Hemisphere plans to release three live singles starting Jan 1st, 2024 from the electric night at Humphrey's! Stay tuned…

Jul 18 2023
San Diego Pride Parade - 2023
Hemisphere rocked the house for over 250,000 parade attendees on July 15th, 2023!

Oct 6 2022
Troubadour covers the American Dreams arc...

Apr 13 2022
The 'Unity' album recordings
Some picts from this weekend's session, I was going to take the day off but here they are... a magical time at Spragueland studios, the Unity album drops WW July 1st 2022 with Tinderbox Music!
We are so excited to…
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Jan 29 2022
When we discuss Japanese American internment, stories like my family’s aren’t often told...
Shinno is a third-generation Japanese American. He’s a director of the Japanese American Citizens League, composer/musician for Hemisphere and a technologist for Dassault Systèmes who lives in Hillcrest.
As we honor Fred Korematsu, who fought against the internment of Japanese…
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Jan 27 2022
Big World Live Hits 100K+ Views...
We are excited to share that our second music video to hit 100K views is the live version of ‘Big World’! … a big shout out to everyone who watched/shared/liked and commented on it… thanks to Sam Sprague/PEMDAS for the…
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Jan 6 2022
San Diego Reader - Hemisphere Update...
Click the Unity album cover (releasing June 2022) to read the update in the San Diego Reader...
Hemisphere is Rob Shinno: Guitars, Backing Vocals and Vocorder, Don Bowman: Lead Vocals and Sax, Michael McQuilken: Drums, Nate Brown: Bass and Groove…
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Jan 1 2022
Local San Diego - Musico Musings
I wanted to start a series of blogs on local original musicians that I ran into, saw live or just liked their work! So let's get started..
1) Donna Larsen & Messengers - Donna and the group are a bit…
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Sep 14 2021
PixelatedGeek Interview - Peter Sprague and Rob Shinno... Guitars and more...
An interview on PixelatedGeek with San Diego guitar legend Peter Sprague and Rob Shinno from Hemisphere on composition, recording, inspiration and future plans... see Hemisphere live at Humphrey's BackstageLive Oct 2nd...
https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/a-conversation-with-peter-sprague-and-rob-shinno/

Aug 10 2021
Home - Video and Streaming Sleeper Hit!
I had asked Peter Sprague what track he liked the most when we finished mixing the AD album, and after a pause he said 'probably Home, yes Home...' well 10 months after the album release, Home is a sleeper hit…
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Aug 2 2021
San Diego Reader - Oct 2nd Show Coverage
Promoting the spirit of unity, diversity, and equality, Hemisphere features openly gay members Rob Shinno (guitar, vocoder) and Don Bowman (vocals, sax), as well as Mike McQuilken (drums), Nathan Brown (bass), and Max Zape (keys). The band draws on rock…
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Jun 9 2021
SXSW 2022
We are super excited to announce our appearance at SXSW 2022... details to follow soon!