The city of Austin has canceled SxSW 2020, but our venues are still booked and we aren't canceling our showcase. Join Balanced Breakfast for our FREE 2020 unofficial SxSW showcases, presented by Music City Hit Factory.Continue Reading

Andrew Levin talks with Mission:Music about changing genres, producing music for video games, vulnerability, and unhealthy use of synthesizers. The group also gets into the Balanced Breakfast Summit, SXSW, and many more musings.Continue Reading

Half Measure & Savegabe talk with Mission:Music about being a musician in Napa and how it compares to San Francisco. Other topics include the problems with Bottle Rock Festival, New Year's resolutions, and Hot Cheetos! Continue Reading

Balanced Breakfast is having our third national Music Summit in San Francisco on February 22nd at PianoFight. We've moved it by two weeks to ensure you don't have to choose between our event and Valentine's Day, The Super Bowl or the Grammys. We will be bringing all of the BB groups together for this event...Continue Reading

The Colombian festival, Estéreo Picnic dropped the full list of 2020 bands: Fri April 3rd • The Strokes, Armin van Buuren, Vampire Weekend, LP, Charli XCX, Kacey Musgraves, Pabllo Vittar, Red Axes, Elsa y Elmar, Nanpa Básico, Javiera Mena, Los Árboles, Babelgam, N. Hardem + Las Hermanas, Los Niños Telepáticos, Armenia, W.Y.K, Pancho Piedra, Margarita Siempre...Continue Reading

In the eighth episode of MISSION:MUSIC, Aliza Hava & Mark Pearson talk about how a law meant to combat the gig economy could possibly affect independent musicians. Aliza also gives us a few beautiful acoustic songs and we get into a lot of randomnesses, as always: how Mark got fired from a radio station, Stefan...Continue Reading

In the seventh episode of MISSION:MUSIC, Adam Brookes & Leanne of New Spell join the crew to talk about each of their histories as musicians and play a few songs for the show. Topics include how to tell the difference between organic sounds and electronically made ones, growing out of the sounds you started out...Continue Reading

The 2019 EMERALD CUP is December 14-15th at Sonoma County Fairgrounds. In addition to cannabis education, the weekend also includes multiple live music stages. Attendees will see performances from DJ Snoopadelic (the alter ego of legendary Snoop Dogg), Santigold, Steel Pulse, The Polish Ambassador, The Expendables, The Movement, Con Brio and Chali 2na.Continue Reading

In the sixth episode of MISSION:MUSIC, MAAYAN joins in on the show to talk about her history: being born in SF, growing up in Tel Aviv, having a long stint in NY, and finally coming back to The Bay. We also get a few beautiful songs in betweenContinue Reading

Noise Pop Festival is an annual celebration of independent culture in the Bay Area, which over the course of a week, from February 24th to March 1st, and transforms the Bay Area into festival grounds with multiple events taking place across the city each night.Continue Reading

Balanced Breakfast is having our third national Music Summit in San Francisco on February 22nd at PianoFight. We've moved it by two weeks to ensure you don't have to choose between our event and Valentine's Day, The Super Bowl or the Grammys. We will be bringing all of the BB groups together for this event...Continue Reading

Attend Music Expo SF to get exclusive access to Grammy-winner producers, engineers and music industry professionals. Located at  SAE Expression College, this is the 6th edition of Music Expo in "San Francisco." (actually Emeryville, California) New this year the event is expanding to 2 days to offer more in-depth sessions.Continue Reading