The Rondo Brothers are The Bastard Prince and Diamond Jim, two bay area based multi-instrumentalists, DJs, and producers. They became the Rondo Brothers in 2004 after living in New Orleans for several months working with Galactic on the Ruckus album, and getting into a hotel hot tub with all of their clothes on. 

Having already contributed to various projects through friend Dan The Automator, such as Deltron 3030, Dr Octagon, and Lovage, the Rondo brothers made their own breakthrough album "No Time Left On Earth" which was a clever take on Hawaiian music mixed with beats and electronics. This earned them a spot opening for the Handsome Boy Modeling School White People tour in 2005. They followed up with a second record "Seven Minutes To Midnight." 

Subsequently, the Rondos were invited to join Head Automatica, a side project of Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo. This led them on multiple national tours opening for The Cure, Interpol, Thursday, the Rapture, and more. 

While gaining accomplishments as live musicians, the Rondos also wrote and recorded on dozens of commercial scores, films, and television shows, as well as getting opportunities to turn in remixes for artists such as Lily Allen, Common, the Beatles, Shwayze, Peeping Tom, and others. They’ve scored a series of NFL cartoons and wrote the song “Ocho Cinco” that gave Chad Johnson his now famous legal nickname. 

Now heavily in demand producers, the Rondos produced with Bay Area indie favorites Loquat, nerd core hero MC Lars, as well as tracks for artists such as Scissors For Lefty, Kid Beyond, the Lovemakers, the Matches, and many others. 

In 2008, they were offered a chance to record tracks with metal-guitarist guru F Sean Martin from Hatebreed who was working with legendary bay area MC Motion Man on a project called King Beast - the Rondos and Motion Man hit it off, and the three started working on a new project of their own, the Foreign Globester. 

In 2009, the Rondos finished two album for MC Lars, and currently are working as full-time producers for a side project with up and coming Australian brother duo the Kin, who were introduced to the rondos by producer and collaborator Jack Douglas. 

Also accomplished songwriters, 2010 will see the rondos release a cut of one of their co-writes on the new Galactic album, sung by R&B legend Irma Thomas, as well as a co-write on Alligator Records’ artist Eric Lindell. 

In spring of 2011 the Rondo Brothers released their Foreign Globester album through Oglio/DMAFT records. Later in the spring, they worked on Torches, the Grammy nominated, platinum selling album by Foster the People. .

We draw ideas and textures from each other as well as what is happening around us.  We're also fond of long hallways, tunnels, alleyways and overpasses where the space is a part of the sound (and more importantly, where listeners are not used to discovering music).

john givens - guitar, drums, vocals
laurie bk - vocals, found objects
scott devaney- crazy ass beats

contact: dearzuzed [at] gmail

Oakland rapper, MADlines, spits pure fire over a range of riddims, but she is not your average wordsmith. MADlines is also a business woman, actress, educator and curator. Her brand, Brujalyfe, centers her personal mission to use rap, a kind of cunning spell work, to liberate minds and hearts. She recently made a guest appearance on the Oakland TV series, The North Pole Season 2 and was featured on the song, Black Grxl Magic by GRAMMY-nominated hip-hop for kids group, Alphabet Rockers. MADlines' new single, God Talk feat. Xiomara channels black woman writer, Octavia Butler; "All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you." MADlines' music truly is the soundtrack to transformation. Her debut album drops summer, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPDPU9pHEjxtmJ-S_NnJSg?view_as=subscriber

There are next level, life affirming bands out there...and then there's El Metate.

Since 2013, El Metate explored the outer realms of psychedelic funk through stop-on-a-dime original songs and interpretations of rare groove classics awash in a haze of soaring guitar, Hammond Organ, and Fender Rhodes. El Metate's music is not just a trip across the West Coast, but an intergalactic journey narrated by organ and horn stabs with a backbeat that fuels the funky rocket ride throughout.

After headlining sold-out shows to enthusiastic (if not rabid) audiences and sharing the stage with Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Monophonics, Tea Leaf Green, Robert Walter, Con Brio, Wil Blades, Adam Deitch, and more, El Metate has begun to take the show on the road. With a West Coast tour under their belts and a follow up LP slated for fall 2018, these musical retrofuturists are ready to share their music the masses. It's a sound, it's a presence, it's a movement. El Metate—remember that name.

Hi there, my name is Tim Honan and this is the site I have been posting recent songs I have been working on.  Until formally 'released' consider these tunes demos for the most part - audio scribbles in various stage of completion. 

I have other songs from another project, Oggi Beat, posted here. https://soundcloud.com/oggibeat

I hope you listen. Often. Please enjoy!

Tim

sarah iyer: voice
john givens: guitar

https://laylie.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/layliesounds/

booking: hi.lay.lie@gmail.com

Little of this, little of that... I've released dub techno on OneSun Yellow, Quiet Strength Records, Metaphysical Circuits, and Kitchen Smoke. I'm also part of the dub techno duo phoam.

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