
Fops, the Bay Area superduo featuring Thee More Shallows singer Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher lyricist Chadwick Donald Bidwell recently released their latest EP For Centuries on September 5th. Grab the single "Cheater Carolina" after the jump. Read more » http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping

If you're anything like me, you know how difficult it can be 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 eighteen (!) new tracks that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in September, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog September 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: [...]
What better way to spend a Friday afternoon than watching a bunch of music videos? Here are four recent Bay Area-affiliated clips of note. The debut album from WATERS (Port O'Brien's Van Pierszalowski), Out In the Light , came out this week, and the seriously rocking "For the One" now has a special-effects-fueled video to go along with it. The band performs at The Independent on Saturday night . Girls mania continues [...]

What's up folks? Have a good week? Tomorrow it's officially fall, aka the best season ever. It's a time when the leaves change, the sun is out only 45% of the time, and that crisp autumn air pairs up with good new music to keep your head up. Here's our weekly dose of the best visual content out there; who knows, you just might find your fall anthem in the pile.And don't forget to SUBMIT your videos too. Always looking for more!

Nantasket Surf in Hull, MA Photo credit: Tracey H-W Catching up on our mix series, we have promotional tracks available from mid June to early July. Favorites include Lazy Bones by the Wooden Shjips, Romance by Wild Flag, Crystalline by Björk , FFunny Frends by Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Good To Me by Dennis Hopper Choppers. As always, this baby is gapless and ripped at 320 kbps. ENJOY! Blogophilia 30 Download all tracks in one zip file [...]

Today's song is "Cheater Carolina" by Fops . Fops is the Bay Area duo featuring Thee More Shallows singer Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher lyricist Chadwick Donald Bidwell. This song is off their forthcoming mini-album, For Centuries . The 7-song, 43-minute EP will be released as a limited edition cassette (with letterpress insert by Bidwell) and digital download via Monotreme Records (65Daysofstatic, Nedry, Barzin). Fops are also giving their fans the opportunity to choose the song and storyline of a video made by the band for any of the songs from For Centuries , [...]

Fops From: San Francisco, United States What is the point at which extended turns into long? When does an EP become an LP? Is it down to the number of tracks? Is it the running time? Historically singles consisted of two tracks, EPs of four tracks and LPs of circa 10 tracks. If only life in 2011 were so simple. For Centuries , the new collection of songs from San Francisco based duo Fops , is pitched as an EP yet there [...]
What is the point at which extended turns into long? When does an EP become an LP? Is it down to the number of tracks? Is it the running time? Historically singles consisted of two tracks, EPs of four tracks and LPs of circa 10 tracks. If only life in 2011 were so simple. For Centuries , the new collection of songs from San Francisco based duo Fops , is pitched as an EP yet there are seven songs with an overall running time of 40 minutes. Surely that's enough to qualify as an LP. Do we even [...]

In this edition: Our friend Tsuru has new mixtape to share, discover Family, FOPS on the radar, weekly considerations, and lots and lots of videos! - Aaron (aka Tsuru) of Tsuruphoto makes a Mixtape cover by: Tsurufoto Our good friend, Aaron has made a mixtape to share with you. For many years, he ran the site, Tsururadio , which was an incredible bouillabaisse of mixtapes, reviews, diatribes, photos, and other sundry tidbits that made it more than just a music [...]
Every weekday, MUF offers five (5) daily downloads of free and legal MP3s. We chose these songs for you to discover, download and explore more about the artists behind them. 'Daily Downloads' via Twitter , Facebook or RSS ! (For more information on what our Daily Download is and what they mean to you go here ) Today's Free MP3s: Bear Lake - Breaking Me Down [ Artist ] Fops - [...]
Still checking mails, updates etc. Here's some of the noteworthy stuff... The new Digits single is really cool.. + Because It's Wrong And so is this new track by Fops . + Cheater Carolina [...]
Still checking mails, updates etc. Here's some of the noteworthy stuff... The new Digits single is really cool. + Because It's Wrong And so is this new track by Fops . + Cheater Carolina [...]

As a reminder, Fops is a duo featuring Thee More Shallows' Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher' Chadwick Donald Bidwell. After releasing the debut Yeth, Yeth, Yeth in 2010, Fops are now announcing a "mini-album" (otherwise known as an EP), entitled For Centuries . Fops 'Cheater Carolina' by Monotreme Records For Centuries comes out on September 5th via Monotreme Records as a cassette plus digital release (so, if you don't [...]

Series: No Cover Episodes 11 & 12 – "Foreplay/Long Time" - The guys all gather at their first gig to rock the world for the first time. However, nothing seems to be going the way it should…. Music Videos: Fops – "Yellow Jacket Corpse" - Quick cuts and janky camera work reveal a man being haunted by somebody in a yellow spandex suit. Toro y Moi – "How I Know" - Two ghost girls haunt a nice suburban home, while [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early '70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max's and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]

Fops is Chadwick Donald Bidwell of Ral Partha Vogelbacher and Dee Kesler of Thee More Shallows and their album, Yeth Yeth Yeth , stands as one of my favorite late season releases. The record opens with a driving pulse as if burrowing through some inner earth or strangely fantastic alternate aquatic world all done up in synth and atmospheric density. Throughout there's a compelling draw of movement and ambiance along with a kosmische influence that shows itself in varying degrees. "Solid Copper Huntress" [...]

A Bay Area Electronic Pop Mixtape (Podcast #235) In compiling this mix of new and recent music from eleven San Francisco Bay Area-based artists, I've searched in vain for a singular theory to explain the recent proliferation of local electronic pop. Does the tech-heavy business climate here mean techier indie musicians, geeking out on synth sequencing and effects? Or are the Bay's bedroom pop songwriters employing more electronics as it continues to get easier to manipulate software synths to create satisfying layers of sound? Most likely, there's no single answer to explain [...]

And now we move into the time of reissues and compilations. We'll return you back to your regularly schedule new release schedule in January after these couple months with holiday fodder. [There are some new releases to poke at, though. The Extra Lens, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Oh Land, and a load of reissues and/or compilations from Bob Dylan, The Church, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Robyn Hitchcock's The Soft Boys.] Playlist: New Releases 10.19.10 The Extra Lens - Undercard [...]
Fops - "Maple Mountain" Here's another song and a video from Fops , the electronic pop band featuring Thee More Shallows ' Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher 's Chadwick Donald Bidwell. Both tunes come from the duo's first album, Yeth, Yeth, Yeth , out now on Monotreme Records . Here's the Fops song we posted in August : Fops - "Solid Copper Huntress"