The Pier’s Live Acoustic Series: Zach Deputy

The Pier's Live Acoustic Series Featuring Zach Deputy's LIVE Funky Improv WATCH VIDEO NOW The Pier's Live Acoustic Series: From Conception to Creation The vision of the Pier’s “Live Acoustic Series” is to provide reggae-rock fans with an intimate, stripped down acoustic experience featuring the genre’s most recognizable bands, along with some new faces. The [...]

The Pier: Catching Up with Iration

Fresh off their Tales from the Sea tour, Iration has been hard at work both on the road and in the studio. Just before their performance at Blaze ‘N’ Glory Festival, we spoke with bassist Adam Taylor, who discussed the band’s newest single, and offered us some exclusive details regarding their upcoming album release.

Monterey or Bust Compilation 2015

After providing the physical sound-track to California Roots Festival in 2014, Rebel Sound Records is back with Vol. 2 of the Monterey Or Bust compilation. The compilation includes a good mix and a great starting point to anyone first discovering some of the beloved depth within the reggae-rock genre…

MP3 Leak of the Week: Mike Pinto

For over decade, singer-songwriter Mike Pinto as been blazing a trail with his story-teller style of Surf-Rock-Ska and Reggae. In 2015, he’s back with a brand new single titled “Peace of Mind” that he’s giving away for FREE, this week only via The Pier. Plus, he has some upcoming acoustic tour dates…

Preview: 2015 Wakarusa Music Festival

With just a couple weeks to go, all the details surrounding Wakarusa have been announced. Set to kick off the month of June, this annual rite of passage for so many modern festival goers is lining up to be one of the most notable parties of the year. Once again featuring an impressive and lengthy […]

Stephen Marley’s New Single & 2015 Tour

In addition to announcing plans for a tour this August and September, eight-time Grammy Award winning artist Stephen Marley will also be dropping a new single titled “Ghetto Boy” featuring Bounty Killer and Cobra…

The Pier: Catching Up with HIRIE

HIRIE, the sweet and soulful vocalist from Hawaii, now based out of Southern CA, is hard at work on a new studio album, several headlining performances, and this year’s theme song for Cali-Roots. We recently spoke with HIRIE, who took some time from rehearsal to give us some insight into her upcoming projects.

The Pier: Zach Deputy’s Funky Improv

Coming Next Tuesday, May 19th, The Pier will premier Zach Deputy‘s Funky Improv via The Pier’s Live Acoustic Series. Directed by Tage Plantell, Zach Deputy joins a Live Acoustic Series line-up that includes Dirty Heads, Iration, John Butler Trio, The Green, Cas Haley, Tarrus Riley a long with Passafire & Ballyhoo!…