The Outside Lands lineup featured Kendrick Lamar headlining Friday, with Zedd on the competing stage and Janelle Monáe in support. It was hard to sneak up close for Kendrick so I enjoyed my view from slightly too far away. Foo Fighters played on Saturday at the same time as Fisher and Lana Del Rey. The crowds all...Continue Reading

Northern Nights Music Festival delivered another amazing event in Northern California’s iconic Redwood Forest this last July 14-16. The lineup included Big Gigantic, G Jones, TOKiMONSTA, Netsky, Steamy Windows, Elephant Heart, High Step Society, our host Klyce and more.Continue Reading

This year's Lightning in a Bottle at Buena Vista Lake in Southern California took place during Memorial weekend, May 24-29, 2023. Unfortunately for me, BottleRock in Napa was happening the same weekend. I decided to cover Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival instead of BottleRock Music Festival. This was a hard choice because I’ve covered...Continue Reading

Outside Lands 2022 took place from August 5 to 7 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Green Day, Post Malone, and SZA headlined this year’s festival. The OSL lineup also included Phoebe Bridgers, who spoke of the fond memories she had of attending the festival as a kid. She added, that her only regret...Continue Reading

Northern Nights Music Festival presented its cutting-edge music line-up flawlessly. They also executed their industry-leading cannabis programming July 15-17 in Cooks Camp in a professional and fully law-abiding manner. Friday programming included Smoakland, Two Feet, and below photographed Claude VonStroke. The first night didn't end with the headliner, attendees had the option of silent disco,...Continue Reading

Don't miss Planet Booty at Elbo Room every Thursday in July. Described as "SoulCycle for music fans" by my housemate. This is a positive live music experience for men, women, and everybody in-between. If you don't understand that reference you either haven't taken a bike riding class designed to make Das Booty sweat or haven't...Continue Reading

Today the booty gods have graced us with new music from Dylan Charles Germick of Oakland band Planet Booty and his friend and music partner Dave Moore from Brooklyn's Planet Rump. This new collaboration is called Turbo Science and the sounds you're about to hear is suggestive, explicit, and sexual, but fully consensual.Continue Reading

The Moonsongue EP was recorded over the span of two years and finally released on the first full moon of 2021. It is a veritable potpourri of ideas patched together by an assortment of psychedelic folx; a testament to the power of friendship.Continue Reading

There was a time some years ago where I thought it was flat-out embarrassing or shameful to promote your own band on social media. Not exactly sure why, but those days have gone out the window.Continue Reading

Davis Lukrich joined Balanced Breakfast in 2014 when he was still living in San Francisco, and going by the moniker Growwler. He was a regular on my podcast at Mutiny Radio, and I could always count on him to throw a rager of a concert on his favorite holiday, Halloween. Some time ago Davis moved...Continue Reading

He has a band name too long for social media so Ryan Hamilton And The Harlequin Ghosts just goes by @theryanhamilton. Currently based in England, but from Texas, this singer-songwriter recently released a new single called Jesus & John Lennon. Formed in England after his previous band started to lose steam, their first single in...Continue Reading

"Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between. We are here today to celebrate life, love, funk, sweat, but most importantly we're here to celebrate BOOTAY. No matter your age, your shape, your color, your creed, your sexual orientation, your gender, or lack thereof. We are here right now today to show each and every one...Continue Reading