San Francisco solo garage rock machine Adam Widener will join fellow San Franciscans Primitive Hearts opening for Canadian punks The Steve Adamyk Band and Needles//Pins Tuesday night at Thee Parkside. Widener, who plays bass at his live shows, has performed with Warm Soda as his backing band for solo shows in the past. For Tuesday's show, the well-connected Widener enlisted the help of drummer Phil Lantz and singer/guitarist Patrick Clos from Cocktails , [...]
The first annual BottleRock Napa Valley Festival brought over 50 bands to the Napa Valley Expo for four days of music over the weekend, and our Roman Gokhman was on the scene for all four days. Below, check out his live-tweeting from the festivities, which included standout performances from The Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, and Grouplove. [ View the story "2013 BottleRock Napa Festival Recap" on Storify ] Related Posts: If you’re going [...]
The Bay Bridged is proud to announce the lineup of performers at the 2013 Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival ! The all day, all ages music and food festival - taking place on Saturday, July 13th at Potrero del Sol Park - will be headlined by SF's unstoppable garage titans Thee Oh Sees and LA electro-pop virtuosos YACHT . They'll be joined on two stages by some of indie music's most exciting bands, including LA's garage pop duo [...]
Enjoy this Rdio mix featuring local and touring bands performing in SF during the rest of this week. After the jump, find out more about when they're all playing! For a full list of upcoming concerts in the SF Bay Area, check our Local Concert Calendar . Monday, May 13th Radio Silence Loft Party #2, with John Vanderslice and Daniel Handler Sweat Lodge, The Photo Atlas, Father President at Bottom of the Hill [...]
As we announced on Monday, we're really excited to present the third annual Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival on Saturday, July 13th in Potrero del Sol Park. It's going be to be a great day of indie music and food, with twelve bands on two stages, and an collection of our favorite local food trucks. Before we announce our lineup on Monday, we're giving away giving away a four-pack of VIP tickets to Phono del Sol 2013 on our Facebook page right [...]
Photo by William Perls Bay Area classic-soul duo Myron & E recently released a track from their forthcoming album Broadway , set for a July 2 release on Stones Throw Records . The pair met several years ago when both were on tour with Blackalicious. While touring in Finland, they met the Helsinki group The Soul Investigators , who are best known for their work with Nicole Willis , and a jam session led to a couple of single releases on the Investigators' Timmion Records [...]
Last night, Allah-Las and The Blank Tapes rocked The Chapel. Read our review below! [ View the story "Allah-Las with The Blank Tapes at The Chapel" on Storify ] Allah-Las with The Blank Tapes at The Chapel So much rock and roll. Storified by · Fri, May 10 2013 00:36:10 The Blank Tapes are happy to be home @thebaybridged #thechapellaurenespina Matt Adams and his bandmates kept [...]
The early stages of sun-kissed summer delirium are slowly creeping in, and who better to send us flying over the edge than Black Moth Super Rainbow and The Hood Internet ? The double trouble bill (plus opener Oscillator Bug ) will take over The Fillmore on Friday, May 24 during the tail-end of a month-long tour, and we are giving a pair of free tickets away to one lucky winner. Unless you have epilepsy, watch Black Moth Super Rainbow's seizure-inducing video for "Hairspray Heart" [...]
San Jose’s Cartoon Bar Fight will depart for a teeny tiny tour next week. Spanning just over a week, the eerie pop band will hit usual haunts like San Francisco, but also make more out-of-the-way stops in places like Hayward and Santa Cruz. The band will use the tour as a place to premiere tracks from their upcoming concept album, due later this year. They’ll also be teaming up with a star-studded roster of Bay Area up-and-comers (or already-there-ers), including Manzanita Falls , The Y Axes , Piranha Party! and more. See [...]
Your unofficial disco ambassadors of the Bay Area, Kevin Meenan ( epicsauce ) and Andrew Marcogliese ( YR SKULL ), are bringing another installment of Push The Feeling to the Lower Haight on Friday. The shindig will feature an electrifying lineup of local funk dealers, with a DJ set from The Beat Broker and a live electronic performance from Plaza . Resident DJs epicsauce and YR SKULL will spin the night away at Underground SF. [...]
Locals Glitter Wizard and Carlton Melton team up tonight for an evening of psychedelia at the Hemlock , pairing the former's metal/hard rock punch with the latter's expansive drones. If the poster is any indication, the show just might melt your face off. Hunting Gatherers by Glitter Wizard Glitter Wizard, Carlton Melton, Joy Hemlock Tavern May 9, 2013 9pm, $10 Related Posts: Review [...]
San Francisco MC A-1 just released a new track, "Summertime Sadness", where he rhymes over a Ryan Hemsworth remix of Lana Del Rey's track of the same name . This isn't the first time A-1 has rapped over a Lana Del Rey sample – "Now You Do" from The Thurl Tape uses Flosstradamus' "Lana's Theme" as its beat. While "Summertime Sadness" is well, very sad, Thurl Tape has a some more lighthearted material that does a great job complementing [...]
Nacent SF trio Couches are setting out on their "Real Lazy Tour" of the West Coast during May, and it all starts tonight at Amnesia with a set sandwiched between headliner Brasil and opener Old & Gray . Frontman David Mitchell (whom you may recognize as the founder of 20 Sided Records ) describes the band's sound as "slacker indie rock," which he explains is "original indie rock, like Pavement, Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf, Sonic Youth, etc." The three-piece is planning to [...]
Freak-folk’s not dead, and neither is Devendra Banhart . Though he’s been laying low for the last couple of years, he never really left. Nonetheless, a lot has changed since the last time we really heard from Banhart: he’s just released a new record, Mala , on Nonesuch , and more noticeably, he’s traded his trademark tresses for a (slightly) more conventional cut. Currently touring behind Mala , he’ll be at the Regency on the 21st (and for all you South Bay-ers, he’ll be at the Rio in Santa Cruz on the [...]
The Dodos announced recently that they've signed to Polyvinyl Records - also the new home of local band Painted Palms , as well as Sonny + The Sunsets . Details on their first release with the Illinois-based label are yet to surface, other than this silly teaser video that contains a snippet of an upcoming track: Since No Color came out in 2011 on Frenchkiss, The Dodos have remained fairly quiet, aside from a light show schedule. Later this month, the band will travel [...]
New York folk-influenced singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson is currently touring the US behind her third LP, Wheel , and her band performs tonight at Bottom of the Hill . Enjoy a couple of heartfelt songs from the new album below. Laura Stevenson Band, Field Mouse, Haunted Summer Bottom of the Hill May 8, 2013 9pm, $12, All Ages Related Posts: No Related Posts
Melbourne's UV Race passed through town this week, playing the Rickshaw on Sunday and 1-2-3-4 Go! on Monday. It's their first US tour since 2010 and it's a doozy of a tour. Portland with the great Eat Skull, the East Coast and on to Chaos in Tejas (May 30-Jun 2) with The Damned and The Bats. At some point, the band will morph into side project Total Control . Incredibly, the tour terminates at the Uptown in Oakland on June 9th. [...]
Indie darling of the moment Kurt Vile will be playing a sold-out show at The Independent this Wednesday, May 8. The Philadelphia native is currently promoting his latest album, Wakin On A Pretty Daze , which has quickly become a critics' favorite since its release early last month. Stylistically, the new album shows Vile’s subtle growth as a songwriter, with changes that are small compared to his previous record, 20102s Smoke Ring For My Halo . Vile's voice is still mumbly and smooth, and still thickly sweet, and his lyrics haven't strayed [...]
Next Thursday, May 16th, the Bold Italic will be rolling out the next edition of their Microhood series . This particular Microhood is called "MishiPot," encapsulating Mariposa to 21st Street between Harrison and Hampshire - which, conveniently enough, is where the Bay Bridged and Noise Pop headquarters are located. The Bay Bridged and Noise Pop will both be represented at this event, hosting a Phono del Sol announcement party at Blowfish Sushi (since, as a reminder, we'll be announcing the Phono del Sol 2013 lineup next week ). We'll be DJing from [...]
Jared Griffin, primary songwriter for San Francisco's Sioux City Kid was one of the first artists to put Jack White's refurbished Third Man Record Booth to use, recording the track "Heartbreak Shakedown" on Record Store Day in Nashville last month. They grabbed a turntable and luckily digitized the first play, as the record didn't play all the way through the second attempt. The throwback recording makes Griffin's gravelly voice even more gravelly – listen or download below. Sioux City Kid is finishing up its second LP for a release later this year, [...]
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Seven Lions: Fevers (Feat. Minnesota and Mimi Page)
Akabu feat. Alex Mills – Everybody Wants Something (Joey Negro Strip Mix) [New Release]
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