SF's The Wrong Words are back with a new 7-inch on Trouble In Mind Records , featuring the incredibly catchy single "I Will Change Your Mind." Listen to it below. Side B offers another new song titled "How To Keep a Straight Face," and the two tunes mark the trio's first release since 20112s self-titled full length. You can grab both of them here . The band is currently immersed in the SXSW sea, but has a show scheduled for March 21st [...]

Mixtape: Music to Drink Beer to (Podcast #261) Think of our latest mixtape as something of an hour-long indie music/beer pairing, inspired by our upcoming The Bay Brewed rock and roll beer festival. On Saturday, December 3rd, we'll be at The Verdi Club , for performances by Weekend , Sleepy Sun , Extra Classic , and Terry Malts , and unlimited local craft beer samplings from 21st Amendment , Anchor Steam , Beach Chalet , Drake's Brewing , Lagunitas [...]
PLAYLIST: The Jam - Pretty Green Carbon/Silicon - Caesars Palace The Boo Radleys - Vegas Sleeper - Vegas Dressy Bessy - Big Vacation Kitchens Of Distinction - Jesus Nevada The Fall - Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul Stone Roses - Made of Stone The Names - Night Shift Kaiser Chiefs - I Can Do It Without You The Pastels - Couldn't Care Less Vivian Girls - Damaged Super Furry Animals - The Placid Casual King Khan & The Shrines - I Wanna Be [...]
The Wrong Words recently performed a live set on WFMU , which you can download for free. Well, shit. WHY? and Serengeti just cancelled their tour . Have you listened to the latter's Family & Friends yet? It's really strong. Not new but still reliably great: Hemlock booker Tony Bedard's journey through the world of horrible press releases as @Folder_Rock is full of humor, sadness, and sadness-derived humor. Local folk-rock band Foolproof Four are releasing their [...]
Friday, August 19, 2011. WRONG WORDS SAL BANDO FOUL SWOOP 10PM. $6. The Golden West Cafe. 1105 W. 36th St. Hampden, Baltimore. Facebook RSVP . Show by Unregistered Nurse .

Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Thao & Mirah's homecoming show at the Great American After a nationwide tour behind their self-titled album, Thao & Mirah return home for a show at the [...]

Just a week ago, a friend was heralding the shows at the Crescent Hotel 's Burritt Room (417 Stockton Street) as an underrated spot hidden in downtown SF. This Saturday, June 4th, is a great opportunity to check out the Burritt, which is celebrating one year of shows with a free concert featuring locals The Wrong Words and The Parties . Show starts at 9, with birthday cake and complimentary gin punch beforehand. The Wrong Words – "Summer's Gone" [...]
As a nerd, the ending to The Wrong Words ' new video for "Wrong Again" stings a bit, but the song's power-pop-done-right helps ease the pain. The band is at Cafe Du Nord on May 11th wit Bare Wires and Tropical Sleep.

Tweet Live This Month: April 2011 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. April has a number of big artists with recent albums coming to town, including Kurt Vile, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Akron/Family. Meanwhile, some great local artists are either concluding tours (like Papercuts) or kicking them off (like tUnE-yArDs). All told, it's another busy month for rock and [...]
Tweet Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Papercuts return home with Fading Parade I've been listening to Fading Parade , the latest from Papercuts , [...]

Short, simple garage tunes abound in The Wrong Words' excellent debut, self-titled record, out now on Chicago's Trouble in Mind Records . The San Francisco trio doesn't bother slowing it down on the 12-track, twenty-eight minute LP, cranking out energetic pop anthems without breaking a sweat. Highlights Include: "Everything Is Different Now" "Say Goodbye" "Wrong Again" "Summer's Gone" Buy The Wrong Words : iTunes - Insound Download: The Wrong Words - "Summer's Gone" More on The Wrong Words: [...]
Tweet Previewing the 2011 Noise Pop Festival This episode is presented by KQED.org . Long before we started The Bay Bridged, we'd look forward to February's annual Noise Pop Festival , and now, in the fest's nineteenth year, things are no different. That's a remarkable achievement, and this year's week of events brings together buzzworthy out-of-town bands and talented locals for stacked four band bills sampling some of the best in [...]

What a week it's been. A new yawn-inducing Strokes single, a giveaway from Urban Outfitters of the new Toro y Moi album Underneath the Pine, yet more from Sleigh Bells, an underwhelming Black Eyed Peas Superbowl Halftime show, I guess the Kills are still making music, and the list goes on. Luckily for us there's a lot going on this weekend and over the course of the next week. High on Fire at Slim's Sunday in SF, Smith Westerns playing Bottom of the Hill here in SF Sunday night, Young Pris...

Looking for some of the most satisfying California-flavored power-pop you've heard in a long time? Well lucky for you, San Francisco's The Wrong Words has got your number. This infectious, unadorned trio release their self-titled LP, March 22nd on Chicago's Trouble In Mind Records. However, until then, they've dished up a single, Summer's Gone ; a fresh, jangling nugget, to tide us over. This charmingly contagious ditty is hustled along by Layla Cooper's muscular drumming, Ajax Green's melodious bass and Josh Miller's sparkling guitar and stirring vocals. Groupies of [...]
Kind of a roller coaster of a week, huh? I mean, The White Stripes broke up, yet you have a chance to win Bonnaroo tickets . And the Super Bowl is Sunday, but musically it doesn't offer anything to look forward to. I'm not sure where our Friday Mixtape fits in, but I do know you'll likely be more glad than sad over this week's offering. Included are the week's best singles and remixes, plus hand-picked covers from our friends at Cover Me . NEW Singles: "People's Partay" by [...]

Singles Dum Dum Girls - "He Gets Me High" He Gets Me High EP March 1st The Hood Internet - "Sprawl of Glass (Blondie vs Arcade Fire)" Via The Hood Internet Cold War Kids - "Mine Is Yours" (Yeasayer Remix) Original version from CWK's Mine Is Yours , available now on Downtown Vivian Girls - "I Heard You Say" [...]

I was sent this new song "Summer's Gone" from San Francisco based outfit The Wrong Words yesterday and have been playing it on repeat ever since. It's a pretty simple song, but oh so catchy in all it's pop goodness. The tune is set to appear on the band's self-titled debut LP out March 22nd on Trouble in Mind Records . Download: The Wrong Words - Summer's Gone [MP3]

Shabby power pop from San Francisco's Wrong Words . "Summer's Gone" is the first single from the trio's upcoming self-titled full length, due out March 22 on Trouble in Mind Records. Wrong Words - "Summer's Gone" More on Wrong Words: Facebook - Myspace
"What Went Wrong" is the winning and extremely catchy A-side on the debut 73 from San Francisco garage poppers The Wrong Words . The record is out today on Trouble in Mind . The Wrong Words are at Thee Parkside on October 22nd and the Rickshaw Stop on November 10th. The Wrong Words - "What Went Wrong"