TIMF Preview: Skylar Spence’s future funk kicks off Saturday
Ryan DeRobertis is a name you should already be familiar with — having been subject to a wide array of acclaim in the past few years, whether it's being named one of Stereogum’s “Bands to Watch” in the summer of 2013, or the word of mouth that made any of his vast backlog of previous releases so buzzworthy. He sparked a new fire in an already well-worn pop song with his sauntering reinterpretation of Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe,” a savvy move that brought a number of new listeners deep into his realm of vaporwave. A flashy-twist on Drake’s [...]
Live This Month: October 2015 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_October_2015.mp3 Download: Live This Month: October 2015 (Podcast #372) 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. Summer may be over, but music festival season hasn't ended yet, with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend and the Treasure Island Music Festival later this month. We've included a couple of Treasure Island tracks in this mix, but both festivals offer countless potential highlights, including Hardly Strictly's all-star performance of Big Star's Third in its entirety, and the debut of Big Grams (the new project of [...]