Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: AJJ, Girlpool and more
(illustration: Cassidy Miller) Want even more giveaways? Sign up for our newsletter for access to extra contests. 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 no later than 24 hours before the listed show and notified via email. Thursday, April 4 Whiskerman, Kendra McKinley, Suzanimal @ The Chapel 8:30pm, $18, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, April 4 Tiger! [...]
Review: Girlpool is already a classic at the Chapel
There's something about teenage girls that scares me but that also makes me angry that I can't protect them. They scare me because I know what it's like to be a teenage girl, but unlike them, I was not lucky enough to have a band so close to age with songs that perfectly depict the angst of being alive. Especially one with two members who I can actually relate to, as someone who identified as a girl, as someone who's no longer a girl. Girlpool is one of those bands that is already a classic, making teenagers waiting in line [...]
Girlpool are a tweemo duo playing the Chapel this week
Girlpool (photo: Kacie Tomita) Girlpool is the definition of tweemo. I mean like Sarah Records twee and Saddle Creek emo meeting somewhere along the way and becoming one. I mean they could probably work really well on a bill alongside the Softies, even better if Death Cab For Cutie or Bright Eyes were headlining. Just like the Softies, Girlpool is known for their minimalist approach to music (though their new album Powerplant is the first to have drums). Just like the Saddle Creek emos, Girlpool focuses on lyrics and makes you cling to their emotions, making them feel like your [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Girlpool, Kikagaku Moyo 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, May 18 Ho99o9, Injury Reserve @ The Independent 9pm, $13, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, May 19 Dead Winter Carpenters, Scott Law and Ross James' Cosmic Twang, Misisipi Mike Wolf @ Slim's 9pm, $16, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, May 19 [...]
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 [...]
Girlpool: New LP, video, and upcoming tour
Photo: Sam Williams Girlpool’s debut LP Before The World Was Big has come to make you feel at home in that little corner of your bedroom where you cradle yourself in denial. It came out on June 2, but if you haven’t listened to it, the time is now. Somehow angry, somehow bitter, somehow hopeful, Girlpool, the LA duo of Harmony & Cleo, is the perfect blend for the modern age. If you’ve currently been revisiting the 90s, be it from a young eye or a perfectly aged eye, they’re all the angst you could’ve ever dreamed of. Especially, at [...]