This week has us cheering Bottoms Up, to Oakland, California based four-piece The Hot Toddies. Bottoms Up is the third release from this all girls rock band: Heidi, Erin, Jessica and Sylvia. Since 2005 they have toured the U.S. and Canada for their […]
The newest indie buzz-band duo of 2013, Adam Green and Binki Shapiro offer refreshing, diary style honesty in this folk pop debut. I spoke to the two while they were in route to their San Francisco performance. Green reached widespread […]
Waits’ Album Blood Money Narrates 18th Century Play Tom Waits’ music will grace the Ashby Stage in their newest production Woyzeck through January 27th. The original musical score by Waits and Katheleen Brennan are songs from his album Blood Money. They accompany this more than […]
Already sick of all the cheesy holiday music spinning on repeat at grocery stores, drug stores, and on major radio stations? Well Bay Area rising chamber-pop musician Laura Weinbach has an answer for you. Pick up a copy of her […]
If I was a bass guitarist, I am not sure who I would rather be in today’s alternative rock scene than Ms. Jessica Dobson. Over the past ten years she has joined Beck, Conor Oberst, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the […]
What better way to stomp out the anxiety than checking out the Omaha, Nebraska based pop-rock band Tilly and the Wall? The five-piece band are currently on tour for their fourth album, Heavy Mood, and I spoke to them on […]
We all have that band that has saved us from our painful years of growing up and finding out how to make sense of the world, and of ourselves. For many kids born in the 80’s or 90’s, we feel […]
Harmony By the Bay, presented by KFOG at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View (Sat/Sept. 29th) offered a showcase of some of the best alternative rock musicians of the last decade, from currently rising stars such as Kimbra(known for her […]
Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes is back with new material, and if you have not heard, it’s with his punk band (that’s right, Oberst, who is often dubbed as emo, can rock hard) Desaparecidos– with Landon Hedges on bass guitar […]
July 8–Berkeley Rasputin‘s Sunday afternoon concerts always keep you guessing with what genre of music you might stumble upon while shopping on Telegraph on a gorgeous afternoon, and if you caught last week’s installment you will not soon forget it. […]
