There is a guy who wanders the Bay Area in a tricked-out truck handing out musical instruments like some kind of Pied Piper in a pinstripe vest. His name is Jason Cool. (Yes, it is.) His project is called the Musical Instrument Library. I met Cool for the first time

Nobody watches the Grammys anymore right? Television is dead. Music is deader, and anything relevant is on Reddit, right? I found myself watching a real television in a real house with my boyfriend and his parents on Grammy night 2019. As a child, I dreamed of being a rock and

Fun, artsy, surfy, SF band Sonny & the Sunsets are launching on a new label and giving away art to IndieGoGo supporters…check em out…. Via – The Brand New, Rocks in Your Head Records Sonny Smith, of Sonny & the Sunsets, just started a new San Francisco label, Rocks In Your Head Records.  The first album, Hairdressers

BROKE ASS STUART’S BEER WEEK CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS This is going to be a super fun day.  The gaming experts at SF Social Sports Cornhole League are holding three tournaments throughout the day at Laughing Monk with us!  There are going to be sweet prizes of $100, $50, $25 gift certificates for the winning

Have your listening habits changed from 2009 to 2019? Following the trend of comparing 2009 to 2019, I’ve created a playlist that documents Bay Area bands from the past 10 years. It will compare the bands I was listening to when I started writing about the Bay Area music scene

“We’re going to get the models, and the sand, and build a beautiful wall in the desert…and Kanye is coming” A month into the government shutdown, President Trump announced that the border wall between Mexico and USA was going to be built without the help of the US Congress.  “We’re don’t need Pelosi and Shumy to do this,” Trump said

When founder and owner Christopher White, opened Rickshaw Stop 15 years ago he started saving band t-shirts from the artists that played his venue. The vision was that the box would stay sealed until he had a child to share them with. Perhaps one of your band shirts made it