Posts by Andrew Quist

For all the adversity Wolf Jett has faced, they have earned the right to musically brood in their new releases. No one would blame them for putting out dark, moody jams that might make us listeners count our blessings and consider how lucky we are. When a 2020 wildfire wiped out the band’s newly minted […]

Greg Loiacono & Stingray have released “Nothing Can Come Between Us,” (below) a reimagining of the classic Sade song. Over the last two years, the Northern California–based collective has been steadily building a following throughout the region, fine-tuning a retro soul sound that makes reinterpreting Sade a natural extension of their musical identity. A lone […]

The release announcement came days following, perhaps, the most acrimonious presidential election in American history. Americans were at their most divided. But, here came ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) with their Frames announcement. Those of us who know this band had a chance to pause in the uncertainty and heave a sigh. This was the best […]

Piet Dalmolen has spent the past fifteen years gigging with other bands and playing covers.  Sure, it was good to have the work, but these gigs did not feed a necessary creative fire and it’s been a long dry spell since he made his own music. That has now changed. Feeling inspired to dive back […]

You can’t thow a stick these days without hitting a band that says they bend genres into a potent stew of original sound that sets them apart from everybody else. At this point, it’s almost cliche. BUT . . . Santa Cruz, California’s Wolf Jett smashes that cliche to bits with their masterful command of […]

If there is one thing that you can hang your hat on, one thing in this world by which you can set your watch it is that ALO will ALWAYS deliver a solid performance. By rights, as they wheeled into Santa Cruz’s Moe’s Alley this past Friday, not only was it their 17th consecutive Tour […]

Kareeta’s sophomore record, Freeway Junkie Queen is an album that anyone that listens and enjoys Widespread Panic needs to check out not because it sounds just like WSP but it certainly shares similar sensibilities. In fact, Dave Schools plays bass on the album and Jerry Joseph has a guest spot on backing vocals as well. […]

Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) high stepped into the Fillmore in San Francisco this past Saturday, March 23rd, not only because this night was chosen as the celebration of their 25th anniversary as a band, and not just because the vaunted room was completely sold out.

The best shows, though, turn a Monday night into a Friday night we will never forget. That is what The Wood Brothers did this past Monday night, February 6, at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz,

The Mother Hips have roared into 2023 with, When We Disappear, their eleventh release as a band, and their third with the label Blue Rose Music.