“I’ve been in 18 different bands!” Alicia Vanden Heuvel of Speakeasy Studios SF

Believe it or not: Alicia Vanden Heuvel is a prolific musician who has been in more bands than Tony Molina! As the founder of the analog-focused label Speakeasy Studios SF, Alicia’s influence stretches across stages, records, and generations of local artists.

This is the inaugural episode of The Constellation, a new White Crate docu-series rooted in the idea that the Bay Area music scene is its own galaxy—vast, active, and sometimes hard to navigate. We’re interviewing the stars that form this constellation, giving shape, direction, and context to everything that’s happening. Over the next year, we’ll highlight twelve individuals whose work behind the scenes guides the music community and makes it easier to understand how this scene really functions.