First City Festival announces 2014 lineup featuring Beck and The National
As we told you a little while ago, the second iteration of the First City Festival will take place August 23 and 24 at the Monterey County Fair and Event Center. Now the folks behind NorCal's newest summer music fest have announced this year's lineup, and it's nothing short of spectacular, featuring indie legends Beck and The National as headliners, along with the likes of Best Coast, Dawes, Tokyo Police Club, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Speedy Ortiz, as well as local faves Geographer, Sleepy Sun, The Family Crest, Doe Eye, Cool Ghouls, and Survival Guide. In addition to performers on [...]
Live This Month: February 2014 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #327)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_February_2014.mp3 Download: Live This Month: February 2014 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #327) 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. If it's February, that means that it's Noise Pop season, and Noise Pop 2014 will be taking over Bay Area venues from February 25 to March 2. We'll be doing a ton of Noise Pop coverage on the site over the coming weeks and during the festival, but we've highlighted a few Noise Pop performers in this [...]
Interview: Quilt discuss their first trip out west, co-headline The Rickshaw tomorrow 7/17/12 with Young Magic
QUILT by Quilt Boston rock trio Quilt just completed the classic Cannonball Run adventure across North America every band does for the first time: crunched together in a van, joking around, and documenting those silly, ironic run-ins that occur only when you blast 3,000 miles to the other side of the continent. The end result is the band's first ever West Coast tour, including a gig here tomorrow, 6/17/12 at The Rickshaw Stop with Young Magic (RSVP). The band - comprised of Shane Butler, Anna Fox Rochinski, and John Andrews - made an immediate splash after releasing their self-titled debut [...]