You Tell Us: What's the Best Local Band?

We joke often about Sonoma running short on nightlife. But, just because you won't find hipsters packing the streets on a Tuesday night, doesn't mean there isn't a thriving music scene.

In this week's Readers' Choice contest, it's a battle of the bands. Tell us what your favorite local act is.

Here are the nominees for this week. As always, if your favorite band slipped under our radar, please tell us in the comments or send the site editor their MySpace page and we'll add them to our list ASAP.

• Gator Beat 
• Whiskey Thieves
• Sonoma Hometown Band
• BackTrax 
• Gruber Family Band
• Dirty T Jones
• Gator Beat
• ERASEDband

Have fun showing some love for your favorite spot, not only with a poll vote (one per reader, please) but by leaving a message in the comments. The poll goes away after a few days, but the positive reviews and ratings stay forever.

Here's your chance to tell share your recommendations. Vote in our poll and then visit the listing and give it a star rating. We will reveal our contest winner on Friday morning, so keep tabs on the Readers Choice contest all week long.