Premiere: The Union Trade – “Drakes Passage”
The Bay Bridged is proud to premiere the first single from The Union Trade’s forthcoming new album, A Place of Long Years, out on February 3 via local label [...]
Plenty of bands are exhausted -- both physically and creatively -- by the time the finish making a new record. Not so with The Dodos, however. Shortly after finishing [...]
Almost two years after returning to the Bay Area following graduation from Wesleyan University, the members of O Presidente are back with their second full length album, a nine-track [...]
The recent grand jury decisions not to prosecute white police officers accused of killing unarmed black men in Ferguson and Staten Island shocked a large portion of the country, [...]
I have a hunch that if anyone else had written “White Light”, the first single off of Waterstrider’s upcoming album Nowhere Now, the guitar riff in the chorus would [...]
Oakland's Bells Atlas is wasting no time making the new year a busy one, with a month-long residency at ERA Art Bar & Lounge. Joining the rhythmic pop stylings [...]
(Photo by Ant Boyd)
Oakland’s Samuelito Cruz is well versed in the Bay Area music scene. Having been involved in a variety of local Bay projects, including Happy Diving and [...]
Oakland's Royal Oakie Records and Tapes has been around since 2011, but they are poised for an especially busy 2015. Founded by David Glassebrook of Deep Ellum and Yasamine [...]
Kevin Sullivan has had a busy year - playing shows both solo as Field Medic and as the frontman for Rin Tin Tiger, starting a label, and releasing a [...]
Urthdance is abrasive and explosive. It sounds very angry, like something that has been kept in a tiny box, but is now ready to come out into the world. [...]