Recommended, 12/12-12/18: Yip Deceiver/Shock, Uzi Rash, Baths/Raleigh Moncrief, Marissa Nadler
Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Yip Deceiver, Shock, Loose Shus, Tres Lingerie at Milk Thursday, December 15th (8pm, $6), Epicsauce, Aerobic International, and Voltaire Records host a gathering at Milk headlined by electro-pop band Yip Deceiver, a group led by Of Montreal members Davey Pierce and Nicolas Dobbratz (also one of the creators of the terrific Sugar & Gold). Speaking of bands [...]
Taking Stock of November: Seventeen of our favorite songs from the blog last month
If you're anything like me, you know how difficult it can be to keep track of all of the new music that's constantly floating around the Internet. Here's our latest month-in-review mix collecting some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the website. Gathered in the mix are seventeen new tracks from Bay Area bands that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in November, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog November 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. Fine Steps - "Tomorrow for All of Today" 2. Churches - "Save [...]
Live This Month: December 2011 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #262)
Live This Month: December 2011 (Podcast #262) 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. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December. Bands that had big years in 2011 - including Other Lives, Cass McCombs, and Baths - are making return visits, while locals like [...]
TBB Video Premiere: High Castle – “Bee Medal”
High Castle drummer Shaggy Reaper directed this VHS-only clip for the band's "Bee Medal," off the Spirit of the West full length out on Zum Recordings. Watching the video, it's a little strange to think we once relied on the fuzzy, faded strangeness of VHS. Reaper utilizes the medium's creepy feel to maximum effect, though, adeptly pairing it with a dynamic burst of warped punk. High Castle performs at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records with Uzi Rash and Lenz on December 17th (7pm, $3-5, All Ages). Hear a couple of songs from Spirit of the West below. High Castle - We Were [...]