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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, 2009In 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, 2009Not 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, 2009So 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, 2009The 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, 2009Above 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, 2009Sunny 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, 2009I 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 […]
This Saturday
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Mikey O’Connor, previously the man behind The Most Awesome Protagonist moniker, will be playing at The Brainwash Cafe on Saturday the 8th in San Francisco. The show starts at 9 and will no doubt showcase some of Mikey’s brand new songs off of his most recent full length One Gets Used to Anything, in addition […]
Audium 9
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I held my head with my hands between my knees and felt like I was dying. I was seeing my life flash before my eyes, or rather hearing it flash before my ears. All the sounds I had just experienced, which felt like a life well-lived, were coming back. Just as I became comfortable, just […]
nothing to do with tonegazer
Sunday, June 28th, 2009This really has nothing to do with Tonegazer, but I did the sound/boom operating for this movie. It hits home with musicians… and people who like somewhat-melodramatic short films. Tonegazer’s own Hadley Hill is featured as the music for this film. The songs are “It’s Not You, It’s Me… OK, It’s You” and “Unsettling”. Hadley […]
June 6th House Show
Sunday, June 21st, 2009The June 6th show was so much fun, a special thank you to all of the bands that played that night. All of the sets were incredible and it made us so very happy to be able to have the show in our little basement. If we had it our way, we would do it […]
GO TO THIS
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Daredevils & Queens Shows Cancelled
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009So, despite the fact that they have had no sound complaints, have had no violent or underage drinking fiascoes, and for the longest time have continued to allude police awareness, Daredevils and Queens is now being forced to cease hosting concerts. This comes as incredibly sad news to us, specially since three of our most […]
kicking it old school
Monday, April 20th, 2009Is it just me or would the newly announced lineup for The Outside Lands festival have been relevant, oh say, like ten years ago? I mean sure, there are a handful of bands that I wouldn’t mind seeing, but most of the acts date back to the bands I was seeing years ago in High […]
The return of xerox
Friday, April 10th, 2009Grab your jelly beans and ride on over to Community Bikes this Sunday for a few hours of joy resurrecting jams. Man, so many good shows in the upcoming weeks!
The problem with Sonoma County…
Friday, April 10th, 2009Our musically minded hearts are breaking that yet another wonderful venue is closing their doors. My advice - start a venue that rich tourists can go to, with still life paintings of wine grapes. Surely that will never be shut down.
Live it up people, this will be The Boogie Room’s last:
simple myspace reiterations
Friday, April 10th, 2009We ♥ Ben, Ben plays bass in Snipers.
You win this one CA
Friday, March 27th, 2009I am very sad that a few months after moving North, there is such a wonderful art show taking place in San Francisco. For everyone in the Bay Area, don’t miss out! As we have posted previously here on tonegazer, we are great admirers of the artwork of Dan McCarthy and assure you this is […]
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