Busking throws musicians into our bustling world, placing beauty and passion before us as we rush through our busy lives. This is the story of the members of Whiskerman finding each other and coming together, as they play on the very streets they sing of in their song The Town.

About The Band

Whiskerman Born into a family of musicians, Whiskerman singer and front-man Graham Patzner didn’t have much choice. Cultivating a unique sound a voice that ranges from smoky to soaring, and his songs span a wide array of moods and genres, yet always remaining soulful. Behind him is a tight band that includes Will Lawrence on bass, Nick Cobbett on drums, and Charles Lloyd (Cash Pony) on guitar and sitar.

About The Filmmakers

Harry Yuan – Director/DP
Vanessa Avery – 2nd Camera
Samuel Crossley – 3rd Camera/PA
Aberaham Cohen – Grip
Melissa Wagner – Sylist
Oscar Agredano – Stylist

Kickass girl croons to the tunes of “Saffron” after a regretfully raucous night in the belly of Vulcan Studios, East Oakland.

About The Band

The music of Sun Hop Fat is at once dark and soothing. The band started with the vision of reinterpreting Swinging Addis Period Ethiopian Jazz and has turned songs of freedom and blues into their own blend of groove, swell, and funk. The ten piece band now fuses their sound to reflect on Eastern scales while dancing with Western skies.

About The Filmmakers

Director: Amanda Huelse
Assistant Director: Maria Leon
DP: Jason Joseffer
Editor: Adam Loften
Gaffer & Grip: Craig Ryan and Eric Skowron
Assistant Camera: Elias Koch
Props Dept: Damian Lanahan-Kalish & Kirstin Cummings

Detailed, dense, intense, intelligent, insanely playful, yet surprisingly gentle, the music of Spontaneous Respiration catalyzes a stronger connection with the eternal for the listener…Mixing rock instruments with acoustic orchestral instruments and electronics to create strong emotionscapes, the songs often start off on a serene path, and sometimes end violently.

About The Filmmakers

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Girl has a party and no one shows up. Based on a true story.

About The Band

Sunbeam Rd., a Bay Area three piece, craft a tense and expansive sound via psychedelic guitars, purposeful melodies, and restraint. Willing to fall apart completely exploring the margins of harmonic rock, their live shows can toe the edge of cacophony. At their best they reach into hook-laden, fuzz-saturated trance states.

About The Filmmakers

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Gonzalo Eyzaguirre – Director/DP/Editor
Sean Johannessen – Assistant Director/2nd Camera
Yina Kim – Production Assistant

Sunbeam Rd.: Clive Hacker, Harrison Pollock, Trevor Hacker

Cast: Yina Kim, Abbey Yudenfreund, Ian Miller, Jennifer Corrales, Peyton Leng, Princess Pocaigue, Rob Roy, Robert Ranard

‟Pro Wave Rider” appears on the full length LP BREATHERS by Sunbeam Rd. © 2013

Five friends discover a plot of magic mushrooms and journey into the bird realm.

About The Band

Scissors For Lefty has a sophisticated pop style, combining elements of Modern Indie, Yesteryear, & Dirty Glam. They are about as playful as an arty pop band can get, all fronted by tales of romance & counter-culture glow. Smart, sexy, and a little crazy.

About The Filmmakers

Jonathan Clark – Director + Camera
Bryan Lemos – Camera + BTS Editor
Greg ‘AZ’ Clark – Assistant
James Wong – Helicopter Control
Neena McNulty – Bird Trainer
Rey Eugenio – Bird Trainer

Quinn DeVeaux and The Blue Beat Review is the dance floor between the sweet old times and new hard times. It’s New Orleans soul and early blues with the depth of cracked hands combined with the contagious dance rhythm you’ve been looking for all night. You hear the upright bass and drums lock into a rolled drop beat, then the piano licks up and around the groove, then a drip dried guitar jumps in followed by three lovely voices making harmonies round the rhythm, and then on top comes Quinn, with his sugarbush tones of joy..

About The Filmmakers

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Evan Donn
Mike Paunovich
Rick Kemp
Tony Nguyen
Rob Carey
Christine Clark

A band of baby phoenices based in the chrysopylae of Northern California. The Oakland “post-indie” band is composed of songwriter, Alex Haager, on lead vocal and ukulele, Alex Pinto on bass guitar, Hernando Buitrago on keys and vocals, and Jeff Gist on drums. After grabbing the attention of Bay Area blogs with their singles “Fangs” and “Legs”, Magic Fight released their full-length debut “Wooden Swords and Stolen Echoes” in April.

About The Filmmakers

Cory K Riley – Director
Stuart Griese – Producer
Alun Lee – Assistant Director
Ryan Thomas – DOP
Norah Emily – Art Director
Laura Grassi – Make-up
Matt Stouppe – Gaffer
Joe Heath – Key Grip
Christian Klein – Best Boy Electric
Jonathan Salazar – 1st AC
Favienne Howsepian – 2nd AC
Will King – Property
Jonah Isaiah Ben-Amotz – Production Designer
Alexander Niell – DIT
Katy Planchette – Actress
Ulianna Story – Production Assistant
Shannon Lee Unser – Production Assistant
Alec Bernal – BTS
Anastasia Kiriv – Actress
Jessie Chaffin – Assistant ART
Chloe Norred – Actress
Mireya Gartland – Actress
Stevi Lou – Actress

Mammoth Life’s “Teen Dreamin” is a celebratory nostalgia tale recalling the freedom of possibility. In the chilly San Francisco night, the band tears through the city for some light-hearted breaking & entering as their catchy tune builds into an anthemic explosion.

About The Band

Mammoth Life is a female fronted, dream-pop quartet from San Francisco. Soaked in reverb with coursing organ and electric guitar, this band falls somewhere between Weezer’s Blue and current releases by Tennis and Beach House. ML’s debut LP will be out this summer via Satisfying Records.

About The Filmmakers

Sean Gillane – Director/Producer
Jonathan Bowerbank – Director of Photography
Katherine Bruens – Editor/Producer
Stephanie Petrus – Production Coordinator/Assistant Editor
Jacob Willman – Grip
Russel Ezekiel Stewart – Art Department/Light Bulb Wrangler
Kimber Neely – Art Department/Light Bulb Wrangler
Nick Miller – Animation

Lioness and Wolfman face off in a post-apocalyptic battle to the death.

About The Band

Not the 1s is the SF/OAK rap duo of Cuzzo D and Mawnstr. They’ve known each other since back in the day. They make songs about being fly, driving space-age cars, and shoplifting.

About The Filmmakers

Vanessa Carr – Director
Mark Oltmans – Cinematographer
Patrick Kollman – Cinematographer
Michael Goodier – Editor

Growwler is an art pop collective based on the songowriting of Davis IL. Since inception the band has had San Francisco music history dyed in its wool: ebullient harmonies, weapons-grade hooks and sophisticated arrangements. Composing mash letters to the golden era of modern melody, they’re unpardonably happy when they make the listener feel appreciated.

About The Filmmakers

Yvette Solis – Director
Scott Sorenson – Camera
Will Nail – Camera
Alex Esteves – Editor
Joe Sargent – SFX
Kyle Lestor – Art Dept.
Tory Fink – Production Designer
Cassie Raney – Photographer

Let it all out.

About The Band

Mike Cobra and Rebecca Bortman come from opposite ends of the San Francisco music spectrum. He’s the brooding frontman of electro-rock band, King Loses Crown. She’s the giddy indie pop frontwoman of My First Earthquake. The result is Happy Fangs— with unique dark exuberance, punk anthems, and plenty of warpaint.

About The Filmmakers

Blake Smith – Director/DP/Editor
Chris Jennings Producer
Henry Young – Assistant Director

Lovers spat in the public eye.

About The Band

Futurbrite Futurebrite is the collaboration between singer/multi-instrumentalist Karen Kanan Corrêa and producer Josh Grant. After leading NYC indie rock trio Demander through US and European tours and two albums, Karen toured as bassist for Sweden’s Moneybrother before starting the songs for Futurebrite. Think beat-heavy 80′s + bright melodies + fireworks + cinema.

About The Filmmakers

Written & directed by CARLOS GRAÑA
director of photography RICHARD JETT
editor ANTHONY RUSSELL
cast MARGO, KAREN KANAN CORREA
production manager CAROLA DI POI
art director XAVIER HAMEL
makeup CHRISTINA COSTA
key grip DEREK IMAN
assistant camera ANA ARCIONI
cameras CALVIN KAI KU, KENT KESSINGER, XAVIER HAMEL, CARLOS GRAÑA, CHRIS GONZALEZ

Giggle Party spews good times all over a mover’s bad day.

About The Band

Somewhere between pop-punk and anarchic electro-comedy, Giggle Party brings the atmosphere of a party wherever they go. Giggle Party’s fun, frantic live shows and catchy anthemic music are punctuated by synthesizer and group vocals.

About The Filmmakers

Joey Dello Russo – Director/DP/Editor
Giggle Party – Producers

“Homesick” is about wanting to reunite with the people and places from your past, but realizing that you can’t. Still, it’s OK because you can always pull from those bright memories.

About The Band

Clintongore is a Brooklyn/San Francisco based electronic duo. Sierra Frost and Chris Crawford record their music in bedrooms, sometimes from across the country.

Clintongore is each band member’s first attempt at writing electronic music and they are stoked.

About The Filmmakers

Ian Sotzing – Director
Rob Goc – DP/Editor
SamBarkus Dancer
Christophe Betty Dancer
Maggie Caldwell Dancer/props

“Sweaty; Complex; Supple,” these are just a few words used to define the Bay Area trio, Frozen Folk. Eluding conventional definition, this band digs rusty hooks of thrashing energy into the frothing mouths of innocent bystanders, and reels them in with the lilt of bizarre lyrics and melody. Singer/songwriter Owen Kelley aims to unite influences like Jesus Lizard, Pixies, The Urinals, Eric Dolphy and Thelonious Monk. Patrick Friedman, drummer since the age of 12, and Tim Platz, bassist and jack of all trades musician since the age of 6, lay a brick-wall-backbeat that drives the complex and sonorous machinery of Owen’s chickin’ pickin’ style guitar work.

About The Filmmakers

Nikko DeLuna

Oakland-based Team Go Team 2 amalgamates with San Francisco’s illustrious and renowned Battlehooch to chronicle the perspectives of six distinguished gentlemen as they meet their grizzly, polychromatic demise* while partaking in mundane tasks such as microwaving leftovers, chasing butterflies and looking fine like Poseidon while basking in a hot tub.

*Only the rhythm section was actually killed in the making of this video.

About The Band

What can a rock band do that hasn’t been done yet? How much can you twist and mutate a genre until it turns into something new? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Battlehooch’s music. Their latest album “Hot Lungs” (Released Feb 2013) is a full length meditation on the answers for those questions. With songs ranging from symphonically epic to intimately beautiful, “Hot Lungs” is an album that captures the widescreen nature of Battlehooch’s sound.

About The Filmmakers

Paige Richardson – Director
Sean Johnson – Assistant Director
Ron Larson – Camera
Daniel McChestney-Young – Camera
William Wroblewski – Camera
Shannon Hubbell – Editor
Pauline Van Beek – Data Wrangler
Melissa Anderson – After Effects Wizard
Jacob Martinez – Gaffer Extraordinaire
Yolanda Fernandez – Production Assistant
Dan Hubbell – Production Assistant

Callow’s “Old Horse” explores the themes of dependence and regret. What does it mean to depend on someone else? What are the consequences? How is it possible that depending on someone else can both give you strength and weaken you at the same time? And what happens when that person also depends on you?

About The Band

If Vic Chestnutt had come out of slowcore rather than country, he might have sounded like Callow. Stark, blue guitars and keyboards provide the backdrop for Red Moses’ minor-key songs of loss and the dark transitions the heart must make as it breaks, heals, grieves and grows.

About The Filmmakers

Herbie Gaylord

Animal Friend- It has been three years and we have played some fun shows around town. We like wizards and crystals and profanity. There are four of us. We make bhangra for cuttlefish. We make most of our music at night. We are made mostly of recycled plant material and water. The human members of the band are Jasper Speicher, Jacob Van Putten, Kazuko Kimura, and Jake Frautschi. We are friends and believe in love.

About The Filmmakers

Javier Briones – Director/Editor
Chris Tipton-King – DP/Editor
Sarah Altshuler – AD/ART
Tim Gee – Gaff Electric
Melissa Perez – PA/ART

The three members of Ash Reiter split up for the day, and each one coincidentally runs into the same guy.

About The Band

Ash Reiter’s melodies go a long way in the world of golden-pop sounds. Her gentle vocals are immediately compelling and distinct, with an aggressive punch thrown in here and there. Part of her charm is the unabashedly playful nature of her music; it is lighthearted and sincere, and it urges an audience to shake their hips a little while occasional psychedelic flourishes threaten to warp your mind.

About The Filmmakers

Andrew Callaway – Director/DP/Editor
Andreas Blair – Assistant Director

Ash Reiter as Themselves
Andreas Blair as The Man

A story of love, regret and the science of rejection. A woman’s journey into self discovery through heartbreak and a man coming to terms with his mistakes.

About The Band

“Adam Traore, aka A-1, might be the next S.F. rapper poised for wider success. The first-generation U.S. citizen, son of parents from West Africa and Italy, A-1 treads a fine line between what would’ve once been considered conscious rap — giving lip-service to positivity and self-awareness — with party-ready anthems about girls and weed. The Thurl Tape, his release from last fall, mixes zeitgeist-y beats and production with guest spots from Roach Gigz, Little Dragon, and Dregs One. But Traore’s agile rhymes and likable, disarming persona keep the spotlight firmly planted on him throughout.”
–Ian S. Port

About The Filmmakers

Alex Weinberg – Director
Nicole Hardwick – Actress
Ashley Rawl – PA/Makeup
Max Silverman – DP/Editor