Derek’s Best of The Bay: 2020
Photo by Eric Molyneaux
With the pandemic putting the kibosh on live music, there's unquestionably been a collective sadness within our hearts. That old world — where one could wander [...]
GalleryQuaran-tunes: Coping with shelter in place, Bay Area edition
It sure didn't take long for our world to be upended, did it? Look, there's no way to pussyfoot around this: COVID-19 sucks. It will cost countless lives the world [...]
GalleryBest Of 2019: Derek’s favorite Wine Country releases
Pictured: The author.
Look, from an artist's perspective, I get why y'all don't come up here all the time. Having grown up here, I'll admit that Sonoma County is pretty [...]
GalleryAnthony Anzaldo wants you to stop being boring
Small talk is weird. We all have this silently agreed upon conversational shorthand to pin our daily interactions on because even as adults, let's face it — we are [...]
GalleryTicket Giveaway Wednesday: Ceremony, Mondo Cozmo and more
(illustration: Cassidy Miller)
To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re [...]
GalleryTicket Giveaway Wednesday: Ceremony, Pure Bathing Culture and more
To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re entering in [...]
GalleryCeremony releases two-track video from upcoming album ‘L-Shaped Man’
By a band’s fifth studio album, it’s likely they’ve gone through a transformation or two, and North Bay locals Ceremony are no exception. In anticipation of the release of [...]
GalleryTicket Giveaway Wednesday: Alex G, Ceremony, David Kilgour, and more
To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re entering for [...]
GalleryReview & Photos: Ceremony, Terry Malts, Comadre, Permanent Ruin, Synthetic ID @ Rickshaw Stop 2/27/13 (Noise Pop 2013)
Photos by Nicole L. Browner
It's not always clear which part of Noise or Pop you're going to encounter for any specific show — or frankly, whether the festival has [...]
GalleryMixtape: Twelve Highlights from 2012 (Podcast #295)
Mixtape: Twelve Highlights from 2012 (Podcast #295)
"Best of" lists are intrinsically a tricky proposition, but compiling them is made all the more difficult by the San Francisco Bay Area's [...]
GalleryMixtape: Highlights from San Francisco Bay Area Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore (Podcast #290)
Mixtape: Highlights from San Francisco Bay Area Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore (Podcast #290)
The Bay Area has held a prominent place in punk music since punk first became a thing, [...]
Ceremony – "Everything Burns"
Ceremony - "Everything Burns"
Northern California band Ceremony originally came out onto the scene as a hardcore punk band; their later albums leading up to Zoo signaled a shift to [...]
