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LA punk legends The Weirdos!!

Don’t Care – Punk Rock from Redding

The Delta Bombers – Rockabilly / Rock n’ Roll / Blues from Vegas

The Cretin’s Cattle – Rockabilly / Psychobilly / Punkabilly/Americana from Chico

The Breaking is a alternative rock band from Portland, OR mining the rich soundscape of mid-90s guitar pop, at once original and strikingly familiar.

Benefit for the NorCal OUTreach project.

MC Troy

Billboard Top 40 Recording Artist, Water Seed is a progressive innovative band that dares to bring musicianship, dexterity and creativity to Funk, Soul, R&B, Fusion, and Future Funk.​

​Spearheading the progressive R&B movement, Water Seed is reminiscent of the funkier side of the R&B genre. Mixing the sounds of James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Prince and Earth Wind and Fire, Water Seed captures a modern sound that bridges the musical gap a la Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson and Childish Gambino.

Whiskerman – Rock/Soul/Folk from Oakland

https://www.whiskerman.com/

Over the past couple of decades, tribute bands have become big business in the world of concert promotion. And, not surprisingly, the more popular ones are the acts that are most authentic. Such is the case with Cash’d Out, a San Diego based band, that channels Johnny Cash in about as close a manner to the real thing as it gets.

Foxtails Brigade Great Indie band from San Francisco

This Island Earth – field rock and ambient world, fresh out of the Pacific Northwest.

Who hasn’t dreamed of a classic rock band releasing one more perfect record at the peak of their creative powers?

Spearheaded by guitarist Eric Barnett (Guitar Player Magazine’s national Guitar Superstar Competition Finalist), drummer Kevin Aiello and renowned bassist Uriah Duffy (Fantastic Negrito, Steve Stevens Band, ex-Whitesnake, and more), Magna Carta Recording artist Points North stands on the shoulders of iconic bands such as The Police, Rush and Dixie Dregs, but clearly cut their own artistic path. Simply put, Points North is a leading light of modern instrumental guitar music, single-handedly helping to revitalize the genre through their technical prowess, superior musicality and compositional skills.

Guitar and drums duo GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! have been making fiercely unique music since their explosion into the San Francisco Bay area in 2005. Their mostly instrumental, odd-time compositions quickly grabbed the attention of listeners worldwide and their second album “More Skin With Milk-Mouth” is a quintessential math-rock album that helped popularize the genre. They’re back at it with their wild new full-length album “Memory Lame”. With every new release, they continually make music that is both melodic and technical, experimental yet accessible- and the result is an experience that is both transcendental and incredible fun.

Sloth & Turtle – mathrock – postrock Santa Rosa

Zepparella is the All-Female Zeppelin Powerhouse. Vocalist Anna Kristina, Guitarist Gretchen Menn, Bassist Holly West, and Drummer Clementine have brought their passion for the sacred music of the greatest band in the world all over the US and Canada. Zepparella shows replicate the nuance and detail of Zeppelin’s catalog while honoring the powerful improvisational journeys for which Zeppelin shows were renowned.

The Mondegreens is a group of five Seattle-based musicians carving out a niche in the city’s prolific indie rock scene, one that centers on wide dynamic swings and ever-present three-part harmonies. The group’s two frontmen, David Friedlander and Russell Rabut, draw on over a decade of singing together, spinning harmonic webs across the peaks and valleys of the group’s vibrant sound, their voices as likely to combine over a selection from Neil Young’s back catalog, as a slacker rock anthem from their youth.

Slow Corpse – Indie from Asland

Gringo – Surf Rock from Redding

Five Alarm Funk are coming BACK!!

That’s been the idea since the first time drummer Tayo Branston, guitarist Gabe Boothroyd and the original Five Alarm bassist Neil Towers met at a Vancouver house party in 2003. Since that night, the temperature in their leafy green hometown began to rise. Other musicians started showing up to jam. The parties led to gigs locally, which led a few years later to grinding bus tours across Canada and into the States. The crowds grew. The grooves burned. A horn section jumped onboard to punch the beat harder. Percussion cranked it up even more. EPs and albums followed, as studios and gear melted down from the sheer intensity these guys unleashed. No wonder they called their last album Sweat.

Evan & the Live Oaks – A rowdy rock and roll, folk band with a soul singin’ drummer.

AJJ – Folk/Punk from Phoenix, Arizona

Shellshag – There’s only two people in Shellshag. Shell and Shag. Shell plays guitar and sings while Shag plays drums standing up and also sings.

THE ESKIMO BROTHERS – Honky Tonk / Hillbilly / Rockabilly from Nashville

On his last two albums, Jason Eady earned major acclaim for his ahead-of-the-curve take on classic country, a bold departure from his earlier excursions into blues-infused Americana. Now with his sixth album, the Mississippi-bred singer/guitarist merges his distinct sensibilities into a stripped-down, roots-oriented sound that starkly showcases the gritty elegance of his songwriting.

Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the release of their breakout album “So Long Astoria”, The Ataris will be performing the record front to back!

Johnzo West is an Indiana born songwriter and guitarist based out of Los Angeles, California. West is also the guitarist for Eric Burdon & The Animals and former L.A. based psych rock band Fortress Social Club.

West has also collaborated with Miley Cyrus contributing their cover of ‘You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go’ to Amnesty International’s compilation record, ‘Chimes of Freedom: A Tribute To Bob Dylan’. The duo also released a cover of ‘Look What They’ve Done To My Song, Ma’. West and Cyrus have performed live together on The Ellen Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and at numerous charity events.

When the feedback-laden, distorted-as-all-hell guitar intro to The Brevet’s new single, “Locked & Loaded,” grinds to a crawl and lead singer Aric Chase Damm’s gritty vocals kick in, there’s a moment where—if you’ve got an ounce of soul in your body—your foot starts tapping almost involuntarily. The “woah-oh-oh” hook that hits next is the kind you feel in your bones, the eminently danceable kind that makes you want to shoot straight up, kick your chair back, and move. Every second “Locked & Loaded” begs for movement, an earworm that simply refuses to quit. And making the tune all the more impressive, in a testament to the group’s raw creativity and artistic ability, is the fact that The Brevet engineered and produced the track at the group’s recording space in Westminster, CA—where they’d also recorded their first two albums.

Henry Chadwick – Henry draws influences as much from music of the past (The Beatles, The kinks, T-Rex, Nirvana, David Bowie etc.,) as from as from current artists who keep pushing forward stylistically and sonically. Henry makes catchy, thoughtful and usually energetic music with a unique perspective, edge and charm, and is often compared to The Strokes and Mac DeMarco.

Vicious Rumors Digital Dictator 30th Ann. Tour!!

Troposfear – Metal from Redding

Stoked to have our good friends, The Pearls, back at The Dip!

The Pearls are an Americana, Alt-Country, and Western Swing band that hail from Vancouver, WA. Their influences include The Band, The Eagles, George Jones, The Grateful Dead and The Everly Brothers, in addition to old Dixieland jazz and classic country. The Pearls are a vocal-driven band with songs that blend the spirit of travel and adventure with Cajun, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and country influences.

For thirty years, few bands have relished getting their hands dirty as much as the Swingin’ Utters. Formed in 1988, the early lineup was comprised of Johnny Bonnel, guitarist Darius Koski, bassist Kevin Wickersham, and drummer Greg McEntee. In celebration of the band’s three decades, as well as their continued forward momentum, on December 8, Fat Wreck Chords is proud to announce Drowning In The Sea, Rising With The Sun, a 33-song best-of compilation that serves as a testament to Utters’ peerless punk rock attack.

Don’t Care – Redding Punk Rock

Haunted Summer – Psychedelic, Eerie, Experimental, Dream Pop

Gold Casio – Psychedelic Disco

Get your dancing shoes out, Diggin Dirt are BACK!

Funk – Reggae – Soul – Jazz – Rock – Roots – Gypsy – Psychedelic

Gringo Star are an Indie Garage Pop band from Atlanta, Georgia, founded by brothers Pete and Nicholas Furgiuele, and joined in 2016 by Josh Longino (featured on the new album) and Mario Colangelo. Their 5th album “Back to the City” is coming out Aug 24, 2018 via Nevado Music, an L.A. based label (Deap Valley, Eternal Summers, Yukon Blonde). The album was produced, written, recorded and mixed at Studio 234 in Atlanta by the brothers. Gringo Star are insouciant explorers, tossing the paddles overboard and drifting on the currents of their lackadaisical curiosity across a rippling sonic ocean, out to the far edges of rock & roll. Shots pulsing from a vintage Leslie speaker, their guitars, keys and vocals create the psychoactive ingredients of their echo-slathered, doo-wop-indebted indie gems; psychedelic garage bangers, gritty R&B shuffles and spaghetti western weirdness. Taking cues from Santo & Johnny, The Stooges, Ritchie Valens, Marc Bolan, The Kinks, Sam Cooke, they’re all here, their electric ghosts reaching across time, tapping Gringo Star on the shoulder like the crossroads devil to Robert Johnson, bestowing secrets, passing torches.

Gringo – Local Surf Rock

Static and Surrender – Rock / Alternative / Indie

Sugarkane & Co – Folk / Country / Americana