Live This Month: June 2018 — an audio guide to upcoming Bay Area concerts
Download: Live This Month: June 2018 (Podcast #430) In Live This Month, we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Plenty of excellent new local tunes populate this mix, including songs from recent and upcoming releases by Le VICE, Pllush, Locus Pocus, Bézier, and FAN. We've also got a new one from Wooden Shjips' latest album, which finds the born-in-SF psych band exploring more concise, melodic song structures, as well as a tune from the exciting new Oakland project Still Woozy. On the touring front, standouts in [...]
Video Interview: A Place To Bury Strangers at Fun Fun Fun Fest, coming to The Independent tonight, 11/7/12
A Place To Bury Strangers played a set on Sunday down at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas and are scheduled to be all the way up in San Francisco just three days later – yes, tonight – to headline a gig at The Independent. I caught up with them to find out how their latest album Worship is being received out on the road, and to get their 30-second pitch on why San Franciscans need to come out and see them down on Divisadero. Check out the interview, above, and let's hope the SFPD doesn't get wind of [...]
Live This Month: November 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #291)
Live This Month: November 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #291) In Live This Month, we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Who would have expected November to offer a slew of new releases from Bay Area bands? The month promises long-awaited new records -- and local shows -- from Maus Haus and Social Studies, as well as psychy new offerings from The Love Dimension and Golden Void (a new project that includes Earthless guitarist Isaiah Mitchell). And that list doesn't [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wendesday: A Place to Bury Strangers, The Stone Foxes, Bowerbirds and more
The Giants' big win was on Sunday, and you've no doubt got a night of Halloween-related debauchery waiting for you at the end of your workday. Could your week get any better, you may ask yourself? Yes. Yes, it can. Stuff your plastic pumpkin or pillowcase full of the multitude of tickets we've got to give away this week. To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged[dot]com with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name once to only one contest. Winners for [...]
Video: A Place To Bury Strangers – "And I'm Up"
Brooklynite noise rockers A Place To Bury Strangers are back with a video for the blistering track "And I'm Up", off their 2012 album Worship. The video, directed by frontman Oliver Ackermann's animator brother Karl, features a series of toys getting burned, blown up, and run over. The director explained his take on the song and idea for the video: For me "And I'm Up" is about coming of age. Burning toys seemed like it'd be an apt metaphor, fun and easy to shoot, and cool to look at. My idea was to create what I called an Action Figure [...]
A Place To Bury Strangers releases video for "Leaving Tomorrow"; playing The Independent 11/7/12
Brooklyn noise-rock outfit A Place To Bury Strangers recently premiered the video for "Leaving Tomorrow", a track from their 2012 record Worship, over on SPIN. The video was shot entirely on the band's iPhones, providing a grainy, old-school feel that is the perfect accompaniment to the song's arresting mixture of face-melting post-punk and shoegaze. Check it out, above. Also, the trio is embarking on a lengthy tour of Europe and North America, with a stop at The Independent in San Francisco on November 7th fronted by Philly psychedelic shoegazers Bleeding Rainbow. Full tour details are available here, and information on [...]