Live This Month: April 2017 — an audio guide to upcoming Bay Area concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_April_2017.mp3 Download: Live This Month: April 2017 (Podcast #404) 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. Purely by coincidence, Big Sur bookends this month's mix, which kicks off with a wonderful new song from Earth Girl Helen Brown, who is taking part in a great festival to support the Big Sur Storm Relief Fund over at The Chapel this month. The mix concludes with Porcelain Raft's “Big Sur,” a song from his new album Microclimate, a title that will surely have special [...]
Porcelain Raft tests new album on the road with UK’s Wild Beats, play The Indy on Sunday
One of the best things about the music scene in San Francisco is whether or not locals think the scene is dead, the city (and the Bay Area in general) is cemented as a top destination for worldwide acts. For Porcelain Raft and UK indie rock phenoms Wild Beasts, it is a must hit on their brief, 10-date North American tour. Three California shows kick the tour off, with the finale taking the two acts to The Independent on Sunday, November 6. Porcelain Raft is the current stage name of Italian artist Mauro Remiddi. Remiddi cut his teeth in music early in [...]
Live This Month: July 2015 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_July_2015.mp3 Download: Live This Month: July 2015 (Podcast #366) 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. While the returns of Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall to SF this month are certainly cause for excitement, one former local we're especially psyched to see is Tamaryn, previewing songs from next month's Cranekiss over at the Rickshaw Stop. While the artist's first two LPs found her voice floating amidst atmospheric waves of guitar, her new album incorporates elements of dance-pop as well, and finds [...]
Review: Porcelain Raft, The Tambo Rays @ Bottom of the Hill, 9/23/13
I once read Porcelain Raft's lead singer Mauro Remiddi described as an "indie pop old soul," but last night at Bottom of the Hill I had completely forgotten. I knew Porcelain Raft as a bedroom pop-project and that's about it. So you can imagine my surprise when Remiddi stepped onto the stage, a confident mid-30s man with a two-piece backing band joining him. The rest of the evening was spent learning a lot more about Remiddi and his band, Porcelain Raft. For starters, the band's latest album Permanent Signal practically smothers itself with Beach House vibes, but, in the flesh, Remiddi's [...]
Live This Month: September 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #314)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_September_2013.mp3 Download: Live This Month: September 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #314) 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. This month's episode is stacked with album release shows for Bay Area bands, with Bay Bridged favorites like Terry Malts and Kelley Stoltz introducing new albums we're really excited about. We're also proud to be presenting a series of September concerts celebrating the release of These Strange Days, a brand new compilation of local bands curated by [...]
Porcelain Raft preps 'Permanent Signal,' upcoming show at Bottom of the Hill
Electronic pop artist Porcelain Raft is back and moving out of his comfort zone. The solo project of Brooklyn's Mauro Remiddi, Porcelain Raft's first album, 2011's Strange Weekend, was a buzzed-about landscape of dreamy-pop and loops in bubbling form. His new release, Permanent Signal, experiments with the unusual: slightly jagged, slightly off. However, the pop sounds of Strange Weekend are still prevalent on Permanent Signal, out August 20th. Remiddi's desire to experiment out of the hazy-vocals-dream-pop bubble is done right -- just enough new elements still mixed with the vibe he previously perfected. "The Way Out", for example, shows that [...]