Mixtape: 25 SF bands in celebration of the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th anniversary
Although we adapted our name from San Francisco's other large water-crossing landmark, we'd like to extend a happy anniversary to the Golden Gate Bridge, which still looks relatively youthful at 75. To help your weekend celebration -- be it bridge-themed, Memorial Day-themed, or just barbecue and beer-themed -- here's mix of 25 great local bands to celebrate the bridge's 75 (an idea suggested by the good folks at 8tracks). There isn't anything particularly bridge-themed about any of this music, but it's another reminder that our amazing music scene is as much a landmark as any particular physical object. Have a [...]
January's Best: Our favorite Bay Area songs from the blog last month
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 over a dozen new tracks that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in January, with links below to download each of them individually. Mixtape: Best of the Blog January 2012 Tracklisting: 1. Surf Club - "Lonely Days" 2. Terry Malts - "Nauseous" 3. SorryEverAfter - "Honey Girl" 4. Future Twin - "Yuka" 5. Magic Bullets - "What Took You So Long?" 6. Young Prisms - "Floating in Blue" 7. James & Evander - "Unthinkable" 8. Donovan Quinn [...]
2011-in-Review Mixtape: A Great Year for Bay Area Electronic Pop (Podcast #264)
Until the end of the year, we'll be launching a series of mixtapes capturing a whole bunch of the great Bay Area releases from the past year. We're kicking it off with this look at electronic pop. As we first observed a little over a year ago, the Bay Area is a fertile place for musicians exploring the wide world of electronic pop. From bands like Exray's, Mwahaha, Melted Toys, and Phantom Kicks, to one-man projects like Speculator, Parentz (a reader informs us Parentz is now a two-person group), Tycho, and Swiftumz, synths played a big role in the sounds [...]
Taking Stock of September: A mix featuring eighteen 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 eighteen (!) new tracks that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in September, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog September 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. Thee Oh Sees - "Carrion Crawler" 2. Burnt Ones - "Do the Spell" 3. The [...]
Taking Stock of August: A mix featuring ten 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 ten new tracks that were posted on TheBayBridged.com in August, with links below to download each of them individually. The Bay Bridged - Best of the Blog August 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. Ganglians - "Drop the Act" 2. Weekend - "Hazel" 3. tUnE-yArDs - "Gangsta (Ad-Rock remix)" 4. [...]
Taking Stock of June: A mix featuring thirteen of our favorite new songs
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 web site. Here are thirteen of our favorites, all from Bay Area bands, found on TheBayBridged.com in June. Best of Blog June 2011 Mix by TheBayBridged Download link: Best of the Blog June 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. Dominant Legs - "Laughing the Whole Time" 2. Vetiver - "Can't You Tell" 3. Lilac - "Cathedral" [...]
Taking Stock of May: Download twelve of our favorite new songs in this 30-minute mix
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. Going forward, we'll be creating special month-in-review mixes every thirty days to collect some our favorite new (or new to us) songs recently posted on the web site. Here are twelve of our favorites, all from Bay Area bands, found on TheBayBridged.com in May. Best of Blog May 2011 Mix by TheBayBridged Download link: Best of the Blog May 2011 Mixtape Tracklisting: 1. Kids On A Crime Spree - "Sweet Tooth" 2. Nodzzz [...]
Mixtape: SF Bay Area Music in 2010 – 50+ songs from this year’s local albums
Download Mixtape 1 | Download Mixtape 2 Download Mixtape 3 | Download Mixtape 4 We'll be doing plenty of "Best of 2010" retrospectives over the next few weeks, but it seems appropriate to kick off our look back at the past year with a more comprehensive survey of San Francisco Bay Area indie music in 2010. It's always something of a struggle for us to understand how the Bay Area music scene is viewed by rest of the indie music world. From our vantage point, for every The Dodos, Girls or, most recently, The Morning Benders -- all great bands [...]
Download our Noise Pop 2010 Mix Tape!
Looking for more tunes to get you ready for Noise Pop 2010? Here's a Noise Pop 2010 Mix Tape, featuring songs from 16 great bands playing this year's festival. Download our Noise Pop 2010 Mix Tape! Tracklisting: 1. Free Energy - "Hope Child" 2. Grass Widow - "To Where" 3. Maus Haus - "Winter" 4. Best Coast - "When I'm With You" 5. Sonny and the Sunsets - "Too Young To Burn" 6. Nurses - "Caterpillar Playground" 7. Weekend - "Youth Haunts" 8. Harlem - "Friendly Ghost" 9. Citay - "Mirror Kisses" 10. The Splinters - "Mysterious" 11. Tape Deck [...]
Exclusive: Tempo No Tempo’s Waking Heat mixtape
Tempo No Tempo - "Kilometer" Following two acclaimed EPs, Waking Heat is the first full length album from SF's Tempo No Tempo. The album is the group's first release as a trio, and it introduces a sound that's simultaneously funkier and noisier than before. Tempo No Tempo celebrates Waking Heat's release this Thursday at the Rickshaw Stop, where they'll be joined by Maus Haus and Man/Miracle. To give you a little more insight into the inspiration behind the band's new album, TNT made this exclusive mixtape for The Bay Bridged, featuring some of their favorite songs. The band [...]