Live This Month: December 2014 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_December_2014.mp3 Download: Live This Month: December 2014 (Podcast #351) 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. December traditionally feels like something of a subdued month for live music, what with all of the holiday parties and holiday travel that consume so much of the month for so many of us. This year, however, there are plenty of bands hitting the road for December shows in SF. Heck, New Year's Eve alone is a veritable bonanza for indie music fans. In this mix, [...]
Dream Police drop new album Hypnotized before two Bay Area dates
Dream Police might be derived from the founding members of The Men, Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi, but the side project sounds nothing like the overtly grungy Tomorrow's Hits and New Moon. However, there are still similarities. Born after five straight months of touring with The Men, Perro and Chiericozzi implemented a few different instrumental voices with their (at the time) haphazard jamming, including a drum machine and a Juno 106 synthesizer. It was all casual, but before long, they had some genuinely hard tracks. The result is rough-edged guitar work with electronic psychedelics, garnered into the fitting project title [...]