Every year Northern California's most well known rock radio station, Live 105, has a huge concert, known as the BFD. At this year's annual event The Offspring along with 311 and The Yeah Yeah Yeah's headlined the main stage. Fans flooded into the Shoreline Amphitheater to catch those sets, but the real story may have been in the parking lot on the smaller stages.

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"Better Than Hollywood" by Saturday Night Shakedown

It's rare to find a CD that I want to listen to consistently. But I don't have that issue with Saturday Night Shakedown's debut EP. Ever since I bought it and put it on my iPod, it's been on repeat and I've found myself absolutely in love with the band and their CD.

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When Jordin Sparks was crowned the winner of American Idol, the last place she would've expected to be was on a rolling stage performing after a Major League Baseball game. That's exactly where she found herself after the Oakland A's had defeated the Baltimore Orioles at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Sparks was quickly rolled out from beyond the center field fence and launched into a shortened set.

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Only one performer could draw 15,000 screaming adolescents out to an arena on a Wednesday night, a school night at that. Pop star Jesse McCartney headlined a radio sponsored event at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA. Throw in a rock act, Boys Like Girls, and another edgy pop star, Katy Perry, and you've got yourself a sold out concert.

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Marty Stuart is a true legend in the country music industry. As a teenager, he toured with artists such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and, the king of blue grass, Lester Flatt. Stuart played a rare show in San Francisco at the intimate Great American Music Hall. The same place he'd last played over thirty years ago. Although the country music format may have changed dramatically in the last few decades, Stuart has not. He was joined on stage by his band, The Fabulous Superlatives, and gave the audience what they wanted, 90 minutes of true country music.

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