Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: King Woman, Ice Cream, John Carpenter and more
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, June 16 Nightlife with Lower Dens & Tamaryn @ Cal Academy 6pm, $15, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, June 16 Yukon Blonde, The Zolas, Ice Cream @ Rickshaw Stop 8pm, $12, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Friday, June 17 John Carpenter: Live Retrospective @ Fox [...]
Mixtape: Highlights and More from South by Southwest 2016
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/SXSW_2016_Mix.mp3 Download: Mixtape: Highlights from South by Southwest 2016 (Podcast #382) Every March, thousands of aspiring bands flock to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Music, a week-long event functioning as part conference, part music festival, and an all-around great opportunity to sample some of the world's best acts. The sheer number of options blanketing the Texas capital during the festival can be overwhelming, but it remains one of the premier places to discover new and emerging bands. That's the view from a music fan's perspective, mind you. For a musician, the degree to which South by Southwest performances might [...]
Ice Cream to headline a showcase at the Rickshaw
Get ready for an evening of slightly sloppy, sorta grungy, but endlessly entertaining garage rock o Thursday night at the Rickshaw Stop. Featuring the Bay Area's answer to the Black Lips, Ice Cream, the hard-hitting rockers in Dinosaurs, and the pop hooks of Oakland's The Tet Holiday, the night offers a little bit of everything for fans of the genre. The concert is also the first ever Tour Worthy showcase in the Bay Area, a company based in SoCal that connects local music scenes up and down the West Coast. Yes, it's before the weekend, but no one's really gonna [...]
Mixtape: San Francisco Songs for Summer
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Summer_2015_Mixtape.mp3 Download: Mixtape: San Francisco Summer Songs (Podcast #365) Even though San Francisco's summers get an unfairly bad rap, that doesn't prevent us locals from enjoying many of the best parts of the season. Days at the beach, barbecues, road trips, street fairs and festivals: sure, you might need to carry a light sweater on some of your summer excursions, but the long days can't be beat for outdoor fun. With the solstice kicking off summer earlier this week, we've compiled this mixtape of songs for the season, collecting new and recent releases by San Francisco Bay Area bands that [...]
Get to Know: Ice Cream
The music of Ice Cream may not be as innocently sweet as the treat they're named after, but they'll certainly delight anyone with even a passing interest in garage rock. Their latest EP, We're Set, is a melting pot of dirty, fuzzy, slightly sloppy rock n' roll: the party punk blast of "Wherever You Are" kicks things off with a blistering pace; "Mexico" sounds like a drunken Strokes track cut from Is This It; and "Surfer Girl" is sonically miles away from the Beach Boys tune of the same name, with its lo-fi production and punchy beat. "Wild" is the [...]