.Music

Cindy Emch, songwriter, guitarist and lead singer of the Secret Emchy Society, opens her band’s latest album, Gold Country/Country Gold, with a radical reinvention of the Willie Nelson hit, “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond Of Each Other.”...

Oakland’s Mario Hernandez, the frontman of Kids on a Crime Spree, wants to change the world. The songs on the band’s second outing, Fall In Love Not In Line, still have the bright, sing-along melodies and memorable...

Wreckage from the Fire documents Aaron Skiles’ efforts to deal with the pandemic. The lockdown put an end to Bourbon Therapy, the long running Bay Area country rock band he fronted with his wife, Rebecca. Unable to...

Drifter, the new album from San Francisco’s Young Prisms, took shape over the past decade. The band—Stefanie Hodapp, vocals, synthesizer; Matt Allen, vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, drum programming; Giovanni Betteo, bass, guitar, synthesizer, drum programming; and Jordan...

Sonoma County-raised and UC Berkeley-educated Holly Tzeigon-Whitaker, who now resides and works in Oakland, has just entered the music scene in a big way. Her latest single, Convenient Hell, which dropped on all streaming platforms last Friday—along...

Bluegrass is not the first genre that comes to mind when thinking about the local music community, but a West Coast bluegrass scene has existed, mainly centered around the stage at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage coffee house,...

Maurice Tani put on a cowboy hat and changed his life. The guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer has been a well-known name on the local music scene for several decades. He was the lead guitarist for Roy...