Posts by Andrew Quist

The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit reunited for one show this past Sunday in the band’s hometown of Oakdale, California at the incomparable Dying Breed Brewing Company. Pre-Covid, the band had announced a limited run of reunion shows that were to happen days before the initial lockdown in 2020. Fans of the band were heartbroken […]

The best part of your favorite band re-releasing its entire catalog must be the long look back – those fleeting moments of vivid recollection that only music can trigger. In a split second, you are rocketed back to the living room of an apartment or house and you’re 20, friends sit around with beers in […]

A couple weeks ago Chad Galactic, literally one of the hardest working and most generous guys in the music industry, released his cover of The Beastie Boys venerable “Shake Your Rump” (below) and he sang all the parts. That bears repeating,  he did ALL three parts! But before we get talking about the track, let’s […]

The last of the shipments for the month of April is out and, arguably, one of the Mother Hips’ best records, Later Days, has now been fully re-released both in streaming format and now on vinyl as Blue Rose Music and the Hips continue the re-release roll of the band’s thirtieth anniversary. Greg Loiacono sat […]

Felton Music Hall kicked off their summer music series at Roaring Camp Railroad in Felton, California (Santa Cruz County) in a BIG way on Friday. The series boasts upcoming performances by Ozomatli, ALO, John Craigie, Taj Mahal, The Brothers Comatose, and many more over the span of weekly shows that started May 7th, and will […]

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mother Hips, their label, Blue Rose Music, began rereleasing ten of the band’s original albums on vinyl (one album per month). The Hips are currently working on a record of new material to be released at the end of the year as well as an undisclosed project to […]

The good news? The Wood Brothers have just reissued probably their best record, The Muse, in a 2 LP gatefold package and it is due for release on March 5th, 2021 from their own label, Honey Jar Records. The bad news? There is little surprise that due to its overwhelming popularity, this reissue sold out […]

Elliott Ok (Burning Pictures, Bobcat Rob and the Nightly Howl, Joe Kaplow) is a kid whose years on this planet belie his old soul vibe. Elliott is more than just a musician or music appreciator, he’s a devotee. He listens to his influences deeply – deeper than a lot of the people around him. You […]

“We don’t have a choice about being born. Parents who create us, school teachers that mold us, societies in general rely on a person to live in particular ways that jibe with cultural norms. And we just get thrown into it without a say and eventually become the ones who distribute the norms.”  – Greg […]

It is hard for us all right now. Covid, hurricanes, tornadoes, and a grim political stage have all managed to change the face of America as we knew it. In California, we have endured an unprecedented (are you sick of that word?) fire season, experiencing the largest fires recorded in state history. Here in Santa […]

When Craig MacArthur started the recording process of his band The Casual Coalition’s new record, The Rendering Of A Ghost, he had a veritable “who’s who” roster of some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s best working musicians in his pocket. Over seven years of working at Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh’s Terrapin Crossroads as […]

Reid Genauer is best known for his standout storytelling, vocals, and lyrical work with Strangefolk and later Assembly of Dust. Genauer today released the first single, “Angels and Alibis,” (below) the title track from his third solo album. Considering his pedigree and even his previous solo efforts, listeners might expect more of that folk-rock sound with […]

The love that exists between a father and son defies description. Those of us blessed to have experienced that kind of love value it beyond measure. We find the definition of that love in a lifetime of moments, little points on our life’s timeline. Its when he took the training wheels off your bike for […]

As of this writing we have now lived nearly two months in a world without John Prine. The day he died was a kick in the stomach, a perfectly placed gut punch in the midst of confusing days where, in 24 hours, Bernie dropped out of the 2020 presidential race and Prine breathed his last. […]

Bobcat Rob and the Nightly Howl are premiering their brand single via Glide today titled “Engineer,” from their yet unnamed record due for release in the fall of this year. The players on the single, a trio, led by Bobcat Rob Armenti, with Tyler Larson on bass and Joe Kaplow on drums, is centered around […]

Greg Loiacono started writing the songs that would make up Mystic Traces a few years ago when he committed them to demos in his home. From there he traveled down the coast to his friend Scott Hirsch’s studio in Ojai, California where together they would mold them into his latest release from Blue Rose Music, […]

I first saw On The Spot Trio (OTS) when I moved from the Sierra Foothills of California to Santa Cruz on the coast. My marriage had tanked, and I wasn’t stoked. I spent days trying to figure out the next move. But I was in Santa Cruz, it could have been way worse. I connected […]

Strange days, right? And they only seem to get stranger. Like we’re all living in some kind of Jim Morrison song. You all, like me, are probably finding a lot of solace through music. By sheer luck, a couple weeks ago my cousin, who’s property my wife and I live on in the mountains of […]

Sometime between 1965 and 1968 a shift in popular music happened. It wasn’t something that necessarily defined the time but was more a symptom of it. The acid was taking hold, marijuana was a ubiquitous part of the hiplife and ears and minds were opening to sounds to which they had once been closed. While […]

(((folkYeah!))) Presents brought Vetiver to Moe’s Alley on Wednesday, November 6th in Santa Cruz, California. The Moe’s show was an early tour stop as the band wends its way through a string of dates in the Western United States and then begin a large European tour that will take them well into the new year. […]