(photo: Collin Morrow) Any musician who's been in bands for a while will tell you why they're still in the game: It's really just an excuse to hang out with your friends. But the members of Hose Rips don't really need an excuse to hang out. The Sonoma County quintet have already been channeling artistic expression through various avenues with each other for more than a decade, whether in their previous band Secret Cat, in their local theater group the Imaginists, and across every visual medium available. It's what they do. As I make my way through the downtown Santa Rosa home of [...]