Helms Alee bring heavy sounds to Hemlock this week
Words by Jordan Martich As Seattle-based band Helms Alee tours in support of their newest album Stillicide, experiences are becoming unbelievable for drummer Hozoji Matheson-Margullis. This is their longest tour to date, and they've been juxtaposed with sludge-riff legends The Melvins for almost two months, meeting up with longtime comrades Russian Circles afterward. Awestruck at performing on the same bill as a band she's admired for so long, Matheson-Margullis was floored when all of Helms Alee was asked to close out the show by playing along supergroup style to “Night Goat,” reworking the classic song into a loud, magnificent event. [...]
Live This Month: January 2015 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_January_2015.mp3 Download: Live This Month: January 2015 (Podcast #354) 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 haven't adopted too many resolutions, consider adding this one to whatever you've already got lined up: resolve to go see more live music in 2015! As this month's podcast shows, January offers plenty of killer concert offerings, including a number of local bands with new albums. Tiaras is comprised of former members of stellar groups Ganglians and Blasted Canyons -- the new band isn't [...]