Live This Month: September 2016 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_September_2016.mp3 Download: Live This Month: September 2016 (Podcast #391) Support for this podcast is provided by Goldstar. Visit their web site at goldstar.com/thebaybridged 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. We always include a healthy amount of new and emerging bands in these episodes, but this month's mix also includes a handful of reunions. While the founders of P.S. Eliot, Katie and Allison Crutchfield, are now occupied with Waxahatchee and Swearin', the sisters have reunited their early band for a series of [...]
The Bay Abridged: Aug 3 – 16
(illustration: Cassidy Miller) In this recurring feature known as The Bay Abridged, our staff writers provide short, witty recaps on shows they attended around the Bay Area. A scene check, a heat check, and sometimes more — stop by every other Wednesday for the most comprehensive and concise recap of the Bay Area concert scene. Bryan Ferry, LP at The Masonic (SF) Aug. 9. Bryan Ferry and his ensemble came out like a steamroller. They leapt into a set that included deep cuts from the Roxy Music archive, dug into his extended solo career, and threw in several covers of [...]
Mixtape: Top Notch San Francisco Bay Area Indie Pop
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Indie_Pop_2015_Mixtape.mp3 Download: Mixtape: Top Notch San Francisco Bay Area Indie Pop (Podcast #375) Indie pop music -- a wide-ranging label used to describe everything from jangling rock-pop to dreamy synth-pop -- has been one of the Bay Area's successful musical exports in recent years. Groups like Geographer and Painted Palms are just some of the latest in a long line of acclaimed local indie pop bands to break out nationally, joining Rogue Wave, The Dodos, Papercuts, Film School, The Aislers Set and many, many more. Lest one be concerned for the future of local indie pop, this mixtape shows that [...]
Listen to this ‘Night of the Living Shreds’ mixtape before Friday’s Bay Bridged Halloween show
Flier by Karli A. Helm As the list of Halloween weekend events grows bigger and bigger, so does our excitement about our very own Halloween show that we're putting on with Wave Dweller! Part covers show, part spooky vibes, part local band appreciation night, "Night of the Living Shreds" is guaranteed to be a concert to remember. To ring in Halloween week, we asked Wave Dweller and the bands on the bill to pick their favorite songs from this holiday season. Here's what they chose... Wave Dweller: "Wolf at the Door" - Radiohead This song has a real eerie sway about it. [...]
Wave Dweller & The Bay Bridged present ‘Night of the Living Shreds’
October is for ghouls and ghosts — especially in a place as weird as the San Francisco Bay Area. But in the midst of all that, there's a plethora of themed Halloween shows and haunted parties. We're happy to announce The Bay Bridged will be adding to this extensive calendar of awesome events by partnering with Wave Dweller — a local promotion company and record label — to bring you "Night of the Living Shreds" on Fri, Oct 30 featuring O, French Cassettes, Everyone is Dirty and Summer Peaks. In addition to the lineup of great local bands, each group playing the night will [...]
Photos: Astronauts, etc. and O at the Rickshaw Stop
Astronauts, etc. (photo: Brittany O'Brien) Oakland band Astronauts, etc. played a sold-out show at the Rickshaw Stop on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. The band is fronted by Anthony Ferraro, the keyboardist for Toro y Moi, and was joined by O, formerly known as Black Cobra Vipers. Brittany O'Brien was there to capture some shots from the night's events.
O, Annie Girl and The Flight, and Balms at Rickshaw Stop
With their eyes on the pulse of local music, Our House emerged in late 2014 with a goal of supporting and affirming the Bay Area art community. The group comes wheeling into 2015 with a show at the Rickshaw Stop on Thursday night featuring the newly rebranded O (formerly Black Cobra Vipers), Annie Girl and The Flight, and Balms. We’re not just seeing some strong local rock bands on this bill - Our House says “this show will set the tone for not only this year but for our collective as a whole.” Made up of Annie Lipetz of Annie [...]
Taxes releasing ‘It Never Ends’, play shows at Slim’s and Bottom of the Hill (UPDATE: stream the whole album via Bandcamp)
It's pretty clear from the opening lines of Taxes’ press bio that frontman Robby Cronholm isn't interested in letting anything distract from the music – especially not something like, well, a bio. Hey, at least he's honest and has a wicked sense of humor to boot: Some bios are ironic and filled with lies. This one is not. Robby Cronholm has tried and, for the most part, loved the following forms of therapy: Hypnotherapy. Equine therapy. EST. Release technique. Aqua therapy. Raiki. Kundalini. Past-Life Regression. Sand Box Therapy. Art Therapy. Transcendental Meditation. Jungian. Freudian. Psychoanalytical. Acupuncture. Singing Bowls. Etc. And [...]