Ok full disclosure here, bear with me for a paragraph to put this into perspective… I was a HUGE Metallica fan as a teen. Posters on the wall, logo on my notebook, Ride the Lightning shirt. I was suspended from school for repeatedly drawing that most awesome logo on my desk with a marker.Continue Reading

OUTLIER is an international event series curated by Bonobo which was host at The Midway in San Francisco on August 3rd. It was the perfect location based on their "Outdoor Block Party" layout.Continue Reading

Balanced Breakfast presents BreakFEST, the second annual SF music festival in the Mission September 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Featuring a variety of local and touring bands, it will be the ultimate example of community in the music industry.Continue Reading

Tycho played a secret pop-up concert performance last week at The Independent. In addition, they released their new album WEATHER, a meer 24 hours prior to the show.Continue Reading

The 29th Annual High Sierra Music Festival wrapped in the early morning daylight on Monday, July 8, 2019, in Quincy, California as another resounding success. Standout performances were in no short supply over the Independence Day weekend. From top headlining acts Umphrey's McGee and Dispatch, through lower card-surprises from Amo Amo, Ron Artis II, Star Kitchen or the...Continue Reading

Resonance is a blues-influenced rock band born in London but putting down roots in California. Leaving her law career behind, lead singer and songwriter Radhika Rathinasabapathy committed to music in full and moved from London to San Francisco. Since then she has recorded an EP and 2 singles and is working on a full-length album....Continue Reading

 We make our way down Martin Luther King Jr Way, passing the corner of West Grand Ave where the Social Starline Club sits in hip-downtown Oakland. It’s 30 minutes to showtime and it’s 30 minutes past sundown. With resounding approval, we agree that vocalist Cammie Lund’s old Toyota would be a great place for...Continue Reading

For the musicians reading this, you are probably familiar with a variety of recording programs. Video editing programs are basically the same thing. Music deals with the tone, rhythm, and raw materials, and so does video. It has been a really fun exploration for me to see how creating videos has informed my umbrella of...Continue Reading

There are many types of success and various ways to get it. For me, the first step of being more successful is to create a plan. Once you have established that you must plan, there are a series of steps to help your agenda come into fruition. Below I have listed 10 tips that I...Continue Reading

Some throwback advice from Lindsay Paige Garfield, formerly from the band Paige and the Thousand and currently working on new project Lovebug & Me.  In 2009, while spending a lot of time on the road with her band, she wrote this advice about what she suggests woman pack when going on tour. I BRING MY...Continue Reading

Napa obviously adores Con Brio, evident by the fact that they have been invited played at Bottlerock twice and have opened for the amazing jam band “Galactic,” at Jam Cellars Ballroom. This charity event at Connolly ranch was put on with help from Jam Cellars.Continue Reading

Today’s sources of income in the music industry have changed a lot from what they were in the 90s. Once musicians were able to rely on song sales and it was understood that the bands who are signed to a label were the most successful. However, today’s industry has changed due in part to our...Continue Reading