One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mountains at the Brookdale Lodge, and a handful of SF. The Big Sur events are legendary in California for good reason, attracting folks up from LA and down from SF to gather around campfires, hotel rooms, t
DJ Roger Más goes for the Latin flavor whether you're talking records or restaurants. The KALX DJ turned Mission turntable master lists off his favorite taco trucks unprompted, and he keeps the vinyl bilingual on both sides of the Bay. Every Saturday, you can ask for mucho Más at the Make-Out Room, where his ¡El Superritmo! evenings swing from cumbia to reggae to salsa and beyond. Later in June he'll be dragging the record trunk down to Skylark, schooling the 16th St. crowd on classic cumbia