Artist Spotlight: Fronds
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Fronds_Spotlight.mp3 Download: Artist Spotlight: Fronds (Podcast #352) Subscribe to The Bay Bridged Podcast! The long-overdue return of our Artist Spotlight podcast series, which captures live-in-the-studio performances and interviews with emerging Bay Area performers, features Fronds. Fronds began while Dylan Tidyman-Jones was still playing guitar in the much-loved The Mallard. Drawing on songs he'd written over the past several years, he recorded the project's self-titled LP in Oakland with producer Robert Jackson; while in the studio, Dylan experimented with arrangements and sounds, playing most of the instruments on the record himself. The result was a enchanting collection of psych-pop released in [...]
Artist Spotlight: Farallons
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Artist Spotlight: The Tambo Rays
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Artist Spotlight: Quinn DeVeaux
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Artist Spotlight: Al Lover
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Artist Spotlight: SAFE (Podcast #326)
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Artist Spotlight: Doe Eye (Podcast #319)
Photo: Matt Baca http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Doe_Eye_Spotlight.mp3 Download: Artist Spotlight: Doe Eye (Podcast #319) Subscribe to The Bay Bridged Podcast! Today, we're kicking off a new type of podcast we'll be running every month here on the site. For our "Artist Spotlight" series, we're inviting some great emerging Bay Area bands into the studio to perform stripped down versions of their songs live in the studio accompanied by a brief chat. We're pleased to launch this series with Doe Eye, the moniker of SF singer-songwriter Maryam Qudus. Over the past few years, Doe Eye has released two EPs to significant acclaim, [...]