GalleryGiveaway: See Pickwick at The Chapel this week!
Pickwick's tour of the western United States comes to The Chapel this Thursday, January 9th, promising a rocking good time from the Seattle sextet known for great live shows. [...]
GalleryKool A.D. releases 'Not OK' mixtape
Reflecting on the state of local music in 2013, SF Weekly's Ian Port recently wrote, "Acts, whether they play rock, dance, or increasingly hip-hop, are now defined by the [...]
GalleryBill Baird releases 'Bill Sings Will' cassette
Oakland's Bill Baird just released an album of covers, Bill Sings Will, on Curly Cassettes. Bill shared some thoughts with me on creating the album:
I can never do [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Eric Barleen on Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers
2013 was the year of the Grambler! Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers embody so much of what this incredible city and area of the country have to offer from [...]
GalleryWillCall New Year's Eve club takeover
Pretty much every New Year's Eve I’ve known since entering adulthood has been cursed with the same question: “What to do?” Option 1: spend way too much money on [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Daniel Senter’s 2013 East Bay highlights
I joined The Bay Bridged staff as a Production Associate last spring, and it has been endlessly enjoyable to be pulled deeper into the sonic recesses of the Bay [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Marc Ribak on Pookie and the Poodlez
It must have been about a year ago that I was eating a bowl of pasta at a friend's place in Oakland, and my friend says that his roommate [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Roman Gokhman's favorite concerts of 2013
Introduction and special considerations
I doubt I’ll ever get to go to as many concerts as I did in 2013 again. My goal was see 50, and I saw 64. [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Russell Jelinek's highlights
John Murry (Photo by Amoreena Berg)
I don't feel like ranking things, but here are some Bay Area highlights for 2013, limited to artists I wrote about:
Favorite Albums:
John Murry - [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Dan Strachota on Cocktails
My favorite release of the year by a local band is the debut 7-inch by Cocktails.
There are certain sounds that are near and dear to my heart, sounds that [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Patrick Brown on Antwon
"Fuck them all, that's my new motto
Rest in power to my friends, I'll see you tomorrow
Hard to swallow, that's how I'm living
All my girls is poison, word to Michael [...]
GalleryBest of 2013: Jennifer Maerz on White Fence
A truly great rock record unfurls a whole mess of sonic madness as the needle winds across the vinyl, and White Fence’s Live in San Francisco perfectly captures not [...]
