More than two dozen Bay Area artists have quickly organized a two-day streaming event called “Pandemica Online.” Led by Avi Vincour of Goodnight, Texas, the the event will run from 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 10:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Each artist will be…

As the Bay Area’s vanguard baroque rock outfit, San Francisco’s The Family Crest’s symphonic approach to indie rock has captured the hearts of a growing fanbase. At once loftily cinematic and intimately communal, the group lives up to its name both in music and audience relations. In fact, the…

The Family Crest, Travis Hayes, M. Lockwood Porter and T Sisters are among the Bay Area artists who have contributed to a new North Bay Fires charity compilation record produced by Bay Area producer Scott Mickelson. All proceeds from After The Fire, Vol. 1, and the two upcoming record…

The Family Crest. Courtesy: Keith Stein. About seven years ago, I began writing music for a project, The War. The first installment of the project is The Family Crest‘s new EP, Prelude to War.  An overture of sorts, Prelude to War is meant to give you a taste of what’s to come. The EP…

It’s been two years since San Francisco orchestral pop band The Family Crest released Beneath the Brine, a breakout that led to the group’s first national headlining tour and commercial licensing deals. A large chunk of the intervening time went to touring, including a slot at Outside Lands in…

Courtesy: Outside Lands Deep in the vegetation of Golden Gate Park, among the tens of thousands of attendees at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in 2012, beside the fairytale-like “houses” peddling chocolate – hot, cold, hardened and molten – and next to a carnival sideshow with clowns,…

The Family Crest. As much as the lives of the seven musicians in San Francisco’s The Family Crest have changed since signing with Portland label Tender Loving Empire a year ago, the one thing that hasn’t changed is the pressure to succeed, now that the success of others rest…

The Family Crest, courtesy. San Francisco orchestral indie rock band The Family Crest is recording its second album, but staying far away from the studio. OK Go, The Family Crest 2 p.m., Aug. 24 Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, S.F. Tickets: FREE. To date, the sextet…

At the final of three sold-out shows at The Fillmore, Sunday, keyboardist Kenny Hensley of Seattle folkies The Head and the Heart was positioned far stage-left — out of the prime real-estate controlled by vocalist Jonathan Russell and vocalist-guitarist Josiah Johnson. The band may want to rethink that strategy, as…