654 Presents is a production group that has been throwing shows in the Bay for only a year now, and from my perspective at least, there doesn't seem to be any genre preference, other than the fact that most of these bands are underground and play music that could broadly be categorized as punk. Matt Bartels, who spearheads the operation, has recently started to book shows at North Berkeley's long running punk stronghold Gilman, and in conjunction with the rest of the crew there is throwing a massive three day festival entitled Resurrect California. In my experience, the Bay's scene has [...]