Live This Month: July 2017 — an audio guide to upcoming Bay Area concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_July_2017.mp3 Download: Live This Month: July 2017 (Podcast #410) 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. This month's mix features unpredictable Philly art-rock band Palm, the genre-mashing punk-meets-electronic music of Algiers, and Vinyl Williams' psych-pop. This podcast also highlights the returns of veteran indie rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars and noise project Pharmakon, whose latest albums are being heralded as career highlights. We've also got new music from a slew of great local bands, including Flesh World, whose new album arrives in September, [...]
Cymbals Eat Guitars deliver a perfect set at Swedish American Hall
Cymbals Eat Guitars is the Platonic ideal for a rock band. The New Jersey quartet’s performance at Swedish American Hall this past Saturday was everything that rock and roll should be, straddling a balance between anthemic grandeur and a punk urgency. Project mastermind Joe D’Agostino is an emphatic bandleader, and one of the most compelling voices in indie rock today. His voice is jagged, but melodiously so — producing a tone forcefully blunt, yet endearingly empathetic. He often sings as if he’s choking on a jawbreaker, pushing out the depths of his soul through a pained growl. His intensity as [...]
Holding on for dear life: Cymbals Eat Guitars performing next weekend at Swedish American Hall
Sometimes you can’t help but lose. It’s not the result of bad fortune, nor does it come from a lack of effort. You aren’t directly at fault, or maybe you could be, but you’d have to trace back uncomfortably far through your past decisions to find out. Usually losing is just the direction outside forces hurl you towards, and no matter how hard you try to hold onto a passing anchor you can’t keep enough of a grip to help but fall in. At the most seeming inconsequence of it all you wonder how it could get any worse. “How [...]
Live This Month: September 2014 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_September_2014.mp3 Download: Live This Month: September 2014 (Podcast #345) 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. If you dig back-to-basics noise pop -- the kind of indie rock that's propelled by great hooks, not trends and hype -- you're in luck this month. Scottish trio PAWS just released Youth Culture Forever, and the band's tight songs are matched by a live ferocity. Another trio crafting explosive, 90s-influenced rock is Slothrust; the Brooklyn band's Of Course You Do arrived earlier this year. As [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Of Montreal, Sean Hayes, Mike Doughty
To enter any contest, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and date of the show you’re entering for in the subject line and your full name and email address in the body of the email. A winner will be selected at random and notified via email. Wednesday, November 6th Cymbals Eat Guitars, Mrs. Magician @ The Chapel 9pm, $12, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Wednesday, November 6th Mike Doughty, Moon Hooch @ The Fillmore 8pm, $27.50, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, November 8th Budos Band and Afrolicious @ Mezzanine 9pm, $25, 21+. Buy advance tickets [...]