DNAK – Dave Nakayama's take on music & more

Dnak 106 (August 2018)

August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 music KNAK, music, playlist

I’ve been fortunate to attend Outside Lands for the past several years, sometimes taking for granted that we have a major independent music festival in the heart of San Francisco, surrounded by the trees and

Dnak 105 (June 2018)

June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 music KNAK, music, playlist

I’m excited to see new music coming out teasing forthcoming sophomore followups to promising debuts we’ve seen the past few years from Jungle, Haerts, and Cullen Omori. And we got new music out from Wild

Dnak 104 (May 2018)

May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 music KNAK, music, playlist

A bunch of new music for you to checkout this month including new tracks from Mitski, Jungle, Holy Esque, Dirty Projectors, and more. And we have new albums from Courtney Barnett, Middle Kids, and Beach

Dnak 103 (March 2018)

March 25, 2018March 25, 2018 music KNAK, music, playlist, sxsw, SXSW2018

Six straight days and nights of music in Austin was maybe a bit ambitious, but how else was I going to check out over 60 live bands at SXSW. My highlights were incredible music performances

SXSW 2018

February 25, 2018March 18, 2018 music KNAK, music, playlist, sxsw, SXSW2018

My annual live music binge (aka SXSW) is coming up, and that means a little music research is in order. I poured through the imposing list of planned performers and pulled together a playlist to

Dnak 2017 – Favorite Songs of 2017

December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 music KNAK, music, playlist

Going through my play history to pull together my best-of lists is one of my favorite year-end activities. It’s always tough to pare the list down to 50, but these are the tracks I’ve had

Dnak 102 (October 2017)

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 music KNAK, music, playlist

You can call me obsessed for seeing Arcade Fire twice in October, but if you haven’t seen a show on their arena tour, you’re definitely missing out. I also managed to catch Alt-J and Phantogram