
Winnie Byrd , featuring Davyd Nereo from Beatbeat Whisper and friends, are scheduled to play a Seaweed Sway showcase this Sunday, May 15th at the Make-Out Room (7:30 pm, $7). The evening's bill will also feature Lindsay Clark, Ed Masuga, and a new Chasing the Moon episode featuring Brass Menazeri. Erode by WinnieByrd Winnie Byrd's quirky bedroom folk can be heard on the band's Soundcloud page . Additionally, as prep for Sunday evening, check out [...]
Backseat Beat Episode 1: Moomaw & That Blasted Hound from Brad Robertson on Vimeo . [Editor's Note: Today, we're pleased to present the first episode of a new video series called Backseat Beat , showcasing Bay Area indie bands in some unconventional settings. We hope you enjoy this first show as much as we do. Look forward to more episodes here on The Bay Bridged in the coming months!] Backseat Beat is a new web-based [...]

This Wednesday, April 14th will see a trio of local folksy bands at Cafe du Nord , some familiar, some not as much. Beatbeat Whisper will headline, with the sibling songwriting duo of Ayla and Davyd Nereo bringing their plucky, soft-spoken folk. Beatbeat Whisper - "Mismanaged Skies" Todayokay will assist in opening the evening, and will simultaneously be celebrating the release of their debut EP, All This Weaponry. The darkly rich songs from the EP can be [...]

It's always a good time to feature music from the oft-neglected East side of the Bay. Davyd Nereo of Beatbeat Whisper and Winnie Byrd has completed a new recording project: a local compilation, full of exclusive tracks from Oakland-based bands. The compilation consists of 15 bands and solo artists from Oakland, including Ash Reiter , The Blank Tapes , Belly of the Whale , Jen Weisberg , Mark Deutsch , Quinn Deveaux , Roberto Miguel , Ayla Nereo and more. Ash [...]
Sunday, January 17th - Asobi Seksu (acoustic) and Beatbeat Whisper @ Swedish American Hall Beatbeat Whisper - "Up the Long Tracks" (Daytrotter Session) To enter send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name and the phrase "I want to see Asobi Seksu!" in the subject line. The FOURTH person to enter will win a pair of tickets to the show. Doors are at 6:30pm, $15, all ages. [...]

The Hotel Utah offers Beatbeat Whisper , Mia Riddle , Ari Vais and Moomaw this Friday (9pm, $6). I only wish I could offer a prediction of the evening's air, but most every band on this bill falls under a vast spectral energy of folk and Americana. For instance, I always have filed Moomaw under reverbial psych-folk, but he just as often wears the boots of a docile melody maker when performing solo. Regardless, it's up [...]

Grand Lake - "She's a Hater" This week's featured podcast band Grand Lake headlines a Deli SF -presented show this Thursday night at the El Rio that also features Beatbeat Whisper and The Heated . It's been a mixed week for Grand Lake, with the theft of their van and stage piano being an obvious low, but the release of their excellent new Sandusky Sunset cassingle worth celebrating. [...]

Sudden dilemmas, thrust upon you out of the blue, can have a certain awakening effect on you, if you choose to see them that way. Yesterday I received an e-mail which spurred my own dormant quandary. It came from a large commercial network which will remain unnamed, offering to add this blog to its lists in exchange for the placements of ads. I must admit, I was flattered (even though it was probably scripted and automatically sent). The offer has a very strong allure as it has the potential to expose the blog and its content to a [...]

I didn't have a blog last year, but i did have all these end-of-year lists, including the 2007 Young Talents list. I posted them on Last.fm . Now, i thought it would've been a fun idea to see whether i have good prophecying skills. To put it differently: how did those bands do this year? Did they live up to my expectations, or did they just sit on their lazy ass all time Well, lets's see! 9. Imadethismistake .. I've blogged about them before . As far as I know [...]

This week on the show, we're trying to love ourselves and hunt deer. How does the show go this week? Well, first we come out with guns a-blazin' with Thunder Power. Now, I realize they have a forceful name, but their music is very reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian: it's got an extremely catchy and whimsical feel to it. And speaking of Belle and Sebastian, we've got a couple of tracks from their upcoming BBC Sessions double album, too. Also, let's not forget that we're finishing up with some music from Deerhunter's latest LP, [...]

Who? Rachel Lipson What? Antifolk singersongwriter with a sweet voice Sounds like? Kimya Dawson but sweeter, Laura Gibson, BeatBeat Whisper I haven't checked it, but if i let my brain work and run through all the artists i've been bloggin about, i miss women. There was miss autopsy, who is not a woman but just calls himself one, and the wind whistles but that's partially man. So, Rachel Lipson. She has a website, but that hasn't been updated in [...]

This Thursday, San Francisco's All My Pretty Ones will hold their CD release at Hotel Utah with The Blank Tapes and Beatbeat Whisper . All My Pretty Ones - "Rest Dream" The band has brought their multi-instrumental folk to willing ears for years now, and are following up their debut EP The Arsonist with this latest release Tone Poems . They [...]

Outta Sight , a monthly showcase of great live music at Edinburgh Castle , will celebrate its one-year anniversary this Wednesday, August 20. The show will feature Campo Bravo , Beatbeat Whisper , Donald Meints (of Reduced to Ruin) and B and Not B . Both Campo Bravo and Beatbeat Whisper are slowing down their touring and coming back from busy post-album affairs. Campo Bravo released Denver Lights & [...]

hey, gang, just a few additional points to add to the part 1 write up: obviously there have been too many bands involved in each of these posts to give each the deserved attention within the confines of this particular project; that said, many if not all do warrant - and likely will someday receive, fingers crossed and all that jazz - their own posts. in the meantime, consider yourselves officially encouraged to visit the bands' websites or to nose around in the archives of this site , which does a better job keeping us [...]
This is the songs I've been most obsessed with in 2007. I have been doing the song obsessions weekly series since nearly the beginning of this blog, giving me a good record of what I've been obsessed with this year. Most of them (click to see full list) were among mentioned previously in the song obsessions series but some were before that time and some were other peoples obsessions that I then became obsessed with or some were just slow-burning obsessions (if there can be such a thing). I'm not picking these songs; [...]

Digital Cloud's excellent "Firsts" compilation! I first heard about Digital Cloud Records a little while back through Megamoog – it is Megan's label, afterall – but I handn't heard anything more about the label until a few weeks ago when they proudly announced their "Firsts" compilation. The idea of the compilation was to get a bunch of great bands to submit songs about firsts, whatever the situation may be. The compilation features 17 exclusive songs from Lady Genius, The Fits, Lamb, teamAWESOME!, The Who Cares, captainmarmalade, So Futuristic, Little Naps, [...]
Anya Marina : 2007-01-25, San Francisco (house concert) [mp3,ogg,flac] "Clean and Sober" [mp3] other Anya Marina music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Beatbeat Whisper : "Lulu" [mp3] Beatbeat Whisper : "Don't Let It Pass You By" [mp3] Beatbeat Whisper : "Little Window" [mp3] other Beatbeat Whisper music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws [...]

beat beat whisper three long afternoons lulu kate tucker & the sons of sweden everything went down saturday night faster than cars drive moving units pink thoughts hello, blue roses shadow falls eskimo joe black fingernails, red wine [...]

Beatbeat Whisper ( myspace ) came down and did a set of their signature reminiscent-of-traditional-fol k-not-quite-like-the-60s-"folk " folk music on my radio show yesterday . Here's their set list : Old River the Whistler Cowboy Song Up the Long Tracks Lulu Don't Let it Pass You By That was going to be the end of their set, but, by demand, they came in for one more song: Door to Door They were really [...]