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Jun 10, 2025

San Francisco Jazz Festival reinvents itself

For the casual music fan, the transition at SFJAZZ from the organization’s founder, Randall Kline, to trumpeter Terence Blanchard has been a seamless affair.  Week by week, the roster of artists performing in the SFJAZZ Center’s 700-seat Miner Auditorium and intimate 107-seat Joe Henderson Lab looks much the same in...
Collisionville merges punk roots with Americana
May 13, 2025

Collisionville merges punk roots with Americana

On To Wit:, the new album from Collisionville, the Bay Area trio continues to merge various strains of American music—folk, blues, country, R&B, ragtime and more—into their own unique style. The group has been together for 20...
Local bands take center stage at free Tenderloin Music Festival
May 13, 2025

Local bands take center stage at free Tenderloin Music Festival

Music festival season is upon us. And while the Bay Area has a few to offer, Guillermo Goyri of Psyched! Radio is presenting the second Tenderloin Music & Arts Festival—given to the people at no cost. That's...
Club Night releases new album 'Joy Coming Down'
Apr 29, 2025

Club Night releases new album, ‘Joy Coming Down’

The new album by Oakland’s Club Night, Joy Coming Down, took shape over the past seven years. It was informed by the Covid shutdown, the death of loved ones, and the need of band members to work...
Rock musical 'The Code' gets updated student production
Apr 22, 2025

Rock musical ‘The Code’ gets updated student production

For people who doubt the unifying power of music, The Kilbanes will make them believers. The Oakland-based theatrical rock band founded and led by vocalist/guitarist/bassist Kate Kilbane and multi-instrumentalist/sound engineer Dan Moses excels in music propelled by...
The Boars have fun with taxidermy
Apr 15, 2025

The Boars have fun with taxidermy

The seeds for the quartet that became the Boars—Lars Nylander on Farfisa, Brent Willson on bass, Jeff Glave on guitar and drummer Eric Eidel—were sewn in the early 2000s. “I was traveling with Brent in Spain a few...
Honoring Lee Hildebrand
Apr 8, 2025

Honoring Lee Hildebrand

Lee Hildebrand’s long, eclectic career centered on the Oakland blues scene. After getting out of the Army in the late ’60s, he began hanging out in the blues clubs that populated Oakland at that time. He contributed...
East Bay rock powerhouse Charger blazes a new trail
Apr 1, 2025

East Bay rock powerhouse Charger blazes a new trail

In late 2017, drummer Jason Willer (Jello Biafra’s Guantanamo School of Medicine, UK Subs) and bassist Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy, Rancid) started laying the foundation for what would become an East Bay rock powerhouse: Charger.  “Matt had the...
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