Mixtape: New Music from Longtime Bay Area Artists
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Veteran_Artists_Mixtape.mp3 Download: Mixtape: New Music from Longtime Bay Area Artists (Podcast #413) Between streaming music services and social media, it feels easier than ever to find and consume an endless supply of new bands. But all of that access can also make it more challenging to find the time to keep up with previous favorites. There are plenty of good reasons to get excited about young bands, debut albums, and the prospect of discovering emerging artists, but there's also something uniquely rewarding to watching a great musician's career evolve over time. This mixtape collects new and recent music from twelve [...]
What’s Happening This Weekend? A Guide To Shows Around The Bay, Dec 9 – Dec 11
Seek cathartic communion at Deep Pools' album release show at Noe Valley Ministry Friday Night. Friday, December 9 Sløtface, Quaaludes, Try The Pie @ Rickshaw Stop - Ghost Ship Benefit Show Sløtface had to change their original band name of Slutface due to social media censorship. All three bands at Rickshaw tonight will be out to, as our writer Tim Draut has so aptly put it, "smash the patriarchy." Hot Flash Heat Wave, The Tambo Rays, The Easies @ Amnesia - Ghost Ship Benefit Show Brother-sister duo The Tambo Rays are back after the sister portion of the group, Sara DaMert, took [...]
Flashback: Revisit our East Bay-only mixtape from 2011
Reflecting is always a worthwhile exercise, especially when it comes to music scenes and bands. So join us today and listen to a mixtape from The Bay Bridged that went live four years ago featuring only East Bay acts. The track listing is an awesome mix of still-active and retired groups — all of whom will provide some ear-candy for those of us feeling a little nostalgic today. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/East_Bay_Only_Mixtape.mp3 Here's the text from the 2011 post: This podcast episode is part mixtape and part mea culpa. Even though our name is The Bay Bridged, we periodically get people calling us [...]
#TBT: Watch Aesop Rock and Religious Girls perform at Phono del Sol in 2011
In honor of #TBT, we're throwing it all way the back to 2011 when Phono del Sol was a brand new festival with six bands on the bill: Aesop Rock Mirah Man/Miracle Magik*Magik Orchestra Religious Girls Appetite While the festival has grown significantly over the last five years — we're now looking at 10 food trucks instead of one, 11 bands instead of six, and two beer gardens versus zero — we think the videos below capture the original D.I.Y. energy and focus that led to the creation of Phono del Sol in 2011 as the brainchild of The Bay Bridged [...]
Religious Girls to headline Great American Music Hall
Religious Girls is a three piece experimental indie band from Oakland, California. Their sound is hard, melodic, and a motley blend of different textures, and styles. The trio's most recent release, I Want To Believe, infuses electronic elements such as keyboards and synths, a hard, intense rhythmic section, and screaming vocals into a cacophony of addicting sound. Each song on the album spans about five minutes, and contains euphoric peaks and declines. Using a combination of electronic indie and math rock, Religious Girls curate a sound that is mesmerizing. Vocals are replaced by screams, chants, and melodic hums, and each element comes together [...]
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304)
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304) All too frequently, remixes are just okay, but when they are great, they're really something special. A truly great remix can shed new light on the original artist's work and stand on its own as a unique creation. That's no easy feat, either, given the tension between staying true to an original song's components and a reworker's desire to create something new and personal. These days, it feels far too easy to get remix fatigue. Reworkings seem to pop up almost immediately after original songs are released, and they can come [...]
Ticket Giveaway: Religious Girls and Pale Blue Dot at Salty Artist Management's Saturday Night Soirée at the Noise Pop-Up Shop, 2/23/13
Salty Artist Management is presenting a special "Saturday Night Soirée" on February 23 at the Noise Pop-Up Shop, featuring live performances from rising Bay Area synth-pop bands Religious Girls and Pale Blue Dot, as well as DJ sets from YR Skull and the two lads behind the nascent management team, Chris & Chad Salty (née Chris Crowley and Chad Heimann). Opening the show will be the brand new East Bay electronic space act Pale Blue Dot who recently shared the stage with El Ten Eleven and White Arrows. The group is comprised of members of The Aimless Never Miss and [...]
Religious Girls join 50 bands for FMLY FEST LA this weekend
The fifth annual FMLY FEST LA is right around the corner, taking place December 29th and 30th down in the City of Angels. NorCal acts Religious Girls, Pregnant, and Diesel Dudes are on the bill, along with over 50 other L.A. and national artists. If you haven't heard of the collaborative arts festival, don't worry. This D.I.Y., or D.I.T. (do-it-together) event is meant to foster the growth of communities, as opposed to advertising and self-promotion. FMLY FEST LA takes place on Saturday and Sunday in the arts district of downtown Los Angeles. The two main venues will be The LA [...]
Under the Central Freeway: Kelley Stoltz, Religious Girls top locals-filled festival this Sunday, 9/30/12
On Sunday, September 30th, you should strongly consider heading to the day-long Under the Central Freeway festival at Public Works. Hosted and produced by Penny Arcade's Raul Sanchez, it's an affair packed with locals familiar around these parts, including Kelley Stoltz, Religious Girls, Sweet Chariot, Will Sprott, The Wrong Words, Shalants, and Super Natural, as well as a gaggle of DJs in Public Works' loft. I WANT TO BELIEVE by Religious Girls Purchase advance tickets here.
Today only: Religious Girls offer their new album for free!
Not to panic anyone, but less than 13 hours remain to download Religious Girls' brand new full length for free on Bandcamp. On I Want to Believe, the Oakland trio's unfailing drive pushes their bursting-at-the-seams compositions to soaring, noisy, melodic, and mathy extremes. But enough reading -- time is running out, so grab this right now! I WANT TO BELIEVE by Religious Girls