Best of 2013: Sarah Sexton on Yassou Benedict
When I was invited to write about my fav band of 2013, my mind started doing back flips in alternating directions…yes, confusing I know…my point exactly. This year has been beyond jam-packed with talent with badass talent flooding the Bay in genres across the board. I have found musicians and bands this year that stirred genuine excitement in my soul that I hadn’t felt since my first portable CD player had Michael Jackson's Thriller on repeat for days on end. Seriously. So I sat on this idea for a full week weighing my options, and at long last I have [...]
Live This Month: November 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #318)
http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebaybridged/LTM_November_2013.mp3 Download: Live This Month: November 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #318) 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. For some reason, November's concert offerings include a ton of exciting reunions, returns and anniversaries. This mix includes new music from Medicine, the shoegaze vets who are now touring behind their first album in 18 years, post-punk luminaries Wire, whose Change Becomes Us finds the band fleshing out ideas first generated three decades ago, and The Sonics. [...]
Ticket Giveaway: Yassou Benedict EP release show at Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco by way of Hudson, New York quartet Yassou Benedict are releasing their debut EP In Fits In Starts on July 2, and they're celebrating this Saturday, June 22 at Bottom of the Hill with O Presidente and The Campbell Apartment. Wanna check it out? Be the first to email me mike.g@thebaybridged.com with "Yassou" in the subject line and your full name in the body and you'll win a pair of tickets to tomorrow night's show. The winner will be notified via email. Black Book Magazine just premeiered the video for In Fits In Starts single "Cloisters", which features [...]
Ticket Giveaway: Mother Mother, Birdmonster, Yassou Benedict @ Bottom of the Hill, 4/19/13
San Francisco indie rock stalwarts Birdmonster are joining Mother Mother and Yassou Benedict for a gig at Bottom of the Hill this Friday, April 19, and we've got a pair tickets for one lucky reader, courtesy of the band itself. To win a pair of tickets to see Birdmonster with Mother Mother and Yassou Benedict at Bottom of the Hill, email contest@thebaybridged.com with "Birdmonster" in the subject line and your full name and email address in the body of the email. Birdmonster, which continues to play a healthy diet of local gigs, steadily released a handful of tracks during 2012 [...]