Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Vanishing Life, Diarrhea Planet 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, November 17 Matthew Logan Vasquez, Marit Larsen, Rob Fidel @ Sweetwater Music Hall 7pm, $16, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, November 17 Vanishing Life, Super Unison, Fake Your Own Death @ Bottom of the Hill 9pm, $12, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. [...]
Diarrhea Planet dedicates end of fall tour to West Coast
Since forming six years ago in a Nashville garage, six piece punk rockers Diarrhea Planet have honed their sound, which is self-described "pop through a heavy metal filter," and plan on closing their 38-show tour with a heavy presence in California. The week of November 14, singer-guitarists Jordan Smith, Emmett Miller, Brent Toler, guitarist Evan Bird, bassist Mike Boyle, and drummer Ian Bush, the newest member of the band, will make their way from Halloween celebrations in England to the left coast for shows in Santa Cruz and San Francisco before wrapping up in Sacramento and Crystal Bay, NV. The sextet [...]
Live This Month: April 2016 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_April_2016.mp3 Download: Live This Month: April 2016 (Podcast #383) 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. Okay, the start of the month got a little bit away from us, but the rest of April features no shortage of killer shows. This mix spotlights thirteen great bands, with everything from the electric folk-rock of Laura Stevenson and Hard Left's mod-punk to captivating electronic tracks from Earthen Sea and Floating Points. We also discuss and hear songs from new local releases by Plush, YOURS, and [...]
Editors' Picks: What We've Been Listening to This Week (múm, Johnny Flynn, No Tongue, Diarrhea Planet, & more)
múm Ben: The new múm album, Smilewound, has a lot to offer fans of electroacoustic indie pop, but there's something about "The Colorful Stabwound" that has me listening to it on repeat this week. The rolling percussion has a propulsive snap, the instrumentation is relatively minimal, but every piece fits together like some sort of obtuse puzzle, and the vocals, to the extent they're present, hint elusively at regret. It's really something remarkable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUja8VXma8w Anna: I was re-visiting Johnny Flynn's A Larum on Rdio this past week, and I felt like something was missing - a song I [...]
Photos: The So So Glos, Diarrhea Planet @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall 9/18/13
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