Live This Month: May 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. May features a couple of local festivals - S.S. Records' ten-year anniversary celebration and SF Popfest (which we'll be discussing later this month in a separate mixtape) - as well as the usual slate of touring bands coming through town. Veterans like Cass McCombs and The Raveonettes both recently put out what might be the best albums of [...]
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 Download Mixtape 1 | Download Mixtape 2 | Download Mixtape 3 San Francisco at South by Southwest: Mixtape 1 (Podcast #245) San Francisco at South by Southwest: Mixtape 2 San Francisco at South by Southwest: Mixtape 3 Every March, thousands of bands, industry types, and music fans converge on [...]
Tweet Live This Month: March 2011 (Episode 244) 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. As South by Southwest approaches later in March, bands are hitting the road, crisscrossing the US before converging on Austin. What this means for Bay Area music fans is a ton of buzz-backed touring bands stopping in SF, and equally promising locals playing some final shows [...]
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 [...]
Tweet Live This Month: February 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. February can only mean one thing in Bay Area indie music: the annual and much celebrated Noise Pop Festival, now in its nineteenth year. There's so much good Noise Pop stuff that we'll be devoting a separate podcast to it in a few weeks. Before the fest, [...]
Tweet Live This Month: January 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. After a quiet December, a number of local bands are already lining up some high-profile CD releases this month, including Deerhoof, Young Prisms, and Jake Mann. Enjoy this mix and then go check out some shows! Subscribe to The Bay Bridged [...]
Tweet Live This Month: December 2010 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #239) 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. Although things get a little quiet around Christmas, December's got plenty of concert highlights. For some, like Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, this month's show marks the end of a long run, while others, like Sic Alps and [...]
Kelley Stoltz (Podcast #234) Bonus: we're giving away a pair of tickets to Kelley Stoltz's CD release show this Friday at Cafe Du Nord. To enter send an email to contest@thebaybridged.com with "I want to see Kelley Stoltz!" in the subject line and your full name in the body. The THIRD person to enter will win two tickets to the show! This week, our podcast features the amazing Kelley Stoltz , whose latest album, To Dreamers [...]
Birds & Batteries (Podcast #233) Our podcast this week spotlights Birds & Batteries , a San Francisco band mixing electronic and acoustic elements into dynamic indie rock. The band's latest album, Panorama , comes out October 12th on Spune / Velvet Blue Music , and it finds the quartet reincorporating some of the alt-country/Americana elements that weren't present on 2009's funky, synth-focused Up To No Good EP. This is Birds & Batteries the rock band, with compelling guitar hooks and a heartfelt twang complimenting bandleader Mike [...]
2010 Treasure Island Music Festival Mix (Podcast #231) This week's podcast offers a sampling of the many great bands taking part in the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival . We're quite excited to be returning to the island on Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th for a two-day celebration of great music that proves to be one of our favorite concert events every year. We'll be offering up previews, downloads and giveaways as the festival gets closer, but here are selections from fourteen TIMF 2010 artists. Find [...]
Tamaryn (Podcast #230) This week's podcast profiles Tamaryn , the duo of singer Tamaryn and producer Rex John Shelverton (Vue, Bellavista, Portraits of Past), whose debut full length The Waves is out now on Mexican Summer . After some singles and an EP born of a bicoastal partnership, Tamaryn left New York to come out west and create The Waves . The album is simply stunning, blending haunting Gothic tones and the lush sonic environs of shoegaze with a strong dose of dreamy melodic pop. [...]
2010 Rock Make Street Festival Preview Mix (Podcast #227) This Sunday, August 22nd, we're pleased to present the third installment in our annual free, all ages Rock Make Street Festival , taking place on Treat Avenue and 18th Street from 11am-6pm. As we've been saying over the past few weeks, this year's Rock Make is bigger and better than ever, with 100 arts and crafts vendors selling their wares, three stages of music and entertainment, a ton of great local indie bands, and, for the adults, a beer garden serving [...]
Devotionals (Podcast #226) This week's podcast profiles Devotionals , a San Francisco band combining the talents of Tyson Vogel (Two Gallants) and Anton Patzner (Judgement Day). If you've only seen Vogel behind a drum kit with the Gallants, you might be surprised to see him finger-picking through a series of mostly instrumental folk-rock compositions, aided by Anton's violin and some guest contributors. The songs on Devotionals , out now on Alive Records, are restrained, measured works that unfold into spacious mini-epics. It is not uncommon to use [...]
Social Studies (Podcast #223) This week's podcast showcases longtime friends of The Bay Bridged, San Francisco's Social Studies . The release this month of their first full length album, Wind Up Wooden Heart , on Antenna Farm Records , feels like a welcome reintroduction to the band's unique spin on nervy indie pop. Retro-sounding synths lend Social Studies' songs plenty of catchy charm, but they're equally brainy, with twists and turns that avoid standard pop structures. The music is lean enough to let singer Natalia Rogovin [...]
2010 Mission Creek Music Festival Mix (Podcast #222) After a weekend of shows in Oakland, the 2010 Mission Creek Music Festival kicks into full swing this week with concerts around the City featuring a bunch of ace predominantly local bands. This mix features ten bands playing Mission Creek shows. For the full list of upcoming events, head to mcmf.org . I don't know a lot about The Lambs ("Brother Sister White") yet, but the San Francisco group has some [...]
Magic Bullets (Podcast #218) This week's podcast showcases San Francisco's Magic Bullets , whose second full length album, Magic Bullets , came out yesterday on Mon Amie Records . The band's first record, a CHILD but in life yet a DOCTOR in love , came out in 2007, and introduced a refreshingly catchy jangle pop sound calling to mind bands like The Smiths, The Feelies, Talking Heads, and Orange Juice. Over the next several years, the Bullets focused on writing and recording, gaining an EP, but losing [...]
The Dont's (Episode 217) This week's podcast showcases SF indie rock band The Dont's , who release their third album this month, titled Those Delicate Chemicals . Longtime friends of The Bay Bridged, these guys first caught our attention with 2007's Inner El Camino which fused a love for melodic indie pop melodies and brainy art-rock grooves. Those Delicate Chemicals isn't just the next step for the band; it's a big step forward, benefiting from sounding great and three years of work by guys [...]
This week's podcast spotlights local singer-songwriter Emily Jane White , on the heels of the US release of her second album, Victorian America , by Milan Records . 2007's Dark Undercoat introduced White's powerful lyrics and commanding voice, and its bewitching folk-rock sound generated widespread critical acclaim. Things are a little less sparse this time around, as Emily and her band have crafted some wonderful string arrangements that increase the songs' intrinsic emotional weight. The new works feel more ambitious, too, an exciting sign of continued growth by [...]
This week's podcast spotlights the very talented Kacey Johansing , whose debut album, Many Seasons , comes out next month on Porto Franco Records . Kacey's been involved in a bunch of different local projects over the past few years; she was in Geographer for a period of time, she's played with The Blank Tapes, and, lately, she's been a member of Honeycomb. Many Seasons contains elements of folk and rock akin to those bands, but it's more principally a gorgeous acoustic pop album, with the multi-instrumentalist's great voice [...]
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