Every month, we dedicate the first week's podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've got twelve great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music! Subscribe to The Bay Bridged's podcast to get each week's new episode downloaded free to your iTunes! About the bands: Tempo No Tempo ("Kilometer") celebrate [...]
Comme promis la nouvelle Sending Shit Session de Seek Sick Sound, continuer a nous envoyer vos tracks sur seeksicksound@gmail.com !!!! PS : Mixtapes, DJ Set, ainsi que toutes tracks avec un bitrate inférieur a 256k ne seront pas traitées !! # Myd - Train to B2o (The Deficient Senegalo Tamba Bootleg) # Sam Tiba - Barbie Weed Myspace de The Deficient [...]
Endllich mal wieder was zu berichten aus dem musikalischen Dänemark. Marybell Katastrophy ist das neue Soloprojekt von Marie Holjund (Tiger Tunes) und Emil Thomsen. In ihrer Heimat werden sie schon mal gefeiert, bei uns eher unbekannt, hat Mary Katastrophy immerhin als Support für Bat For Lashes erste Aufmerksamkeit erzielt. Die Dame klingt fast genauso verrückt wie Björk, hat aber den Hang zum Schönklang. Der wird aber zunächst durch den Elektro-Mixer gejagt. Manchmal ein wenig anstrengend, aber zumindest schräg genug, um aufzufallen. Die MySpace-Seite passt übrigends ganz hervorragend zur Musik. Das Debütalbum [...]
The Bay Bridged, Tartufi , Whizbang Fabrics, and Noise Pop Present: The Second Annual Rock Make Street Festival The Rock Make Street Festival is this Sunday, August 23rd, from 11am to 7pm! The free all ages event takes place on Treat Avenue between 17th St and 18th St in the Mission. Come check out what Flavorpill, the Chronicle and more are calling a must-attend free day of great local music and [...]
[Locals Only is a regular feature where the Stranger Dance staff focus on the best and brightest of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Feel free to hit us up with any information on local bands, musicians, shows, and other music-related events and projects.] The 2009 Rock Make Street Festival takes DIY to a new level, bringing music and art away from the exclusionary and back to the grassroots. Presented by the Bay Bridged , Tartufi , Whizbang Fabrics , and Noise Pop , the [...]
This stuff is lovely: ghostly Americana with broken, desolate vocals full of heartbreak rather than rage, and the most bare-boned of backing. Yes, I know, I cover a lot of this stuff. In fact you may have heard fragments of this music before, as there is a connection with Dame Satan, whose album I reviewed very positively a couple of months ago. Basically, this is the work of Andrew Simmons of that band - it's a project, not a band, as his MySpace page informs us. I'd be pleasantly surprised if anyone reading this remember Lincoln, [...]
This week, our podcast features Dame Satan , a San Francisco band mixing acoustic folk, electrified blues and psychedelic textures into some epic rock compositions. Their 2005 debut Ghost Mansion -named after the home the members shared which doubled as the recording location-offered a stripped-down, acoustic-driven blend of American rock sounds. The band reached another level, however, with 2008's Beaches and Bridges , which was recently released digitally on Origami Music . The songs on their latest album often sound like they're from another universe, but it's a fully [...]
Tonight : Sonny & the Sunsets (73 Release Party), Small Sur (Baltimore), Nate Grace (Austin) @ Amnesia Sonny Smith - "Day in the Life of a Heel" Friday : Regional Bias: A Celebration of Bay Area Music and Culture to Benefit The Bay Bridged . Featuring performances by French Miami , Adam Stephens and The Finite Plain , Or, the Whale (acoustic), and Leopold and his Fiction , DJs [...]
It's time for another Ticket Giveaway Wednesday! In addition to these great shows, you can win a pair of tickets to our own fundraiser, Regional Bias , in giveaways being held by our friends Broke-Ass Stuart and Mission Mission . Sunday, August 2nd - Deerhoof @ Great American Music Hall Deerhoof are back home headlining this Sunday at Great American Music Hall . If you [...]
Tabernacle is the new project from Dame Satan's Andrew Simmons. Flanked by a bevvy of guest musicians, he has recorded a new 5-track EP Word, Pioneer.Ghostly folk serves as the basis for the majority of the album. However, the Bay area resident, Kentucky-native brings much of the influence of his home state into the music. Roots and traditional music weaves its way into the mix.Unfortunately,
Bridges and Beaches is the new album from the bay area's Dame Satan. This is the sophomore record from the trio, who despite the awesome band name, are not a heavy metal act.The album is a sprawling and haunting exercise in soundscapes. While many bands make music that can be described as 'spacey', Dame Satan do so in a way that preserves the organic earthiness of their music. Beginning with
Thursday : Papercuts , Port O'Brien , Still Flyin' @ The Independent Papercuts - "You Can Have What You Want" Friday : Sugar & Gold , Music for Animals , Castledoor @ Rickshaw Stop Sugar & Gold - "Slice Me Nice" Friday : Magic Bullets , Shannon and the Clams , Bridez @ Bottom of the Hill Magic Bullets - "The Book is Closed" [...]
San Francisco's The Dry Spells have been gathering their debut album, Too Soon For Flowers, for release on August 11th. Too Soon For Flowers was recorded on analog tape at Louder Studios by Tim Green (Melvins, Joanna Newsom, Howlin' Rain, Monotonix, Sleater-Kinney).The album is a favorite of NPR's Bob Boilen and he's featuring their song "Black Is the Color," on this week's edition of All Songs Considered. The Dry Spells formed at Bard College in the early part of the decade, with the band consisting of Tahlia Harbour on vocals and guitar, April Hayley on vocals [...]
The Dry Spells - "Batwood" Antenna Farm Records has announced an August 11th release date for Too Soon For Flowers , the debut full length from San Francisco's The Dry Spells . The folk-rock band formed at Bard College, and became inspired to write their first song about a local tragedy where a nine-year-old girl was accidentally killed by a hunter while she was out collecting leaves. After graduating, the band moved to San Francisco and reconnected with Bard alumnus Ezra [...]
San Francisco Bay Area's Dame Satan graced Luxury Wafers with their exceedingly humble, easy-going presence and proceeded to blow us away in ever-widening shockwaves. Andrew Simmons sings a cozy wool blanket and makes his guitar speak like an intent canine. Michael Chopko patiently, sensitively rides the bass deep and harmonizes electricity. Brendan Sheehan strokes guitar, rocks tambourine and plays drums from sparse hollow strokes to an all out tympanic frenzy. Their psychedelic rock stretches time like a cannibus dream. Dame Satan expands the fabric of space, masterfully welcoming and befriending emptiness as the off-beat and the expanded absence of sound. [...]
Just a little bit of Dame Satan's ambient psych folk for your Wednesday. This is what happens when someone blends 60s acid with an ambient production. Sometimes too sparse to describe, sometimes way too trippy to think you actually understand it, but always worth a listen (or two). The band and new album dissected: " It contains Fine Folk Traditions, Space Blankets, Noisy Blessings, and a Few History Lessons. All Messages and Moods within were cooked up by Human Voices, Words arranged in Meaningful Congress, Acoustic and Electric Instruments, Effects... " And check the video for [...]
Lemonade @ The Annex ( more by Kyle Dean Reinford ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Tribeca Film Festival * Moby @ Issue Project Room * Lemonade, Bronze @ Zebulon * The Dead @ Nassau Coliseum * Suckers, Tanlines @ Glasslands * Earth Day @ Grand Central Terminal * Fischerspooner @ the Performing Garage [...]
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This is beautiful. At times like a slightly more ethereal version of the Cave Singers, at times even evoking seventies British psych-folk, they even end up with spooky, reverby guitar growls reminiscent of the Low Lows from time to time. It's not an immediate hit, however. This is the kind of album you have to ease yourself into with a few listens, I think. The pace is very, very slow for the most part, and it leaves you prone to distraction as you listen. The vocals are like some desert choirboy gone badly astray, which makes the excruciatingly [...]
Presented exactly as it was received: "In 1984, A pressed an ear to the front of a fat stereo speaker as Dad dropped a fresh wax copy of Born in the U.S.A. on the turntable. In 2003, A and Chopko drank beers in a vast San Francisco parking lot next to what was then Pacific Bell Park until they, with the E Street's opening strains tumbling faintly through the air, could no longer stand missing out. A scalper rolled by with nose-bleed bargains and the dudes obliged the Boss. In October 2008, [...]
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