[Guest DJ is a new recurring feature on Stranger Dance where we turn the tables and ask some of our favorite artists to make us a mixtape.]
For the inaugural edition of Guest DJ, we stayed close to home and went to one of our favorite local bands, The Harbours. Frontman Miguel Zelaya pulled together 12 [...]

We’re obviously more than a little excited for tonight’s show at Cafe du Nord. We’re very proud to be presenting three of our absolute favorite Bay Area bands: Geographer, Michael Zapruder and Harbours. Tickets are only $10, doors open at 8, show starts at 9. (Check out our recent interviews with both Geographer and Michael [...]

We’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away for the great Geographer, Michael Zapruder and Harbours show that we’re sponsoring this Thursday (4/23) at Cafe du Nord. Head over to our twitter page for a chance to win.

We’re very excited to be presenting an evening with three of our favorite Bay Area bands, Geographer, Michael Zapruder and Harbours on April 23 at Cafe du Nord.
Geographer ( Official Website | MySpace )
Building on the overwhelmingly positive response to last year’s debut, Innocent Ghosts, Geographer has been packing shows and building an impressive amount of buzz for such a [...]

[Weekly roundup of the week's notable CD releases - try before you buy. Check out our upcoming CD release schedule for all 2009 releases.]
This week’s list features releases by Baltimore freakout specialist Dan Deacon, the cold-blooded Decemberists, eccentric indie rapper MF Doom, Wolf Parade side project Swan Lake, local SD favorite Michael Zapruder and yet [...]

It was a quiet, rainy Sunday night (not to mention during the Oscars), but a devoted few made it out (we spotted Mark Eitzel among the sparse crowd) to watch a night of great local acts (two of which were on our Best of San Francisco mix) and another all the way from the indie [...]

Bay Area musician Michael Zapruder does things a little differently than most artists. Best known (so far) for his 52 Songs project — for which he recorded and released one track online every week for a year — Zapruder also formed an orchestra dubbed the Rain of Frogs, which features a rotating cast including members [...]

This month’s mixtape is Part Two of our “Best of the Bay Area” mix that we started last month (find Part One here). We had set out to make a single mix that encapsulated the local scene, but there’s just too much depth of talent in San Francisco to reduce down to an 80-minute primer. [...]