Live This Month: January 2017 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_January_2017.mp3 Download: Live This Month: January 2017 (Podcast #399) 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. When it comes to concerts, January is starting 2017 off strong, with a whole bunch of great shows happening locally over the coming month. Oakland prog-inspired band Once & Future Band is celebrating a new album, as is SF singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. We've also included songs from locals The Sunset Shipwrecks, Russell E. L. Butler, Sarah Bethe Nelson, and Richie Cunning. Worth noting: Nelson and Cunning [...]
Mixtape: Singer-Songwriters of the San Francisco Bay Area (Podcast #293)
Mixtape: Singer-Songwriters of the San Francisco Bay Area (Podcast #293) With its rich history of folk musicians and lyrical rockers, the Bay Area has long been a source of terrific singer-songwriters. Even today, while much of the buzz around local musicians focuses on some of our weirder (or, perhaps, more "now") rock subgenres, there continue to be numerous talented folks crafting lyrically-rich, deeply personal music. For some reason, 2012 seems like an especially strong year for local songwriters, with well-received new albums this year from beloved veterans like Mark Eitzel and Mark Kozelek's Sun Kil Moon, as well as newer [...]
Live This Month: November 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #291)
Live This Month: November 2012 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #291) 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. Who would have expected November to offer a slew of new releases from Bay Area bands? The month promises long-awaited new records -- and local shows -- from Maus Haus and Social Studies, as well as psychy new offerings from The Love Dimension and Golden Void (a new project that includes Earthless guitarist Isaiah Mitchell). And that list doesn't [...]
A Rock Journalist Needs Your Help
The Red Devil Lounge is hosting a benefit show for Paul Williams, this Sunday June 28th. OK, I hear you. You’re asking, "Who is Paul Williams?" and "Why would I go to a benefit show?" Paul was the founder of Crawdaddy Magazine, and has likely seen more amazing shows, met more interesting people, and written 20 more books that any of us ever will. So again, you ask, "Why would I want to benefit a guy who seems to have picked the world of its tastiest fruit?" Well, Paul was in a terrible bike accident in 1995 that left him [...]
Single Syllable First Names – Bob and Mark at the Swedish, Keep it Classy Folks
Words by Jake Butler I had been to Cafe Du Nord numerous times, and had always heard rumor of this mysterious "Swedish American Hall" that lie above us in the strange world above street level just past the Church St. MUNI stop. I walk into a sea of seated concertgoers who would likely give up their first born before their seat. There's probably 70 chairs or so in the center, with limited seating along the borders of both the base level and the balcony at the Swedish American Music Hall. I instantly notice that there is an abundance of blazers, [...]