GalleryGet to Know: Before the Brave
The first time you hear Before The Brave’s latest single "Free", you'll wonder why this inexorably catchy folk/rock/pop song hasn't been played to death on the radio alongside Mumford [...]
GallerySylvie Simmons: A heroine for our times
As we stumble towards 2015 with our pathetic iPhone habit we could really use a hero. Sylvie Simmons was born in London, but she has lived in the [...]
GalleryGet to Know: Stalls
If 2014 has taught us anything, it's that there's a lot of damn good rock and roll coming out of Oakland, and new band Stalls is no exception. Stalls [...]
GalleryFrozen Folk play final show this Friday
Bad news, Oaklanders: Friday marks the end of Frozen Folk. For good.
Frozen Folk has been a favorite of ours for the last few years, and we're sad to see [...]
GalleryGet to Know: White White Wolf
Photo: Erik Anderson
White White Wolf is a folk project fronted by San Francisco's Chistopher Drellow, who said he rented the cheapest cabin he could find in tiny Paxton, CA [...]
GalleryAlbum Premiere: The Classical – Diptych
The Classical, a San Francisco duo fronted by Juliet E. Gordon with Britt Ciampa manning the drums, have released their first new album since moving to the city about [...]
GalleryDecember’s Featured Album: Happy Diving – Big World
Here are two things I learned about Happy Diving, whose new album, Big World, is our featured album on The Bay Bridged for December. First, the East Bay band [...]
GalleryWilliam Ryan Fritch announces new record Revisionist, next in Leave Me Sessions subscription series
William Ryan Fritch has been nothing if not over-the-top prolific during 2014, and it looks like 2015 will bring more of the same. Revisionist, the next installment in his [...]
GalleryBalms releases new self-titled EP
Local dream-pop / shoegaze outfit, Balms is out with their anticipated EP, following the release of their single "Golden Hair" this past July.
The new EP is a six-track dreamy-filled concoction [...]
GalleryJordannah Elizabeth revs up for new album, A Rush
It was a nice, brisk San Francisco morning when I met up with Jordannah Elizabeth in West Portal, a shop and restaurant-filled neighborhood that was beaming with people walking [...]
GalleryGrace Sings Sludge releases Red Light Museum
Grace Sings Sludge, aka Grace Cooper of The Sandwitches, has released a cassette of home recordings, Red Light Museum, and earlier this month released a VHS video for "Such [...]
GalleryBattlehooch drops new EP Wink
"Come take a chance with me / The less that we know, the better we'll be," Battlehooch sings as a suitable invitation to their new EP Wink. It's quite [...]
