Photos: Che Holts Rock trio Augustines played to a packed Bottom of the Hill Thursday night and early Friday morning, but the show was not without its setbacks. The band, which had spent 10 hours driving between Los Angeles in San Francisco that day, much of it stuck in commute…

On their first album, 2011’s Rise Ye Sunken Ships, rock trio Augustines tackled the suicide of singer-guitarist’s William McCarthy’s brother. In 2014, McCarthy, guitarist Eric Sanderson and drummer Rob Allen focused on rebuilding broken lives and thoughts on their self-titled sophomore album. On their third album, June’s This Is Your…

Biffy Clyro performs at the Great American Music Hall on Feb. 12, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. This is the final part in a three-part series. Read how I’m scoring my list and find out about my “special consideration” acts in PART 1 and 10 through 6 in PART 2. Before I get my…

We Are Augustines, courtesy. Augustines‘ frontman Billy McCarthy spent the first half of his childhood in Santa Cruz, and the second in the hills of Gold Country, past Sacramento on the way to Lake Tahoe. He doesn’t really have any one home these days, but he can see himself…

Augustines, courtesy. It’s the tail-end of December, and Augustines’ singer-guitarist Billy McCarthy is on the road, about to embark on a solo road trip from Texas into the deeper South, hoping to end up somewhere in the Caribbean. Since the band broke from its touring cycle for 2011 debut,…