Blair Gun was founded by pals who played basketball together as kids, augmented by players recruited on the site BandMix. Their sophomore album, There Are No Rival Clones Here, dropped last June via ...

Recently, my main squeeze Jamie Estrada joined me for an evening among the fairies and pixies in the Voodoo Room at the House of Blues. For a while, I thought I might need a little voodoo of my own ...

A stage musical about a hybrid crimefighter with the head of a dog and the body of a policeman? Did I mention he fights cyborg fish and cloned evil cats? This might sound like a tall order (not to ...

Newsom’s insulin fail. A drive by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to make low-cost insulin by spending $100 million in state ...

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Their music combines elements of rock and punk with complex time signature changes and complicated interweaving guitar rhythms, sometimes described as noise rock, math rock, or sludge rock.

Chet & the Committee frontman Chet Cannon is a self-described “terminal blues fan” who once attended 26 blues concerts in 29 days. “We’ve been playing the blues as the Committee around San ...

Founded in 1988, Christian industrial metal dance band Mortal was fronted by Jerome Fontamillas and Jyro Xhan, who together also formed the alternative rock group Fold Zandura. Originally known as ...

Gypsy/jazz/Flamenco guitarist David Maldonado’s early influences encompassed a broad range of Spanish Classical music. At 8 years old, he was already an accomplished violinist, immersed in the ...

The Country Rockin’ Rebels were founded by Bad Science Fiction guitarist Michael Head, operator of local Headtrap Studios for around 20 years (started in OB in 1989 and in Lake Murray since 1994 ...

Pink Froyd and the Pink Floyd Experience are fronted by guitarist Tom Quinn, with both bands usually featuring the same local players, including co-founding bassist Gus Beaudoin. “Our first gig ...