Derek’s Best of The Bay: 2020
Photo by Eric Molyneaux
With the pandemic putting the kibosh on live music, there's unquestionably been a collective sadness within our hearts. That old world — where one could wander [...]
Photo by Eric Molyneaux
With the pandemic putting the kibosh on live music, there's unquestionably been a collective sadness within our hearts. That old world — where one could wander [...]
The Bay Bridged is psyched announce that Horders is dropping their debut LP this month, entitled Eternities. The North Bay instrumental purveyors have spent the last decade carving out [...]
You might say that 2020 has been a crazy year for Trebuchet.
Since the dawn of the new decade, the North Bay indie rockers have welcomed a newborn into the [...]
North Bay indie outfit Self Care has been delving into the more ethereal side of indie rock in the last few years. Their new album Just a Ghost drops today [...]
Michael Bingham, Spiritual Cramp
(photo: Derek Nielsen)
"My fondest memory of Slim's had less to do with my experience at the show and more to do with my partner's. In our many [...]
Hey, what you doing right now? Yeah that's what I thought. Here, take 4 minutes out of your busy day of Zoom meetings, bread baking, and fluctuating existential dread [...]
(Source: Slim's Facebook)
So yeah, Slim's closed down. In a normal world, that would have been the most bummer thing to have happened last week. I use that term "normal world" [...]
So I think it's safe to say we're all in a transition period, right? Both as individuals and as a society? Yeahhhh. That's why the timing for the release [...]
Look around you. Doesn't it feel like you're living in a dream world right now? Can you even remember what life was like before this? My advice: go with [...]
Pictured: The author.
Look, from an artist's perspective, I get why y'all don't come up here all the time. Having grown up here, I'll admit that Sonoma County is pretty [...]
Songwriter John Courage returns to his roots as an acoustic troubadour with his first acoustic-centric release in almost 10 years. All sounds were recorded and performed by the towering Santa Rosa [...]
Slugger from left to right: Robert McLean, Hezekiah Donaghy, Alex Vargas, Josiah Donaghy
It’s a muggy late-summer evening in south Santa Rosa. As the four members of Slugger dutifully distribute [...]