EGPhest IX: The Spotter's Guide to the Players

8/15/2025

The 9th installment of EGPhest is scheduled to occur on August 17th, 2025, once again in the garden at Bazaar Cafe in the Outer Richmond. While the proceedings are always unpredictable, here's who we've got on hand to participate this year's big show.

Miles Gordon

Till I Wash You Away
Miles Gordon is co-fronter of Country Risque and a singer-songwriter. He’s been in the bay scene since he moved here late 2020. He primarily plays music in the loose country/Americana space these days but has been known to venture into other areas. Miles considers himself t be a product of his upbringing in the latter-day Grateful Dead /jamband scene and subsequent discovery of the emotional power of Gram Parsons (journeying ever backward from there).

Gordon is equally influenced by the likes of Paul Kantner, Kurt Vile, Rodney Crowell, the Everly Brothers, and George Clinton. Above all, Miles Gordon strives to make music that captures the inherent absurdity, confusion, and joy of life as he sees it, resetting the mind, soul, and whatever else along the way.

https://linktr.ee/milesgordonmusic

Mitch Rocket

Chained to the Sun
Mitch Rocket is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from San Francisco, CA by way of Boston and the Ecuadorian Amazon. Drawing from a background in jazz saxophone and a love for Andrew Bird, Steely Dan, Chairlift, and Silversun Pickups, he twists saxophones, synths, and strings together into songs that run the gamut from folk-rock to jazz fusion.

After emerging from the slumber of COVID with a full band of collaborators, Mitch Rocket's style has coalesced into something he calls “Yacht Grunge,” which mixes the jazz chords of Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder with the overdriven angst of Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden.

https://linktr.ee/mitchrocket

Little Oil

The Albatross Song
A Mexico City born San Francisco Bay Area songwriter musician that finally fulfilled his creative urge to be the totalitarian dictator of his musical world and go solo with his self titled debut album. A lover of punk, classic rock, indie, & old time country & blues, his music is a voodoo mixture that sounds both familiar but fresh and original.

His eponymous debut album was released on October 14, 2021 and released his follow up album "Twelve Song" was released in March of last year.

https://linktr.ee/littleoil

nyssa

Dreamcatcher
Part of a Pacifica based duo called “Liquor Store” that plays a mix of pop, rock, R&B and indie hits and draws influence form artists such as The Talking Heads. A self described professional yapper nyssa has released songs under her own name such as “imposter” and “talkin in my sleep.” She is, according to her Spotify bio, “too cool for feelings” .

https://www.instagram.com/nyssa.music/

Alex Jimenez

Time Space Vortex
A product of the early San Francisco indie music scene, Alex Jimenez has spent the majority of his life creating music to share with his fellow musicians and community. An avid guitar player and singer, Alex is currently focusing on his solo work, a blend of acoustic pop meets gritty blues.

In 2012 his 2 year, fifteen show odyssey, 'The Usual Suspects Songwriter Showcase', became a critical favorite, showcasing some of the Bay Area’s finest talent. Usual Suspects' follow-up 'Songwriters in the Round' also enjoyed a moderate success. His latest album, "Another Day" was released on vinyl in May 2024, and was produced by Scott Mickelson. These days Alex is enjoying recording and moonlighting as the bass player for Bay Area favorites Thunderegg.

https://alexjimenezmusic.com/

Eric Martin

Lighthouse at the Edge of the World
Eric Martin is an indie folk rocker and singer-songwriter originally from the mountains of North Carolina. He dwells now in Oakland, CA, and sorties into San Francisco to pluck strings and loose crisp tenor laments.

https://www.youtube.com/@theericmartin

Michael Nuzzo

The Fish Song
A native of central Massachusetts, moon lover and code poetry enthusiast Michael Nuzzo is also a photographer whose subjects include astrophotography and rural landscapes. In addition to recording his originals, he’s been known to cover the work of Elliot Smith and New Jersey’s Pinegrove.

https://soundcloud.com/nichaelmuzzo

Rosie Cima

The Duck Song
Rosie Cima melds folk, punk, and art rock to support a heartfelt and often poetic lyricism. She has been described by She Shreds Magazine as “well-read, hilarious, and willing to make a statement” and by American Songwriter as "Unhinged in the best possible way." She creates original folk-inspired indie rock in the vein of Big Thief, Angel Olsen, and Hop Along.

https://rosiecima.bandcamp.com/

Mr. Andrew and Maya Klemens

Mr. Andrew

Mama Make the Red Bird Come Back
Mr. Andrew (born June 3rd, 1984) is the former First Prince of San Francisco. He began his music career at the tender age of 4, singing in the Children’s Choir at the Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin. His studies continued at Calvary Presbyterian Nursery School and then Cathedral School for Boys. At the age of 14 he stole his first guitar and formed the band Miso Militia, performing regularly at 924 Gilman Street and Chloe’s Garage. In 2006 he earned his Bachelor’s degree in music from the University of California in Santa Cruz and immediately began teaching and performing music for children. He has also been a member of many venerable Bay Area groups including Rin Tin Tiger, Pink Pigs, and The Under Trio.

Since his abdication, Mr. Andrew has relocated to the small town of Larkspur in Marin County and spends his free time hiking Mt. Tamalpais with his beloved dog Honey. Due to contract disputes his solo album “Chubby Mercury” and the EP “Happy Dagger/Laughing Heart” remain unreleased. And although he seldom performs live, he continues to write and record music in private.

He is joined by his partner Maya Klemens who likes things that make sounds and likes to make sounds too.

https://mrandrew.bandcamp.com/

Sam Hirst

From the Corner of My Eye
Sam Hirst is a San Francisco based singer-songwriter who blends folk, rock, and jazz into his songs. Often compared to Nick Drake, Elliott Smith and the Beatles, Sam weaves the beautiful with the ugly, the dissonant with the melodic, and the off-kilter with the strangely familiar.

https://samhirst.bandcamp.com/

Robert "Neutron" Sound

When It Gets Dark
“Deliberately eclectic” Robert "Neutron" Sound (nee Robert Allen) is a keyboardist and singer-songwriter from San Rafael, CA. While he has composed music in several genres, most of his songs fall under a category he calls "alt-rock & roll.”

Neutron received his nickname at his first music camp, referring to Jimmy Neutron, due to his seemingly vast knowledge of esoteric facts. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2017, majoring in Jazz Composition.

https://www.rneutronsound.com/

Kevin Seal

Outlaw the Dead
Kevin Seal writes & sings with Seal Party, and is the organist for the San Jose Sharks. He also plays a lot of other folks’ songs for the filthy lucre — The Jean Genies: David Bowie Tribute, Haulin' Oats, Urban Outlaws Band, Little Gems, etc. His favorite use of time is playing recording sessions, though.

https://www.instagram.com/sealparty6/

JW Blunt

Lover for a Day
JW Blunt (aka the Candyman, aka Mr. San Francisco) is the host of the The Tiki Desk concert series and JW Megaweg Show on Bernal Heights radio (your source for sweet jazz & underground tunes) as well as guitar player/vocalist of space punk trio Tacomosh. JW has released titles under his own name such as “Time Traveling Tamale Lady” and “Big Chungus”

https://www.instagram.com/mr_sanfrancisco/

Lil

Lil

Her Love’s So Hard
Often the barista at the Bazaar Cafe during its Thursday night open mic, known clown make up adorner Lil is also a frequent contributor to those proceedings, bringing an unusual and endearing theatricality to the evening as they sing songs about wasps and squirrel friends. Ask them about their jaw harp.

https://www.instagram.com/picklebackflip/

Dan Briggs

The Comet and the Wandering Moon
Daniel Briggs has been a director / creator / performer / singer / songwriter for the last 65 years. Based in San Francisco, He’s been a luminary in the world of performing arts who has dedicated decades to honing his craft. Weaving a tapestry of stories from legends of old to the realities of our time, and the thin veil between. He’s worked with his own theatre troupe and band-Dogs In Doublets, music director for The Mystic Midway and singer/instrumentalist for Hard Tymes, Brass Farthing, Rats In The Haggis, The Nimblelight Toy Parade, and Mutual Muses.

Theo G

Mama Make the Red Bird Come Back
Theo G is a natural disaster, a curse, a hurricane, an undertow of intricate finger style guitar, seamlessly blending folk and blues styling to support his evocative lyrics and sonorous vocals, he seeks honesty over romanticism in his writing. It is important to remember that Theo is not a good person. He is a nice person… and he’s written a few songs to show you the difference.

https://www.instagram.com/theomfg_/

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