Music

The first album by Emma Gerson, the artist who goes by the name of lucky break, was made it! Gerson said she used lowercase letters for her musical pseudonym and the album title because she didn’t want...

Fog Lamp came together in West Oakland during the pandemic lockdown. Aaron Firestone, the band’s singer and main lyricist, started jamming with his friend Adam Selken. They decided what direction to take as the band evolved. “We tried...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...