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Pacific Mambo Orchestra ignites Oakland Museum crowd
Having survived both the wild winds of the pandemic and the wild swings of the music industry, the Pacific Mambo Orchestra remains grounded and surprisingly invigorated. Led since 2010 by co-founders trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian...
Rhonda Sauce sings her whole self
Oakland vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rhonda Sauce in 2026 establishes that everything new is actually old. Born and raised in the city, she left the Bay Area to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in linguistics and technical...
Noise with teeth takes hold
Rip Room generates a rhythmic force that gets crowds moving. The trio—vocalist, guitarist and songwriter John Reed, bassist and harmony vocalist Sarah McKinney, and drummer Gracie Malley—deliver a performance driven by fractured rhythms, unexpected shifts in time...
Y&T play metal’s long game
Oakland hard rockers Y&T have been a durable fixture on the rock scene for more than 50 years. And while the metal masters racked up more than four million units in sales, when it comes to recognition...
Music inspired by divine evolution
Jenny Gillespie Mason, who records as Sis and the Lower Wisdom, started writing songs when she was still a teenager. She said attending the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville was a turning...
The Telephone Numbers call upon pop and introspection
The Telephone Numbers began playing together just before the pandemic lockdown. The quartet—Thomas Rubenstein and Morgan Stanley, who play guitar and sing; bass player Charlie Ertola; and drummer and percussionist Phil Lantz—are all veterans of San Francisco’s...
Buzzed Lightbeer zooms into 2026
The buzz is growing about Buzzed Lightbeer. The San Francisco band hit last year hard by having an admirable poll position at Psyched Radio's Tenderloin Music Festival and opening for a sold-out Shannon and the Clams show...
