Video: Howlin Rain - Live @ Amoeba

The third annual Frisco Freakout , taking place this Saturday, October 16th at Thee Parkside (1:30pm, $15), finds some of the Bay's best psych rock bands uniting for an all day, all ages festival benefiting a great cause. On deck at the Freakout: Sic Alps, Howlin Rain, Wooden Shjips, Greg Ashley, Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Carlton Melton, White Manna, Young Prisms, Glitter Wizard, Strangers Family Band, Jeffertitti's Nile, and Mass At Dawn. Proceeds benefit Creativity Explored , an organization that "enables adults with developmental disabilities to express themselves [...]

Welcome to MEGA RIFF FRIDAY Oh children, let me explain this beauty. So let's say you want to hear some good hard rock j-a-double-emms. Because the weather is awesome and your shirt is uncomfortable anyway. But you don't really know where to go for some jams. Who can turn you on to some new stuff? ETHAN F*CKING MILLER, man, that's who. The man behind Howlin Rain and the Bay Area's own god of the heavy riff. Turns out he's got a blog called Silver Currant - it's only occasionally updated, but each [...]

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