Mixtape: The Adventurous Sounds of San Francisco Bay Area Post-Rock
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Post_Rock_2016_Mixtape.mp3 Download: Mixtape: The Adventurous Sounds of Bay Area Post-Rock (Podcast #392) Support for this podcast is provided by Goldstar. Visit their web site at goldstar.com/thebaybridged The post first ran on KQED.org. Despite the festival-headlining status of Explosions in the Sky, the resurgent Godspeed! You Black Emperor, and the lengthy careers of bands like Mogwai, it often feels like post-rock doesn't get its due. Perhaps it's the genre's terrible name, although is it any worse than "shoegaze"? Or maybe it's a perception that mostly-instrumental, composition-focused rock music sounds more like a novelty than fertile terrain for bands to explore. As [...]
Ticket Giveaway: Solip, To The Wedding, April, Nude Photo at Thee Parkside
If you're interested in checking out some new sounds, two Bay Area artists are debuting live sets at Thee Parkside next week. On December 18, emerging projects Nude Photo and April will provide support for Solip and To The Wedding. Read on for a chance to win tickets to the show. Nude Photo is a new project from Sky Madden of Chasms and Olivia Lee of There's Talk. Nude Photo's debut EP was produced by To The Wedding's Lauren Grubb in Diamond Mountain, Calistoga. Grubb also mixed the forthcoming Chasms LP due in 2016. Nude Photo sets itself apart from [...]