Artist: Brick and Mortar

Classical music and hip-hop combine at Brick & Mortar.

We have yet another Record Store Day contest to share with you. This time we're giving away a Brick and Mortar Love prize pack. Brick and Mortar Love is the documentary that "follows the final years of ear X-tacy Records and its struggle to survive in the morphing music industry" in Louisville, KY. Two winners will receive the documentary, a t-shirt, and set of pins. There's still two days left to enter our other Record Store Day contest where you can win [...]

Esben And The Witch and Heliotropes brought some Souxie Sioux / My Bloody Valentine-inspired realness to Brick & Mortar on April 4th.

Fresh off a recent label signing with New York based Ato Records, Kopecky Family Band lands in San Francisco at the Brick and Mortar Music Hall and provides an intense evening of music.

The band that formed based on a shared zodiac sign, some acid, and a love for Nirvana, sold out two back to back shows for Noise Pop 2013.

Ramona Falls and SF locals Social Studies dazzled the crowd at Brick & Mortar Wednesday night.

Photos by Charlie Homo I've had the distinct pleasure of catching Social Studies two years in a row at Noise Pop : I saw them open for Wye Oak last year , and I caught them again Wednesday night with Ramona Falls . While this review isn't quite a "What a difference a year makes!" piece, because the band was excellent on both nights, the evolution of the band has been pretty exciting to watch. But before [...]

Our friend Dave Tobias has been pretty active in the live concert scene out west of late, here is his latest review. Surfer Blood played a sold out show Monday night at Brick and Mortar, a part of a short West Coast tour designed to road test their new material and band. Since releasing their catchy debut Astro Coast back in 2010, the world of Surfer Blood has changed dramatically. They’ve swapped band members in and out, with enigmatic front man John Paul Pitts being the mainstay—the creative, driving force behind [...]

Jason Lytle and Jenny O. showed their musical craftsmanship to an allured audience at Brick & Mortar.

Glam metal maestros Glitter Wizard are supporting doom/sludge metal duo Black Cobra with Lecherous Gaze this Friday night at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall, and we want to send you and a friend for free. Email me at mike.g@thebaybridged.com and tell me why you're so hella metal that you deserve to go this show. I'll pick one winner to go thrash their face off for free. Black [...]

With his two fellow VOWS members now living in L.A., Luke Sweeney was forced to take matters into his own hands, and I mean that pretty literally – Sweeney recorded a solo album, the just-released Ether Ore , playing almost all of the instruments himself. Give it a listen: Ether Ore by Luke Sweeney Sweeney put together a band called Wet Dreams Dry Magic and played a string of shows throughout the fall, including a November residency [...]

East Bay quartet Bells will perform a single release show with Yesway and Zakiya Harris at Brick and Mortar on January 10th. Bells has an unique local-meets-exotic sound combining elements of Afro-soul, heavy percussion, and experimental indie pop. East Bay Express said the band "draws from Oakland's tradition of jazz and blues, speeds it up with Afropop beats, and breaks the flow with odd tempos and quick changes." They will be releasing a new single "Video Star", the first release [...]

Now this is what you call a stacked line-up: Night Beats , The Mallard , Cool Ghouls , and The Woolen Men , all playing together at Brick & Mortar this Friday night. It promises to be a seriously psych-rockin' good time. Plus, my man Al Lover will be DJing between sets, so you know shit will be gettin' trippy, with no let up. And we want to send you and a [...]

Kopecky Family Band has arrived on the West Coast, and we have a pair of free tickets to help you welcome them.

The Buttercream Gang – Napa-based slingers of Afro-Caribbean-tinged indie rock – released their fourth album Oh Brother in November via their own imprint Pitted Records, and now the band is celebrating with a party at Brick and Mortar this Friday, December 7th. Oh Brother finds a band coming into its own sonically, with the three founding members – Bobby Renz, Robinson Kuntz, and Peter Davies – seamlessly alternating vocal duties and rotating through instrumental obligations, while incorporating unique additions from a bevy of guest musicians. Stream or buy 'Oh [...]

The Buttercream Gang – Napa-based slingers of Afro-Caribbean-tinged indie rock – released their fourth album Oh Brother in November via their own imprint Pitted Records, and now the band is celebrating with a party at Brick and Mortar this Friday, December 7th. Oh Brother finds a band coming into its own sonically, with the three founding members – Bobby Renz, Robinson Kuntz, and Peter Davies – seamlessly alternating vocal duties and rotating through instrumental obligations, while incorporating unique additions from a bevy of guest musicians. Stream or buy 'Oh [...]

Different Fur Studios has teamed up with WillCall to throw a live show this Friday, November 16th at Brick and Mortar Music Hall with Cerebral Ballzy , Show You Suck , and Nanosaur , with Matrixxman DJ sets throughout the night. You can purchase tickets through the WillCall app , which is available for both Apple products and Android. Brooklyn hardcore outfit Cerebral Ballzy will headline the chaotic night with [...]

• NanosauR - All I Want
• NanosauR - Devil Town - Daniel Johnston (NanosauR Remix)
• Remedy - MATRiXXMAN & FOXXEE

Oakland's Kacey Johansing will release her newest LP Grand Ghosts at a performance at Brick and Mortar September 28th. This forthcoming effort was recorded a bit differently than her previous release. "On my last album Many Seasons , I was doing so much learning, really exploring what it meant to be a recording artist and a band leader," explains Johansing. "I was collaborating with many people back then and would pull in different musicians for different songs depending on who was around or what the feeling of the song was." [...]

• Kacey Johansing - Disappearing Act

Click here to view the embedded video. Directed by Milan Karcic. "Manifesto" is from the Columbus band's recently released Brick & Mortar .

A couple years ago, Austin rock band White Denim did a run-of-the-mill interview with CW Bay Area in which they discussed standard topics like their current tour and preferred recording process. Within the 4 minute video was a segment talking about the group's collective love for vinyl. "There was a period of time where we were only interested in releasing vinyl," says bassist Steven Terebecki rather innocently. "Just because it was more of an artifact and...more special." Now, some may groan at the perceived cliched weight this statement could carry. After one [...]