Sad Baby Wolf had a stunningly solid performance at their first show outside of New Mexico and Craig Finn gained fans at Bottom of the Hill with his colorful anecdotes.

Indie outfit, Ash Reiter have made sure that their native location beams through in their sound. It's sunny, bright, and airy in its summertime sparkle and predictions read that they're from some kind of sun trap. San Francisco's Bay Area is the lucky place. Frontwoman, Ash Reiter (hence the namesake) has a distinctive sugary voice, sweet but too much of it and you'll be bored and quite possibly have toothache. The boys back her up with a soft, tinkering melody that bops contently with Reiter's innovative lyrics. An array of pitched do's as a chorus add on. Catchy, catchy, catchy.... [...]
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Live This Month: January 2012 (Podcast #268) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. If the beginning of January feels a little slim on the live music front, things should ramp back up into the usual overwhelming number of interesting shows by the month's end. Several young local bands recently came onto our radar - including Churches, Poor Sons, and Primitive Hearts - and they're all partaking in locals-heavy bills in the next [...]

It can be extremely difficult to keep track of all of the new music that's constantly floating around the Internet. Here's our latest month-in-review mix collecting some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the website. Gathered in the mix are a dozen new tracks that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in December, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog December 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. [...]
Photography: Ibai Acevedo Have a nice Sunday, have a nice new year. Magic Man - Layers The Walton Hoax - Chemical Burn (TTP Remix) Ash Reiter - Merry Christmas Baby (Beach Boys Cover) Magic Man | The Walton Hoax | Ash Reiter
For many people, 2012 arrives with much uncertainty. But one thing we can pretty much always look forward to is music. There will be great music that gets a lot of buzz, and other terrific music that, for the most part, flies under the radar. There will be the predictable hype of new albums by [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Deepest appreciation to all Buzz Bands LA readers and supporters for making 2011 a banner year. Here's hoping your holidays are safe and happy: Download and enjoy BBLA's "45 Minutes of Xmas," a mixtape of holiday tunes that include some new compositions, some originals that have been favorites of mine for several years and a couple choice covers. ||| Download: "45 Minutes of Xmas" 45 Minutes of Xmas 1. The SoftLightes, "Last Xmas" 2. Eastern Conference Champions, "Nuclear Christmas" [...]

Wishing all of you the best this holiday season... Enjoy! The Dadada XMAS Mix 2011 Gapless Mix @ 320kbps Download all tracks in one zip Miracles of Modern Science - 01 O Holy Night Anna Vogelzang & Andrew Young - 02 Silent Night ARMS - 03 All I Want For Christmas Is You Haunting Party - 04 Baby It's Cold Outside Woods - [...]

Anyone who eats frozen dairy products at this time of year is clearly insane. Although, this ice cream sandwich does look delicious. Also, we thought it was a bit weird to release a song about a 'Heatwave' at Christmas (well, ok, it was out in November, but still). Then we remembered this is the season where lots of people sing songs about a baby that was born without its mum even having sex. So, with that a mind, a heatwave in winter is not all that [...]

Ash Reiter 's new video provides a nice break from our currently-cloudy weather conditions. "Heatwave" features Ash and her band with sunny skies, sunglasses and popsicles, as created by the Perez Brothers . "Heatwave" is the title track from Ash Reiter's new EP. In contrast (in the sense of summer vs. winter), Ash Reiter is also offering up a couple of Christmas recordings for free on her Bandcamp page . Catch the band at the Make-Out Room on December 18th . Christmas In California by [...]

Ash Reiter - "I'm Gonna Try" Ash Reiter 's band excels at sublime indie pop-rock, and the group's latest release is the new Heatwave EP. Reiter's celebrating the new EP at the Brick and Mortar Music Hall on Thursday, November 3rd with The Northern Key. You can stream more songs from Heatwave below. (mp3 via Popdose ) Heatwave by Ash Reiter [...]
Come celebrate SF-based Northern Key's album release along with Ash Reiter and many more at Brick and Mortar November 3.

Download: Judgment Day Mixtape Bloody Death Skull - Judgment Day Nostalghia - Cool For Chaos Halloween Swim Team - Science Fiction Peter Himmelman - The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep Ash Reiter - 2012 Mexicans With Guns - Death And Rebirth Jenny O - Earth Has Won The Silent League - Here's A Star Yacht - Dystopia [...]
Radiation City - Park Portland's Radiation City came recommended by a close friend last week, and after feeling this familiarity to their tunes, I... (Visit my blog for more!)
The S-25 Mix is short for The Sunday 25 Songs Mix, where we put together a mix of 25 tracks (sometimes more) we love from all genres and time periods of music. Over the past two weeks, we put out the Songs About Cars mixes, many of which were recommended by our readers. But this [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Today we are pleased to announce our 3rd annual unofficial SXSW show during the madness of the festival next week. This year we decided to go with a night show as opposed to a day show since many of you have voiced complaints about not enough good music to see at night. Well here you are people, we have partnered with our friends over at Songsinc to bring you a show at Empire Garage (next door to Side Bar ). Deets are as follow: - Thursday March 18th [...]

Tweet Live This Month: March 2011 (Episode 244) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. As South by Southwest approaches later in March, bands are hitting the road, crisscrossing the US before converging on Austin. What this means for Bay Area music fans is a ton of buzz-backed touring bands stopping in SF, and equally promising locals playing some final shows [...]
Tweet Ash Reiter- Francais from T. Garrett Eaton on Vimeo . A new dose of Ash Reiter (since last year's Paper Diamonds ) comes to us in two forms. First, the above video for "Francais" is scenic and sunny, perfectly matching the song's bright, easygoing folk. And second, Ash Reiter is scheduled to release a new 73, Marooned , which comes out on March 10th. Marooned will be celebrated at Cafe du [...]

SXSW is barreling down on us and most of us in the music industry are really beginning to feel the heat of the impending crazy week. At times like these, I like to be a bit sappy and remind myself that this is really all about the music and discovering new artists. Speaking of new artists, I was recently put in touch with the incredible music of San Francisco based band Ash Reiter . Many of you know I have a weak spot in my soul for quality female singers, and on first listen, you'll surely encounter why [...]