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Review: Travis Hayes “Young Daze” Album Release Party at Bottom Of The Hill

I caught this photo of Travis Hayes minutes before he hit the stage at Bottom Of The Hill to play his album release show for his new self-released full length,...
July 12, 2014ByIn

CONCERT CALENDAR: THIS WEEKEND ~ More shows than you can wag a finger at!

Not one, not two not three, not four not five but six shows worth seeing this weekend! That’s right! But my count, there are 6 great shows in 3 short days...
July 11, 2014ByIn

“A Performance Review” Bonnie & The Bang Bang, Battlehooch, and DonCat @ Slim’s 6-27-14

If there’s one thing a performer needs to have, its a total understanding of timing. You need to know when to slow a set down, speed it up, and work...
July 7, 2014ByIn

“A Performance Review” Kendra McKinley & Logan Greene @ The Knockout 6/26/14

This is a review I’ve been looking forward to writing. I never know for sure what I’m going to get when I go see a band. Yeah, I can listen...
June 28, 2014ByIn

Video: DonCat – ‘Where Wind Blows’

As a youth, Duncan ‘DonCat’ Nielsen’s grandma gave him an odd pile of European released Beach Boys tapes, which lead him to the record store searching for other oddities. Coming...
June 26, 2014ByIn,

Melvoy – San Franfrisco | Irrelevant Elephants – June 28th at Amnesia

San Diego native Melvoy now calls San Francisco his home, and it sounds like the Bay Area is happy to have him. Melvoy (real name Emmanuel Castro – perfect) records high energy, brazen millennial...
June 10, 2014ByIn

Photos from Balanced Breakfast: How to Market and Promote at Coast Recorders 05.29.14

Helpful self-promotion tips for songwriters included naming your influences in the subject line of cold emails to potential blogs. But getting an intro from someone you share in common is always...
June 3, 2014ByIn, ,

RIP Old Coachella Music Festival

It’s not exactly news to me that Coachella is a new breed at this point in time. I can remember going in 2010 and seeing double the people there than...
June 2, 2014ByIn

This Fine Life: Whiskerman’s Bad News EP [Review] and 5/31 at Great American Music Hall

Two and a half minutes into the title track, you can tell that SF Bay Area’s Whiskerman has figured it out. You know, like the musical equivalent of the ‘nail...
May 27, 2014ByIn,

Phono Del Sol Music Festival 2014 Lineup Announcement

 The 2014 Phono del Sol Music Festival is almost here! As we count the days until July 12, here’s a crucial bit of information for all attendees: set times for all...
May 1, 2014ByIn, ,

What a SHOW is to me … or my vision for the Bay Area music community

San Francisco music community, I love you but some times you bring me down… (ala James Murphy) When I was going to SHOWS back in lil ol’ Wyoming, it was...
April 21, 2014ByIn

Do It Ourselves Festival 2014 in SANTA CRUZ, CA

Last year a group of Santa Cruz friends and musicians concocted the crazy idea of organizing their very own music festival. They filled the line up with their own bands,...
April 21, 2014ByIn,
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