Bandwidth

Bandwidth: Aquí están Los Cenzontles

By: Roberto Daza & Mark Oltmanns | May 11, 2012 – 2:51 pm

Meet Los Cenzontles, a Mexican folk band and musical academy based in San Pablo, California. To say that this group’s sound is eclectic would be...

Bandwidth: Getting soulful with Drop Apollo

By: Roberto Daza and Mark Oltmanns | March 30, 2012 – 2:00 pm

In our latest installment of Bandwidth, we introduce you to Drop Apollo, a 5-piece indie rock band that been playing shows around the Bay Area...

Bandwidth: Welcome to The 21st Century

By: Roberto Daza and Mark Oltmanns | February 3, 2012 – 4:07 pm

Meet The 21st Century, a a eight-piece indie pop band from Oakland, who released their first album “The City” earlier this month at The Red...

Bandwidth: Alexa Weber-Morales wants to work for you

By: Roberto Daza and Mark Oltmanns | January 27, 2012 – 3:59 pm

Oakland singer/songwriter Alexa Weber-Morales sat down with Oakland North to discuss her new album, “I Wanna Work For You.” The album consists of 10 original...

Bandwidth: The California Honeydrops bring some New Orleans soul to Oakland

By: Casey Capachi | December 8, 2011 – 8:30 am

Oakland North caught up with The California Honeydrops to talk about their unique soulful gospel, second line New Orleans-style second line jazz, blues, swing and...

Bandwidth: Piano duo the John Brothers makes street performance pay

By: Christine Mai-Duc | March 25, 2011 – 11:06 am

Oakland residents John Morgan and John Boomer graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009. A few months later, they faced a decision: make some quick cash,...

Bandwidth: Sibling act Aquarena Springs brings country honky-tonk to Oakland

By: Nicole Jones | March 24, 2011 – 12:50 pm

Brother and sister Sarah Lynn and Aaron Goeth were raised on church service and bar music while growing up in San Antonio, Texas. Now living...

Bandwidth: Oakland’s Religious Girls shred their gospel

By: Vanessa Carr | March 8, 2011 – 9:41 am

This three-piece experimental pop band from Oakland — and no, Religious Girls are not actually girls — is the next feature in our “Bandwidth” video...

Bandwidth: Meet hip-hop artists the DIME

By: Mark Oltmanns | February 28, 2011 – 11:30 am

As part of a new collaborative effort between Oakland North and its partner site Richmond Confidential, we’ve started a new series called Bandwidth to profile...