramatic, reverb-heavy percussion, Pierson lets listeners into his recovery process, where the emotional challenges have sometimes been as heavy as the physical ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=328861811/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the opening track, Pierson repeats the warning like a mantra: “Don’t take your physical abilities for granted. For you could lose them—at the snap of a neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something I was constantly thinking and saying to myself for a while,” Pierson says when I meet him at his sunny home studio in the Oakland hills, where warm, golden-hour light floods his nook of cables, controllers and towering shelves filled with vinyl records. “When I started getting those sets together, I wanted to incorporate my injury and my life into my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“When they introduced the iPad, that’s when I knew there was a real possibility to make serious music, because I had a way to interact by touch instead of having to press keys, play chords and turn knobs.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","citation":"Dax Pierson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compositions on \u003cem>Live in Oakland\u003c/em> were recorded during Pierson’s live shows from the last several years. At the now-defunct underground venue LCM, a West Oakland church-turned-noise music haven, and the art gallery ProArts, Pierson rediscovered himself as a performer before a supportive, tight-knit audience that had been awaiting his return since his Subtle days. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13861579","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the underground music community was an essential support system when Pierson got back to Oakland after eight months in a Houston rehabilitation hospital following the accident. When he returned, his friends, peers in the music scene and coworkers at Amoeba Music (where the other members of Subtle also worked at the time) organized benefit shows and fundraisers to get him a caregiver. They also formed an apartment-hunting squad that helped him get set up at his own place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting a lot of support from the Amoeba family,” says Pierson. “And thankfully the music community, like the way they have rallied around other types of events like Ghost Ship, they were able to rally together and have benefits. They helped me that first year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13861811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13861811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dax Pierson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/DaxPierson_byMD-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dax Pierson. \u003ccite>(Mike Daddona)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After getting back to Oakland, Pierson tried playing keyboard by hitting the keys with pointers, but found his physical abilities decreasing with time. Doctors offered little insight or emotional support, as heard on the track “Treading Water,” which mixes in a recording of Pierson’s doctor feebly attempting to reassure him about a situation that, realistically, looked bad from all angles. Amid woozy synths that lurch like pangs of nausea, Pierson’s doctor explains that his neck is fusing together, and even though he’ll lose mobility, “the good thing is if you have arthritis there and it fuses, you won’t have pain anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the recording is a snippet of Pierson’s shellshocked “oh” in acknowledgement. Now he reflects, “That appointment really left me hurt and angry, and putting that piece together was a form of therapy—just a way for me to get the frustration out of what he was saying and how unbelievable it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"=fullwidth"},"numeric":["=fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his recovery went on, Pierson helped co-write songs on Subtle’s 2006 and 2008 albums by singing bass lines, verbally giving his bandmates edits on compositions and teaching them Ableton. He wasn’t able to do much else musically until five years after the accident in 2010, when the advent of the iPad changed everything for him—and many other musicians with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they introduced the iPad, that’s when I knew there was a real possibility to make serious music, because I had a way to interact by touch instead of having to press keys, play chords and turn knobs,” he says. Showing me an app he uses to control Ableton on his computer, and another one that functions more like a mixing board, controlling multiple iPad apps at once, he adds, “I can do it all virtually.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13856737","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Pierson shares his Oakland hills home with his longtime partner, Chuck, a visual artist. In fact, the two of them met on a social networking site, Tribe.Net (pre-Facebook, post-MySpace), and were starting up a long-distance relationship during the year before that fateful tour. While on the road, Pierson was supposed to see him in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never made it, but we met and he came out to visit in Houston,” he says with a sweet smile. “And we’ve been together for 15 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visceral and stirring, \u003cem>Live in Oakland\u003c/em> is Pierson’s way of clearing his throat and letting people know that he’s still here—and why he’s been laying low. It doesn’t paint a falsely inspirational portrait of surviving a near-death experience or living with disabilities. Instead, the album allows listeners to course through the messy, uncomfortable and sometimes ugly emotions that have been part of his recovery process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson is already working on his next album—which he says could take a more poppy form, gesturing to an entire shelf of Prince vinyl he’s been collecting since the age of 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Music] has kept my head out of the shit. And there’s a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of shit,” says Pierson with a sarcastic laugh. “Music has been a real lifesaver.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13861305/dax-piersons-new-album-confronts-a-near-death-experience-and-turbulent-recovery","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_3140"],"featImg":"arts_13861812","label":"arts"},"arts_13856737":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13856737","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13856737","score":null,"sort":[1557446445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"wizard-apprentice-gets-real-about-emotional-abuse-on-their-new-album","title":"Wizard Apprentice Gets Real About Emotional Abuse on Their New Album","publishDate":1557446445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Wizard Apprentice Gets Real About Emotional Abuse on Their New Album | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Emotional abuse manifests in subtle ways, and experimental singer-producer \u003ca href=\"http://wizard-apprentice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizard Apprentice\u003c/a> remembers the moment they realized their ex used belittling, humiliation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/communication-success/201704/7-stages-gaslighting-in-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaslighting\u003c/a> and other tactics of control and manipulation. The artist left the relationship questioning their own sense of reality, with their self-esteem severely depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost like a psychological thriller,” reflects Wizard Apprentice (who uses they/them pronouns). “At the beginning, you might think one character is one way, and then by the reveal of the movie, you realize everything you knew about [it] is completely altered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Wizard Apprentice, whose real name is Tieraney Carter, broke things off with that person, they poured themselves into research, reading \u003ca href=\"https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articles\u003c/a> and watching YouTube videos from spiritual healers, mental health advocates and licensed psychologists. They learned that emotional abuse can manifest through seemingly small violations—of trust, of boundaries, of respect—that are difficult to identify until they culminate in a toxic environment for the person on the receiving end. [aside postid='arts_13850633']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a full year of getting to know this person, and a year of research, to have more of a clear sense of what had happened,” says Carter. “There’s this really scary feeling of like, ‘Damn, I’ve had this experience, it’s really traumatic. I don’t know how I’m going to explain that to people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Carter worked toward recovery, they documented their findings on their YouTube channel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73O_7DN3eklVoq8gFov2EA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.R.L. G.U.R.L\u003c/a>, and in their music—two therapeutic outlets that allowed them to build community with other survivors at shows and online. With their new album, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dig-a-pit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which comes out May 10 on Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a> (with a vinyl release through \u003ca href=\"https://cruisinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruisin Records\u003c/a>), they attempt to make sense of what happened, and to foster an open dialogue about the seldom-discussed ways emotional abuse can manifest. (In their new video series on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw-2CJUBGUW/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGTV\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-CTnOTAFoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a>, “Survivor Catchphrases,” they explore these topics every Thursday through June 27.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/pAqDpfpFJB0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tracks on \u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em> take listeners through the arc of an emotionally abusive relationship and its painful aftermath. The industrial, techno-inspired opening song, “Desire to Learn,” narrates how abusers can use the get-to-know-you phase of the relationship to learn how to manipulate someone’s weaknesses (“You were studying me too / But you were looking for openings, open wounds”). “Gloves are Off,” with a funky bass line and elemental drum roll, starts with the rage-inducing realization of having been manipulated and ends with the affirmation that one can only heal oneself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, on “Exorcism,” Carter’s songwriting gets surreal. Singing in a pitch-shifted voice so deep it’s practically subterranean, they take on the perspective of someone who takes advantage of others. “I found someone who likes me / How long do I have before I hurt her?” Wizard Apprentice growls demonically. “I think she really likes me. I find her willingness useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1700567050/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter’s stripped-down bedroom pop—music for sensitive introverts and self-help enthusiasts—is sometimes uncomfortably transparent in its introspection, like a therapy session set to synth loops. In their music and on U.R.L. G.U.R.L., Carter probes the intricacies of their relationships and self-image, always with the goal of becoming more emotionally intelligent and self-aware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the artist has long bared their soul in their work, it took them over a year to figure out how to talk about what happened to them. They say sharing has been healing. “I need to do that for my own sense of recovery from it, and even feeling more safe in the world,” Carter says. “How are we supposed to build communities if people don’t know this is a thing or how to engage with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/G-CTnOTAFoQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performing the new tracks from \u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em> has been affirming for Carter. The artist says that audience members have come up to them and told them about similar experiences. They want to have open conversations about what healthy relationships look like, and how to spot the signs of emotional abuse, to help other survivors see the signs before they get too deep into a toxic relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s missing is ways of understanding the complexities of these types of relationships,” Carter says, “and how anybody could discern what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wizard Apprentice performs at Elbo Room Oakland on May 16. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/2178599665510682/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The experimental singer-producer's new album and video series gets into the intricacies of unhealthy relationships. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026223,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1700567050/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":799},"headData":{"title":"Wizard Apprentice Gets Real About Emotional Abuse on Their New Album | KQED","description":"The experimental singer-producer's new album and video series gets into the intricacies of unhealthy relationships. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Wizard Apprentice Gets Real About Emotional Abuse on Their New Album","datePublished":"2019-05-10T00:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:23:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13856737/wizard-apprentice-gets-real-about-emotional-abuse-on-their-new-album","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Emotional abuse manifests in subtle ways, and experimental singer-producer \u003ca href=\"http://wizard-apprentice.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizard Apprentice\u003c/a> remembers the moment they realized their ex used belittling, humiliation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/communication-success/201704/7-stages-gaslighting-in-relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaslighting\u003c/a> and other tactics of control and manipulation. The artist left the relationship questioning their own sense of reality, with their self-esteem severely depleted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost like a psychological thriller,” reflects Wizard Apprentice (who uses they/them pronouns). “At the beginning, you might think one character is one way, and then by the reveal of the movie, you realize everything you knew about [it] is completely altered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Wizard Apprentice, whose real name is Tieraney Carter, broke things off with that person, they poured themselves into research, reading \u003ca href=\"https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articles\u003c/a> and watching YouTube videos from spiritual healers, mental health advocates and licensed psychologists. They learned that emotional abuse can manifest through seemingly small violations—of trust, of boundaries, of respect—that are difficult to identify until they culminate in a toxic environment for the person on the receiving end. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13850633","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It took me a full year of getting to know this person, and a year of research, to have more of a clear sense of what had happened,” says Carter. “There’s this really scary feeling of like, ‘Damn, I’ve had this experience, it’s really traumatic. I don’t know how I’m going to explain that to people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Carter worked toward recovery, they documented their findings on their YouTube channel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73O_7DN3eklVoq8gFov2EA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.R.L. G.U.R.L\u003c/a>, and in their music—two therapeutic outlets that allowed them to build community with other survivors at shows and online. With their new album, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dig-a-pit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which comes out May 10 on Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a> (with a vinyl release through \u003ca href=\"https://cruisinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruisin Records\u003c/a>), they attempt to make sense of what happened, and to foster an open dialogue about the seldom-discussed ways emotional abuse can manifest. (In their new video series on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw-2CJUBGUW/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGTV\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-CTnOTAFoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube\u003c/a>, “Survivor Catchphrases,” they explore these topics every Thursday through June 27.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pAqDpfpFJB0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pAqDpfpFJB0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The tracks on \u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em> take listeners through the arc of an emotionally abusive relationship and its painful aftermath. The industrial, techno-inspired opening song, “Desire to Learn,” narrates how abusers can use the get-to-know-you phase of the relationship to learn how to manipulate someone’s weaknesses (“You were studying me too / But you were looking for openings, open wounds”). “Gloves are Off,” with a funky bass line and elemental drum roll, starts with the rage-inducing realization of having been manipulated and ends with the affirmation that one can only heal oneself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, on “Exorcism,” Carter’s songwriting gets surreal. Singing in a pitch-shifted voice so deep it’s practically subterranean, they take on the perspective of someone who takes advantage of others. “I found someone who likes me / How long do I have before I hurt her?” Wizard Apprentice growls demonically. “I think she really likes me. I find her willingness useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1700567050/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter’s stripped-down bedroom pop—music for sensitive introverts and self-help enthusiasts—is sometimes uncomfortably transparent in its introspection, like a therapy session set to synth loops. In their music and on U.R.L. G.U.R.L., Carter probes the intricacies of their relationships and self-image, always with the goal of becoming more emotionally intelligent and self-aware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the artist has long bared their soul in their work, it took them over a year to figure out how to talk about what happened to them. They say sharing has been healing. “I need to do that for my own sense of recovery from it, and even feeling more safe in the world,” Carter says. “How are we supposed to build communities if people don’t know this is a thing or how to engage with it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/G-CTnOTAFoQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/G-CTnOTAFoQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Performing the new tracks from \u003cem>Dig a Pit\u003c/em> has been affirming for Carter. The artist says that audience members have come up to them and told them about similar experiences. They want to have open conversations about what healthy relationships look like, and how to spot the signs of emotional abuse, to help other survivors see the signs before they get too deep into a toxic relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s missing is ways of understanding the complexities of these types of relationships,” Carter says, “and how anybody could discern what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wizard Apprentice performs at Elbo Room Oakland on May 16. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/2178599665510682/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13856737/wizard-apprentice-gets-real-about-emotional-abuse-on-their-new-album","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_3140"],"featImg":"arts_13856952","label":"arts"},"arts_13846529":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13846529","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13846529","score":null,"sort":[1544126074000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"experimental-music-festival-stasis-benefits-hybrid-series-at-pro-arts","title":"Experimental Music Festival Stasis Benefits ‘Hybrid’ Series at Pro Arts","publishDate":1544126074,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Experimental Music Festival Stasis Benefits ‘Hybrid’ Series at Pro Arts | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Since 2016, downtown Oakland gallery Pro Arts has become a staple venue for experimental electronic music and multimedia performance through its Hybrid series. Organizer Michael Daddona, who runs Ratskin Records, is well connected to local and touring artists operating in the murky intersections of noise and video, techno and performance art. But with fewer underground venues to host such gigs in Oakland, he’s found a fitting alternative at Pro Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://proartsgallery.org/event/stasis-a-festival-of-sound-performance-video-art/\">Stasis: A Festival of Sound, Performance, Video & Art\u003c/a>, occurring this weekend at the nonprofit gallery, is at once a benefit for Hybrid and a celebration of the scenes it lifts up and serves. With nearly 40 musical or multimedia acts (many familiar from the Ratskin roster), along with film and video screenings and a visual art market, Stasis opens a wide window onto the margins of experimental electronic music in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pantheon-of-me\">\"Pantheon Of Me\" by SPELLLING\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, after a daytime art market, promises the record-release event for Spellling’s stirring debut full-length \u003cem>Pantheon of Me\u003c/em>, which Ratskin is reissuing on vinyl and cassette following its initial self-release last year. It comes ahead of a potential breakout moment for Berkeley songwriter Tia Cabral, whose follow-up album as Spellling is due February on high-profile New York indie Sacred Bones Records. Main support, meanwhile, is avant-pop artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13814982/tyler-holmes-is-here-for-your-inner-freak\">Tyler Holmes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday and Saturday performers include synthesizer-oriented soloists Beast Nest and Lance Hill, multimedia performance vehicles Wizard Apprentice and Lexagon, noise projects Head Boggle and Bran (…) Pos, and underground fixtures Burmese and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11550707/wrecking-the-patriarchy-with-oakland-reggaeton-duo-las-sucias\">Las Sucias\u003c/a>. Tickets are $9 a day, or $25 for a three-day pass. Find the full lineup \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/674307272972443/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The festival features artists working in the murky intersections of noise and video, techno and performance art. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026901,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":280},"headData":{"title":"Experimental Music Festival Stasis Benefits ‘Hybrid’ Series at Pro Arts | KQED","description":"The festival features artists working in the murky intersections of noise and video, techno and performance art. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Experimental Music Festival Stasis Benefits ‘Hybrid’ Series at Pro Arts","datePublished":"2018-12-06T19:54:34.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:35:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13846529/experimental-music-festival-stasis-benefits-hybrid-series-at-pro-arts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since 2016, downtown Oakland gallery Pro Arts has become a staple venue for experimental electronic music and multimedia performance through its Hybrid series. Organizer Michael Daddona, who runs Ratskin Records, is well connected to local and touring artists operating in the murky intersections of noise and video, techno and performance art. But with fewer underground venues to host such gigs in Oakland, he’s found a fitting alternative at Pro Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://proartsgallery.org/event/stasis-a-festival-of-sound-performance-video-art/\">Stasis: A Festival of Sound, Performance, Video & Art\u003c/a>, occurring this weekend at the nonprofit gallery, is at once a benefit for Hybrid and a celebration of the scenes it lifts up and serves. With nearly 40 musical or multimedia acts (many familiar from the Ratskin roster), along with film and video screenings and a visual art market, Stasis opens a wide window onto the margins of experimental electronic music in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pantheon-of-me\">\"Pantheon Of Me\" by SPELLLING\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, after a daytime art market, promises the record-release event for Spellling’s stirring debut full-length \u003cem>Pantheon of Me\u003c/em>, which Ratskin is reissuing on vinyl and cassette following its initial self-release last year. It comes ahead of a potential breakout moment for Berkeley songwriter Tia Cabral, whose follow-up album as Spellling is due February on high-profile New York indie Sacred Bones Records. Main support, meanwhile, is avant-pop artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13814982/tyler-holmes-is-here-for-your-inner-freak\">Tyler Holmes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday and Saturday performers include synthesizer-oriented soloists Beast Nest and Lance Hill, multimedia performance vehicles Wizard Apprentice and Lexagon, noise projects Head Boggle and Bran (…) Pos, and underground fixtures Burmese and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11550707/wrecking-the-patriarchy-with-oakland-reggaeton-duo-las-sucias\">Las Sucias\u003c/a>. Tickets are $9 a day, or $25 for a three-day pass. Find the full lineup \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/674307272972443/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13846529/experimental-music-festival-stasis-benefits-hybrid-series-at-pro-arts","authors":["11091"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_3649","arts_596","arts_3140","arts_2021","arts_3139"],"featImg":"arts_13846559","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13843411":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13843411","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13843411","score":null,"sort":[1540408366000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-record-fest-spotlights-local-indie-labels-and-musicians","title":"Bay Area Record Fest Spotlights Local Indie Labels and Musicians","publishDate":1540408366,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Record Fest Spotlights Local Indie Labels and Musicians | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Historically speaking, not many Bay Area artists have signed major label deals. But what the region lacks in mainstream exposure, we make up for with ingenuity. Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearecordfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Record Fest\u003c/a>, or BARF for short, a live music showcase and vinyl sale at Eli’s Mile High Club on Nov. 3 that provides an opportunity to get to know some of the Bay’s most prolific indie labels.[contextly_sidebar id=”5AogjXL4BLC1FHDI59gXuu10LPWkJxDX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARF stars San Francisco rock’n’roll revivalists \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/emptycellarrecords/cool-ghouls-the-mile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cool Ghouls\u003c/a>, a quartet repping the City’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.emptycellarrecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empty Cellar Records\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://newcircle.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Circle\u003c/a>, from the rock label \u003ca href=\"https://smokingroom-label.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smoking Room\u003c/a>, round out the bill with Oakland post-punk. [contextly_sidebar id=”pZOLbMDZ73LZzSWY3NcfDBhuxIrBNyDY”]Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://spellling.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spellling\u003c/a>, a sorceress on the keyboard and loop pedal, promises to spellbind audiences on behalf of\u003ca href=\"https://www.ratskin.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ratskin Records\u003c/a>, the Town’s foremost experimental electronic label. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.textmerecords.com/same-girls/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Same Girls\u003c/a>, a San Francisco trio, brings shoegaze and garage rock to the stage on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13816703/can-text-me-records-become-san-franciscos-new-hit-factory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text Me Records\u003c/a>, the Mission District-based songwriting powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARF is free and its raffle benefits \u003ca href=\"http://candaid.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can’d Aid Foundation\u003c/a>, which provides musical instruments to public schools. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearecordfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The free mini festival comes to Eli's Mile High Club on Nov. 3. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027101,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":198},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Record Fest Spotlights Local Indie Labels and Musicians | KQED","description":"The free mini festival comes to Eli's Mile High Club on Nov. 3. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Bay Area Record Fest Spotlights Local Indie Labels and Musicians","datePublished":"2018-10-24T19:12:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:38:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13843411/bay-area-record-fest-spotlights-local-indie-labels-and-musicians","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Historically speaking, not many Bay Area artists have signed major label deals. But what the region lacks in mainstream exposure, we make up for with ingenuity. Enter \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearecordfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Record Fest\u003c/a>, or BARF for short, a live music showcase and vinyl sale at Eli’s Mile High Club on Nov. 3 that provides an opportunity to get to know some of the Bay’s most prolific indie labels.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARF stars San Francisco rock’n’roll revivalists \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/emptycellarrecords/cool-ghouls-the-mile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cool Ghouls\u003c/a>, a quartet repping the City’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.emptycellarrecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empty Cellar Records\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://newcircle.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Circle\u003c/a>, from the rock label \u003ca href=\"https://smokingroom-label.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smoking Room\u003c/a>, round out the bill with Oakland post-punk. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://spellling.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spellling\u003c/a>, a sorceress on the keyboard and loop pedal, promises to spellbind audiences on behalf of\u003ca href=\"https://www.ratskin.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ratskin Records\u003c/a>, the Town’s foremost experimental electronic label. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.textmerecords.com/same-girls/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Same Girls\u003c/a>, a San Francisco trio, brings shoegaze and garage rock to the stage on behalf of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13816703/can-text-me-records-become-san-franciscos-new-hit-factory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Text Me Records\u003c/a>, the Mission District-based songwriting powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BARF is free and its raffle benefits \u003ca href=\"http://candaid.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can’d Aid Foundation\u003c/a>, which provides musical instruments to public schools. Details \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayarearecordfair.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13843411/bay-area-record-fest-spotlights-local-indie-labels-and-musicians","authors":["11387"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_3140","arts_3338"],"featImg":"arts_13829093","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13842485":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13842485","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13842485","score":null,"sort":[1539183616000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-feminist-and-queer-experimental-music-show-at-proarts","title":"A Feminist and Queer Experimental Music Show at ProArts","publishDate":1539183616,"format":"image","headTitle":"A Feminist and Queer Experimental Music Show at ProArts | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Anna Luisa Petrisko creates fantastical worlds beaming with technicolor visions of lush, bountiful futures, whether in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11246491/black-salt-collective-agitates-the-archive-with-visions-at-somarts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sculptures\u003c/a>, performance art, sci-fi video game, \u003cem>Jeep Jeep\u003c/em>, or new EP, \u003cem>Green\u003c/em>. The multi-talented L.A. artist, who used to go by Jeepneys when she lived in the Bay Area, is heading up to Oakland on tour with experimental electronic duo Xina Xurner, whose album \u003cem>Queens of the Night \u003c/em>juxtaposes operatic vocals with guttural howls and industrial club beats. [contextly_sidebar id=”hb6ZhPsYIMAdlWWcX4xhHeO6G361uGmy”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pro Arts in Oakland on Oct. 17, Petrisko and Xurner will join internationally touring DJ and sound artist Maria Chavez and Oakland’s Tyler Holmes, whose D.I.Y. electronic music fuses the extremes of catchy electropop melodies and abrasive, computerized noise. (With Holmes, you never quite know what you’re going to get: at one show I attended last year, they performed an acoustic set in drag as a sad clown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening promises an eclectic array of feminist, queer experimental pop. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1948165731900668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=615616878/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Maria Chavez, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Xina Xurner and Tyler Holmes perform at the Oakland art space on Oct. 17. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027159,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=615616878/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":176},"headData":{"title":"A Feminist and Queer Experimental Music Show at ProArts | KQED","description":"Maria Chavez, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Xina Xurner and Tyler Holmes perform at the Oakland art space on Oct. 17. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Feminist and Queer Experimental Music Show at ProArts","datePublished":"2018-10-10T15:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T02:39:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13842485/a-feminist-and-queer-experimental-music-show-at-proarts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anna Luisa Petrisko creates fantastical worlds beaming with technicolor visions of lush, bountiful futures, whether in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11246491/black-salt-collective-agitates-the-archive-with-visions-at-somarts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sculptures\u003c/a>, performance art, sci-fi video game, \u003cem>Jeep Jeep\u003c/em>, or new EP, \u003cem>Green\u003c/em>. The multi-talented L.A. artist, who used to go by Jeepneys when she lived in the Bay Area, is heading up to Oakland on tour with experimental electronic duo Xina Xurner, whose album \u003cem>Queens of the Night \u003c/em>juxtaposes operatic vocals with guttural howls and industrial club beats. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pro Arts in Oakland on Oct. 17, Petrisko and Xurner will join internationally touring DJ and sound artist Maria Chavez and Oakland’s Tyler Holmes, whose D.I.Y. electronic music fuses the extremes of catchy electropop melodies and abrasive, computerized noise. (With Holmes, you never quite know what you’re going to get: at one show I attended last year, they performed an acoustic set in drag as a sad clown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening promises an eclectic array of feminist, queer experimental pop. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1948165731900668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=615616878/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13842485/a-feminist-and-queer-experimental-music-show-at-proarts","authors":["11387"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_3649","arts_596","arts_3140","arts_3139"],"featImg":"arts_13842491","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13814982":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13814982","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13814982","score":null,"sort":[1510873252000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tyler-holmes-is-here-for-your-inner-freak","title":"Tyler Holmes Is Here For Your Inner Freak","publishDate":1510873252,"format":"image","headTitle":"Tyler Holmes Is Here For Your Inner Freak | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On a chilly recent Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyler Holmes\u003c/a> meets me on the porch with all visible body parts painted red, wearing glowing colored contacts shining like reflectors. Even though I grew up on Marilyn Manson and regularly watch horror movies, I can’t help but feel slightly spooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling dissipates when Holmes (who uses the pronoun “they”) cracks an easy smile and tells me that their roommate, the drag performer and musician \u003ca href=\"https://vainhein.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vainhein\u003c/a> (who is out of drag and bustling in the kitchen), just finished painting them for my arrival. As we sit down on the couch to talk, some red makeup smudges onto the collar of Holmes’ puffer jacket, revealing a bit of the person behind the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes puts on the new Kelela album and asks me about my day, excitedly chit-chatting about their job teaching art to fourth graders at an after-school program. As I settle into the mundane, weeknight rhythm of the house, charmingly cluttered with art and musical instruments, it becomes easy to get used to the musician’s shocking appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m never gonna be Brad Pitt, that’s not my thing,” Holmes jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13815229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Holmes released their new EP, 'DEMO,' with Oakland's Ratskin Records last month. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Holmes released their new EP, ‘DEMO,’ with Oakland’s Ratskin Records last month. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes, who is originally from Novato, has been a prominent figure in Oakland’s experimental music scene since \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a> — the local label celebrated for its roster of forward-thinking, diverse experimental musicians — released their album, \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, last year. The project is a fever dream of glitchy samples, industrial synth lines, and full-out deconstructed noise. Its harsh, digitized elements dance around catchy synthpop melodies and Holmes’ raps and R&B vocal stylings. With Holmes’ savvy splicing of these disparate influences, the adventurous project makes its challenging content accessible through playful, poppy fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always responded to variety, so I think expressing variety in a way that is palatable and pretty is really what I would like to do,” Holmes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815230\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13815230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final.jpg\" alt=\"Makeup artist Jader transformed Tyler Holmes into an otherworldly alien for the album art of Holmes' project, 'Invisible Island.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makeup artist Jader transformed Tyler Holmes into an otherworldly alien for the album art of Holmes’ project, ‘Invisible Island.’ \u003ccite>(Jader)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes built on that foundation for their new EP, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tyler-holmes-demo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which came out last month digitally and on cassette through Ratskin. It takes its name from the idea that human beings are always evolving — a demo version of ourselves, never a finished product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes made the project in the wake of a four-year relationship. “\u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em> had a lot of things with video games and drugs, being lit,” says Holmes. “\u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> is a little bit more introspective; it’s more about me viewing myself as a demo or an almost finished version and being okay with the different demos instead of being any one thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the hodgepodge of sounds on \u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>, \u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> narrows its focus to experimental pop with an interplay of textured electronics that shift from soaring and melodic to gritty pounding to droning. The project is eclectic in typical Holmes fashion, but the artist swaps the rap and R&B elements of their previous work for a deeper exploration of electronic subgenres like noise, synthpop, and industrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=773938110/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes’ unusual, technologically ancient recording process — which relies on primitive software, distorted and looped vocals, homemade instruments, and field recordings — is as inventive as their sound. “I still have my old desktop computer that’s probably 20 years old, a computer mic, and I use Sound Recorder 1994 or 1995. It records 60 second blocks of sounds but it has really good control because you can double it, reverse it, chop it to a quarter of a second, so I use that to sample drum sounds or make drum sounds out of random things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-between-ness of Holmes’ music exemplifies other aspects of their life that defy classification. “We change everyday, so trying to pin that down is hard to me,” they say. “I’m a lot of things: I’m a queer person, I’m a mixed-race person. For me, trying to attach to any of those like, I’m an R&B artist or I’m a rapper — even when I was a rapper, I’d sample Grouper for my beats because I wanted more texture and more stuff in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2262840849/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly, Holmes runs with a circle of gender non-conforming artists who are constantly reinventing the wheel of — well, any and every art form they can, really. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jadervision.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jader\u003c/a>, the San Francisco performer and makeup artist whose otherworldly looks make \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/heyparkerday/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parker Day’s photography\u003c/a> seem tame, created Holmes’ technicolor, bug-eyed alien getup for the album art of \u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>. For \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/album/s-p-o-r-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>S P O R T\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Holmes’ 2015 project Ratskin reissued on cassette last month, Jader painted Holmes green and turquoise and smashed their face into a piece of glass; their face paint splatters against the two-dimensional surface, making Holmes look more like a watercolor painting than a flesh-and-blood human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815235\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13815235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015.jpg\" alt=\"Jader painted Tyler Holmes' face and smashed it against glass for the album art of 'S P O R T.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jader painted Tyler Holmes’ face and smashed it against glass for the album art of ‘S P O R T.’ \u003ccite>(Jader)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This past summer, Holmes went on a cross-country tour with longtime collaborators San Cha, Sister Mantos, and Reyna the Ripper. (San Cha, Holmes, vainhein, and San Francisco drag queen \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/06/20/storytime-and-stilettos-with-persia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Persia\u003c/a> once had a group called Daddie$ Pla$tik, whose anti-gentrification electroclash song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyqbc7SQ4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Google Apps Apps\u003c/a>” made a splash in the local scene in 2013.) Unfortunately, the tour ended in an unexpected tragedy: Reyna the Ripper was shot in the lung during a random attack in Puerto Rico, and San Cha and Holmes missed their flights back to the mainland to care for their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Cha and I were sleeping on an air mattress in a hospital in Puerto Rico for a month,” says Holmes, breathing out a sigh that their friend is recovering and has returned to the States. “Puerto Rico ended kind of abruptly, and that whole experience was so scary and so much drama that I said, ‘I want to come home and teach my kids and that’s it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3496251761/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they agreed to two final shows before taking a temporary hiatus: They played a release show for \u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> at ProArts Gallery in Downtown Oakland for Ratskin Records’ residency there, and they have an upcoming performance at the San Francisco gay bar the Stud alongside several other experimental electronic artists and drag performers, including Persia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what I’m here for,” Holmes says. “To bring the freak everywhere and tell people and show people and share their freakiness with them. Like, ‘Yes, y’all!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tyler Holmes performs at the Stud in San Francisco on Nov. 17. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/new-events/https/wwwfacebookcom/events/286803218505185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13815228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Holmes' eclectic, DIY brand of electronic music is as off-kilter as their daring makeup looks.\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The experimental artist's new EP embraces the in-between-ness of genre, gender, and identity. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705029091,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=773938110/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/","https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2262840849/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/","https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3496251761/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1185},"headData":{"title":"Tyler Holmes Is Here For Your Inner Freak | KQED","description":"The experimental artist's new EP embraces the in-between-ness of genre, gender, and identity. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Tyler Holmes Is Here For Your Inner Freak","datePublished":"2017-11-16T23:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T03:11:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13814982/tyler-holmes-is-here-for-your-inner-freak","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a chilly recent Tuesday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyler Holmes\u003c/a> meets me on the porch with all visible body parts painted red, wearing glowing colored contacts shining like reflectors. Even though I grew up on Marilyn Manson and regularly watch horror movies, I can’t help but feel slightly spooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feeling dissipates when Holmes (who uses the pronoun “they”) cracks an easy smile and tells me that their roommate, the drag performer and musician \u003ca href=\"https://vainhein.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vainhein\u003c/a> (who is out of drag and bustling in the kitchen), just finished painting them for my arrival. As we sit down on the couch to talk, some red makeup smudges onto the collar of Holmes’ puffer jacket, revealing a bit of the person behind the costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes puts on the new Kelela album and asks me about my day, excitedly chit-chatting about their job teaching art to fourth graders at an after-school program. As I settle into the mundane, weeknight rhythm of the house, charmingly cluttered with art and musical instruments, it becomes easy to get used to the musician’s shocking appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m never gonna be Brad Pitt, that’s not my thing,” Holmes jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13815229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Holmes released their new EP, 'DEMO,' with Oakland's Ratskin Records last month. \" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1920x1285.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-1180x790.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-960x643.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0529-520x348.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tyler Holmes released their new EP, ‘DEMO,’ with Oakland’s Ratskin Records last month. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes, who is originally from Novato, has been a prominent figure in Oakland’s experimental music scene since \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a> — the local label celebrated for its roster of forward-thinking, diverse experimental musicians — released their album, \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, last year. The project is a fever dream of glitchy samples, industrial synth lines, and full-out deconstructed noise. Its harsh, digitized elements dance around catchy synthpop melodies and Holmes’ raps and R&B vocal stylings. With Holmes’ savvy splicing of these disparate influences, the adventurous project makes its challenging content accessible through playful, poppy fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always responded to variety, so I think expressing variety in a way that is palatable and pretty is really what I would like to do,” Holmes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815230\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13815230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final.jpg\" alt=\"Makeup artist Jader transformed Tyler Holmes into an otherworldly alien for the album art of Holmes' project, 'Invisible Island.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TylerHolmes_InvisibleIslandAlbumArt_UseTHIS_Final-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makeup artist Jader transformed Tyler Holmes into an otherworldly alien for the album art of Holmes’ project, ‘Invisible Island.’ \u003ccite>(Jader)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holmes built on that foundation for their new EP, \u003ca href=\"https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tyler-holmes-demo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which came out last month digitally and on cassette through Ratskin. It takes its name from the idea that human beings are always evolving — a demo version of ourselves, never a finished product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes made the project in the wake of a four-year relationship. “\u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em> had a lot of things with video games and drugs, being lit,” says Holmes. “\u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> is a little bit more introspective; it’s more about me viewing myself as a demo or an almost finished version and being okay with the different demos instead of being any one thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the hodgepodge of sounds on \u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>, \u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> narrows its focus to experimental pop with an interplay of textured electronics that shift from soaring and melodic to gritty pounding to droning. The project is eclectic in typical Holmes fashion, but the artist swaps the rap and R&B elements of their previous work for a deeper exploration of electronic subgenres like noise, synthpop, and industrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=773938110/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes’ unusual, technologically ancient recording process — which relies on primitive software, distorted and looped vocals, homemade instruments, and field recordings — is as inventive as their sound. “I still have my old desktop computer that’s probably 20 years old, a computer mic, and I use Sound Recorder 1994 or 1995. It records 60 second blocks of sounds but it has really good control because you can double it, reverse it, chop it to a quarter of a second, so I use that to sample drum sounds or make drum sounds out of random things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The in-between-ness of Holmes’ music exemplifies other aspects of their life that defy classification. “We change everyday, so trying to pin that down is hard to me,” they say. “I’m a lot of things: I’m a queer person, I’m a mixed-race person. For me, trying to attach to any of those like, I’m an R&B artist or I’m a rapper — even when I was a rapper, I’d sample Grouper for my beats because I wanted more texture and more stuff in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2262840849/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fittingly, Holmes runs with a circle of gender non-conforming artists who are constantly reinventing the wheel of — well, any and every art form they can, really. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jadervision.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jader\u003c/a>, the San Francisco performer and makeup artist whose otherworldly looks make \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/heyparkerday/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parker Day’s photography\u003c/a> seem tame, created Holmes’ technicolor, bug-eyed alien getup for the album art of \u003cem>Invisible Island\u003c/em>. For \u003ca href=\"https://tylerholmes.bandcamp.com/album/s-p-o-r-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>S P O R T\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Holmes’ 2015 project Ratskin reissued on cassette last month, Jader painted Holmes green and turquoise and smashed their face into a piece of glass; their face paint splatters against the two-dimensional surface, making Holmes look more like a watercolor painting than a flesh-and-blood human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13815235\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13815235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015.jpg\" alt=\"Jader painted Tyler Holmes' face and smashed it against glass for the album art of 'S P O R T.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Jader_Good-Sport_2015-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jader painted Tyler Holmes’ face and smashed it against glass for the album art of ‘S P O R T.’ \u003ccite>(Jader)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This past summer, Holmes went on a cross-country tour with longtime collaborators San Cha, Sister Mantos, and Reyna the Ripper. (San Cha, Holmes, vainhein, and San Francisco drag queen \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/06/20/storytime-and-stilettos-with-persia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Persia\u003c/a> once had a group called Daddie$ Pla$tik, whose anti-gentrification electroclash song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyqbc7SQ4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Google Apps Apps\u003c/a>” made a splash in the local scene in 2013.) Unfortunately, the tour ended in an unexpected tragedy: Reyna the Ripper was shot in the lung during a random attack in Puerto Rico, and San Cha and Holmes missed their flights back to the mainland to care for their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Cha and I were sleeping on an air mattress in a hospital in Puerto Rico for a month,” says Holmes, breathing out a sigh that their friend is recovering and has returned to the States. “Puerto Rico ended kind of abruptly, and that whole experience was so scary and so much drama that I said, ‘I want to come home and teach my kids and that’s it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3496251761/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they agreed to two final shows before taking a temporary hiatus: They played a release show for \u003cem>DEMO\u003c/em> at ProArts Gallery in Downtown Oakland for Ratskin Records’ residency there, and they have an upcoming performance at the San Francisco gay bar the Stud alongside several other experimental electronic artists and drag performers, including Persia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what I’m here for,” Holmes says. “To bring the freak everywhere and tell people and show people and share their freakiness with them. Like, ‘Yes, y’all!'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tyler Holmes performs at the Stud in San Francisco on Nov. 17. Details \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/new-events/https/wwwfacebookcom/events/286803218505185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13815228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/DSC_0536-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Holmes' eclectic, DIY brand of electronic music is as off-kilter as their daring makeup looks.\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13814982/tyler-holmes-is-here-for-your-inner-freak","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_596","arts_3140","arts_3139"],"featImg":"arts_13815228","label":"arts"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.","airtime":"SUN 2pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.possible.fm/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Possible"},"link":"/radio/program/possible","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"}},"1a":{"id":"1a","title":"1A","info":"1A is home to the national conversation. 1A brings on great guests and frames the best debate in ways that make you think, share and engage.","airtime":"MON-THU 11pm-12am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/1a.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://the1a.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/1a","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=1188724250&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/1A-p947376/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510316/podcast.xml"}},"all-things-considered":{"id":"all-things-considered","title":"All Things Considered","info":"Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/all-things-considered"},"american-suburb-podcast":{"id":"american-suburb-podcast","title":"American Suburb: The Podcast","tagline":"The flip side of gentrification, told through one town","info":"Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"13"},"link":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"}},"baycurious":{"id":"baycurious","title":"Bay Curious","tagline":"Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time","info":"KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED Bay Curious","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/baycurious","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"4"},"link":"/podcasts/baycurious","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"}},"bbc-world-service":{"id":"bbc-world-service","title":"BBC World Service","info":"The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service","meta":{"site":"news","source":"BBC World Service"},"link":"/radio/program/bbc-world-service","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/","rss":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"}},"code-switch-life-kit":{"id":"code-switch-life-kit","title":"Code Switch / Life Kit","info":"\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />","airtime":"SUN 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"}},"commonwealth-club":{"id":"commonwealth-club","title":"Commonwealth Club of California Podcast","info":"The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.","airtime":"THU 10pm, FRI 1am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Commonwealth Club of California"},"link":"/radio/program/commonwealth-club","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"}},"considerthis":{"id":"considerthis","title":"Consider This","tagline":"Make sense of the day","info":"Make sense of the day. Every weekday afternoon, Consider This helps you consider the major stories of the day in less than 15 minutes, featuring the reporting and storytelling resources of NPR. Plus, KQED’s Bianca Taylor brings you the local KQED news you need to know.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consider-This-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"Consider This from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/considerthis","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"7"},"link":"/podcasts/considerthis","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1503226625?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/coronavirusdaily","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM1NS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3Z6JdCS2d0eFEpXHKI6WqH"}},"forum":{"id":"forum","title":"Forum","tagline":"The conversation starts here","info":"KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal","officialWebsiteLink":"/forum","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"8"},"link":"/forum","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"}},"freakonomics-radio":{"id":"freakonomics-radio","title":"Freakonomics Radio","info":"Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png","officialWebsiteLink":"http://freakonomics.com/","airtime":"SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/freakonomics-radio","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"}},"fresh-air":{"id":"fresh-air","title":"Fresh Air","info":"Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.","airtime":"MON-FRI 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/fresh-air","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"}},"here-and-now":{"id":"here-and-now","title":"Here & Now","info":"A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.","airtime":"MON-THU 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/here-and-now","subsdcribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"}},"how-i-built-this":{"id":"how-i-built-this","title":"How I Built This with Guy Raz","info":"Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this","airtime":"SUN 7:30pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/how-i-built-this","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"}},"inside-europe":{"id":"inside-europe","title":"Inside Europe","info":"Inside Europe, a one-hour weekly news magazine hosted by Helen Seeney and Keith Walker, explores the topical issues shaping the continent. No other part of the globe has experienced such dynamic political and social change in recent years.","airtime":"SAT 3am-4am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Inside-Europe-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Deutsche Welle"},"link":"/radio/program/inside-europe","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-europe/id80106806?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Inside-Europe-p731/","rss":"https://partner.dw.com/xml/podcast_inside-europe"}},"latino-usa":{"id":"latino-usa","title":"Latino USA","airtime":"MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm","info":"Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://latinousa.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/latino-usa","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"}},"live-from-here-highlights":{"id":"live-from-here-highlights","title":"Live from Here Highlights","info":"Chris Thile steps to the mic as the host of Live from Here (formerly A Prairie Home Companion), a live public radio variety show. Download Chris’s Song of the Week plus other highlights from the broadcast. Produced by American Public Media.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-8pm, SUN 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Live-From-Here-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.livefromhere.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"american public media"},"link":"/radio/program/live-from-here-highlights","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1167173941","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Live-from-Here-Highlights-p921744/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/a-prairie-home-companion-highlights/rss/rss"}},"marketplace":{"id":"marketplace","title":"Marketplace","info":"Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.","airtime":"MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.marketplace.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"American Public Media"},"link":"/radio/program/marketplace","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"}},"mindshift":{"id":"mindshift","title":"MindShift","tagline":"A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids","info":"The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn","officialWebsiteLink":"/mindshift/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"2"},"link":"/podcasts/mindshift","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"}},"morning-edition":{"id":"morning-edition","title":"Morning Edition","info":"\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3am-9am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/morning-edition"},"onourwatch":{"id":"onourwatch","title":"On Our Watch","tagline":"Police secrets, unsealed","info":"For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"On Our Watch from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/onourwatch","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"1"},"link":"/podcasts/onourwatch","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"}},"on-the-media":{"id":"on-the-media","title":"On The Media","info":"Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us","airtime":"SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wnyc"},"link":"/radio/program/on-the-media","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"}},"our-body-politic":{"id":"our-body-politic","title":"Our Body Politic","info":"Presented by KQED, KCRW and KPCC, and created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they’re impacting those very issues.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-7pm, SUN 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Body-Politic-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://our-body-politic.simplecast.com/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kcrw"},"link":"/radio/program/our-body-politic","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-body-politic/id1533069868","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9feGFQaHMxcw","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ApAiLT1kV153TttWAmqmc","rss":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/_xaPhs1s","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/Our-Body-Politic-p1369211/"}},"pbs-newshour":{"id":"pbs-newshour","title":"PBS NewsHour","info":"Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/pbs-newshour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/","rss":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"}},"perspectives":{"id":"perspectives","title":"Perspectives","tagline":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991","info":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Perspectives-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/perspectives/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"15"},"link":"/perspectives","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"}},"planet-money":{"id":"planet-money","title":"Planet Money","info":"The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/planet-money","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"}},"politicalbreakdown":{"id":"politicalbreakdown","title":"Political Breakdown","tagline":"Politics from a personal perspective","info":"Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.","airtime":"THU 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Political Breakdown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"11"},"link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"}},"pri-the-world":{"id":"pri-the-world","title":"PRI's The World: Latest Edition","info":"Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.","airtime":"MON-FRI 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world","meta":{"site":"news","source":"PRI"},"link":"/radio/program/pri-the-world","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/","rss":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"}},"radiolab":{"id":"radiolab","title":"Radiolab","info":"A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.","airtime":"SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/radiolab","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/","rss":"https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"}},"reveal":{"id":"reveal","title":"Reveal","info":"Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.","airtime":"SAT 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/reveal","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/","rss":"http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"}},"says-you":{"id":"says-you","title":"Says You!","info":"Public radio's game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy. The warmest, wittiest cocktail party - it's spirited and civil, brainy and boisterous, peppered with musical interludes. Fast paced and playful, it's the most fun you can have with language without getting your mouth washed out with soap. Our motto: It's not important to know the answers, it's important to like the answers!","airtime":"SUN 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Says-You-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.saysyouradio.com/","meta":{"site":"comedy","source":"Pipit and Finch"},"link":"/radio/program/says-you","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/says-you!/id1050199826","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Says-You-p480/","rss":"https://saysyou.libsyn.com/rss"}},"science-friday":{"id":"science-friday","title":"Science Friday","info":"Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.","airtime":"FRI 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/science-friday","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"}},"science-podcast":{"id":"science-podcast","title":"KQED Science News","tagline":"From the lab, to your ears","info":"KQED Science explores science and environment news, trends, and events from the Bay Area and beyond.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-News-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"kqed","order":"17"},"link":"/science/category/science-podcast","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqed-science-news/id214663465","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2Jsb2dzLmtxZWQub3JnL3NjaWVuY2UvZmVlZC8","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed-science-news","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/feed/podcast"}},"selected-shorts":{"id":"selected-shorts","title":"Selected Shorts","info":"Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Selected-Shorts-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/selected-shorts","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"pri"},"link":"/radio/program/selected-shorts","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=253191824&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Selected-Shorts-p31792/","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/selectedshorts"}},"snap-judgment":{"id":"snap-judgment","title":"Snap Judgment","info":"Snap Judgment (Storytelling, with a BEAT) mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. WNYC studios is the producer of leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Note To Self, Here’s The Thing With Alec Baldwin, and more.","airtime":"SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/snapJudgement.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://snapjudgment.org","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/snap-judgment","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=283657561&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Snap-Judgment-p243817/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/snapjudgment-wnyc"}},"soldout":{"id":"soldout","title":"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America","tagline":"A new future for housing","info":"Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/soldout","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":3},"link":"/podcasts/soldout","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america","tunein":"https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"}},"ted-radio-hour":{"id":"ted-radio-hour","title":"TED Radio Hour","info":"The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/ted-radio-hour","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"}},"tech-nation":{"id":"tech-nation","title":"Tech Nation Radio Podcast","info":"Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.","airtime":"FRI 10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://technation.podomatic.com/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"Tech Nation Media"},"link":"/radio/program/tech-nation","subscribe":{"rss":"https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"}},"thebay":{"id":"thebay","title":"The Bay","tagline":"Local news to keep you rooted","info":"Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED The Bay","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/thebay","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"6"},"link":"/podcasts/thebay","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"}},"californiareport":{"id":"californiareport","title":"The California Report","tagline":"California, day by day","info":"KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The California Report","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareport","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"9"},"link":"/californiareport","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"}},"californiareportmagazine":{"id":"californiareportmagazine","title":"The California Report Magazine","tagline":"Your state, your stories","info":"Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.","airtime":"FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareportmagazine","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"10"},"link":"/californiareportmagazine","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"}},"theleap":{"id":"theleap","title":"The Leap","tagline":"What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?","info":"Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Leap","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/theleap","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"14"},"link":"/podcasts/theleap","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"}},"masters-of-scale":{"id":"masters-of-scale","title":"Masters of Scale","info":"Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.","airtime":"Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://mastersofscale.com/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WaitWhat"},"link":"/radio/program/masters-of-scale","subscribe":{"apple":"http://mastersofscale.app.link/","rss":"https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"}},"the-moth-radio-hour":{"id":"the-moth-radio-hour","title":"The Moth Radio Hour","info":"Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://themoth.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"prx"},"link":"/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/","rss":"http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"}},"the-new-yorker-radio-hour":{"id":"the-new-yorker-radio-hour","title":"The New Yorker Radio Hour","info":"The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.","airtime":"SAT 10am-11am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"}},"the-takeaway":{"id":"the-takeaway","title":"The Takeaway","info":"The Takeaway is produced in partnership with its national audience. It delivers perspective and analysis to help us better understand the day’s news. Be a part of the American conversation on-air and online.","airtime":"MON-THU 12pm-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Takeaway-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/takeaway","meta":{"site":"news","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-takeaway","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-takeaway/id363143310?mt=2","tuneIn":"http://tunein.com/radio/The-Takeaway-p150731/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/takeawaypodcast"}},"this-american-life":{"id":"this-american-life","title":"This American Life","info":"This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.","airtime":"SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wbez"},"link":"/radio/program/this-american-life","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","rss":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"}},"truthbetold":{"id":"truthbetold","title":"Truth Be Told","tagline":"Advice by and for people of color","info":"We’re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it. Through wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers of our time, host Tonya Mosley explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America, while discovering new ways of being that serve as a portal to more love, more healing, and more joy.","airtime":"","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Truth-Be-Told-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Truth Be Told with Tonya Mosley","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.kqed.ord/podcasts/truthbetold","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr","order":"12"},"link":"/podcasts/truthbetold","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-be-told/id1462216572","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS90cnV0aC1iZS10b2xkLXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZA","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/719210818/truth-be-told","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=398170&refid=stpr","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/587DhwTBxke6uvfwDfaV5N"}},"wait-wait-dont-tell-me":{"id":"wait-wait-dont-tell-me","title":"Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!","info":"Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.","airtime":"SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"}},"washington-week":{"id":"washington-week","title":"Washington Week","info":"For 50 years, Washington Week has been the most intelligent and up to date conversation about the most important news stories of the week. Washington Week is the longest-running news and public affairs program on PBS and features journalists -- not pundits -- lending insight and perspective to the week's important news stories.","airtime":"SAT 1:30am-2am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/washington-week.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/washington-week","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/washington-week-audio-pbs/id83324702?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Current-Affairs/Washington-Week-p693/","rss":"http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-audio"}},"weekend-edition-saturday":{"id":"weekend-edition-saturday","title":"Weekend Edition Saturday","info":"Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.","airtime":"SAT 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"},"weekend-edition-sunday":{"id":"weekend-edition-sunday","title":"Weekend Edition Sunday","info":"Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.","airtime":"SUN 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"},"world-affairs":{"id":"world-affairs","title":"World Affairs","info":"The world as we knew it is undergoing a rapid transformation…so what's next? Welcome to WorldAffairs, your guide to a changing world. We give you the context you need to navigate across borders and ideologies. Through sound-rich stories and in-depth interviews, we break down what it means to be a global citizen on a hot, crowded planet. Our hosts, Ray Suarez, Teresa Cotsirilos and Philip Yun help you make sense of an uncertain world, one story at a time.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/World-Affairs-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg ","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.worldaffairs.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"World Affairs"},"link":"/radio/program/world-affairs","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/world-affairs/id101215657?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/WorldAffairs-p1665/","rss":"https://worldaffairs.libsyn.com/rss"}},"on-shifting-ground":{"id":"on-shifting-ground","title":"On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez","info":"Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world that’s rapidly shifting around us. “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez” explores international fault lines and how they impact us all. Each week, NPR veteran Ray Suarez hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts to help us read between the headlines – and give us hope for human resilience.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/12/onshiftingground-600x600-1.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://worldaffairs.org/radio-podcast/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"On Shifting Ground"},"link":"/radio/program/on-shifting-ground","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/on-shifting-ground/id101215657","rss":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/36668/rss"}},"hidden-brain":{"id":"hidden-brain","title":"Hidden Brain","info":"Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain","airtime":"SUN 7pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"NPR"},"link":"/radio/program/hidden-brain","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"}},"city-arts":{"id":"city-arts","title":"City Arts & Lectures","info":"A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.cityarts.net/","airtime":"SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am","meta":{"site":"news","source":"City Arts & Lectures"},"link":"https://www.cityarts.net","subscribe":{"tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/","rss":"https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"}},"white-lies":{"id":"white-lies","title":"White Lies","info":"In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/White-Lies-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/white-lies","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/whitelies","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1462650519?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM0My9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/12yZ2j8vxqhc0QZyRES3ft?si=LfWYEK6URA63hueKVxRLAw","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510343/podcast.xml"}},"rightnowish":{"id":"rightnowish","title":"Rightnowish","tagline":"Art is where you find it","info":"Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/rightnowish","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"kqed","order":"5"},"link":"/podcasts/rightnowish","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"}},"jerrybrown":{"id":"jerrybrown","title":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","tagline":"Lessons from a lifetime in politics","info":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"16"},"link":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/","tuneIn":"http://tun.in/pjGcK","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"}},"the-splendid-table":{"id":"the-splendid-table","title":"The Splendid Table","info":"\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.splendidtable.org/","airtime":"SUN 10-11 pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/the-splendid-table"}},"racesReducer":{"5921":{"id":"5921","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":158422,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.97,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Doris Matsui","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":89456,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tom Silva","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":48920,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Mandel","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":20046,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:00:38.194Z"},"5922":{"id":"5922","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rudy Recile","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Garamendi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5924":{"id":"5924","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":185034,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.07,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark DeSaulnier","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":121265,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katherine Piccinini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34883,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nolan Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":19459,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Sweeney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":7606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mohamed Elsherbini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1821,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:02:32.415Z"},"5926":{"id":"5926","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":153801,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lateefah Simon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":85905,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Tran","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22964,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Daysog","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17197,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Slauson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9699,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Glenn Kaplan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6785,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4243,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Abdur Sikder","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2847,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ned Nuerge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2532,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Andre Todd","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:22:36.062Z"},"5928":{"id":"5928","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":125831,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.14,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Eric Swalwell","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":83989,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Vin Kruttiventi","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":22106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alison Hayden","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11928,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luis Reynoso","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7808,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:51:36.366Z"},"5930":{"id":"5930","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":182135,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","timeUpdated":"3:04 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sam Liccardo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":38489,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Evan Low","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Simitian","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Ohtaki","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23275,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Dixon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14673,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rishi Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12377,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karl Ryan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11557,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Julie Lythcott-Haims","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11383,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ahmed Mostafa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5811,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Greg Tanaka","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joby Bernstein","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1651,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:32:05.002Z"},"5931":{"id":"5931","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":117534,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.92,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ro Khanna","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73941,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anita Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31539,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ritesh Tandon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5728,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mario Ramirez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4491,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Dehn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":1835,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T01:50:53.956Z"},"5932":{"id":"5932","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":96302,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.93,"eevp":98.83,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Zoe Lofgren","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":49323,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Peter Hernandez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31622,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Charlene Nijmeh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":10614,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Lawrence Milan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2712,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luele Kifle","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2031,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:26:02.706Z"},"5963":{"id":"5963","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":139085,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.62,"eevp":98.6,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Greer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38079,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Rogers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":27126,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rusty Hicks","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25615,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ariel Kelley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Frankie Myers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17694,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ted Williams","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9550,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Click","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1538,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-22T21:38:36.711Z"},"5972":{"id":"5972","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":99775,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lori Wilson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":50085,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dave Ennis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":26074,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Wanda Wallis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14638,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeffrey Flack","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8978,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T02:01:24.524Z"},"5973":{"id":"5973","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":143532,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Damon Connolly","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":111275,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andy Podshadley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17240,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Eryn Cervantes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15017,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:25:32.262Z"},"5975":{"id":"5975","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":106997,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.06,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Buffy Wicks","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":78678,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Margot Smith","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18251,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Utkarsh Jain","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":10068,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:30:34.539Z"},"5976":{"id":"5976","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":97144,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.98,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sonia Ledo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":30946,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anamarie Farias","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":29512,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Monica Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":24775,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karen Mitchoff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11911,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T00:19:38.858Z"},"5977":{"id":"5977","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joseph Rubay","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rebecca Bauer-Kahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5978":{"id":"5978","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":111003,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Haney","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":90915,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Manuel Noris-Barrera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13843,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Otto Duke","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6245,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:36:19.697Z"},"5979":{"id":"5979","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":86008,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.1,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mia Bonta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andre Sandford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":4575,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mindy Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4389,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cheyenne Kenney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T08:03:23.729Z"},"5980":{"id":"5980","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":113959,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.8,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Catherine Stefani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":64960,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":33035,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nadia Flamenco","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":8335,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Arjun Sodhani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-11T23:50:23.109Z"},"5981":{"id":"5981","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 20","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Ortega","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5982":{"id":"5982","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 21","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Gilham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Diane Papan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5984":{"id":"5984","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 23","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":116963,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Marc Berman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":67106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lydia Kou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":23699,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Gus Mattammal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13277,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Allan Marson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12881,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:13:06.280Z"},"5987":{"id":"5987","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 26","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":72753,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Patrick Ahrens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25036,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tara Sreekrishnan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19600,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sophie Song","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15954,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Omar Din","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8772,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bob Goodwyn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":2170,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ashish Garg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1221,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T21:06:29.070Z"},"5989":{"id":"5989","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 28","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Gail Pellerin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Liz Lawler","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6010":{"id":"6010","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 49","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Fong","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Long Liu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6018":{"id":"6018","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":229348,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.05,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jared Huffman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":169005,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Coulombe","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":37372,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tief Gibbs","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18437,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jolian Kangas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":3166,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Brisendine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1368,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:46:10.103Z"},"6020":{"id":"6020","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":187640,"precinctsReportPercentage":96.32,"eevp":96.36,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":118147,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Munn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":56232,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andrew Engdahl","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11202,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Niket Patwardhan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":2059,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:30:57.980Z"},"6025":{"id":"6025","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":121271,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.17,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Harder","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":60396,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Lincoln","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":36346,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John McBride","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15525,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Khalid Jafri","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:49:44.113Z"},"6031":{"id":"6031","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Anna Kramer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Mullin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6035":{"id":"6035","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":203670,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.11,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jimmy Panetta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":132540,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jason Anderson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":58120,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sean Dougherty","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Grn","voteCount":13010,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:23:46.779Z"},"6066":{"id":"6066","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jamie Gallagher","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Aaron Draper","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6067":{"id":"6067","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Cecilia Aguiar-Curry","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6087":{"id":"6087","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 24","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":66643,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alex Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45544,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Brunton","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14951,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marti Souza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6148,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T23:23:49.770Z"},"6088":{"id":"6088","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 25","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":69560,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.31,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ash Kalra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":35821,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ted Stroll","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18255,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lan Ngo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":15484,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T02:40:57.200Z"},"6092":{"id":"6092","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 29","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Robert Rivas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"J.W. Paine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6223":{"id":"6223","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 46","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:16 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lou Correa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Pan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6530":{"id":"6530","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":222193,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Thom Bogue","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":61776,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christopher Cabaldon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":59041,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rozzana Verder-Aliga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45546,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jackie Elward","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41127,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jimih Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14703,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:24:31.539Z"},"6531":{"id":"6531","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":171623,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jim Shoemaker","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":74935,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jerry McNerney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":57040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Carlos Villapudua","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":39648,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T20:07:46.382Z"},"6532":{"id":"6532","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":192446,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.72,"eevp":98.78,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jesse Arreguín","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61837,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jovanka Beckles","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34025,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dan Kalb","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28842,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Kathryn Lybarger","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28041,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sandre Swanson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22862,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeanne Solnordal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16839,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:58:11.533Z"},"6533":{"id":"6533","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tim Grayson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marisol Rubio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6534":{"id":"6534","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":228260,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Scott Wiener","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":166592,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Yvette Corkrean","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34438,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Cravens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18513,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jing Xiong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":8717,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T02:01:51.597Z"},"6535":{"id":"6535","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":227191,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Becker","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":167127,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alexander Glew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":42788,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christina Laskowski","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17276,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:56:24.964Z"},"6536":{"id":"6536","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":180231,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.81,"eevp":98.95,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dave Cortese","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":124440,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Robert Howell","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34173,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Loaiza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":21618,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T01:15:45.365Z"},"6548":{"id":"6548","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 39","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:55 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Akilah Weber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Divine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6611":{"id":"6611","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":188732,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.89,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Nancy Pelosi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":138285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bruce Lou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marjorie Mikels","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9363,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bianca Von Krieg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":7634,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Zeng","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6607,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Boyce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4325,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Larry Nichelson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3482,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eve Del Castello","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2751,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:31:55.445Z"},"8589":{"id":"8589","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7276537,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2299507,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2292414,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1115606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":714408,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":240723,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Bradley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":98180,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61755,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sharleta Bassett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":54422,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sarah Liew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Laura Garza ","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":34320,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Reiss","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34283,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34056,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gail Lightfoot","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":33046,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Denice Gary-Pandol","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":25494,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Macauley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23168,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Harmesh Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21522,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Peterson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21076,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Douglas Pierce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19371,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Major Singh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":16965,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"John Rose","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14577,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Perry Pound","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14134,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Raji Rab","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":13558,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mark Ruzon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":13429,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Forrest Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":13027,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stefan Simchowitz","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12717,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Martin Veprauskas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9714,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Don Grundmann","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":6582,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T05:01:46.589Z"},"8686":{"id":"8686","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":3589127,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:48 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Biden","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":3200188,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marianne Williamson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":145690,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Dean Phillips","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":99981,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Armando Perez-Serrato","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":42925,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gabriel Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41261,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"President Boddie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25373,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Lyons","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21008,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eban Cambridge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12701,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:12:27.559Z"},"8688":{"id":"8688","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":2466569,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Donald Trump","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":1953947,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nikki Haley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":430792,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ron DeSantis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":35581,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Chris Christie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":20164,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Vivek Ramaswamy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11069,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rachel Swift","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4231,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Stuckenberg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3895,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ryan Binkley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3563,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Asa Hutchinson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3327,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:13:19.766Z"},"81993":{"id":"81993","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I Unexpired Term","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7358837,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2444940,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2155146,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1269194,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":863278,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":448788,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":109421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":68070,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:31:08.186Z"},"82014":{"id":"82014","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"Proposition, 1 - Behavioral Health Services Program","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":7221972,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3624998,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3596974,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:11:06.265Z"},"timeLoaded":"April 24, 2024 12:46 PM","nationalRacesLoaded":true,"localRacesLoaded":true,"overrides":[{"id":"5921","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5922","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5924","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5926","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/congress-12th-district"},{"id":"5928","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5930","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-16th-district"},{"id":"5931","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5932","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5963","raceName":"State Assembly, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5972","raceName":"State Assembly, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5973","raceName":"State Assembly, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5975","raceName":"State Assembly, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5976","raceName":"State Assembly, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/state-assembly"},{"id":"5977","raceName":"State Assembly, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5978","raceName":"State Assembly, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5979","raceName":"State Assembly, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5980","raceName":"State Assembly, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5981","raceName":"State Assembly, District 20","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5982","raceName":"State Assembly, District 21","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5984","raceName":"State Assembly, District 23","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-assembly-23rd-district"},{"id":"5987","raceName":"State Assembly, District 26","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/state-assembly-26th-district"},{"id":"5989","raceName":"State Assembly, District 28","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6010","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6018","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6020","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6025","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6031","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6035","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6067","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6087","raceName":"State Assembly, District 24","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6088","raceName":"State Assembly, District 25","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6092","raceName":"State Assembly, District 29","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6223","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6530","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-3rd-district"},{"id":"6531","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6532","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-7th-district"},{"id":"6533","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6534","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6535","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6536","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6611","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"8589","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Full Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/senator"},{"id":"8686","raceName":"California Democratic Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 496 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/president/democrat"},{"id":"8688","raceName":"California Republican Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 169 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://kqed.org/elections/results/president/republican"},{"id":"81993","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Partial/Unexpired Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election."},{"id":"82014","raceName":"Proposition 1","raceDescription":"Bond and mental health reforms. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-1"}],"AlamedaJudge5":{"id":"AlamedaJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":200601,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Terry Wiley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":200601}]},"AlamedaJudge12":{"id":"AlamedaJudge12","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":240853,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Fickes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":133009},{"candidateName":"Michael P. Johnson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107844}]},"AlamedaBoard2":{"id":"AlamedaBoard2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33580,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Lewis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6943},{"candidateName":"Angela Normand","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":26637}]},"AlamedaBoard5":{"id":"AlamedaBoard5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":26072,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Guadalupe \"Lupe\" Angulo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7521},{"candidateName":"Janevette Cole","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13338},{"candidateName":"Joe Orlando Ramos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5213}]},"AlamedaBoard6":{"id":"AlamedaBoard6","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 6","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":30864,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Guerrero","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9989},{"candidateName":"Eileen McDonald","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20875}]},"AlamedaSup1":{"id":"AlamedaSup1","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":41038,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Haubert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":41038}]},"AlamedaSup2":{"id":"AlamedaSup2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":31034,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Elisa Márquez","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":31034}]},"AlamedaSup4":{"id":"AlamedaSup4","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":57007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jennifer Esteen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22400},{"candidateName":"Nate Miley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34607}]},"AlamedaSup5":{"id":"AlamedaSup5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":81059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ben Bartlett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13518},{"candidateName":"Nikki Fortunato Bas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":27597},{"candidateName":"John J. Bauters","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":16783},{"candidateName":"Ken Berrick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7520},{"candidateName":"Omar Farmer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1240},{"candidateName":"Gregory Hodge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3419},{"candidateName":"Chris Moore","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7428},{"candidateName":"Gerald Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":305},{"candidateName":"Lorrel Plimier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3249}]},"AlamedaBoard7":{"id":"AlamedaBoard7","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Flood Control & Water Conservation District Director, Zone 7, Full Term","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":134340,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alan Burnham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15723},{"candidateName":"Sandy Figuers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22454},{"candidateName":"Laurene K. Green","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":30343},{"candidateName":"Kathy Narum","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23833},{"candidateName":"Seema Badar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7468},{"candidateName":"Catherine Brown","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34519}]},"AlamedaAuditor":{"id":"AlamedaAuditor","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Oakland Auditor","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":59227,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Houston","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59227}]},"AlamedaMeasureA":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Civil service. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282335,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":167903},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":114432}]},"AlamedaMeasureB":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Recall rules. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282683,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182200},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":100483}]},"AlamedaMeasureD":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Oakland. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":79797,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59852},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19945}]},"AlamedaMeasureE":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Alameda Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":22692,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17280},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5412}]},"AlamedaMeasureF":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"Piedmont. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":4855,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3673},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1182}]},"AlamedaMeasureG":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Albany Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":5898,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4651},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1247}]},"AlamedaMeasureH":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Berkeley Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33331,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":29418},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913}]},"AlamedaMeasureI":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Hayward Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":21929,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14151},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7778}]},"AlamedaMeasureJ":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureJ","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure J","raceDescription":"San Leandro Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":12338,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7784},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4554}]},"CCD2":{"id":"CCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":45776,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Candace Andersen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":45776}]},"CCD3":{"id":"CCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":25120,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Diane Burgis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":25120}]},"CCD5":{"id":"CCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":37045,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Barbanica","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14338},{"candidateName":"Jelani Killings","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5683},{"candidateName":"Shanelle Scales-Preston","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12993},{"candidateName":"Iztaccuauhtli Hector Gonzalez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4031}]},"CCMeasureA":{"id":"CCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Martinez. Appoint City Clerk. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":11513,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7554},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3959}]},"CCMeasureB":{"id":"CCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Antioch Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17971,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10397},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7574}]},"CCMeasureC":{"id":"CCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Martinez Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":9230,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6917},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2313}]},"CCMeasureD":{"id":"CCMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Moraga School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":6007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4052},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1955}]},"MarinD2":{"id":"MarinD2","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":18466,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Brian Colbert","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7971},{"candidateName":"Heather McPhail Sridharan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4851},{"candidateName":"Ryan O'Neil","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2647},{"candidateName":"Gabe Paulson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2997}]},"MarinD3":{"id":"MarinD3","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":13274,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Moulton-Peters","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13274}]},"MarinD4":{"id":"MarinD4","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":12986,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dennis Rodoni","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10086},{"candidateName":"Francis Drouillard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2900}]},"MarinLarkspurCC":{"id":"MarinLarkspurCC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Larkspur City Council (Short Term)","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4176,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Andre","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2514},{"candidateName":"Claire Paquette","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1008},{"candidateName":"Lana Scott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":654}]},"MarinRossCouncil":{"id":"MarinRossCouncil","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Ross Town Council","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1740,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Charles William \"Bill\" Kircher, Jr.","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":536},{"candidateName":"Mathew Salter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":502},{"candidateName":"Shadi Aboukhater","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":187},{"candidateName":"Teri Dowling","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":515}]},"MarinMeasureA":{"id":"MarinMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Tamalpais Union High School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":45345,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24376},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20969}]},"MarinMeasureB":{"id":"MarinMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":132,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":62},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":70}]},"MarinMeasureC":{"id":"MarinMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Belvedere. Appropriation limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":870,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":679},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureD":{"id":"MarinMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Larkspur. Rent stabilization. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-d","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4955,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2573},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2382}]},"MarinMeasureE":{"id":"MarinMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Ross. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":874,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":683},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureF":{"id":"MarinMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"San Anselmo. Flood Control and Water Conservation District. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":5193,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3083},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2110}]},"MarinMeasureG":{"id":"MarinMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Bel Marin Keys Community Services District. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":830,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":661},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":169}]},"MarinMeasureH":{"id":"MarinMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, fire protection. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1738,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1369},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":369}]},"MarinMeasureI":{"id":"MarinMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, parks. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1735,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1336},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":399}]},"NapaD2":{"id":"NapaD2","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":8351,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Alessio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6340},{"candidateName":"Doris Gentry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2011}]},"NapaD4":{"id":"NapaD4","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":7306,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Amber Manfree","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913},{"candidateName":"Pete Mott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3393}]},"NapaD5":{"id":"NapaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":5356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mariam Aboudamous","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2379},{"candidateName":"Belia Ramos","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2977}]},"NapaMeasureD":{"id":"NapaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Howell Mountain Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":741,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":367},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":374}]},"NapaMeasureU":{"id":"NapaMeasureU","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement District. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":86,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":63},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23}]},"NapaMeasureU1":{"id":"NapaMeasureU1","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Yountville. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":793},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":132}]},"SFJudge1":{"id":"SFJudge1","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-1","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202960,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Begert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":124943},{"candidateName":"Chip Zecher","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":78017}]},"SFJudge13":{"id":"SFJudge13","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 13","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-13","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202386,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jean Myungjin Roland","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":90012},{"candidateName":"Patrick S. Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":112374}]},"SFPropA":{"id":"SFPropA","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition A","raceDescription":"Housing bond. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":225187,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":158497},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":66690}]},"SFPropB":{"id":"SFPropB","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition B","raceDescription":"Police staffing. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222954,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":61580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":161374}]},"SFPropC":{"id":"SFPropC","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition C","raceDescription":"Transfer tax exemption. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":220349,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":116311},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":104038}]},"SFPropD":{"id":"SFPropD","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition D","raceDescription":"Ethics laws. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222615,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":198584},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24031}]},"SFPropE":{"id":"SFPropE","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition E","raceDescription":"Police policies. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222817,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":120529},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":102288}]},"SFPropF":{"id":"SFPropF","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition F","raceDescription":"Drug screening. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":224004,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":130214},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":93790}]},"SFPropG":{"id":"SFPropG","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition G","raceDescription":"Eighth-grade algebra. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222704,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182066},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":40638}]},"SMJudge4":{"id":"SMJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":108919,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sarah Burdick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":108919}]},"SMD1":{"id":"SMD1","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":29650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jackie Speier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20353},{"candidateName":"Ann Schneider","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9297}]},"SMD4":{"id":"SMD4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22725,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Antonio Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5730},{"candidateName":"Lisa Gauthier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10358},{"candidateName":"Celeste Brevard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1268},{"candidateName":"Paul Bocanegra","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1909},{"candidateName":"Maggie Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3460}]},"SMD5":{"id":"SMD5","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":19937,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Canepa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19937}]},"SMMeasureB":{"id":"SMMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"County Service Area #1 (Highlands). Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1360},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":189}]},"SMMeasureC":{"id":"SMMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Jefferson Elementary School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":12234,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8543},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3691}]},"SMMeasureE":{"id":"SMMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Woodside Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1392,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":910},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":482}]},"SMMeasureG":{"id":"SMMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Pacifica School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":11548,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7067},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4481}]},"SMMeasureH":{"id":"SMMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"San Carlos School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":9938,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6283},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3655}]},"SCJudge5":{"id":"SCJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":301953,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jay Boyarsky","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":142549},{"candidateName":"Nicole M. Ford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":52147},{"candidateName":"Johnene Linda Stebbins","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107257}]},"SCD2":{"id":"SCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":44059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Corina Herrera-Loera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10519},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Margaret Celaya","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2394},{"candidateName":"Madison Nguyen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12794},{"candidateName":"Betty Duong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14031},{"candidateName":"Nelson McElmurry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4321}]},"SCD3":{"id":"SCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":42549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Otto Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42549}]},"SCD5":{"id":"SCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":88712,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Margaret Abe-Koga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":37172},{"candidateName":"Sally J. Lieber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":21962},{"candidateName":"Barry Chang","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6164},{"candidateName":"Peter C. Fung","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17892},{"candidateName":"Sandy Sans","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5522}]},"SCSJMayor":{"id":"SCSJMayor","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José Mayor","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":167064,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Mahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":144701},{"candidateName":"Tyrone Wade","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22363}]},"SCSJD2":{"id":"SCSJD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14131,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4950},{"candidateName":"Pamela Campos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436},{"candidateName":"Vanessa Sandoval","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2719},{"candidateName":"Babu Prasad","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3026}]},"SCSJD4":{"id":"SCSJD4","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14322,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kansen Chu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5931},{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8391}]},"SCSJD6":{"id":"SCSJD6","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":25108,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9875},{"candidateName":"Alex Shoor","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3850},{"candidateName":"Angelo \"A.J.\" Pasciuti","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2688},{"candidateName":"Michael Mulcahy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8695}]},"SCSJD8":{"id":"SCSJD8","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 8","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":21462,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tam Truong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6982},{"candidateName":"Domingo Candelas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8466},{"candidateName":"Sukhdev Singh Bainiwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5513},{"candidateName":"Surinder Kaur Dhaliwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":501}]},"SCSJD10":{"id":"SCSJD10","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 10","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22799,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"George Casey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8805},{"candidateName":"Arjun Batra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8354},{"candidateName":"Lenka Wright","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5640}]},"SCMeasureA":{"id":"SCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed city clerk. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20315,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13735}]},"SCMeasureB":{"id":"SCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed police chief. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20567,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5680},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14887}]},"SCMeasureC":{"id":"SCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Sunnyvale School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14656,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10261},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4395}]},"SolanoD15":{"id":"SolanoD15","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Department 15","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":81709,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":36844},{"candidateName":"Bryan J. Kim","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":44865}]},"SolanoD1":{"id":"SolanoD1","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":13786,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6401},{"candidateName":"Cassandra James","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7385}]},"SolanoD2":{"id":"SolanoD2","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":19903,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Monica Brown","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10951},{"candidateName":"Nora Dizon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3135},{"candidateName":"Rochelle Sherlock","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5817}]},"SolanoD5":{"id":"SolanoD5","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17888,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mitch Mashburn","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11210},{"candidateName":"Chadwick J. Ledoux","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6678}]},"SolanoEducation":{"id":"SolanoEducation","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Sacramento County Board of Education","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":3650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Heather Davis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2960},{"candidateName":"Shazleen Khan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":690}]},"SolanoMeasureA":{"id":"SolanoMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Benicia. Hotel tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10136,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7869},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2267}]},"SolanoMeasureB":{"id":"SolanoMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Benicia. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10164,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7335},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2829}]},"SolanoMeasureC":{"id":"SolanoMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Benicia Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10112,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6316},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3796}]},"SolanoMeasureN":{"id":"SolanoMeasureN","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure N","raceDescription":"Davis Joint Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":15,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10}]},"SonomaJudge3":{"id":"SonomaJudge3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":115405,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kristine M. Burk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":79498},{"candidateName":"Beki Berrey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":35907}]},"SonomaJudge4":{"id":"SonomaJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":86789,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Paul J. Lozada","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":86789}]},"SonomaJudge6":{"id":"SonomaJudge6","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":117990,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Omar Figueroa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42236},{"candidateName":"Kenneth English","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":75754}]},"SonomaD1":{"id":"SonomaD1","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":30348,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rebecca Hermosillo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23958},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Mathieu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6390}]},"SonomaD3":{"id":"SonomaD3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/supervisor-3rd-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":16312,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Chris Coursey","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11346},{"candidateName":"Omar Medina","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4966}]},"SonomaD5":{"id":"SonomaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":23356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lynda Hopkins","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23356}]},"SonomaMeasureA":{"id":"SonomaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":13756,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10320},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436}]},"SonomaMeasureB":{"id":"SonomaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":24877,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15795},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9082}]},"SonomaMeasureC":{"id":"SonomaMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Fort Ross School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":286,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":159},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":127}]},"SonomaMeasureD":{"id":"SonomaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Harmony Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":1925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1089},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":836}]},"SonomaMeasureE":{"id":"SonomaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Petaluma City (Elementary) School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":11133,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7622},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3511}]},"SonomaMeasureG":{"id":"SonomaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Rincon Valley Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":14577,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8668},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5909}]},"SonomaMeasureH":{"id":"SonomaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Sonoma County. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/measure-h","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":145261,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":89646},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":55615}]}},"radioSchedulesReducer":{},"listsReducer":{"posts/arts?tag=ratskin-records":{"isFetching":false,"latestQuery":{"from":0,"postsToRender":9},"tag":null,"vitalsOnly":true,"totalRequested":8,"isLoading":false,"isLoadingMore":false,"total":8,"items":["arts_13910312","arts_13908910","arts_13861305","arts_13856737","arts_13846529","arts_13843411","arts_13842485","arts_13814982"]}},"recallGuideReducer":{"intros":{},"policy":{},"candidates":{}},"savedPostsReducer":{},"pfsSessionReducer":{},"siteSettingsReducer":{},"subscriptionsReducer":{},"termsReducer":{"about":{"name":"About","type":"terms","id":"about","slug":"about","link":"/about","taxonomy":"site"},"arts":{"name":"Arts & Culture","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"description":"KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.","type":"terms","id":"arts","slug":"arts","link":"/arts","taxonomy":"site"},"artschool":{"name":"Art School","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"artschool","slug":"artschool","link":"/artschool","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareabites":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"bayareabites","slug":"bayareabites","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareahiphop":{"name":"Bay Area Hiphop","type":"terms","id":"bayareahiphop","slug":"bayareahiphop","link":"/bayareahiphop","taxonomy":"site"},"campaign21":{"name":"Campaign 21","type":"terms","id":"campaign21","slug":"campaign21","link":"/campaign21","taxonomy":"site"},"checkplease":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"checkplease","slug":"checkplease","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"education":{"name":"Education","grouping":["education"],"type":"terms","id":"education","slug":"education","link":"/education","taxonomy":"site"},"elections":{"name":"Elections","type":"terms","id":"elections","slug":"elections","link":"/elections","taxonomy":"site"},"events":{"name":"Events","type":"terms","id":"events","slug":"events","link":"/events","taxonomy":"site"},"event":{"name":"Event","alias":"events","type":"terms","id":"event","slug":"event","link":"/event","taxonomy":"site"},"filmschoolshorts":{"name":"Film School Shorts","type":"terms","id":"filmschoolshorts","slug":"filmschoolshorts","link":"/filmschoolshorts","taxonomy":"site"},"food":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"type":"terms","id":"food","slug":"food","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"forum":{"name":"Forum","relatedContentQuery":"posts/forum?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"forum","slug":"forum","link":"/forum","taxonomy":"site"},"futureofyou":{"name":"Future of You","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"futureofyou","slug":"futureofyou","link":"/futureofyou","taxonomy":"site"},"jpepinheart":{"name":"KQED food","relatedContentQuery":"trending/food,bayareabites,checkplease","parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"jpepinheart","slug":"jpepinheart","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"liveblog":{"name":"Live Blog","type":"terms","id":"liveblog","slug":"liveblog","link":"/liveblog","taxonomy":"site"},"livetv":{"name":"Live TV","parent":"tv","type":"terms","id":"livetv","slug":"livetv","link":"/livetv","taxonomy":"site"},"lowdown":{"name":"The Lowdown","relatedContentQuery":"posts/lowdown?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"lowdown","slug":"lowdown","link":"/lowdown","taxonomy":"site"},"mindshift":{"name":"Mindshift","parent":"news","description":"MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.","type":"terms","id":"mindshift","slug":"mindshift","link":"/mindshift","taxonomy":"site"},"news":{"name":"News","grouping":["news","forum"],"type":"terms","id":"news","slug":"news","link":"/news","taxonomy":"site"},"perspectives":{"name":"Perspectives","parent":"radio","type":"terms","id":"perspectives","slug":"perspectives","link":"/perspectives","taxonomy":"site"},"podcasts":{"name":"Podcasts","type":"terms","id":"podcasts","slug":"podcasts","link":"/podcasts","taxonomy":"site"},"pop":{"name":"Pop","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"pop","slug":"pop","link":"/pop","taxonomy":"site"},"pressroom":{"name":"Pressroom","type":"terms","id":"pressroom","slug":"pressroom","link":"/pressroom","taxonomy":"site"},"quest":{"name":"Quest","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"quest","slug":"quest","link":"/quest","taxonomy":"site"},"radio":{"name":"Radio","grouping":["forum","perspectives"],"description":"Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.","type":"terms","id":"radio","slug":"radio","link":"/radio","taxonomy":"site"},"root":{"name":"KQED","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","imageWidth":1200,"imageHeight":630,"headData":{"title":"KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California","description":"KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."},"type":"terms","id":"root","slug":"root","link":"/root","taxonomy":"site"},"science":{"name":"Science","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"description":"KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.","type":"terms","id":"science","slug":"science","link":"/science","taxonomy":"site"},"stateofhealth":{"name":"State of Health","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth","slug":"stateofhealth","link":"/stateofhealth","taxonomy":"site"},"support":{"name":"Support","type":"terms","id":"support","slug":"support","link":"/support","taxonomy":"site"},"thedolist":{"name":"The Do List","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"thedolist","slug":"thedolist","link":"/thedolist","taxonomy":"site"},"trulyca":{"name":"Truly CA","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"trulyca","slug":"trulyca","link":"/trulyca","taxonomy":"site"},"tv":{"name":"TV","type":"terms","id":"tv","slug":"tv","link":"/tv","taxonomy":"site"},"voterguide":{"name":"Voter Guide","parent":"elections","alias":"elections","type":"terms","id":"voterguide","slug":"voterguide","link":"/voterguide","taxonomy":"site"},"arts_3140":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3140","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3140","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Ratskin Records","slug":"ratskin-records","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Ratskin Records Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null,"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","width":1200,"height":630},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"}},"ttid":3152,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/ratskin-records"},"arts_1":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Arts","slug":"arts","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/arts"},"arts_6425":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_6425","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"6425","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"bandcamp","slug":"bandcamp","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"bandcamp Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":6437,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/bandcamp"},"arts_10342":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10342","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10342","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"editorspick","slug":"editorspick","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"editorspick Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10354,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/editorspick"},"arts_10278":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10278","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10278","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"featured-arts","slug":"featured-arts","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"featured-arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10290,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/featured-arts"},"arts_3338":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3338","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3338","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Text Me Records","slug":"text-me-records","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Text Me Records Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3350,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/text-me-records"},"arts_21264":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_21264","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"21264","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"unions","slug":"unions","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"unions Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":21276,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/unions"},"arts_69":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_69","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"69","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Music","slug":"music","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Music Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":70,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/music"},"arts_9693":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_9693","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"9693","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"disability","slug":"disability","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"disability Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":9705,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/disability"},"arts_1627":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1627","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1627","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Ghost Ship fire","slug":"ghost-ship-fire","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Ghost Ship fire Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1639,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/ghost-ship-fire"},"arts_4773":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_4773","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"4773","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"mental health","slug":"mental-health","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"mental health Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":4785,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/mental-health"},"arts_1118":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1118","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1118","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"featured","slug":"featured","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"featured Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1135,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/featured"},"arts_140":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_140","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"140","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"The Do List","slug":"the-do-list","taxonomy":"program","description":null,"featImg":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/The-Do-LIst-logo-2014-horizontal-015.png","headData":{"title":"The Do List Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":141,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/program/the-do-list"},"arts_3649":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3649","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3649","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"galleries","slug":"galleries","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"galleries Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3661,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/galleries"},"arts_596":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_596","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"596","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"ntv","slug":"ntv","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"ntv Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":602,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/ntv"},"arts_2021":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2021","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2021","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"spellling","slug":"spellling","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"spellling Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2033,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/spellling"},"arts_3139":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3139","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3139","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Tyler Holmes","slug":"tyler-holmes","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Tyler Holmes Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3151,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/tyler-holmes"}},"userAgentReducer":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isBot":true},"userPermissionsReducer":{"wpLoggedIn":false},"localStorageReducer":{},"browserHistoryReducer":[],"eventsReducer":{},"fssReducer":{},"tvDailyScheduleReducer":{},"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer":{},"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer":{},"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer":{},"userAccountReducer":{"routeTo":"","showDeleteConfirmModal":false,"user":{"userId":"","isFound":false,"firstName":"","lastName":"","phoneNumber":"","email":"","articles":[]}},"youthMediaReducer":{},"checkPleaseReducer":{"filterData":{},"restaurantData":[]},"reframeReducer":{"attendee":null},"location":{"pathname":"/arts/tag/ratskin-records","previousPathname":"/"}}
