Phono Del Sol Music Festival 2019 returned after a one-year hiatus, The Bay Bridged and Noise Pop joined forces to bring back this much-celebrated event to the park. It was cold, windy and grey, but enjoying artisanal drinks, along with bites from some of the tastiest food trucks and with amazing music made the day...Continue Reading

Imagine Dragons • Logic • OneRepublic • Sylvan Esso • Flogging Molly • Jenny Lewis • Neil Young + Promise of the Real • Pharrell Williams • Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats • Mumford & Sons • Santana • Tash Sultana • Lord Huron • Michael Franti & Spearhead • Big BoiContinue 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

Survival is something that all bands struggle with. A lot of bands cover up and mask their mistakes pretending like they never happened. Instead of covering up the struggle for success, we are encouraging musicians to share their stories with each other.Continue Reading

Noise Pop is a yearly music festival that takes over a large number of the venues in San Francisco and Oakland. The Bay Area ignites with excitement each March when the festival begins with a mixer at The Academy of Science.Continue Reading

Founded by noise pop in 2007, treasure island music festival has been located on treasure island until this year when it was moved to middle harbor shoreline park. How long until the branding changes to reflect the location change? Formerly branded by its location on an island, the new location is huddled under the impressively tall...Continue Reading

This summer Balanced Breakfast has the pleasure of spending the week at Crown Guitar Workshop and Festival in Big Fork, Montana. We witnessed first hand the positive effect the festival had on guitar players looking to get better at their craftContinue Reading

For three days Gold Gate Park is the home of 5+ stages and more than 50,000 fans. The festival organizers do an amazing job of completely transforming and manipulating the park to accommodate the festival and its fansContinue Reading

I have been to a lot of music festivals. While most of them have been amazing, none of them have been as organized as High Sierra Music Festival. This is the 27th year that the festival has existed, and it shows. In addition to being a well-run festival, I also found the staff, musicians, and attendees...Continue Reading

When I turn off the freeway to enter the festival, I’m always excited to discover the upgrades introduced to the festivals flow. Each year the festival has discovered its problem areas and fixed themContinue Reading

ID10T was a nerd festival experiment that turned into a huge success. Chris Hardwick had the goal to create a new festival that featured music and comedy. I feel like he did that and more. The festival was a melting pot of nerdism. Attendees came from all parts of California to celebrate comic books, cosplay, stand up comedy, and...Continue Reading

All music industry professionals need to Eat, Sleep and Poop. Even the most hardcore band can only sustain a tour with minimal accommodations for so long. Eventually, everybody needs to sleep in a real bed, take a hot shower, and wash their stinky clothes. While on tour, one should attempt to eat healthy and get...Continue Reading