Valentine’s Day 2020: Our favorite love and anti-love songs
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Another day to celebrate your love or perhaps another day to realize you’re single. Despite your relationship status this Valentine’s Day, we can probably all admit that there is a lot of music celebrating the glory and heartbreak of love. To commemorate, we here at the Bay Bridged collected our staff’s favorite love songs, along with their favorite anti-love songs to make sure everyone receives whatever they need this February 14th. Love Songs "Heat of the Moment" by Asia This probably isn't high on a lot of lists about love songs, or lists in general. Sadly, the [...]
Photos + Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Greek Theatre
LCD Soundsystem (photo: Jon Bauer) I heard Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” for the first time at a suburban strip mall coffee shop when I was a kid. I remember thinking that it didn’t belong. I mean, amongst the drilling steam of the espresso machines and the precocious conversations of my fellow teenagers, “Robots” seemed like it was meant for some place more interesting. Some place where people were really interested discussing things like the ecstatic truth of Werner Herzog’s films or the pitfalls of third wave feminism or outsider art or...or maybe just drugs that were a little more chancy than a [...]
LCD Soundsystem's 'Shut Up And Play The Hits' screens tonight and Saturday (8/24-8/25/12) at The Roxie Theater
If you slept on the first wave of July theater showings for LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up And Play The Hits, or just want to relive it in all its glory, The Roxie has you covered this weekend. The documentary - which follows frontman James Murphy as he prepares for, performs, and immediately reflects on the band's final live appearance at Madison Square Garden in 2011 - will screen Friday and Saturday, August 24th and 25th, at 11pm each night. Tickets are just $10 ($6.50 for seniors) and you can grab tonight's here and Saturday's here. It's a very well done [...]
Friday: LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney and Nancy Whang to DJ at Public Works
If you missed the chance to see ex-LCD Soundsystem members Pat Mahoney and Nancy Whang at Creators Project a couple of weekends ago, you have another opportunity Friday March 30th to catch a special DJ set at Public Works presented by FACE. Opening the show will be DJ Eug. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. The members of LCD Soundystem have been keeping busy since disbanding following the release of their critically acclaimed last album This is Happening, and their final performance from Madison Square Garden, which was captured in the new documentary, Shut Up and Play the Hits. Whang [...]
2010 Treasure Island Music Festival Mix (Podcast #231)
2010 Treasure Island Music Festival Mix (Podcast #231) This week's podcast offers a sampling of the many great bands taking part in the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival. We're quite excited to be returning to the island on Saturday, October 16th and Sunday, October 17th for a two-day celebration of great music that proves to be one of our favorite concert events every year. We'll be offering up previews, downloads and giveaways as the festival gets closer, but here are selections from fourteen TIMF 2010 artists. Find out more about all of them and purchase tickets to the festival over [...]