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short bio:
Delta Wave is an autonomous creative collective and slightly-too-loud product of a decades-long friendship. Born in the East Bay from a shared musical Venn diagram that spans everything from Guided by Voices and Scared of Chaka to Lifetime and Superchunk. The band filters their influences into indie-rock energy with punk velocity. With a strong DIY ethos, Delta Wave handles all their own recording, mixing, screen-printing, and art, ensuring total creative control over their unique, guitar-driven output. They started in 2021 and have cut their teeth playing the bay’s most iconic punk venues from Eli’s Mile High Club to The Knockout to 924 Gilman.
Long BIO:
Delta Wave is the product of a friendship between four people who have known each other so long that we communicate mostly through eye rolls and half-finished song lyrics.
Our musical Venn diagram includes everything from Guided by Voices, Lifetime, and Superchunk to a baffling amount of random punk and obscure trogolodyte rock. We take that mess of influences and filter it into indie-rock energy with punk velocity.
We started out self-recording our stuff in a garage, and the only difference now is that we have marginally better microphones. We have a strong DIY ethos and at this point we do all the art, screen-printing, and mixing ourselves. Part of that is because we like having creative control, part of it is because we really like arts and crafts.
We are essentially an autonomous, slightly-too-loud creative collective. The music is fuel for a decades-long friendship that has survived adolescence, bad haircuts, and countless backyard punk shows.
Music:
fact sheet:
Genre: Punk, Power Pop, Indie, Rock
Hometown: Pittsburg, CA
Members: Jose Gonzalez (Guitar, Vocals, Recording Engineer), Taylor Valerga (Guitar Recording Engineer), Sean Huerta (Drums), Joe Cardona (Bass)
Releases: A Lesson in Escape (EP, 2023), Delta Wave (S/T, full-length 2024), Super Mega Plus (EP, 2025), Minor Chord Records MC-001 (Split 7” vinyl with The Strange Ones, 2025), Existential Shred (EP, 2025)
Contact: For booking or general inquiries. bigdeltawave@gmail.com (925)237-0993
