Singer-songwriter, classical guitarist, and journalist from California. My music draws from a wide array of influences, ranging from Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell to György Ligeti and John Cage. My goal is to invoke beautiful moments of music and lyric.

Hope to see you guys on the road!

Mario Di Sandro is a singer-songwriter originally from Chicago, who is now back living in LA after a quick stint in Seattle (2024-2025) after leaving Los Angeles in mid-2024 (2020-2024), and had previously lived in the Bay Area from 2011-2020.

Mario has been writing lyrics ever since he stopped paying attention during class in high school. In 2000 he started putting those lyrics to music and in 2001 he formed his first band Bad Frequency. Various hiatuses and 7 drummers later, they reformed in 2005 and again in 2008 as On The Lam. He has since played solo and formed bands for live shows to perform his vast catalog of songs.

Amassing several hundred original songs in his personal repertoire and hundreds of covers. He has since recorded and released 12 solo studio albums, 2 live albums, 1 covers album in a short 13 year period; Lessons (Learned) [2011], Give and Take [2013], Loneliness [2014], Things Since You [2015], You Are a Stranger Here, But Once… [2015], Forsaken and Forlorn [2015], World Gone Mad [2016], Under the Cover (covers album) [2016], Walk a Mile [2017], Watch It All Burn Down [2018]. Break Free [2020] was released just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. Busy with a lot of extra free time that year, he released another album Pándēmos [2020]. Currently working on the 12th album tentatively titled Quandary [2025]’.

MATT HERMAN is a San Francisco-based guitarist / looper, akin to early-'70s space-rock as performed on solo guitar, with touches of jazz and classical.

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Photo by Jason Reimuller at the Hemlock Tavern

lo-fi freak folk/bedroom pop.

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"If we could disappear into a picture..." thought Bay Area act Vigilis, whose brand of progressive heavy rock implies moments reminiscent of a gripping novel or film. Vigilis fuses acoustic roots, tense harmonic colors, crooked rhythms and wide dynamics with highlights of sparse sound design and orchestral textures into their own recognizable vocal driven song form to which they pair with their own cinematography.  Fans of Porcupine Tree, Dear Hunter, Karnivool or Lonely Robot might welcome these hybrid deviants into their playlists.

E.G. Phillips is a songwriter based in San Francisco.  His lyrics are whimsical and cinematic.   He's twice been the "Songwriter In Residence" at Bazaar Cafe and he hosts and annual "EGPhest" event in August where he invites Bay Area performers to come and play his songs for his birthday.

He is the front man for the fake band Ducks With Pants.

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