Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the...

“Steve Cowgill is the lead guitarist and occasional singer of acoustic surf rock favorites Bag of Toys. Fresh from San Francisco, Bag of Toys is a four piece acoustic surf-rock band now based in Wilmington, NC. The...

DJ AmperDan returns to IR:SF for 2011, looking back at the Bay Area music that rocked his world and his eardrums.

“Billy Cruz” is the first single from the upcoming Metal Mother album, Bonfire Diaries Metal Mother is the musical project of Oakland-based singer-songwriter, Tara Tati. Her debut LP, Bonfire Diaries will be...

Dan just delivered the third episode of the new Insomnia Radio: San Francisco, and it is dedicated to the holidays. Ten amazing holiday songs – ranging from hilarious to ironic to beautiful – for your...

The San Francisco feed of Insomnia Radio has been dark since February 2008, but today I’m ridiculously excited to be throwing the switch once again. As we have with IR: Chicago, our San Francisco is getting a reboot of...

Fops is the new superduo featuring Thee More Shallows singer Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher lyricist Chadwick Donald Bidwell Taking their musical cues from the syncopated electronic figures of Krautrockers such as...

San Francisco’s RETURN TO MONO returns to our blog this morning at 6AM with breathy yet beautiful sonic perfection in their newest album Framebreaker, hitting shelves in a few short months on Nov. 10. Doomsday...

From “Four Corners of a Tiny Planet” “Four Corners of a Tiny Planet” is the brand new full-length release from The Beautiful Losers. TBL are an “Indian influenced acoustic rock” act that formed in...

From their album Ohlone Recorded over the course of a year in San Francisco, Ohlone is the debut album from Sunol. The album’s seven songs feature a mix of West African instrumentation and percussion with new American...

Part of their free download offering Suicides / Eros Plane, released 01 August 2010 and available from Bandcamp Grunge-gaze guitars and cavernous psych-tinged vocals, cerebral rhythms and a healthy respect for sonic...

Antenna Farm Records has gone and released Wind Up Wooden Heart, the long-awaited debut album from San Francisco’s Social Studies. WUWH is a study in contradictions, a balance of twee-leaning danceable pop and bold,...

Inu (e-nu) is the new band featuring San Francisco based producer Count (Radiohead, DJ Shadow, New Order, Halou, Galactic, Frank Sinatra), Zoe Keating (Rasuptina, Imogen Heap, Dresden Dolls) and Tim Hingston (Nyles...

Recorded by Jack Shirley, Magic Bullets is the 2nd full length from the San Francisco band with the same name. Losing several members of their band to Girls (girls are always breaking hearts), they are back with a new...

The Stobos EP is the third official release from Collider. It was recorded over a 5 month period in the band’s studio space in the tenderloin of San Francisco. Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named...

From their album Good Enough In early summer of 2004, San Francisco’s Finest Dearest began practicing in a basement bedroom, hashing out concepts and ideas. After a series of musical chairs in the lineup, the band...

Duranta D. Cook (born December 31 1980 in Vallejo, California, USA), is an indie singer-songwriter that goes by his artist name Vital. Prior to starting his solo career Vital wanted to be behind the music scene, writing...

From their new EP Crush available for free download from Bandcamp My First Earthquake, San Francisco’s electric pop foursome, is thrilled to announce the release of their new EP, Crush this Thursday (6/17) at no...

From their self-produced album Black Teeth & Golden Tongues on Roaring Colonel Records On August 10, 2010, My Old Kentucky Blog’s recently launched label, Roaring Colonel Records, will release Black Teeth...

From their new Double LP “Future Factory” out now. 21 tracks on 4-sides of 180-g white vinyl. And yes, it comes with digital download. A Day-Glo hybrid of revisionist Sci-Fi Pop and Rarefied Rhumba...

The Title track from their Album just released on Leading Brand Records Evoking images of desert plains and ghost towns, the music of The Famous is like swallowing hard liquor — a raw, scorching blast of...

In early 2008, San Francisco’s LOVELIKEFIRE signed to Heist or Hit records and went into Tiny Telephone studios in their hometown with producer Bill Racine (Mates of State, Rogue Wave) to record their full-length...

From Realize the Ghost, their full-length album just out on Tricycle Records. Silver Swans are named for a group of super-villains in the Wonder Woman comics. The evil Swans have the ability to create powerful sound...

From their new album ‘When the Chorus Walks’, which is the follow-up to 2005′s ‘Transitive Verses’ BROOKHAVEN began in 2000 as the home recording project of Sonny James, a certain hybrid...

From the “Tran EP” The Aimless Never Miss – from San Francisco – showcase their distinctive sound and approach on their self-titled debut released September 14 from Devil in the Woods. What began...

From their second album, American Radio Two 23 Nov 2009: The Gun & Doll Show celebrates the online release of their newest album, American Radio Two. It is the much anticipated sequel to the band’s last effort,...

A new album from the Mother Hips?!? We couldn’t think of any better companion than the vocals of Tim Bluhm in complimenting our road trip down the California coastline this weekend. The Mother Hips have flown under...

From their latest EP Up To No Good Never easy to categorize, Birds & Batteries continue to cut their own path of genre-less music. Heavily influenced by Bowie’s Scary Monsters, P-Funk, and John Carpenter films,...

Per local musician Brian Kenney Fresno’s mission statement, the holy triumvirate of activities in the Central California city of Fresno are: car theft, methlabs and chop shops.   While you often hear the area...

From their first full length album Downstairs. Three of the four members of My First Earthquake attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but they didn’t collaborate until they’d each separately moved to San...

San Francisco’s King Loses Crown are giving away their self-titled EP as a free download from their web site kinglosescrown.com San Francisco-based King Loses Crown was started in 2007 as a musical collaboration...