Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Sheer Mag, Deerhunter 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 entering in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. Thursday, September 28 Andrew W.K., Shame Waves @ The Independent 8pm, $25, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, September 28 Sonny and the Sunsets, Earth Girl Helen Brown @ The Chapel 9pm, $18, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, September 29 Middle Kids, Alyeska [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: !!!, Deerhunter 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 entering in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. Thursday, October 13 Mosaics, The Y Axes, The Singing Limbs, Be Calm Honcho @ Slim's 8pm, $13, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, October 13 RY X @ Great American Music Hall 8pm, $21, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, October 13 Poster [...]
Live This Month: October 2015 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_October_2015.mp3 Download: Live This Month: October 2015 (Podcast #372) 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. Summer may be over, but music festival season hasn't ended yet, with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend and the Treasure Island Music Festival later this month. We've included a couple of Treasure Island tracks in this mix, but both festivals offer countless potential highlights, including Hardly Strictly's all-star performance of Big Star's Third in its entirety, and the debut of Big Grams (the new project of [...]
Deerhunter Reigns in Noise Pop Opener
Words By: Joseph Hayes Photos by: Nicole L. Browner To the uninitiated tourist or otherwise, SF's Sixth Street off Market is the ultimate subterfuge for a city heralded as a European-esque metropolis with flowing bohemian culture, Victorian architecture and its extraordinary landscape. This zone, like the underbelly of a Summer of Love acid trip gone so permanently awry, is a purgatorial rendition of the waking life. And here's Mezzanine, down the alley, sitting prideful like a once poor hipster's warehouse space gone Club MTV set. It is the opening night of the city's most distinctive musical tradition established in the [...]
Photos: Noise Pop Opening Night Party
Photos by Nicole L. Browner
Live Blog: Noise Pop 2009 Opening Night Party
Most of The Bay Bridged staff is headed out tonight to celebrate the start of Noise Pop 2009! Although admission was free, RSVPs went quick. But fear not, we'll be here live blogging the event for those who couldn't make it - or just want to relive it! 8:45pm - On our way to the Mezzanine now in a snazzy little Karmann Ghia! Can't wait to see what the line is like. 8:53 - Waiting outside, the line is surprisingly short! Just hanging out to gather the Bay Bridged crew and then headed inside. 9:08 - Well, now we know [...]
Deerhunter to play “secret” show on Wednesday
For those of you who couldn't get the RSVP in quick enough for the Noise Pop Opening Party featuring Deerhunter - you're not out of luck! It has just been announced that Deerhunter will be performing at the Rickshaw Stop the following day -- for FREE. Apart of the MySpace Secret Show series, the show will also feature The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. There are no advanced tickets or RSVPs -- there will just be one really long line. First come, first served. Good luck to you all. The show starts at 8pm.
Noise Pop: Tuesday Night Preview!
This is the first in a series of profiles of what's going on each night during Noise Pop 2009. To see all of our festival coverage, visit our dedicated Noise Pop page, which we'll be updating throughout the week. Noise Pop kicks off Tuesday night with three shows featuring some of the festival's biggest acts. The official opening night party is over at the Mezzanine, and if you haven't already RSVPed, you'll need a badge to get in to see the psych-influenced art-rock of Atlanta's Deerhunter. Opening the show are San Francisco electro-poppers Lilofee, who are quickly establishing a name [...]
Latest news from Noise Pop
Our Noise Pop 2009 coverage is ramping up here over the next few weeks, and some recent announcements definitely merit your attention: First, the festival's schedule has been updated again, with a bunch of great local bands added to the lineup, including David Dondero, Built For The Sea, Mike Relm, Wallpaper. and more. Two free shows aren't on the calendar yet, but both look pretty great: - The opening night party with Deerhunter and Lilofee at the Mezzanine on February 24th. It's free for badge holders; for the general public, it looks like you can already RSVP here. [...]