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 [...]