Bay Area Bandwidth Into the local music scene? Join the Bay Area Bandwidth page, post your photos and connect with other fans.

Spots That Rock A look at music history landmarks in the Bay Area. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Bandwidth
Oakland root-blues-soul quartet the California Honeydrops has a truly underground sound.

Happy Clams Shannon and the Clams have a hot date lined up at the Hemlock Tavern.

Pop Quiz
NOFX celebrates 25 years of independent music-making with a bunch of S.F. shows.

A Lost Kingdom "Jews on Vinyl" exhibit in S.F. tracks down interesting alleys of Jewish music.

Island Living
Hard work got Danish fiddle prodigy Mads Tolling to the Turtle Island String Quartet.

Bandwidth Grammy nominee Ledisi, who merges R&B; and jazz, is not your average singer.

Birthday Bash
Jazz drummer Scott Amendola marks the end of his fourth decade with a high-powered musical gathering.

Pop Quiz Mike Ness, of Social Distortion, reveals how the group managed to stick around for 30 years.

New, Yet Vernacular
Jazz-trained pianist Marco Benevento performs with a different lineup each Tuesday at Oakland's Yoshi's.

A Young Genius The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra celebrates Felix Mendelssohn's bicentennial.

A Merry Miscellany
A concert in Herbst Theatre is a bicentennial tribute to composer Felix Mendelssohn.

Primal Power
The Dawn Makers" is a wonderful new one-act chamber opera that had its world premiere in Herbst Theatre.

Songs Lifted From Predictability
Paula West's genius as a performer is evident during her Rrazz Room show.

Expanses Of Sameness The Kronos Quartet presented a drab performance in Berkeley.

Music Made Fresh
Pianist Fred Hersch brings his smashing Pocket Orchestra to San Francisco.

Pop Rocker Pop phenom Katy Perry made the sold-out crowd at the Fillmore let out a collective gasp.

New, But Not Improved
Peppered with improvisation and sampled beats, "Akoka: A Messiaen Remix" bordered on frippery.

Playing For Peace Sweetness was in fact the reigning spirit of Berkeley pianist Sarah Cahill's performance.

Playing Dead
Composer Lee Johnson took 10 Grateful Dead songs and dressed them up in full orchestral regalia.

A Big Voice Some singers let the songs tell their own stories, others act them out, Franc D'Ambrosio does both.

Musical Odyssey
Michael Morgan and the Oakland East Bay Symphony premiere "World Concerto for Cello and Orchestra."

New CDs
Lily Allen, 'It's Not Me, It's You' | Eliane Elias, 'Bossa Nova Stories' | Buddy Holly sets | Antony and the Johnsons, 'The Crying Light' | Joyce DiDonato, 'Furore'