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Photos by: Nicole L. Browner Monday night's sold out show at The Independent was an audio-visual spectacle of high emotion, featuring a near-flawless performance from headliner Mount Kimbie . Vinyl Williams opened the show as a full band, catching the uninitiated crowd off-guard with its one man name. Holy Other took the stage next as a solo performer armed with a minimal setup of sequencers and samplers on one elongated black machine. Backed by a [...]

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For the first time, the flag of New Zealand waved triumphantly at the Rickshaw Stop. Pass the Ringo , the debut LP from Oakland's Legs just came out in April. The band was the perfect choice to open the evening on Friday night. Guitarist Matt Bullimore is originally from New Zealand and the band creates a refreshing reinvention of the Flying Nun sound rarely heard around these parts. Male/female vocals, shimmering guitars and perfect keyboard fills. The crowd loved 'em and [...]

Tuesday night's show at Rickshaw Stop featured Brooklyn dream pop tour buddies Small Black and Heavenly Beat with an opening set from San Francisco/Los Angeles based duo Silver Hands . All three bands were impressed by the turnout and happy to be playing in San Francisco. It was a relatively early show, with Silver Hands starting their set at 8:45pm. Singer Elizabeth Wright was in rare form, emphasizing the fact that her birthday was at midnight. As one of the [...]

Welcome back to the Boulevard Ear, a regular feature on The Bay Bridged, where our man about town examines a community's live music offerings. What is it like to be a show-goer whose experiences are dictated entirely by location? Follow Todd as he explores Bay Area music venues by neighborhood, finding a variety of independent music along the way. In our attempts to record the essential essence of what is was like to live in these times, the following was noted: South Van Ness and Division, 9:25 PM [...]

Thursdays are usually the night for shows at the former Eagle Tavern, now Eagle SF, but last night was a special Tuesday. It was the release date of the new Sonny & the Sunsets LP Antenna to the Afterworld on Polyvinyl and a ton of people came out to celebrate. First up was Cool Ghouls who also opened for Sonny last March at Noise Pop. Their sets tend to start out as tuneful pop in a southern rock revivalist sort of way and then edge deeper into dark and psyched out waters. [...]

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After nearly two years of radio silence, the SF Eagle (formerly known as the Eagle Tavern) is now back up and running in all of its dive-y, leather and denim clad, LGBT glory. Like before, the SF Eagle is playing host to some really cool local and visiting rock bands, like Friday night’s show featuring Fuzz , Total Control , and Thee Oh Sees . I arrived at the venue to find a long line wrapped around the building - 9pm and the show was already over capacity. Not sure whether this was a [...]

Many bands would use the opportunity of a light crowd to work on new songs and timing, play it safe and get back on the road quickly. Slim’s was noticeably under-attended Saturday night for Philadelphia-based power pop quintet Free Energy . That’s a bit surprising, since their 2010 debut album, Stuck on Nothing , was produced by LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, on his DFA label, and since their independent follow-up, 2013’s Love Sign , attracted top-notch reviews coast to coast. When singer Paul Sprangers, guitarists Scott Wells and Sheridan Fox, [...]

Rickshaw Stop packed in a full house on Friday night, cutting off the line just as I was able to weasel my way into the madness. I suspect almost everyone was there for Parquet Courts , who, for the most part, lived up to the hype. Local openers Pang hit the stage just after 9:30, performing a brief set of punk-infused garage rock songs. The all-female quartet actually sounded a bit like Wax Idols, only much more passive. The frontwoman, who played rhythm guitar, keyboard, and [...]

“How many of you are students?” Marcus Mumford surveyed the packed crowd at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre Thursday night, the second of three consecutive sell-outs for London folk-rockers Mumford & Sons . “How many of you are parents? How many of you smoke weed,” the disheveled vocalist-guitarist-foot stomper continued. “I think I just hit all our demographic.” While the quartet may be losing much of its hipster following – some have begun referring to Mumford and Co. the Nickelback of folk – a new wave of [...]

From the moment singer/guitarist Kevin Parker laid into the opening riff of "Solitude Is Bliss" straight through to the end of the night, it was just one hit after another. Tame Impala was in the house. If you didn't make it to the show and you're the type of person whose first question is always "Oh did they play...?"—let me stop you right there. Yes, they played it. The band was on stage for well over an hour, so they got around to playing pretty much every song you wanted [...]

Photos by Julie Schuchard If it were any night other than Friday, a mashup set hardly would have been an acceptable opener for demonic psych-pop perfectionists Black Moth Super Rainbow . However, Chicago's The Hood Internet took advantage of the weekend vibe by dropping a glorified DJ set reminiscent of a high school dance party, after Oscillator Bug warmed up the stage. Steve Reidell (the man behind The Hood Internet) held it down as a solo bro [...]

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Photo by Mike G. Boris is doing a series of special two-night appearances in select cities, and San Francisco was one of the lucky winners. And if that isn't cool enough for you, the venerable Japanese experimental/noise/metal/psych band is playing its SF shows with two of the Bay Area's top metal acts, Bosse-de-Nage and deafheaven . Unfortunately, it seems Boris' grand ambitions for these shows meant that Bosse-de-Nage had to go on super early. I got [...]

Forget what you've read about Ariel Pink's anxiety-filled live shows. Actually, don't. Because everything I've heard and read about his self-indulgent performances made last night that much more amazing.  Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti  filled The Chapel with nothing but celestial vibes. He was, at moments, outrageous, sensual in his flamboyant mannerisms, child-like, theatrical and genuinely humbled. Before Ariel took the stage, Holy Shit! (pictured above) offered a dance party soundtrack of forgotten 1980s hooks and melodies that a good portion of the crowd was hesitant, at first, to get into. As the [...]

Early in their set of thrashing, frantic mathcore on Sunday night, The Dillinger Escape Plan 's lead singer Greg Puciato pulled himself up by the chains of a hanging PA speaker at the DNA Lounge, leaning dangerously forward ten feet above the shoulder-crushing mosh pit on the floor. DEP are well known for their insane live shows — the band members never really stop moving, using cordless guitars and microphones to allow them to go anywhere in the venue — but even still, I was sure Puciato wouldn't jump into the mosh pit. That's [...]

Emily's Army began submitting recordings to 1-2-3-4 Go! about four years ago, when most members were 13. I could have fathered them. It helped that the guy to my right could be their grandfather (and he was sporting a dog collar). It's a little uncomfortable how great they are. It is frightening to think what they could be doing in a few years. My only fatherly advice: notch down the Green Day, study Sandinista , and stay away from my daughters. Check them out June 8th at Oakland's Uptown with Meat [...]

If the only time someone has seen San Francisco’s Midi Matilda was at last year’s Live 105 BFD, when the guitar and drums synth-pop duo struggled with gear malfunctions through the first half of a short set to a dwindling crowd, that person would have a very wrong estimation of what it was capable of. Friday night at Rickshaw Stop, Skyler Kilborn and Logan Grime fully entertained a sold-out house, introduced several new songs and paid tribute, once again, to former manager Steve Brodsky, who passed away too soon, recently, after a [...]

Our photographer Charlie Homo went to the BottleRock Napa Valley Festival this past weekend, and captured this amazing set of photos of The Flaming Lips, Black Keys, The Shins and many more. Enjoy! [...]

Stardate 1993, planet 'aLaBaMa', Man or Astro-man? are born. 2013, flying via rental ship (their rocket ship broke down somewhere about 1/2 way to LA), they land 60 Earth minutes late at Bimbos 365. In decent English they report great losses of equipment in the aftermath, yet it didn't stop them from lighting a theremin on fire. At 24 hundred hours, the drummer celebrates his birth. The crowd attempts to teach [...]