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Counting down to The Head and The Heart “Down in the Valley” Festival!

August 20, 2023

We are only a couple weekends away from the new boutique festival Down in the Valley created by chart-topping indie band The Head and The Heart. The two day festival is set to take place on September 2nd + 3rd and will take place at the Oxbow River Stage in scenic Napa, California. The festival features Saturday, September 2 The Head And The Heart Waxahatchee Faye Webster Rayland Baxter Miya Folick Sunday, September 3 The Head And The Heart Dawes Madison Cunningham Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners Shaina Shepherd Josiah Johnson (special solo set) The band comments, “It’s been a career-long dream of ours to curate an event that celebrates the incredible music and camaraderie between the artists we love and respect. Down In The Valley’s inaugural lineup is an extension of our little The Head And The Heart world, not only musically, but through the ethos of love and reverence for each other’s craft. We called upon longtime friends and musicians we truly admire to make this vision a reality that [Read More]

Dan Ashley captivates the crowd at Outside Lands 2023

August 16, 2023

As we begin to bring you our set recaps from Outside Lands, we would like to start off with one of our favorites. Dan Ashley performed at the Panhandle stage on Saturday and we were glad we caught the set. Dan brought his Americana Rock and Original Roll band to the festival and it was quite a fun time. Dan comments, “We had a terrific experience performing at Outside Lands this year. What a privilege to play such a major music festival, not just in San Francisco, but one of the biggest in the country”. You might recognize Dan, he is a longtime ABC7 evening news anchor here in the Bay Area. Well, he definitely ROCKED the stage at Outside Lands. You couldn’t help but be held captive by his passion for his music, as he delivered songs that carried his emotion along with euphonious vocals. Dan tells us more about how it was performing this past weekend, “From start to finish, performing at Outside Lands this year was a joy. It’s such an important [Read More]

New Single from Candlebox off upcoming new album

August 16, 2023

Candlebox are preparing to release their final studio album, aptly titled The Long Goodbye next week. Ahead of the release they are treating us to a new single, What Do You Need featuring Mona. About the track, The new track, co-written by Nick Brown of the alt-rock band Mona, is a sneering statement of independence, The new track, co-written by Nick Brown of the alt-rock band Mona, is a sneering statement of independence. “‘What Do You Need’ was a blast to record,” shares front man and songwriter Kevin Martin. “Working with Nick Brown from Mona on the lyrics was an incredible experience. There is so much life in this song; I love how trashy and stomping this song is. It has all the best of Candlebox in it and Don Miggs’ production on this track is absolutely perfect and gives it everything it was looking for. I love this song!” You can listen to the new song here: The new album is out next Friday, August 25th via Round Hill Records, The Long Goodbye, Candlebox’s eighth studio album, also features the hard-hitting lead single “Punks.” [Read More]

New video from Hot Milk for “Breathing Under Water”

August 16, 2023

Hot Milk are set to release their debut album, A Call to the Void on August 25th. Ahead of the release, they have just given us the emotionally driven vulnerable track Breathing Underwater and it is incredible! A track co-vocalist, Han Mee describes as sounding “like when you break your own heart. To feel like you’re drowning, gasping for air, frustrated and alone. This song embodies the emotion and spirit of our current headspace, and we feel it may be the most important song we’ve ever pulled from the universe. This is Hot Milk’s true heart. Hot Milk is an emotion.” Stirring vocal harmonies, heartening string sections and effortless key changes find comfort in melodic and emotive balladeering and songcraft to create an impassioned sonic call to arms with Mee stating that “we needed to write this song as a cry to the outside world. Breathing Underwater is the beating heart and defining song off our debut album, it was written first and set off a chain reaction that moulded the feeling of A CALL TO THE VOID.” Check [Read More]

Dirty Honey announces dates for Can’t Find the Brakes Tour

August 15, 2023

Get ready to have your Fall turn into a Rock n Roll Dream as Dirty Honey announce tour dates for the “Can’t Find the Brakes Tour”, named after their upcoming album. The tour will kick off right in San Francisco at the Regency Ballroom. I can tell you that you don’t want to miss this as the band always delivers 100% nonstop ROCK! Check out the tour news below: On this tour, vocalist Marc LaBelle, guitarist John Notto, and bassist Justin Smolian will introduce North America to Dirty Honey’s new drummer, Jaydon Bean, a long-time friend of the band’s who came on board this past January, just before the band’s first massive ’23 UK/European headline tour launched. In its review of Dirty Honey’s Manchester tour stop in January, the UK’s Rock at Night wrote, “It’s difficult to believe that drummer Jaydon Bean appeared live with the band for the first time only a few days earlier. His high-quality playing and jovial on-stage persona blends well with his bandmates.” Just before the Fall headline tour kick-off, Dirty Honey will play a handful of major U.S. rock festivals [Read More]

Photo Gallery: ALEXSUCKS at Brick and Mortar in San Francisco

August 10, 2023

Los Angeles based rockers ALEXSUCKS made a tour stop in San Francisco and ROCKED the Brick and Mortar. Their night featured a killer set by Weekend Youth and we couldn’t be happier. The band fronted by Alex Alvarez bring together a style of punk, garage rock and 90’s dance featuring catchy lyrics, energetic guitars and grooves to keep you moving. Imagine a blend of Modern English and The Strokes. What else can you ask for? Check out photos of their set by our Rockin Ryan: They are definitely a band you wanted to check out. One of our highlights is when they performed their track, Can We Forget. You can check out their video for that song here: Make sure to visit their social media sites and stay up to date on their latest news. Information & Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexsucks/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0zmxCsd8aIJHfNC95gdT2i Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCozniwKeDp2OZvcPinklrVw

Shine the spotlight on the new K Pop Superstars Cravity

August 7, 2023

Get ready as we introduce you to the new K Pop superstars Cravity. The name is a combination of the words “creativity” and “gravity,” also taking on the meaning “center of gravity.” Check out the news below: August 7, 2023—Introducing CRAVITY: the nine-member, K-pop boy group who are taking the world by storm. Debuting as a group in 2020 with Starship Entertainment, they have been rapidly growing in popularity and recently wrapped their first ever US tour with performances in cities. They have a number of North American festival dates coming up this summer—KCON in Los Angeles (August 18), Kamp Fest CDMX in Mexico City (August 19 & 20) and Krazy K-pop Festival in New York City (August 26). CRAVITY—a combination of the words “creativity” and “gravity”—consists of Serim, Allen, Jungmo, Woobin, Wonjin, Minhee, Hyeongjun Taeyoung and Seongmin. Also meaning “center of gravity,” the groups aims to draw you into their unique universe. Earning the title “Monster Rookie” after being referred to as rookies by several media outlets, CRAVITY have already won a host of highly coveted awards including “Best of Next” at the Mnet Asian Music Awards, “New Artist of the Year” at the Melon Awards and [Read More]