Photos by Paige Parsons Bridez started the evening with a profane greeting that brought with it an ear-shattering brick wall of guitar. Their forte is grunged-up post-punk tunes. They are a four-piece with a dedicated keyboardist, but the guitar was so loud that you could rarely hear it; when you could, it really brought their sound together. Front woman Liza Thorn could be compared to any of the genre's powerful leading ladies, but bored. That may not sound like a compliment, [...]
Bridez - Frenemies from ben chappell on Vimeo . Directed by A.L. Brown and Ben Chappell.
Bridez - Rolling Stoned San Francisco is hitting Newcastle Upon Tyne even more big time on Monday with Bridez announced as a (very) late addition to Mi Ami's show at End Bar. Pretty psyched for this; Bridez are a three piece who play super euphoric lo-fi punk, real stoned and rough pop vibes, salvaging hooks for a sunburnt kind of sprawl. They're joined by locals SDF and ~~~ at End Bar for £5, it's gonna be choice. [ Bridez MySpace ] [...]
The Black Lips are back in town performing at the Great American Music Hall tomorrow night with Flowers Forever and local act Bridez and this time your ticket will do more than just get you into the show. In an effort to support great local record stores, The Black Lips giving a bunch of Short Fuse 7"s to local record stores of the cities they're performing and offering the vinyl up to anyone who comes in AFTER the gig with a ticket stub. [...]
We have been a bit bad lately, what with all the joyous disco, synthetic fear and versicolor reconstructed pop, we have perhaps neglected the other leg supporting the 'it's so not art' bed where your 20jazzfunkgreats gaunt ghouls wallow, roll and frolic frenzied like brain fried commuters crashing onwards in ...
The World Famous offices have been filled with laughter over the past few days since we saw these two reviews pop up in Still Single: Vol. 5, No. 1 by Doug Mosurak over at Dusted Magazine . First a review of the BRIDEZ seven inch: Cruddy no-fi rock aping Royal Trux but getting stuck somewhere in between Be Your Own Pet and bratty trust-fund kids slumming it. Singer Liza Thorn was once in So So Many White White Tigers, a decent enough band [...]
BRIDEZ and Patrik from Cobain in a Coma head down to LA this Sunday to take over LA club Part Time Punks . Rainbow Arabia will be playing too. If you don't know, Part Time Punks happens every Sunday at the echo and is so cool they their own hyperbolic quote from the NME: "… such an incredibly cool event, the likes of which has never taken place anywhere in America (no, not even in hipster Brooklyn)." - Lyndsey Parker, NME [...]
Lets put this in the new to me category. If you didn't know, Liza from BRIDEZ was in this other band called So So Many White White Tigers and they were a train wreck. A spectacle. A wall of noise. A scary fucking storm. They ruled. And apparently they did a music video which I've never seen before. Its doesn't exactly capture the live show, but I like it:
We asked Simon Leahy - one third of Dalston synth punks, Teeth!!! - to keep us updated on his travels and the band's forthcoming tour in Portland and California. Prepare yourself for one hell of a diary... Day 1 LA is a big sprawling city. Hollywood sign, check. The people at the airport sounded exactly like they were in The Terminator or some other sci-fi LA movie. We are staying just off Sunset Blvd. We already ate "real West Coast-Mexican food" and checked out the superb Wildness where [...]
If you can call a music video "cinema" and a brief appearance in said video a "debut" and you ignore the week where Will only drank rosé then, yes, this is Will Ivy of BRIDEZ's gay cinema debut! And its hella gay. Deep in the forest with strung out cartoon animals, alpha gay Hunx from Gravy Train!!!! laments the loss of his boyfriend with some of his best Joey Ramone woah-a-oh-oh's, but then Will sets his deep piercing eyes on him and a junk food fueled romance is born providing wish fulfillment/fantasy material [...]
PRE-ORDER Three new songs from The Passionistas, lovingly recorded by JR from Girls: Righter's Block, Ashlee Simpson, and French. On the flip two from Hard Place: a Totally Radd!! remix and a new one called Heroes of Dawnbreak. $5 plus shipping. SHIPS 12/9 The Passionistas - Righter's Block Download it! The Passionistas - Righter's Block Hard Place - Bon Vivant (Totally Radd!! Remix) [...]
We've been going to a lot of clubs lately and we've been thinking... you know what they say, if you want something done right you've got to do it yourself! Donuts is too straight, too vegan, too pretty. Plus they've never had Hard Place , Mon Cousin Belge , The Passionistas , BRIDEZ , or Brian Glaze play. That gets the big W E. Club Feral has too many gutter punks (its kinda smelly!). THINGNITE needs to be sleazier, [...]
This video tells the touching story of a gay looking ninja/terrorist looking guy who likes studded leather gloves, riding the ferry, and stalking pretty blonds with the wind in their hair. He ends up at the club where he's not seen on camera because this is the part of the video where we see BRIDEZ playing live. In the end we see the ninja/terrorist's heart of gold as it turns out he isn't chasing the girl but is, rather, her #1 SUPER FAN. rolling stoned from ben poster [...]
The theme this Tuesday is BIRTHDAY so bring presents and wear your birthday suit! 10/21/08 Thingnight @Aunt Charlies (133 Turk @ Taylor) BRIDEZ play at midnight
I don't know why I didn't post about Will from BRIDEZ first solo outing before the show. I guess thats just how we do it around here sometimes. Sorry Will! Because I am kinda juvenile, I was disappointed to hear that there was no band called Butt Milk Shake but that, in fact, it was two bands Butt and Milk Shake. You can't always get what you want I guess, being a child I'm still learning that. Anyway, Will assembled a five piece band and turned out a set of fully arranged [...]
BRIDEZ "HEART" shot by Aaron Brown/Aaron Buttig/Ben Chappell. Go tell the sluttiest person you know that Bridez is the best band on the West Coast.
We keep telling you to be scared. Soon we'll be delivering these nervous jitters straight to your turntable. Here's the new BRIDEZ video for the song Heart, that pool is filled with bleach: http://www.youtube.com/user/st jeanbrown Death is awsome. Shot by: Buttig/Chappell/Brown Put Acid in Your Cunt
Saturday Oakland Birthday fun! And then.... 9/21/08 @ The Knockout BRIDEZ http://www.myspace.com/fakeblo odjacket Hawnay Troof http://www.myspace.com/hawnayt roof SSION http://www.myspace.com/ssion Gravy Train!!!! http://www.myspace.com/gravytr ainband BRIDEZ are popular with the gay party kids, who woulda thought? Actually, all the smart gays like to keep dangerous company. BRIDEZ are gonna scare the shit out of you so that you have [...]
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