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December 23, 2024

Ring in the New Year Live

Drawing together some of the best performers from up and down the coast...NYE Extravaganza at the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre.

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December 11, 2024

Son of Fishbone

When Fishbone came on the scene, there was no other band like them... an all-Black lineup of musicians playing a stylistic mashup of ska, punk and hardcore metal.

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December 3, 2024

Taking Flight

Odie Leigh, known for her honest, raw and thoughtful musicianship, will be flying into the Felton Music Hall on Dec. 7

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December 3, 2024

Open to Change

With a style that has been likened to a mashup of Porcupine Tree and Radiohead, Bruce Soord crafted an engaging set of songs.

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November 12, 2024

Above Ground

Along with Dinsmore and Gregor, today’s Dusted Angel features Steve Ilse on drums, and co-founders Eric “Dog” Fieber and Eliot Young on guitar and bass, respectively.

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November 11, 2024

Finding Their Way

The garage psych band, from New York via Salinas, playing the Catalyst Atrium in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, Nov. 13.

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November 6, 2024

Triple Treats

From folkloric influences to world music, New Music Works' “Three’s Company” is a perfect introduction to music written by living composers.

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November 5, 2024

Code Blue

T.S.O.L. is one of the first Southern California punk bands... To acquire their first instruments, the band cased a music shop and then did a smash-and-grab

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October 30, 2024

System Failure

Just in time for the elections, local punk band Good Riddance have released a song to encourage political engagement.

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October 30, 2024

Indie Country

Raised by a country-music-loving father, Aaron Watson grew up listening to Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings

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October 22, 2024

Breaking Barriers

Frankie and the Witch Fingers builds something wild, monstrous and beautiful. Their live shows are manic displays of endurance, with the four-piece blasting through their songs

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October 22, 2024

Raising the Dead

Bonny June and her band Bonfire will musically bring the dead to life at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, along with the undead and the not-quite-yet dead.

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Ring in the New Year Live

Son of Fishbone

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Above Ground

Finding Their Way

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Code Blue

System Failure

Indie Country

Breaking Barriers

Raising the Dead