Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: First Aid Kit, Check Yo Ponytail tour, and more
First Aid Kit (Photo: Johannes Helje) To enter for a chance to win tickets to any show below, email contest@thebaybridged.com with the name of the band and the date of the show you’re entering for in the subject line and your full name in the body of the email. Winners will be selected at random and notified via email. Thursday, November 13 Check Yo Ponytail Tour feat. Antwon, Chela, The Presets and more @ The Warfield 8pm, $30, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, November 13 Lights, Wild Party @ The Regency Ballroom 7pm, $20, all ages. Buy advance [...]
Giveaway: See The Presets perform at The Fox tonight!
Australian electronic band The Presets are currently on the home stretch of a US tour, and they'll be performing tonight at the Fox in Oakland. The band's latest single from last year's Pacifica is "Fall," which you can check out below. To win a pair of tickets to tonight's show, email contest[at]thebaybridged.com with the subject line "The Presets" and include your full name for a chance to win! Friday, May 24th The Presets, Dragonette, Jerome LOL The Fox 8pm, $32.50, all ages.
Treasure Island Interview: Australia's The Presets reemerge with first album in four years
Four years have lapsed since Australian electronic dance duo The Presets last released a record. In the time since 2008’s Apocalypso went three-times platinum in their native land, both drummer-keyboardist Kim Moyes and singer-keyboardist Julian Hamilton became fathers. Understandably, the two now have less time to work on music or even be active in the club scene that spawned the band. Moyes and Hamilton met in 1995 while studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The Presets were formed after the two realized they shared a darker edge of electronic music. Their third collection of songs, Pacifica, was released a [...]