Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Woodsist Fest, Oh Pep! and more
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 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, July 21 On An On, Sego, Yours @ Rickshaw Stop 8pm, $14, all ages. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, July 21 Laura Gibson, Mark Eitzel, M. The Heir Apparent @ Bottom of the Hill 9pm, $12, 21+. Buy advance tickets here. Thursday, July 21 Everyone is Dirty, [...]
Woodsist Festival announces full lineup
Woodsist Festival in Big Sur seems like the counterpoint to festival culture and its funhouse associations: it’s not necessarily big, there’s not so much a headliner as there is a curatorial band (Woods), the dozen or so performers orbit a handful of interconnected genres, and there’s no Ferris wheel. Returning for its seventh year, Woodsist Festival is produced by (((folkYEAH!))) and Woods. I'm not sure if festivals are necessarily about anything, but Woodsist seems like it's about Big Sur. Instead of drawing attendees to a transformed enclosing[1], the festival rests modestly within what seems like the main event: the woods. It’s a profound distinction: When it comes to [...]
Woodsist Fest announces 2015 lineup featuring Real Estate, Woods, White Fence, and more
Woodsist Fest is back! The Big Sur festival is returning with a one day event on May 18, 2015 in a brand new location: the Loma Vista Gardens. Presented by (((folkYEAH!))), the sixth annual event features a stellar lineup of acts, including Real Estate, Woods, White Fence, Little Wings and more. Last year, Real Estate released the stellar album Atlas, widely regarded as one of the best of the year via Domino, so this year's fest should feature some incredible music in a gorgeous setting. Tickets are on sale now here at their website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTxGOyqKe30
Mixtape: What You Need to Know About SF’s Summer Music Festivals
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/Summer_Festivals_Mix.mp3 Download: Mixtape: What You Need to Know About SF's Summer Music Festivals (Podcast #338) Subscribe to The Bay Bridged Podcast! Text by Zack Frederick In 2014, there’s been more controversy about the gentrification of San Francisco than any other city in America. Similarly, anyone who looks beyond the success of well-known Bay Area festivals like Outside Lands will find an emotional debate about the city’s ability to foster a healthy, independent music scene rumbling just below the surface. And yet, mid-to-small sized, do-it-yourself festivals continue to flourish in SF and the larger Bay Area. While mega-festivals enjoy lucrative corporate [...]
2014 Woodsist Fest announces lineup
Woodsist Fest has announced this year's Big Sur festival dates and lineup, with tickets going on sale this week. The two-day festival welcomes Woods, Angel Olsen, White Fence, Skygreen Leopards, and Kevin Morby on Tuesday, August 5. Real Estate, Foxygen, Little Wings, Steve Gunn, and Meg Baird will perform on Wednesday, August 6. As usual, the fest will take place at the awesome Henry Miller Memorial Library located in the scenic woods of Big Sur. This is Woodsist's fifth year in Big Sur, and fans of psych, rock, and folk music who have never made the trip are missing out [...]
Highlights from the 2013 Woodsist Festival, 9/22-9/23/13
Alex Bleeker & the Freaks This past weekend, a couple hundred devoted fans of Woodsist Records snaked up and down Highway 1 and spent two days at the Woodsist Festival in Big Sur. The lineup included the likes of White Fence, Woods, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, and Real Estate--generally former and current labelmates on Woodsist. The annual festival, which just wrapped up its third outing, is a relaxed environment unheard of at most music festivals. It's like your friends are playing shows in your backyard: there are blankets on the grass, everyone brings their own food and band members [...]
Woodsist Festival 2013 announces lineup: Real Estate, White Fence, Fresh & Onlys and more
The Woodsist Festival has been an annual highlight for a few years now, and the fest's 2013 lineup -- just announced this morning -- is another winner. This year, Woodsist is spreading out over two weekends, with a two-day festival returning to the wonderful Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and a single day event at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown (which MBL recently visited and raved about). Full lineups for both events are below. Tickets are on sale soon through FolkYeah, with Big Sur tix available Friday at noon and Pioneertown tix available May 7 at noon. If previous [...]
Woods – "Cali in a Cup"
Brooklyn-based Woods has a new album, which is their seventh (!), coming out on September 18, 2012. Bend Beyond will be released on their own Woodsist label, and the band will of course be making an appearance at the Woodsist Festival at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur this August (along with Real Estate, The Fresh and Onlys, Thee Oh Sees, and more). To whet your appetite for all of the above, Woods has released a new track off the upcoming album. Called "Cali in a Cup," the song opens with a swath of rich harmonica and a [...]
2012 Woodsist Fest tickets go on sale at noon today: Woods, Real Estate, Thee Oh Sees and more!
Tickets for the 2012 Woodsist Fest go on sale today at noon, and if you've ever wanted to see awesome music in a beautiful natural setting, you should snap up passes before they quickly disappear. The festival takes place on August 4th and 5th at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and it features ten awesome bands, including Woods, White Fence, Real Estate, Thee Oh Sees, The Fresh & Onlys, and more. Check out our recap of last year's festival if you're on the fence, then grab tix at noon via FolkYeah.com. Here's the full two-day lineup: Saturday, August [...]
Photos & Recap: 2011 Woodsist Fest in Big Sur, 7/30-7/31/11
Photos by Nicole Browner and Ben Van Houten Last weekend in Big Sur, Woodsist Records and (((folkYEAH!))) teamed up to present the sublimely wonderful 2011 Woodsist Fest. These photos showcase most of the many bands that played at the Fernwood Resort and Henry Miller Library, but they just can't come close to capturing the natural beauty of Big Sur that enveloped the weekend. Musically, the highlights were many. The new Real Estate songs have me really excited about the new record. The Fresh and Onlys and Woods should figure out some way to tour in their "Big Band" configuration. Also, [...]