uptones Archive
30 Dec 2020
Always Comes Back: 415 Records and the SF New Wave Scene (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… The Uptones Ska was relatively unknown in the United States when The Uptones got their start. Eric Din – who still leads a version of The Uptones today – recalls that he and a bunch of high school friends formed the group in 1981 to play the kind of music made
29 Dec 2020
Always Comes Back: 415 Records and the SF New Wave Scene (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… The Mutants In late 1978, Sally Webster had a giant loft on First and Mission where she often held salon-type events. “A lot of bands played there for their first time; it was sort of an experiment, but it was super fun.” She and some friends recruited musicians “who could actually
28 Dec 2020
Always Comes Back: 415 Records and the SF New Wave Scene (Part 1 of 3)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously as a cover story in SF Weekly. And LATE BREAKING NEWS: My book about 415 Records will be published in 2021. — bk In the mid- and late ’60s Howie Klein was a student at Stony Brook University on Long Island, 50 miles outside New York City.