Cigarettes After Sex will release their much-anticipated sophomore album - Cry - on October 25th via Partisan Records. The album was recorded during night time sessions in a mansion on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It has been described as a lush, cinematic meditation on the many complex facets of love - meeting, wanting, needing, losing...Continue Reading

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

Outside Lands 2019 took place at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on August 9-11, 2019. This annual three-day weekend festival is the destination for young and old. Located within Golden Gate Park, it takes a bit of planning to get in and out efficiently.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

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

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

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

It’s becoming difficult to choose what show to attend here in Napa anymore. Didn’t used to be that way. I remember fifteen years ago being excited that a Rolling Stones tribute was scheduled to play at Silos. Our music scene was terribly bland. Save for a few traveling past favorites that would occasionally roll through...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

Matthew Szlachetka (pronounced SLA-HET-KA) is out on tour in support of his new album release, Heart Of My Hometown. Rolling Stone Magazine praised the album, citing Szlachetka as a ‘New Country Artist to Know.’ That was evident as many Angelinos packed into the Second Stage venue at Hollywood’s Hotel Café on Wednesday night. The music...Continue Reading

Umphrey’s McGee entranced the Los Angeles’ Wiltern theater for two, high energy-packed sets. Amidst the hypnotic psychedelic light show and LED visuals, Umphrey’s McGee seamlessly weaves progressive rock, jazz, disco, funk, metal, and electronic genres into a cohesive dance mix. Each band member has a keen musical ear and an uncanny talent to communicate with...Continue Reading