Giveaway: Coo Coo Birds, Al Lover, Face Tat, Bubblegum Crisis at Bottom of the Hill
Four genre-bending local acts are coming together for a raucous evening of psychedelic sounds at Bottom of the Hill tomorrow night, with Convent-dwellers and old school psych revivalists the Coo Coo Birds joining forces with SF-based producer and remix-master Al Lover, purveyors of darkwave, electronic, post-rock beats Face Tat, and "anxietywave" pioneers Bubblegum Crisis (the side project of Sunbeam Rd.'s Harrison Pollock). We've got a pair of tickets for one lucky reader. To win a pair of tickets to Wednesday night's show at Bottom of the Hill featuring Coo Coo Birds, Al Lover, Face Tat, and Bubblegum Crisis, email contest@thebaybridged.com [...]
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304)
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304) All too frequently, remixes are just okay, but when they are great, they're really something special. A truly great remix can shed new light on the original artist's work and stand on its own as a unique creation. That's no easy feat, either, given the tension between staying true to an original song's components and a reworker's desire to create something new and personal. These days, it feels far too easy to get remix fatigue. Reworkings seem to pop up almost immediately after original songs are released, and they can come [...]