"Life's a sick joke but we ain't afraid to laugh". Local to San Francisco Bay, the Beach-Funk Americana sound of The HA is the progression of Hopi Astronaut and their tradition of drawing inspiration from The Great Spirit in the Sky, friends and a healthy dose of party.

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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]’.

Bear Lincoln is an up-beat rock hopping garage/funk excursion based in Oakland, CA

After spending the better part of a decade touring, gigging, and putting out music, somewhere along the way, Down and Outlaws became veterans of the San Francisco music scene. Loud, visceral, and self-assured like few rock bands are these days, the quartet continues to impress audiences up and down the west coast with a singular brand of punk-influenced desert rock, and a heart and soul based firmly in the classics. This is music to blast with your windows down, as you leave the city in your rear view. 

Following years of hard work, ambition, and plenty of disappointment, “Gas Money” is D&O’s purest release yet. Recorded over a year at the Complex in San Francisco with George Rosenthal, “Gas Money” is a retort to critics, naysayers, and anyone who might tell D&O what they should try to be. Recorded mostly in a few takes and with minimal overdubs, “Gas Money” is a raw album, showcasing a group of musicians at the top of their game, making music for themselves, as it should’ve been all along.

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