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Jul 8, 2025
Women’s Audio Mission amplifies women in music production
Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) is an organization dedicated to magnifying the voices of women and gender-expansive people in all aspects of the music business....
May 27, 2025
Josiah Flores laughs at the pain
The follow up to Awful Feeling, singer/songwriter and guitarist Josiah Flores’ debut EP, is Doin’ Fine. “I have an ironic sense of humor,” Flores...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Apr 1, 2025
Eli’s Mile High Club faces a financial crisis
Eli’s was once one of Oakland’s liveliest neighborhood nightspots, putting on shows by local and nationally known blues artists almost every day of the...
Mar 25, 2025
Lief Sorbye chronicles Tempest’s journey in new book
Lief Sorbye is the lead singer, main songwriter and mandolin player of Tempest, the Bay Area-based Celtic band that’s developed a worldwide following in...