What’s Happening This Week? A Guide To Shows Around The Bay, Dec 19 – Dec 22
This week catch live performances of A Charlie Brown Christmas with music provided by the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall. Monday, December 19 Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker @ The Warfield Opening for this holiday heavy-hitter will be 20+ Musical Wunderkind violinist and cellist prodigies, young "pre-professionals," accompanying the principal ballerina in Saint-Saëns’ classic “Dying Swan.” Dimond Saints, Gladkill @ The New Parish Wormhole's sensory explosion show series of Burner-esque tendencies will be donating all proceeds towards victims of the Ghost Ship fire and their families. Tuesday, December 20 Nyre @ El Rio Our most recently featured local [...]
Mixtape: Songs to accompany your Woodyspotting
Lauded director Woody Allen and his film crew descended upon San Francisco recently to begin work on an upcoming movie, giving rise to the sport of Woodyspotting. Here's how it works: San Francisco residents take to Twitter to report on Woody's latest filming location. Simple, right? As a tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker, we've compiled a collection of songs inspired by his often oddball, but nonetheless illustrious, film career. (Note: you’ll have to be logged in to Spotify to enjoy it) 1. Bhi Bhiman, "Equal In My Tea": From SF troubadour Bhi Bhiman comes a pitch-perfect example of how Allen's [...]
Review & Photos: Temescal Street Cinema returns with Will Sprott! PLUS Guantanamo Baywatch, Chuckleberries and Courtney & the Crushers at the White Horse AND the art of Max Nordile 6/14/12
Portland's Guantanamo Baywatch closed out a perfectly orchestrated Thursday evening in Berkeley. It all began at 8pm, opening night of Temescal Street Cinema, where Will Sprott played a soulful set to a crowd of unprepared film buffs. The set woulda sounded just right in a smoky little night club circa 1959, but it sounded pretty damn good on Telegraph Ave. Although Will's band The Mumlers are awful quiet lately, Will is playin' around town fairly regularly. He will be in SF on June 21st for BAMM TV. It's free but you should RSVP here. August 20th he plays the Redwood [...]
Two Gallants announce two Independent shows on September tour
To those who watched tickets for Two Gallants' shows at Bottom of the Hill last spring sell out like they were Sigur Rós concerts, don't be bummed. The duo announced two new shows at The Independent, September 23-24 (tickets on sale now) as part of a North American tour. Neither San Francisco show is sold out yet, and while the entire tour includes The Mumlers, the September 24 show does not currently have a supporting act listed. We'll publish details for the San Francisco shows as they come, and full tour dates are after the jump. Sept. 2011 US TOUR: [...]
Saturday at the Rickshaw: benefit for mother of Big Eagle singer, with Bart Davenport, Sic Alps, The Mumlers
Ticket sales for Saturday's show at the Rickshaw with Bart Davenport, Sic Alps, The Mumlers, The Moore Brothers and Big Eagle go to a very worthy cause: Big Eagle's singer Robyn Miller's mother is fighting ovarian cancer. In addition to the show, a blog has been set up for a silent auction; find out more details about how to donate to the event after the jump. Bart Davenport - "Jon Jon" Sic Alps - "L. Mansion" A letter from Robyn Miller: Dear Friends, My mother has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer which has spread to her stomach. In order to [...]
Live this week: Bay Area Shows 10/12-17
Tuesday, October 12: El Ten Eleven, Baths, Sister Crayon @ Bottom of the Hill Wednesday, October 13: Shadow Shadow Shade, AM Magic, Upstairs Downstairs @ Red Devil Lounge Shuteye Unison, Carcrashlander, Silian Rail @ Rickshaw Stop Jane Lui, Goh Nakamura, Melissa Polinar @ Cafe du Nord Thursday, October 14: The Acorn, Leif Vollebek, Angel Island @ Cafe du Nord Crayon Fields, Magic Bullets, The Old Fashioned Way @ Rickshaw Stop Chikita Violenta, Leopold and His Fiction, Echo Twin @ Bottom of the Hill Dan Black, Butterfly Bones, DJ Morale @ The Independent Friday, October 15: Kelley Stoltz, The Fresh & [...]
Interview: The Mumlers ready to open up Treasure Island Music Festival Day 2
In the spirit of the upcoming Treasure Island Music Festival October 16-17, The Bay Bridged had a chat with Will Sprott, frontman of The Mumlers. The San Jose-based band is one of the festival's handful of local acts, and will open the festival Sunday. Stay tuned for more interviews from this year's artists leading up to the festival. TBB: The Mumlers seem like a group of guys who go way back. Tell me how you know each other, how you got together. Did you all develop you musical tastes together, or did you play horns and listen to jazz and [...]
Photos & Recap: Left Coast Live, San Jose, 6/26/10
Thanks to Anna for pointing out this little known festival in San Jose! The crowd was really small but San Jose's The Mumlers wowed 'em with a sweet Memphis soul sound. What is Yo La Tengo doing here? Excellent versions of "Autumn Sweater" and part of "Little Eyes". Darondo killed it with a Screamin' Jay Hawkins meets Al Green smash. Don't miss him at Stern Grove on August 15th. Gimme some Legs! 83 year-old Big Jay McNeely showed 'em all up, struttin' around like a teenager. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy closed the night with his signature strangeness.
Left Coast Live 2010, June 21-26
The City of San Jose - not necessarily known as a quintessential destination for live music in the Bay Area - now boasts another year of Left Coast Live, a music festival and conference in the southern branch of the Bay. For 2010, the festival has managed to snag the likes of OK Go and Yo La Tengo as headliners, among a variety of other artists (over 100 bands in total): Left Coast Live (LCL) is a week-long music experience that showcases more than 100 national, regional and local live acts playing in 20 venues in downtown San Jose from [...]
Live this week: Bay Area shows 6/15-20
This week in the Bay Area: Tuesday, June 15 Foreign Cinema, Sunbeam Rd., Slowness @ Hemlock Wednesday, June 16 WomenROCK! with Bernadette, Stripmall Architecture, Conspiracy Of Venus, ZIVA, Burlesque performance by The Cheesepuffs @ The Independent Jay Brannan, Terra Naomi, Jhameel @ Bottom of the Hill Genius and the Thieves, Victory and Associates, Hi-Nobles @ el Rio Thursday, June 17 Jeremy Jay, My First Earthquake, The Downer Party, The Attachments @ Rickshaw Stop Friday, June 18 Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express, Stephanie Finch & the Company Men @ Great American LSD & The Search For God, The Meek, Fuxa, [...]