Photons (Podcast #209)
[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Photons_Show.mp3[/podcast] This week's podcast features San Francisco band Photons, a seven-person group who first caught our ears with their self-titled debut EP of Brit-influenced chamber pop. The band began as a new project for drummer Calvin Liu, who found kinship with a talented group of multi-instrumentalists and, perhaps improbably, former metal singer James Parrish. The Glory! EP followed Photons in 2009, further showcasing the band's knack for rich, crazy-catchy orchestral pop, and built anticipation for their first full length record. And now here's the bad news. Just as we're featuring the band on the podcast comes news that the group [...]
Live This Month: August 2009 (Podcast #175)
[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/August_2009_LTM.mp3[/podcast] Every month, we dedicate the first week's podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've got a dozen great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music! Subscribe to The Bay Bridged's podcast to get each week's new episode downloaded free to your iTunes! About the bands: Tender Forever ("Heartbroken Forever") will be performing at the 2009 Homo A Go Go Festival, which is taking place in San Francisco for the first time this month. They'll be playing at SOMArts [...]
Live This Month: May 2009 (Podcast #162)
[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_May_2009.mp3[/podcast] Subscribe to the The Bay Bridged weekly podcast to get each new episode downloaded free to your iTunes the moment it's published! Every month, we dedicate a week of our podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've got a dozen great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music! About the bands: Minneapolis' Greycoats ("Goodbye, Sweet Youth, Goodbye") have a West Coast trip this month that includes a date with their former tourmates Loquat, during Loquat's residency at Cafe [...]
Episode 137: October 2008 Monthly Mix
[podcast]http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/October_2008_Mix.mp3[/podcast] It's time once again for a Monthly Mix episode of our weekly podcast. These eight songs are all from new or recently released albums by some great Bay Area bands. About all of the bands: San Francisco indie-pop band Photons ("Animals") recently released an excellent self-titled debut album. They will be at the Retox Lounge on October 23rd and the Make-Out Room on November 16th. Singer-songwriter Goh Nakamura ("Hangman") latest winning collection of rock-pop is titled Ulysses. You can hear more here and can catch him at the Rickshaw Stop on November 5th with Audio Out Send and Evening [...]
CD Releases Friday: The New Trust and Photons
There are interesting CD release parties on both sides of the Bay this Friday night. Over in Berkeley, The New Trust (Feature Podcast) celebrate the release of their third album Get Vulnerable at 924 Gilman. The trio's heavy melodic rock draws from the intensity of 90s indie/emo to create compact anthem-bombs that fit well with Josh Staples' politically-minded narratives. The show starts at 8pm and also features Build Us Airplanes, Cannons And Clouds, Spires and The Americas. The New Trust - "Holy Wars" Friday's also the CD release party for the debut EP from San Francisco's Photons. The [...]