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Box Set. The alterna-rock five-piece Box Set casts jaunty layers of rootsy Americana to make a post-jangle pop sound. Coming together in 1991, frontman guitarist Jim Brunberg and acoustic guitarist Jeff Pehrson met at an open mic night in San Francisco. Their musical connection was instant, and quickly Brunberg and Pehrson quit their day jobs ...
Box Set. PHILIP ELWOOD SF Examiner Music Critic. JIM BRUNBERG and Jeff Pehrson - guitarists-singers-composers - were performing out in the Sunset District about five years ago when they joined forces and took the name Box Set. They've been on an ascending spiral of success ever since, playing the West Coast and western Europe.
- Destroy Boys
- King Woman
- Tsunami Bomb
- The Seshen
- The Donnas
Destroy Boys has been putting Northern California punk back on the map for the last few years (they're from Sacramento but are currently San Francisco-based, so they count here). The three-piece band is led by singer and guitarist Violet Mayugba and lead singer and guitarist Alexis Roditis, who started the band together in the middle of their teena...
Singer Kristina Esfandiari found King Woman in 2009 as a solo project, but it's grown into big, big things since then. Described as metallic shoegaze, the band's sound is melancholic, brooding, and wistful, driven by Esfandiari's dark, breathy vocals (which have been previously praised by Pitchfork). The band signed to Relapse Records in 2016 and r...
It's time for Petaluma to shine: From right around the Bay Area's wine country, Tsunami Bomb came to fruition in 1998, co-found by keyboardist and vocalist Oobilette Sparks. The band fuses SoCal hardcore and NorCal punk with an occasionally added synth, perfect for the old days of Mountain View's annual Warped Tour stop. The band took a hiatus in 2...
The Seshen is one of the brightest hidden gems the Bay has to offer. Coming from the San Francisco area, The Seshen is fronted by the mystifying Lalin St. Juste, whose vocals are often heftily compared to the likes of one Erykah Badu. Producing both club-ready dance tracks and kickback-approved beats, the band is prepared to transport you to a mome...
The Donnas are everything: That's it, that's the whole post. Formed in Palo Alto in the early '90s, the hyper-talented rock 'n' roll ladies secured a record deal right out of high school. They cycled through a whole list of band names before settling on their current moniker and starting to refer to each other as Donna F., Donna A., Donna R., and D...
Dec 19, 1999 · The Top 100 Bay Area Bands / The '90s. By Joel Selvin, Datebook Staff Dec 19, 1999. Number 9: Green Day. Chronicle Photo by Eric Luse. 9. GREEN DAY. In the early '90s, Green Day took punk rock to ...
Jeff Pehrson (born Jeffery Vernon Pehrson on February 21, 1967 in San Francisco, California) is an American singer-songwriter who performed backing vocals for Furthur, a band that included two former members of the Grateful Dead. Pehrson also currently performs with the folk rock band The Fall Risk, which he founded, and with Box Set, a folk ...
“Jim Brunberg and Jeff Pehrson met in a San Francisco café 22 years ago, and almost immediately fell into a musical relationship. That connection has been responsible for 12 albums of original ...
Nov 2, 2018 · Members of the all-female ’60s San Francisco psychedelic rock band Ace of Cups, who have reunited to release their first proper album. Photo: Lisa Law / 1967. For decades, Ace of Cups was just a curious name that appeared on vintage psychedelic rock posters alongside more familiar names.
