So I spent over two years making an album I’m releasing this coming week with my band Buckeye Knoll. It’s called People and Place. I just wanted to take a moment and recap some of the elements that make this album different, significant and special in ways that may or may not make it to...Continue Reading

Photo By: Amber Gregory Looking for a beachin’ new band to help you gear up for summertime? These fine young gentlemen were featured in the SF Weekly “Best of 2009,” and, to put it simply, just make you feel like dancing. With a list of influences reaching from the Beach Boys to Paul Simon to...Continue Reading

So, as you may or may not know I am in a band called Please Do Not Fight. We had grand plans this year to head out to South By Southwest. It was to be our first ever southwest tour. We were going to play a show in Erin’s hometown of Dallas, hit up some...Continue Reading

by Nik Bartunek Once in a while, we all get the hankering to read a book. Some of us read entire libraries. Some of us read a shelf of books. Some, a row. Reading isn’t really everybody’s thing these days. Saying that in the company of our grandparents may get a “Tsk Tsk”. It’s funny...Continue Reading

Photo by Daniel Wong Some times the most unexpected musical evenings are the ones that turn into the most inspiring. Something happens when you begin to get involved with any “scene”—you find out what you like and what you’re not so fond of. Then you start acting on those likes and dislikes. In the world...Continue Reading

This blog is all about the Redwood Music Scene. Despite being full of young people, people-who-play-music and the inevitable sub-section of young-people-who-play-music the fact of the matter is this: There isn’t one. But it doesn’t have to be that way and we can change it. We – Please Do Not Fight – hosted the very...Continue Reading

I was born and raised in a small town in the Napa Valley called St. Helena. There was no scene there, no other bands to look up to and as you can imagine no venues to support a young group of kids trying to make music.Continue Reading