Allow us to introduce you to The Technicolors , straight outta Phoenix and ready to take over San Francisco. The Technicolors have a big, big sound: though they’ve garnered comparisons to Oasis over the years for their echoey aura, they’re also rooted in classic, shred-heavy rock ‘n’ roll. Currently on a West coast tour, they’ll be in town at DNA Lounge on Friday...and we've got a pair of tickets to give away. If you want a chance at them, check out the details below. To enter this contest submit an email to [...]
Date 5/7/13 Location Holy Mountain Doors 9pm Tickets $8 @ Frontgate Sorry for our tardiness on this post, but we felt it warranted despite the late notice. This evening a great show is going down at new favorite venue Holy Mountain featuring the likes of Chad Valley , Ski Lodge , and local up and comers [...]
The lovely people of Wood Shoppe are at it again. This time around, the monthly music series is bringing Southern California-based outfits PYYRAMIDS and The Hindu Pirates up to San Francisco to join the jangly rock and rollers of Cool Ghouls , four guys who have been making the city proud and earning accolades from the likes of Filter and Impose since the March release of their eponymous debut LP. Most recently, the band caught the attention of UK-based music and culture publication The 405 , who premiered the music video for "Natural Life" last week. [...]
Hoo-boy, the kids at Fortune Sound Club are kicking off a brand new monthly, ESC CTRL Shift, with one of The Internet's finest minds, Jerome LOL. In my eyes, Jerome is right up there with Panteros666 in terms of creating engaging visual experiences with his live shows. It was a huge relief to learn that this will of course be a VIDEO SHOW - if you were hoping for a strictly CDJs event on the 23rd, you'll have to keep on looking. Event Info [...]
The paths of "life after hardcore" bands have been known to go all ways, and Creative Adult is one of those bands taking a pretty interesting stylistic route. Cut from the same fabric as the once hardcore, continually slowing Ceremony , the four members of Creative Adult find themselves together after being in other former hardcore bands, honing in on a sound that combines both the elements of past and future hardcore punk. Their first 7-inch Dead Air played out the slowed down, fuzzed out, but still [...]
Out of the Hollywood hills comes much-talked about Bleached . Toting a sunny beach-ed out sound that has all the jean-jackets-and-Converse cool of classic rock sewn in, L.A. sisters Jennifer and Jessie Calvin have been gaining steady momentum. Their debut album, Ride Your Heart , was released earlier this month and the ladies have been touring the U.S. and Canada ever since. Their penultimate show of the tour happens at The Independent on May 5. While most of Ride Your Heart is many parts devil-may-care, their new single "Dead in [...]
Flip your crosses and triangles upside down, oOoOO is back for another round. In the wake of two decreasingly dark EPs, San Francisco-based electronic musician Chris Dexter (the man behind oOoOO) is finally releasing his full-length debut this summer. Lucky for us, Future|Perfect is throwing an album preview party this Saturday, May 4 at Public Works. Groundislava , DJ Dials , and Marco de la Vega will round out the bill. The album, titled [...]
As we've told you before , San Francisco's The Park play a wide variety of styles with a wide variety of artists, in addition to creating their own original material. Perhaps one of their most notorious collaborations is as the backing band for British soulstress Alice Russell when she tours the US. Wednesday night, The Park backed Russell on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and tonight they set out with her on a North American tour, kicking things off with here in San Francisco at Mezzanine. Below you can [...]
Date 5/4/13 Location The Belmont Doors 7:30pm Tickets $12 @ Ticketfly Those looking to have their faces melted this weekend should head on over to The Belmont on Saturday night for a rare performance by Austin's own ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead . What's even more interesting about this show is that [...]
Judging by the size of the venues she has been playing, it would be fair to say Marina Diamandis has had a good year. Last summer the pop songstress, who goes by Marina and the Diamonds , sold out the 1,100-capacity Fillmore. Now she’s back, still promoting 2012’s Electra Heart album, and has sold out the twice-as-large Warfield. Her current tour was booked in larger venues throughout the U.S. “Oh my God; I don’t think two years ago I would have thought I’d have been playing 1,000-capacity venues,” the 28-year-old Welsh [...]
Oakland trio Voyaj got their start in 2003 when David Krah and Stephen O'Connell collaborated for the score of a short film. They released a few albums and played a few shows as The Sunward Spike before adding Sean Hagen four years ago. Earlier this year, they renamed themselves and released their self-titled LP as Voyaj. All three members collaborate and play some combination of drums, keys, bass, and guitar at varying points throughout the album, which I would describe as "weird pop" that takes you in several different directions during its nine songs. [...]
The Stone Foxes are headlining The Fillmore on Saturday, 5/4/13, and they just can't contain their excitement. While the SF-bred band is excited enough just to play the hallowed Fillmore, they're also hoping to do some good while they’re at it: in conjunction with SuperFood Drive , they'll be collecting healthy food for donation, combining two things San Francisco has been known to do well: good eats and the greater good. If you bring donations, you'll be given prizes and entered to win a chance to watch the show from the stage. [...]
With almost four decades in music, first with The Soft Boys, then as a solo artist, the 500-plus song catalog of Robyn Hitchcock might seem, to an outsider, impenetrably massive. It seemed that way to me, anyway, but diving in at the beginning - which is to say, the second Soft Boys album, Underwater Moonlight , followed by the terrific solo sets Black Snake Diamond Role and I Often Dream of Trains - reveals a penchant for wonderfully bizarre, lyrical songwriting that cements Hitchcock's place as one of music's [...]
To enter this contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged.com with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name once to only one contest. Winners will be chosen at random and will be awarded one pair of tickets unless otherwise noted. Wednesday, May 1st My Revolver , Trainwreck Riders , Vows @ Great American Music Hall 8pm, $15, all ages. Buy advance tickets here . [...]
The silver blanket of fog is slowly beginning to recede as summer takes ahold of the City, and Amanda Harper is shining brightly on the San Francisco scene. Her ethereal synth pop project Running in the Fog will headline the third official Professional Fans showcase at The Knockout on Monday, May 6 with support from Bay Area pop peers Parentz and Eitch , and we are delighted to premiere Harper's new single "Silver" exclusively here on The Bay Bridged. She performed [...]
Mikal Cronin 's sophomore LP MCII isn't officially out until next Tuesday, May 7, but you can stream the whole record over on NPR right now. The album, which is being released via Merge Records , isn't short on grinding garage rock guitars, but as NPR's Stephen Thompson notes, MCII "mixes shambling rock with a perfectionist ear with quality control, as its star (who plays most of the instruments himself) applies a beachy sparkle to 37 minutes of fresh, fun rock 'n' roll." Listen to album opener "Weight" below, and head [...]
With a new album in the works, Sleepy Sun performs this Wednesday, May 1st, at The Chapel , and we've got a pair of tickets to give away! Email contest[at]thebaybridged.com with the subject line "Sleepy Sun" and include your full name for a chance to win. While you're entering, enjoy how the band's epic jam "White Dove" soundtracks this psychedelic surf video, in which Creed McTaggart catches waves in the Indian Ocean along the coast of western Australia. Sleepy Sun, Feral Ohms, Meg Baird, DJ Brett Wilde [...]
Earlier this month, a blog post made the rounds on the Internet whining about how bands just don't rock enough these days. Well, San Francisco duo Mt. Hammer wait about five seconds into their song "JTR" to let folks know that they can and will play angry, fast, and loud. The track eventually settles down a bit for a solid blues-grunge version of traditional gospel track "John The Revalator", but their strongest moments are when singer Alex McInturff yells and grunts and spits and snorts, like he does on the intro of [...]
Date 4/30 Location Emo's Doors 7:00 Tickets $16.00 Since SxSW's exit, we have already seen a few bands that played the conference come back through town. Tuesday's show at Emo's features two grads of 2013. The Joy Formidable put down a blistering set at the Nikon Warner Sound showcase, I mean nailed down. [...]
The time has come to mentally prepare yourselves for a night of face-melting psych epics, as Tjutjuna opens for Japanese psych legends Acid Mothers Temple at Bottom of the Hill on Friday, May 10. San Francisco's own 3 Leafs will open. Following a couple lineup changes since the release of their self-titled debut in 2010, Denver's Tjutjuna (pronounced "choo-choo-na") is releasing a new instrumental psych-rock album called Westerner , out April 30 on Fire Talk . The [...]
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