Bay Area Music (BAM) 1976 T-Shirt

Bay Area Music was first published in January 1976 as a free bi-weekly magazine that was funded by advertisers and covered the Bay Area's eclectic music scene. In the mid-'80s, BAM opened an office in Los Angeles, leading to separate Northern and Southern editions of BAM being published, and its largest circulation of 130,000 biweekly throughout California. The final edition of the print magazine was published in June 1999 with the paper's circulation at the time of closing was 55,000.