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Total Bros Thursdays!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Total Bros play with people we like, at places we like and we like them…and are originally from Santa Rosa, but they are all here now and have been doing it all around the Portland house show circuit for a few years. Total Bros is Wiley and Ethan. Some other projects that Ethan is/has been involved in are Atlases. […]

Art + Music = ♥

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

In case you can’t read the elegant writing, it’s an art show Friday, March 19 at 8 p.m. at Salon Mirabelle (1910 Mission st, SF) featuring artwork from Jared Powell and music from Michelle Hill, Brian Moss and Bill Wild. The music alone is worth it. The art alone is worth it. Both combined? […]

The Most Awesome Protagonist Returns

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I think it’s rather safe to say that anyone who is familiar with the tightly knit music scene of Sonoma County has heard or seen Mikey O’Connor play music at some point over the last ten years. Whether it was playing cheery pop punk with Hot April or Protecting Gheel, or […]

Dripping Pen Issue III

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Dripping Pen is an “anti-elitist” collaboration of artists and writers who over the past few years have released two print and digital zines. Although it has been on hiatus for a few years, the Northern California based zine is back and currently calling for submissions for their third issue due out in the upcoming months. […]

The Dodos were simply Magik*

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The Dodos played with the Magik Magik Orchestra at the Palace of Fine Arts in SF Feb. 24. Photo by Anne Ostrowski
The orchestra and band thing doesn’t always pan out to be the best idea in the world. Death Cab touring with orchestra - yes. Radiohead and strings - sure. Metallica and a symphony? Not […]

Smooth sailing on a rickshaw: Foreign Born and Fresh and Onlys

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Foreign Born 2/24/10 Rickshaw Stop, Sf. Photo by nick g.
Last night brought a twinge of nostalgia. Foreign Born played with The Fresh and Onlys at Rickshaw Stop in SF last night as part of the Noisepop festival. I swear there was a touch of Dick Dale and Nelson Mandela in the air.
Fresh and Onlys was […]

Noise Pop 2010 -San Fransisco

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Tonegazer writers and Noise Pop music editor-writer, Annie and Charlie are driving down right now to the week long event with a day or two stay in our previous hometown/ party town Santa Rosa, CA on the way. The bay area shows,venues and art all begin on Feb 23 and run through March 1st. I am sure they will have a ton […]

Pandacide Split 7″

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Santiago, Moggs, and Lo-Five will be celebrating the release of their 7″ split on Pandacide Records this Saturday at the Guayaki Mate Bar in Sebastopol. These guys all stand alone as some of the best bands in Sonoma County so there is no doubt that this split will be worth picking up. Show starts at […]

Fecal Face highlights local artist Meredith Dittmarr

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

The Local artist by the name of Meredith Dittmarr was recently interviewed in FECAL FACE. Meredith Dittmar creates clay type sculptures in very interesting displays, using premo polymer-clay and wire. She has a current show on N. Mississippi street here in Portland at a children’s store called Black Wagon, note that particular exhibit was meant for children and […]

Deerhoof is not an opening band!

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Damnit, when will this stop? I understand when a band is just starting they must open for larger acts to gain fans and respect, but Deerhoof is really, REALLY good. I mean, beyond most other music kind of good. If they wanted to, they could become more famous than Linkin Park. IF they wanted to.
But […]

KSUN Music Director’s Top Picks of ‘09

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

A few weeks ago when we sent out a message asking for local musicians and music promoters to put together a list of their top five albums of ‘09, we didn’t quite know what we were going to get back. We all know how flaky musicians can be, and we’re aware that we’re just a […]

Top Picks of 2009

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

**We love the above print by artist Mark Weaver, check out his prints available for purchase at his site here and his flickr right here.

2009 was certainly a year of great albums, and even more notably a year of amazing releases from tons of local Sonoma County bands. We thought it would be […]

Not to Reason Why Record Release Show

Friday, December 25th, 2009

In honor of their new album Not to Reason Why are kicking off a list of Bay Area shows with their CD release next Friday at The Phoenix Theater. And while the spotlight is surely theirs, they’ve assembled a lineup of some of the finest bands Sonoma County has to offer.Visit their myspace page […]

Get Here Now

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Our very talented friends Kindness and Lies will be playing their North Bay CD release show on December 12th at the always wonderful Last Record Store. I can personally attest to the fact that their new album, Look Up Now, offers five tracks packed to the brim with luscious vocal harmonies and intricately layered instrumentation […]

I’d hug that fire, for sure.

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Not To Reason Why’s new album melts my heart
Rating: Vinyl: 9/10. CD: 8.5/10

The gentlemen, and lady, of Not To Reason Why.
Photo by www.sarasanger.com.
Not To Reason Why is melting the hearts (and faces) of audiences in Sonoma County, throwing new logs on the waning fire that is the North Bay music scene. Their latest release and […]

Am I missing something here?

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

So this story details the city of Windsor in the glorious wine country creating a family friendly atmosphere by regulating its “town green” portion of town to disallow certain businesses. Aside from the fact that this is absolutely akin to creating a master race by disallowing certain types of people, one part of the article […]

This year’s best festival on a man made island is…

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The Treasure Island Music Festival

*all photos from treasureislandfestival.com
In it’s third year, the treasure island festival finally sold out. Ticket wise that is. The festival, a past time for me and Annie since its inception in 2007, was packed for both days, meaning more crowds and more craziness. Saturday the 17th was an electronic filled […]

zombiezies

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Above pic is not from Santa Rosa. It is from The Internet. I cheat.
Downtown Santa Rosa was crawling with zombies this afternoon. Zombies promoting universal health care in the United States.
WTF?
Seemingly strange connection to make, but Michael Houghton of Section M fame felt it was a good way to get the point across that we […]

New Sunny Day Real Estate album in the works?

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Sunny Day Real Estate, a band which blazed the way for basically every band you like, is finishing up a reunion tour right now. After being split up since 1996 (their last two albums were produced without original bassist Nate Mendel) the group decided to tour. They have been playing a new song, too, which […]

Save The Phoenix

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

I can’t possibly count all of the amazing shows that I have both attended and had the pleasure of playing at the Phoenix Theater. It has been a mainstay of the Sonoma County scene far before I began frequenting it back in High School, and it would be an immeasurable loss if The Phoenix had […]