Sometimes a band's name is enough to make you stop and at least notice where the group is playing. It's hard to top a name like Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band. The six-piece funk band from Asheville, N.C., rolls into the HopMonk Tavern, 230 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol, [...]
A lot of singer-songwriters sound like everybody else. And then there's Fred Eaglesmith. Eaglesmith, known writing songs about trains, dogs, guns, drinking and farming (among other things), will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, at Sebastopol's Studio E. His songs include plot twists and surprise endings, and [...]
Boxx plays at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at Spancky's, 8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati. "We're a three-piece rock group from the Vallejo-Napa area, doing mostly originals and with some covers included," says drummer John "Sticks" Brazil. The band also includes singers Jef Madnik and Randy Frisey on [...]
Feeling a little fall blues? Then get down with The New Up. The glitzy San Francisco rock band, which recently released its fourth studio album, “Gold,” will perform at 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, at the Aubergine After Dark Cafe, 755 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol. Headquartered at its San [...]
Creative band names are always fun, and Garaj Mahal has to be one of the cleverest. And the music's good, too. The funk and jazz jam band plays at a release party for its sixth and newest CD, "More Mr. Nice Guy," on Friday, July 23, at the [...]
A group of veteran musicians from San Francisco's Mission District come north this weekend for one show only. Singer, organist and guitarist Mark Matos and his band Os Beaches -- guitarist and singer Ben Reisdorph, bassist Joe Lewis and drummer Joe Miller -- play at 8 p.m. Sunday, [...]
His music has been called roots rock, Americana, blues and "swamp rock with soul," but whatever you call it, San Francisco singer, songwriter and guitarist Jeffrey Halford has his own sound. You can hear him live, with his band, the Healers, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 16, at [...]
Jim Sobo, a California singer and songwriter who transplanted to Prescott, Arizona, in the 1990s, was pleased and surprised to find lively music scene there. To spread the word, he has taken the Prescott musicians on the road with his annual Howling Coyote Tour, now in its fifth year. “We’re [...]
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet, rooted in San Francisco's infamous Jazz Mafia Collective, is a band that crosses musical boundaries with giant strides. Armed with electronic sampling devices, and sounding like a band twice its size, the fivesome appeals to hip hop fans and jazz enthusiasts alike. The band [...]
The caller said, "I work with Judy Collins, and she asked me to help Kenny White with the publicity for his tour and his new CD." Well, OK, if it's for Judy. Singer-songwriter Kenny White will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 20, at Studio E , outside [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.