Review + Photos: serpentwithfeet at Swedish American Hall
serpentwithfeet (photo: Jon Bauer) "I wanna get messy with y'all," serpentwithfeet said to the sold-out crowd at Swedish American Hall on Sunday. And though the show was messy, in the colloquial sense, it was also the breeziest I've been to in recent memory —rather than bagging down his performance, serpentwithfeet's emotionality rendered his set more intimate, warm, and easy. Throughout it — as serpentwithfeet chatted, read poems, and floated around the stage — the hall filled with genuine affection, both from the artist and the crowd. This glow was reflected, too, in the decor of the venue itself: instead of the usual [...]
What’s Happening This Weekend? A Guide To Shows Around The Bay, Jul 13 -15
Friday, July 13 Jill Tracy Sonic Seance @ San Francisco Botanical Garden It's Friday the 13th — time for SF's Queen of Eerieness to make her appearance at the Botanical Garden for a slightly spooky, mostly soothing night of piano music in the Redwood Grove. Bayonics, Sol Horizon @ Elbo Room Dance away the work week with these two solid Bay Area bands. Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries @ El Rio The body-positive mental health advocates and all-around good folks Fatty Cakes are ready to rock the shit out of El Rio. Saturday, July 14 The Mattson 2, Magik*Magik [...]
Live This Month: June 2018 — an audio guide to upcoming Bay Area concerts
Download: Live This Month: June 2018 (Podcast #430) 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. Plenty of excellent new local tunes populate this mix, including songs from recent and upcoming releases by Le VICE, Pllush, Locus Pocus, Bézier, and FAN. We've also got a new one from Wooden Shjips' latest album, which finds the born-in-SF psych band exploring more concise, melodic song structures, as well as a tune from the exciting new Oakland project Still Woozy. On the touring front, standouts in [...]
Live This Month: July 2017 — an audio guide to upcoming Bay Area concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_July_2017.mp3 Download: Live This Month: July 2017 (Podcast #410) 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 mix features unpredictable Philly art-rock band Palm, the genre-mashing punk-meets-electronic music of Algiers, and Vinyl Williams' psych-pop. This podcast also highlights the returns of veteran indie rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars and noise project Pharmakon, whose latest albums are being heralded as career highlights. We've also got new music from a slew of great local bands, including Flesh World, whose new album arrives in September, [...]