Oakland-based musician Mahawan will perform at El Rio in San Francisco on March 30th. (Michelle Campbell)
The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.
“I want people to hear this song and have a conversation with themselves about the idea of allowing people to be mad,” Oakland-based musician Mahawam said about their song “Hot Pressed”.
The songwriter, DJ, and community organizer says that they have been a “pretty angry person” for most of their life, but lately have been thinking about how they can trust their anger instead of being afraid of it.
“I started thinking about this during the pandemic. I had a lot of time to think about how I felt, and I felt angry…about lots of things.” Mahawam said, “I’ve done a lot of thinking about anger, and anger tells you what you care about, anger tells you what matters to you, and it’s useful in that way,”
Mahawam describes their music as an “XY grid” with four points: hip hop, indie electronic music, indie rock, and R& B. They say they were basically a “scene kid” growing up, attending concerts every weekend and listening to indie rock bands like Bloc Party and The National.
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