Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition/ABB Records & Distribution
630 20th St., Ste. 200, Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 419-0396; www.bahhc.com/
BAHHC was established in 1988 to organize and unite both non-commercial radio and mobile DJs in the Bay Area to collectively embrace local and national hip-hop/rap artists whose music is shunned at commercial radio. Over the last 10 years, BAHHC has fostered and promoted the expansion of Bay Area college and community hip-hop/rap radio shows, from three to (currently) 68 programs, collectively totaling over 170 hours of hip-hop/rap radio programming weekly. About ABB Records, Beni B says, "People have commented on the fact that every ABB release today may be considered a classic by tomorrow. I appreciate the love but ABB's main goal is to use the this experience as dialogue for creating change in the lives of fans who that take the time to listen to and support our music."

Behind the Artist, Beyond the Music
2914 21st Street, SF CA 94110
(415) 255-4760; (510) 610-3489; www.babm.org/
We produce and sponsor events dedicated to educating and enriching music business professionals and expanding their opportunities. Accomplishments: two conferences with over 100 members. Currently building an annual newsletter with features on local talent buyers, managers, promoters, media journalists and more. Look for our next conference in August 2001 at Cellspace.

Black Dot Collective
P.O. Box 71583, Oakland, CA 94612-1583
(510) 451-8813; www.blackdotcafe.com/; mdiallo@pcmagic.net
Black Dot Artists has sponsored a wide range of events and programs for the Bay Area community for the past six years. With the opening of the Ritual Space and Black Dot Cafe [est. 1998] in the Lower San Antonio District, Black Dot coordinated a number of classes for the community for youth and adults such as African percussion, visual art, meditation, yoga, hip hop, dance, creative, writing, ritual theater, and a variety of other programs.

Black Dot, in collaboration with the EastSide Arts Alliance has co-sponsored the Malcom X Jazz Arts Festival for the past two years for the East Oakland Community, which has brought such renowned artists as Amiri Baraka, Kahlil El Zabar and The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and The Last Poets. Black Dot continues to program such events as the Annual Ritual Theater Festival and provide workshops for youth through the Beats, Flows & Videos Program. Black Dot is currently in the process of developing a permanent Ritual Space and Black Dot Cafe in West Oakland.

Blue Bear School of American Music
Bldg. D, Fort Mason, SF, CA 94123
(415) 673-3600; www.bluebearmusic.org/
Blue Bear offers quality education in popular music, with both private and group instruction by professional players for all ages and all levels. Programs cover a wide range of contemporary American styles. Class sizes are limited, with most ranging from four to nine students per class. Private and semi-private instruction is also available on most instruments and voice.

California Lawyers for the Arts
1212 Broadway, Ste. 834, Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 444-6351; www.calawyersforthearts.org/
With offices statewide in Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Santa Monica, we assist more than 8,000 artists a year with legal services and legal education. We also provide artists and organizations with alternative dispute resolution services, housing advocacy and workshops on a wide variety of topics.

Center for Bay Area Black Music (CBABM)
c/o CommunityACE, 2991 Shattuck Ave, Ste. 200, Berkeley, CA
(510) 849-1194; www.shyne.net/cbabm/
CBABM grew out of the Johnny Otis/Larry Douglas Black Music Class at Vista College in the fall of 1998. Our mission is to be a public clearinghouse and resource center for the preservation, promotion and support of Black Music in the Bay Area. We celebrate this music, which is performed and appreciated by people of ALL backgrounds. We have many ideas but need more people to commit time and secure funding in order to realize our dreams.

Community ACE (Arts & Cultural Enhancement)
2991 Shattuck Ave, Ste. 200, Berkeley, CA 94705
(510) 849-1194; www.communityace.org/
Community ACE is a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation dedicated to helping individual artists, cultural groups and grassroots organizations find support for community-based arts and culture.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
454 Shotwell St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 436-9333; www.eff.org/
Over the past decade, EFF has participated in precedent-setting litigation protecting online civil liberties, worked to ensure that any legislation passed or rules promulgated protect individuals' rights, and led the forefront of public debate over the equitable use and responsible growth of technology relating to privacy, First and Fourth Amendments, and intellectual property issues.

Ex'pressions Center for New Media
6601 Shellmound St., Emeryville, CA 94608
Toll-free: (877) 833-8800; www.xnewmedia.com/
Ex'pression Center for New Media's prime objective is to provide an excellent, comprehensive education to students who want a career in the world of digital visual media and sound arts. Ex'pression is dedicated to long-term relationships with students, taking care that graduates are supported with extensive "after care" programs.

Fortune Records
PO Box 11302, Berkeley, CA 94712
(510) 381-5041; www.fortunerecords.com/
Fortune Records is an independent label out of Berkeley, CA, with the sole intent of releasing records from songwriters and bands who write from the heart and have something to say, and who aren't afraid to break the rules.

Funk Twist -- every month
Tongue & Groove, 2513 Van Ness Avenue, SF, CA 94109
(415) 777-0681
Marin Music Festival
Lagoon Park/San Rafael August 18, 2001
www.marinmusicfestival.com/
Funk Twist at Tongue & Groove always features the best in funk music! Two to three bands funk it up on a monthly basis. The Marin Music Festival at the beautiful Lagoon Park in San Rafael will be on Saturday, August 18th. Past festival performers have included: the Neville Brothers, Steve Kimock Band, Ben Harper, Galactic, David Grisman, Merle Saunders, Zigaboo Modeliste and many others. Food from around the world, 50 craft vendors, kid zone and much more.

H.E.A.R.
1405 Lyon St. SF, CA 94115
(415) 409-EARS; www.hearnet.com/
H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers and Ravers) is a non-profit health organization dedicated to raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels which can lead to permanent, and sometime debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus. H.E.A.R. provides information on its award-winning website and conducts a hearing screening program in the Bay Area. Other programs include: public service media campaigns, educational outreach to schools, music associations, music industry events and more.

Hip Hop Slam
PO Box 5124, Berkeley, CA 94705
(510)658-4293; hiphopslam@aol.com
Hip Hop Slam is a Bay Area mixed-media company dedicated to archiving and presenting Bay Area hip hop music & culture. We provided all the Bay Area hip-hop audio/video content for the ongoing "Hip-Hop Nation" exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, produce the KPFA radio program "Scratch Attack," and produce/release Bay Area music on the Hip Hop Slam record label in video/CD/vinyl formats.

Horizons Unlimited DJ Project
440 Potrero St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 487-6714; ijazzy@yahoo.com
Launched in November, 2000, with just $2,800, the Horizons Unlimited DJ Project is a youth leadership program seeking to educate and empower low-income youth through a dynamic blend of youth arts education, media literacy, youth entrepreneurship and community service. Horizons harnesses the power of hip-hop culture to awaken critical consciousness and inspire responsibility to community, as well as provide entrepreneur opportunities for youth.

Incidental Music
3440 25th St., #501, SF, CA 94110
(415) 282-8796; www.incidentalmusic.com/
Incidental is a new label poised to change the world, if not its underwear. Current and forthcoming releases from: Rovo (Boredoms side-project), Zmrzlina, Elders of Zion and "Nothing Left to Lose: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson." Confused? Us too. We have no standards -- only whims. If you're similarly inscrutable, we'd love to hear the noise you love to make. Submission instructions are on our website.

Independent Arts & Media
PMB 821, 601 Van Ness Ave. #E, SF, CA 94102
www.artsandmedia.net/
Independent Arts & Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and develops noncommercial arts and media in San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond. The goal is to build collaborative public networks that directly connect artists, musicians, journalists and media producers with the diverse communities they serve. We offer free and low-cost services, including Web space with no pop-up or banner ads; comprehensive editorial consulting; and fiscal and event sponsorship.

Jazz in Flight
PO Box 20551, Oakland, CA 94620
(510) 763-4663; www.jazzinflight.org/
Jazz In Flight is a not-for-profit presenting creative music in the Bay Area since 1987. In recent years we have focused on a monthly jazz concert at Yoshi's; the renowned Eddie Moore Jazz Festival at Yoshi's, which pays tribute to the late drummer; and Children in Flight, an free African Performing Arts Education Program on Saturday afternoons at Oakland's Alice Arts Center. Submissions from musicians should include tape or CD plus publicity information.

KALX 90.7 FM
University of California
26 Barrows Hall #5650, Berkeley, CA 94720
Studio: (510) 642-KALX; Office: (510) 642-1111; kalx.berkeley.edu/
KALX 90.7 FM broadcasts freeform radio 24 hours a day to a large portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. You can catch all stripes of underground music accented with news and alternative informational programming. KALX has a wonderfully dedicated staff of student and community volunteers who are willing to explore with and educate their listeners.

KFJC 89.7 FM
12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Business: (650) 949-7260; Studio: (650) 941-2500; www.kfjc.org/
KFJC Mission Statement: More freak, less speak. As much as we can agree on a mission, it is to be a conduit for new and interesting audio art and information, especially the sorts that are unavailable elsewhere. Our music programming is largely oriented to recent material. We strive to carry the best of many styles of music and relevant public affairs programming.

KUSF 90.3 FM
2130 Fulton St., SF, CA 94117
Business: (415) 386-5873; Studio: (415) 751-KUSF; www.kusf.org/
KUSF is the result of the efforts of more than 100 volunteers from all facets of the community, broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week. KUSF is dedicated to exposing the listening community to quality music, information and ideas not expressed on other stations, and to challenge DJs to open their minds and develop diverse, eclectic, free-form, new, archival and specialty music and cultural programming.

KZSU 90.1 FM
PO BOX 20190, Stanford, CA 94309
Business: (650) 725-4868; Music Dep't.: (650) 723-4839; www.kzsu.org/
KZSU's free-form community radio is brought to you by an all-volunteer staff made up of assorted locals as well as Stanford students and staff. Besides our DJs' music shows, KZSU has a live music show (Wednesday Night Live), public affairs programming, PSAs and more.

Mission Creek Music Festival
1412 15th St., SF, CA 94103
(415) 626-4826; ray7@pacbell.net
Our mission is to continue to build a community event featuring local music acts. This year -- the fifth annual festival, from June 14-17 -- expanded from just one day to several venues throughout the week. We also brought in some acts from out of town. The goal in the future is to include a spoken word/poetry/performance event. We would like to also add a film/video night featuring local filmmakers. We are accepting ideas and submissions of all sorts. The next Mission Creek Festival will take place early June in 2002.

Musicians Union Local 6
116 9th St., SF, CA 94103
(415) 575-0777; www.afm6.org/
A community of musicians offering contract protection, job referrals, collective bargaining, career advice you can trust, instrument and equipment insurance, reliable booking agents, emergency traveling assistance, recording and multimedia protection, experienced negotiators, multi-employer pension funds, audition ads, musicians-to-musician support ... somebody in the business who's on your side.

Music in Schools Today
582 Market St, Suite 213
(415) 392-9010; www.mustcreate.org/
Educating and enriching the lives of our children is the mission of Music in Schools Today (MUST). We are a nonprofit foundation offering support and resources to children, youth and educators. Since 1983, MUST has been serving students in the San Francisco Bay Area public schools by funding and facilitating creative arts in the classroom.

Mystery Machine Productions
2218 Pine St., SF, CA 94115
(415) 474-0843; www.mysterymachineproductions.com/
Mystery Machine Productions strives to kick you in the 'tocks by giving you the best, most innovative live music out there. We support both regional and national talent in order to bring an expansive selection of bands to the Bay Area. We get it. We love it. We promote it.

Nadine Condon/Nadine's Wild Weekend
PO Box 182, San Mateo, CA 94401
(650) 340-8159; www.nadinecondon.com/; www.nadineswildweekend.com/;
Nadine Condon is the executive producer of Nadine's Wild Weekend, August 16-19, 2001: 100 bands, 20 clubs, four days -- it's the only music event devoted entirely to Northern California bands. Application information is on the website. She is an artist development godmother and mentor, offering strategies to creative people through private phone consultation. She also conducts music business seminars and is publishing a book on music business strategies, due late summer 2001.

New College of California
777 Valencia St., SF, CA 94110
(415) 437-3460; (888) 437-3460; www.newcollege.edu/
New College has created a teaching and learning environment fostering creativity both inside and outside the classroom. We demystify learning and empower students by integrating education with personal transformation and social action towards a more just, sacred and sustainable world.

NextArts
PO Box 192425, SF, CA 94119
(415) 468-7694; www.NextArts.org/
NextArts is an NPO that seeks to focus positive attention on the plight of emerging and displaced artists in San Francisco by showcasing exceptional acts in large, public venues. This underscores the cultural significance of the talent that finds expression in our City. Both well known, and lessor known talent finds its way onto the NextArts stage, including Deborah Pardes, Tang!, Mostly Water, Bitches Brew, Hoola King Louie, the Sick, Stymie & The Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra, Garrin Benfield, DJ Solstingr, DJ Dial 8.

North Beach Jazz Festival
The Cannery, 2801 Leavenworth, 2nd fl., SF, CA 94133
(415) 771-2061; www.nbjazzfest.org/
The North Beach Jazz Festival is a nonprofit arts organization in its seventh year, dedicated to preserving the rich jazz history in North Beach, creating a cultural renaissance and introducing jazz to a new generation of fans. It is a celebration of history and a movement to deliver Jazz, in its many varieties, in a way that's accessible to everyone. The 7th Annual North Beach Jazz Festival runs July 28-August 5 at various North Beach locations.

Oasis Duplication
659 Zachary Taylor Hwy., Flint Hill, VA 22627
Bay Area rep. Stessie Cattrell, (888) 296-2747; www.oasiscd.com/
Oasis is the industry leader in creative, eco-friendly packaging design including the Oasis Jewel-Free Box, Spot-Spot, Rough-Look and aluminum coated (mirror) trays. Oasis clients enjoy the benefits of free promotion to radio DJs and industry execs via Oasis Sampler CDs, and receive free barcodes and free retail display boxes with every order. CDs manufactured by Oasis qualify for distribution to major national online and retail outlets. For a modest fee Oasis will upgrade your order to single-speed (audiophile) direct glass mastering -- an exclusive Oasis option.

Outsound
(510) 527-0145; www.outsound.org/
Outsound is a collective of alternative improvisers who run music series and exploratory music events in the city of San Francisco. The web site is a resource for musicians, fans, and people who want to expand their musical understanding. Outsound is affiliated with Bay Improvisor (www.bayimproviser.com/) and the Transbay Creative Music Calendar (www.sfsound.org/transbay.html).

Patrick Simms Studios
1306 Mission St, SF, CA 94103
(415) 863-9326; www.patricksimms.com/
Patrick Simms is a PA rental, teaching, recording and rehearsal facility located just off Market St. in San Francisco. We are affiliated with the Musicians Union AFM 6, where we provide the in-house recording studio for union members. Our rehearsal studio is booked hourly and includes PA and drums, bass and guitar amps. Musicians need only bring their instruments.

Pink Thing Productions
PO Box 590606, SF, CA 94159
(415) 260-0483; www.pinkthingproductions.com/
Pink Thing Productions is the collaborative effort of a group of San Francisco artists. We are the first production company to specialize in Adult Music Videos. Our products feature dialogue-free, explicit imagery appealing to a wide range of women and men. All of our music and video content is original.

Popular Noise Foundation
191 Robin Hood Dr., SF, CA 94127 (mail only)
(415) 585-8810; www.popularnoise.org/
Founded by musicians and other members of the San Francisco music scene, Popular Noise Foundation's mission is to stop the accelerating disintegration of local music in the Bay Area and put in place new programs to preserve and benefit its existence. We recognize the wide breadth of genres that define the local music community and are dedicated to supporting them all.

Renegade Productions
70 "R" Woodland Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901
(866) RENEGADE; (415) 459-5597; www.renegade-productions.com/
We are a full-service event planning and staging operation, ready to meet any audio/visual need for presentations, product launches, promotions, conferences and live music concerts. Being a licensed and bonded full-service production and booking agency, we provide quality entertainment and production services for public and private events, as well as booking services for venues in the SF Bay Area.

RE/Search Publications
20 Romolo, Ste. B, SF, CA 94133
(415) 362-1465; www.researchpubs.com/
RE/Search Publications, under the guidance of V. Vale, provides slick, large format books and some multimedia with uncompromising, high-quality "underground" content. An outgrowth of Vale's late-'70s punk rock 'zine Search & Destroy, RE/Search operates under the "Do It Yourself " punk credo as a reaction to corporate-controlled distribution. Some RE/Search titles include "Modern Primitives," "Incredibly Strange Music," "Pranks," "Freaks" and "the Industrial Culture Handbook."

Rock Out
(415) 248-1608; www.rockoutsf.org/
Rock Out SF goes down July 14 from 1-2pm! Gig outside your home/studio on July 14 from 1-2pm as part of a city-wide live music happening. To participate, sign up on the Rock Out Web page. The Rock Out SF organization is a group of concerned musicians and artists seeking to create an annual celebration of the arts and of the spirit of the Bay Area. The project is 100% volunteer based, has no budget and generates no profit.

Rodent Records
250 Napoleon St Unit N
San Francisco CA 94124
(415) 648-3941; www.rodentrecords.com/
A poorly maintained Victorian in the lower Haight was both our home and our studio. We pressed the record label's first release in 1994, and in 1996 we moved to a warehouse on Napoleon St. It took us three months of hanging sheetrock and installing conduit before the studio was ready to start recording. The Star Cleaners would host weekly rock shows and many of the bands we were working with could be found playing there regularly in front of large audiences. We will continue to put out great music whenever we find it.

San Francisco Late Night Coalition
268 Bush St., #2931, SF, CA 94104
(415) 820-3256; www.sflnc.org/
The SFLNC is a broad-based group of promoters, groovers, activists, DJs, musicians, artists, community members and club owners. We encourage understanding and awareness of the issues surrounding after-hours entertainment in SF, and provide a voice for the rights and the passions of this diverse community. We are an integral part of the cultural fabric of San Francisco, and make significant contributions to the economy and artistic diversity of this city.

Save Local Music Coalition
c/o Simone Kusz, 2507 Bryant Street, SF, CA 94110
(415) 642-4200; www.savelocalmusic.org/
The Save Local Music Coalition is a grass-roots organization dedicated to securing the place of local musicians in the city of San Francisco. Our goals include but are not limited to: Researching avenues for the creation and/or acquisition of permanent rehearsal space; securing governmental support and protection for artists and art spaces; educating the fine arts community and the population on the significance of non-traditional music; amd fundraising to encourage the creative process.

SFJAZZ
3 Embarcadero Center, Lobby Level, SF, CA 94111
(415) 788-7353; www.sfjazz.org/
SFJAZZ (the San Francisco Jazz Organization) is dedicated to the growth of jazz, and jazz audiences, in the SF Bay Area and beyond, through year-round concert and educational programs. SFJAZZ is the producer of the annual San Francisco Jazz Festival (recently ranked the #1 jazz festival in the world by the London Observer) and the SFJAZZ Spring Season, under the artistic direction of Joshua Redman.

SoundSafe, Inc.
Media contact: Sarah Stabile/Hi-Impact Communications
(415) 371-1596; www.soundsafe.org/
The former tenants of Downtown Rehearsal Studio formed SoundSafe, a nonprofit organization established to create new artist rehearsal space in San Francisco. Our mission is to develop a center for live music, dance, rehearsal and art in San Francisco; to contribute to its support; and to further music education and appreciation.

Sunset Promotions
1281-A 41st Ave., SF, CA 94122
(415) 771-7577; www.sunsetpromotions.net/
Since it's inception in 1997, Sunset Promotions has been a powerful source of live music in the Bay Area. Covering a wide variety of music styles from all across the globe, Sunset Promotions paints a colorful canvas of sounds hailing from South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and specializing in the core of North American music: New Orleans, Louisiana.