On OzcatRadio.com, 89.5 FM KZCT, with a listener audience in the thousands across the Northbay and worldwide...
Saturdays, 5 to 6pm, and Thursdays, 5:30pm, Pacific Time at [http://tun.in/seQ5N]
Thee Mothership Connection is your ticket to
HARD ROCK, PUNK, AMERICANA, PSYCHE & LoFi
Broadcasting from the upper east-side of the San Pablo bay, featuring bands from the Greater Bay Area, NorCal (707), and Central Valley (209 & 916), performing at venues in the Northbay regions of Sonoma, Solano, Napa, Contra Costa, and in neighboring Oakland and Berkeley.
[facebook.com/The-Mothership-Connection-Ozcat-Radio-895-FM-KZCT-1441733309389969/]
Produced by the Northbay Uprising Media Collective (northbayuprising@)gmx.com)
On this page:
• Free shows are noted. If the event doesn't have a price, bring $12 with you anyway.
• Tracks listed with bands are played on the live broadcast, and / or are recommended listening to.
• Listings with NOTAFLOF are donation-based. "No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds".
Events databases:
• The LIST [is.gd/VpdB9G] of funk-punk-thrash-ska shows, alongside anything else.
• KZSU's Lively List of Live Music Happenings [kzsu.stanford.edu/concertcalendar]
• Sacramento Area Shows [undietacos.org] [sacramentopunkshows.com]
• Bay Area Punk [bayareapunk.com]
• The Bay Bridged [thebaybridged.com]
• Vallejo downtown events and entertainment [artvallejo.org/events]
• Solidarity with your community radio stations, KWTF [kwtf.net] & KBBF [kbbf.org] in Sonoma County, & KDVS [kdvs.org] in Yolo County!
Free Radio Santa Cruz [freakradio.org] is offering a REWARD! $300 for info leading to a 10' X 10' studio space indoors or outside with access to bathroom, internet, and power. They also seek a transmitter space where we can put up an antenna--a backyard, a multistory home, a high tree--help us spread the word. "Help us so we can help you!"
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At Vallejo Vinyl & Pinball
All-Ages // 336 Georgia St. in Vallejo // (707) 557-5480 // [instagram.com/vallejovinylandpinball] [vallejovinyl.com/vvp-mini-gigs]
Friday, Dec 13th, 7pm 'til 10pm, $30
Event page [minigig.ticketleap.com/rapnoir]
Rap Noir
• Tajai (Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics)
• Unjust (Chosen Few)
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At Kesler’s Cocktail Lounge
21+ // 125 Couch Street in Vallejo // [keslerslounge.com/events.html] // [facebook.com/keslerslounge/events]
Saturday, December 14th, 8pm 'til 12 midnight, free
Reggae Creative Collective Vibes
Join Ozcat Dj Tha Kid as we hosts a lively night of Raggae tunes & vibes!
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BLUES! Wednesday, December 18th, 8pm 'til 12 midnight, buy a drink, tip the bartender
ALL Blues Night Jam Session
w/ Earl the Pearl & Blues Solution
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BLUES! Friday, December 20th, 8pm 'til 11:30pm
• Jeff Gruel and New Blue Moonshine
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At Toot's Tavern
21+ // 627 2nd Ave., in Crockett // [tootstavern.com] [facebook.com/pg/tootstavern/events] // (510) 787-9860 // [tootstavern@)gmail.com]
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PSYCHE! HARD ROCK! Saturday, December 14th, 8pm 'til 1am, $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/630435691058677]
Lommori Productions presents...
• Controlled Chaos
• Babylon Gypsies
• Joker on Jack [facebook.com/jokeronJackk]
[facebook.com/lommoriproductions]
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ROCK! Saturday, December 28th, 8:30pm 'til 12:30am, $12 - $20
Event page [facebook.com/events/2431328263772328]
Mr. Hat Presents...
A Rockin Holiday Bash!
• Matt Jaffe [facebook.com/mattfjaffe]
• Fog Swamp [facebook.com/fogswampband]
• And Then Came Humans [facebook.com/AndThenCameHumans]
[facebook.com/mrhatpresents]
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At The Red Hat
21+ // 1860 Monument Blvd, in Concord // [facebook.com/redhatsportsbar]
METAL! Friday, December 13th, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) 'til 12 midnight, $7
Event page [facebook.com/events/1231888126996115]
• Frolic (Bay Area Thrash)
• Absolute Darkness (Concord Thrash Metal)
• Putrid Invokation (Sacramento Blackend Death Metal)
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METAL! Friday, December 20th, 8:30pm 'til 12 midnight, $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/533015450583197]
MARS Productions presents...
• Wastewalker [facebook.com/wastewalkermetal]
• Texas Gigantism [facebook.com/TexasGigantismOfficial]
• Bavmorda [facebook.com/BaVMoRdADeAtHmEtaL]
• Broken Glass Sanctuary [facebook.com/BrokenGlassSanctuaryBand]
• Rust [facebook.com/Rust.OfficialSF]
[facebook.com/MARSPRODUCTIONSOfficial]
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THRASH, PUNK! Saturday, December 21st, 8pm 'til 1:30pm
Event page [facebook.com/events/2282129931889088]
Tony Kroll Presents...
• Two Tusk
• Prizefighter
• Mob Rule [mobrule.bandcamp.com]
• Your Mom
[facebook.com/TonyKrollBooking]
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PSYCHE! ELECTRIC BLUES!
Friday, December 27th, 8pm (doors), 9pm (show), $7
Event page [facebook.com/events/1028260767524715]
• Space Monkey
• The End All
• The Backwater Ramblers
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Up The Creek
All-Ages // 1840 Tice Valley Blvd. in Walnut Creek // [upthecreekrecords.com/events-and-live-music]
Saturday, December 14th, 6pm 'til 7:30pm, free!
Event page [upthecreekrecords.com/events-and-live-music/2019/12/14/santos-soul]
• SANTOS SOUL. You've got to catch this concert by the globe-trotting, community-healing, sweet-singing Santos Soul. He plays an unplugged nylon-string guitar and sings from a relaxed pose on a stool, but his main instrument is surely his giant heart, as he fills any room with the light of soul. Check out the work he's doing at [GlocalSoulEdu.com] and get ready for a night of timely and timeless music, poetry and prose, and hopefully some dancing too.
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At The Phoenix Theater
All-Ages // 201 Washington St, in Petaluma // [thephoenixtheater.com]
Friday, December 13th, 7:30pm (show), 8pm (show), $10
Event page [thephoenixtheater.com/e/the-sandeens-the-am-kurupi-x-fourhead-x-marais-x-phd-85326097655]
• The Sandeens
• The AM
• Kurupi
• FourHead
• Marais
• PHD
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Saturday, December 14th, 7:30pm (show), 8pm (show), $10
Event page [thephoenixtheater.com/e/one-armed-joey-album-fundraising-extravaganza-80266869367]
• One Armed Joey (Album Fundraising Extravaganza) [onearmedjoey.bandcamp.com], w. "The Best We Know How", "Groundhog Day", "Walls", off their album "The Best We Know How"
• Real Bad [realbad.bandcamp.com/releases], w. "Keys To My Car"
• The Sonoma Brass Ensemble
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Thursday, December 19th, 7:30pm (show), 8pm (show), $10
Event page [thephoenixtheater.com/e/the-last-days-of-christmas-an-evening-of-freaks-foreigners-and-fools-84783717381]
• DNZG + RLNZ
• Grawlix
• Toychestra [toychestra.bandcamp.com]
• Bryan Day
• Hobo Sonn
• Evil Moisture
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Wednesday, December 18th, 8pm, $5
At The Morgue (a house venue) at 4400 38th Ave, in Sacramento // all ages
• Meet Cute [meetcute916.bandcamp.com]
• Shake the Baby 'til the Love Comes Out (NYC)
• Yawzea
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Friday, December 20th, 7:30pm, $8
At Cafe Colonial // all ages
Event page [facebook.com/events/545729092930639]
• Spacewalker
• Pregnant
• Wsabi Fox (NY)
• Bernie And The Wolf
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Wednesday, December 18th, $12 - $15
All-Ages // at the Ashkenaz in Berkeley
Mr. Hat Presents...
Grateful Wednesday! with...
The Left-Handed Monkeywrench Gang (members of JGB, Phil & Friends, Stu Allen & Mars Hotel)
+ an Embodied Groove warmup.
[facebook.com/mrhatpresents]
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At 924 GILMAN
All-Ages // 924 Gilman St. at 8th, in Berkeley // [924gilman.org] // (510) 524-8180 // Annual club membership is $2 upfront!
Friday, December 13th, 7pm (doors), 7:30pm (show) 'til 10pm, $8
Event page [facebook.com/events/2657813470974928]
Friday the 13th, with...
• Public Safety (EP release!) [publicsafety510.bandcamp.com], w. "Market Rate"
• Deseos Primitivos [deseosprimitivos.bandcamp.com], w. their entire EP "Existir"!
• Coherence [fuckcorporations.bandcamp.com]
• Grosero [grosero.bandcamp.com]
• Pointless Endings [pointlessendings.bandcamp.com]
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Saturday, December 14th, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show), $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/529039651269316]
• Dead Chemist [instagram.com/deadchemistband], with their
Dawn of The Dead: Pink Goggles Tour 2019! w/ Friends!
• Trash Elf [instagram.com/trash_elf] [trashelf.bandcamp.com]
• Laundry [instagram.com/laundrytheband]
• Preschool [instagram.com/preschoolband]
+ Tree Raffle!
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Sunday, December 15th, 4:30pm 'til 9:30pm, $16
Event page [facebook.com/events/542428956494988]
• Authority Zero [authorityzero.com] [facebook.com/AuthorityZero]
• Shark Punch [sharkpunchofficial.com] [facebook.com/sharkpunchband] [sharkpunch.bandcamp.com], w. "Day of the Dead", "Same Old Things", "Stuck on the Same Page", "Insane"
• Another Damn Disapointment (A.D.D) [facebook.com/another.damn.disappointment]
• Stay Out (Album Release Show) [officialstayout.com] [facebook.com/officialstayout] [officialstayout.bandcamp.com], w. "High and Dry", "Berkeley Nights", "E.T."
• Bangalore [facebook.com/BangaloreSKA] [reverbnation.com/bangalore6], w. "Knock at the Door", "Point of View"
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Friday, December 20th, 6:30pm (doors), 7pm (show), $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/452751552288732]
A toasty pre-Xmas RoCk gig!
Touring from LA:
• Slaughterhouse
• Urns & Argyles
• Chud
And from our neck of the woods:
• Buzzed Lightbeer [buzzedlightbeer.bandcamp.com]
• hit me, Harold! [hitmeharold.bandcamp.com]
• Tier 9
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Saturday, December 21st, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) 'til 11pm, $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/2569947123286973]
• Worriers (solo) [worriersmusic.com] [facebook.com/worriersmusic]
• Angelboy + the halos [Instagram.com/andthehalos] [facebook.com/andthehalos]
• Crush Material [facebook.com/Crush-Material-101553964540810] [crushmaterial.bandcamp.com], w. "High Vibes"
• Strangers [facebook.com/strangersoakland] [musicforstrangers.bandcamp.com], w. "Strangers", "Like Fun Gay, Not Angry Gay"
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Saturday, December 28th, 3pm 'til 11:30pm, $10
Event page [facebook.com/events/2501474883404422]
Tickets [brownpapertickets.com/event/4454616]
924 Gilman presents the 5th annual This Year Sucked Festival!
• awakebutstillinbed [facebook.com/awakebutstillinbed]
• Corrupt Vision (OC)
• Crowd 9 (Reunion)
• Danger Inc. (from Sacramento) [dangerinc.bandcamp.com], w. "Nope."
• Get Married
• Kitty Kat Fan Club
• Kilroi
• Livewater
• Ribs
• Sad Girlz Club
• Sarchasm [sarchasm.bandcamp.com], w. "Hand Me Downs" off their album "Beach Blanket Bummer Pop"
• Ultra Q
• Unpopular Opinion [unpopularopinionband.bandcamp.com], w. "Ghost Peppers" & "Dear Alice"
Friday, December 20th, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show), $12 (advance), $15 (door)
At The Art Boutiki // 44 Race st. in San Jose
Get Married's Annual Holiday Party 2019 Live In Technicolor & 4 Way Split EP Release!
featuring...
• Get Married (form San Jose) [getmarried.bandcamp.com]
• Grumpster [grumpster.bandcamp.com]
• Sarchasm [sarchasm.bandcamp.com]
• Danger Inc (from Sacramento) [dangerinc.bandcamp.com], w. "White Elephants" from their album "You Don't Tell Me"
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'Zine Reviews & News
• Broken Pencil zine reviews & news [brokenpencil.com]
• Syndicated Zine Reviews [facebook.com/SyndicatedZineReviews] [syndicatedzinereviews.blogspot.com]
• East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest [facebook.com/EBABZfest]
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Bliss Urban Arts Center
3777 Vaca Valley Pkwy, in Vacaville // [facebook.com/BlissUrbanArtsCenter]
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Also tune-in on Ozcat for...
• "Talking Schmidt", Sundays 6 'til 9pm, with Rock, Blues, Classics, with new, unsigned, alternative artists! Hosted by Schmidty (of Overland)• "The Red Eye", Mondays 9 'til noon, with Metal & Hard Rock, hosted by Dianne the Great!
• "Spitshine Show", Mondays 6 'til 9pm, Classic Psyche Rock & Indy Americana, hosted by Rick (of 5-Cent Coffee)
• "Grateful Siren and Mose Show", Mondays 9pm 'til midnight, with a special blend of Reggae, Blues, Rock and the Grateful Dead, (@GratefulSirenAndMoseShowOnOzcatRadio) [facebook.com/GratefulSirenAndMoseShowOnOzcatRadio]
• "iMosaic Mix", with a Chill Ambient music, Thursdays in the morning 7 to 9am, and "The Sunday Service", 1st/3rd Sundays, 10pm 'til beyond midnight!
• "The Plowzone", 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 6 'til 9pm [ThePlowZoneRadioShow.com]
• "Rhythms with Rich", Thursdays, 6 'til 9pm, with Classic Rock, New Alternative!
• "The Bay Sess.", Thursdays, 12 midnight 'til 3am, an infusion session w. Reggae, Trip-Psyche, Traditional and Knowledge!
• "The Irie Radio Show", Fridays 6 'til 9pm, with conscious Roots Reggae and Dancehall, hosted by Big O!
• "All Over the Road", Saturdays, 6 'til 9pm, hosted by Jeremy (classic FM jock spinning Rock wax with stories and context)
Also worthy to check out:
• BAGeL Radio (via Soma FM) [somafm.com/bagel] [bagelradio2.blogspot.com], tune-in [radio.net/s/bagelradio] [somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/bagel], hour playlist [somafm.com/bagel/songhistory.html]. Spanning four decades of great alternative, post-punk, indie rock and noise pop, you'll hear artists like Frightened Rabbit, The White Stripes, Metric, The National, Tune-Yards, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Thermals, The Smiths, Blur, Radiohead, Mission of Burma, Chameleons UK, Siouxsie & The Banshees, X, and just about every Slumberland Records band ever. And every Friday is 480 Minutes: Ted plays and discusses the latest and greatest music in real time. For eight hours. Seriously. From 9am-5pm Eastern.• "Sound Check", Sundays 9pm 'til midnight [alt1053.radio.com/blogs/soundcheck], w. local bands and rarely heard tunes! Hosted by Aaron Axleson on Alt. 105.3 FM, tune-in (via Radio.com) [is.gd/l7JfvJ], 3 'til 6pm Mondays and Wednesdays w. new psyche & rock both international and continental!
Recommended Local Acts featured on the SOUNDCHECK
- Waterstrider - "Way Out" [youtube.com/watch?v=SURR90M71g8]
- SWMRS - "Lose Lose Lose" [youtube.com/watch?v=6JX9lwv5YgA]- The Happys - "Cut The Rope" [youtube.com/watch?v=WRlAQyBr3jQ]
- The Trims - "Bending Time" [youtube.com/watch?v=7VYP7BW89WM]
- Same Girls - "WAIT" [soundcloud.com/samegirls510/wait]
- Talkie - "Bummer Summerrr" [youtube.com/watch?v=Ud74jE5v6ko]
- Fighter Jets - "Alone in our rooms" [youtube.com/watch?v=-Avx4SGpvHY]
- The Y Axes - "Get Away" [youtube.com/watch?v=7_Gm2UBI570]
- Weekend Youth - "Gotta Be Me" [youtube.com/watch?v=nuCtpUEbW5A]
• FaultRadio [faultradio.com]
• Maximum Rocknroll [maximumrocknroll.com]
• Razorcake [razorcake.org]
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