Tartufi have been hard at work on new recordings — a tour EP and a full length, to be exact — which has made them eager to give away songs from their terrific 2009 album, Nests of Waves and Wire. Once a month, they’ll be giving away one track from the album, beginning with [...]
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The second annual SFxSD festival is underway this Saturday — the back-and-forth show exchange between San Francisco and San Diego indie music scenes — this time taking over El Rio’s back room and porch (3pm-2am, $7). The two-part show begins with an afternoon BBQ, the moves to the back room until 2am.3pm-8pmButterfly BonesLong Live Logos [...]
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A benefit for Petaluma’s downtown music hall and teen center the Phoenix Theater will be held tomorrow (5:30pm, $10-12), with all proceeds to fund the venue. The lineup includes bands of the Bay Area punk and hardcore variety: Sabertooth Zombie, Alcatraz, All Teeth, Duckhunt (a one-night reunion), Murder Practice (last show), Hear the Sirens, Litany [...]
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This month Chasing the Moon featured singer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Taylor. A northern California native, Steve has been living in Oakland for the past several years and has recently been popping up at all our favorite San Francisco venues. Steve is joined by Andrew Maguire on vibraphone and returning guests the Patzner brothers – Anton, [...]
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Thursday: Neon Indian, The Love X Nowhere, Nite Jewel @ The Ricksaw Stop (8pm, $12)The Love X Nowhere – “The Diz”Friday: Eternal Tapestry, Barn Owl, Moon Duo, Real Estate @ The Hemlock (9pm, $8)Barn Owl – “Voice of the Other”Saturday: Girls, Tamaryn, Dominant Legs @ Bottom of the Hill (8pm, $12)Girls – “Lust For Life”Sunday: [...]
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With the first steps into their building, I was immediately blown away by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The new campus on Oak Street is gorgeous, and I was lucky enough to attend their first annual Tuned In fundraiser. All groups performing during the evening had to have either a current conservatory [...]
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That Ghost – “The Red Bow” (from the Get It and Get Out EP)This week, Twosyllable Records digitally released Get It and Get Out, the latest EP from Santa Rosa’s Ryan Schmale, also known as That Ghost. Previously a sold-out, tour-only CDR, you can stream the whole EP this week over at Virb.Earlier this [...]
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TheBayBridged.com and New, Improved Recording are proud to present the fifth installment of New, Improved, LIVE, our ongoing series of live studio sessions with top indie bands, recorded at the New, Improved Recording studio in Oakland, California. This month’s session features Thao with The Get Down Stay Down delivering exclusive live-in-the-studio renditions of songs [...]
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TheBayBridged.com and New, Improved Recording are proud to present the fifth installment of New, Improved, LIVE, our ongoing series of live studio sessions with top indie bands, recorded at the New, Improved Recording studio in Oakland, California. This month’s session features Thao with The Get Down Stay Down delivering exclusive live-in-the-studio renditions of songs [...]
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Actionslacks – “Kids With Guitars”Seasoned SF indie band Actionslacks are still rocking after fifteen years, and tomorrow night celebrate their decade-and-a-half anniversary at Bottom of the Hill (9pm, $8, online tickets). Supporting acts include Love is Chemicals and Ex-Boyfriends.The show’s also the band’s only live performance of 2009, and they’ll be playing songs from [...]
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Friday, November 20th – Fiery Furnaces, Cryptacize, Dent May @ Slim’sThe Fiery Furnaces – Charmaine Champagne from Thrill Jockey Records.To enter send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name and the phrase “I want to see The Fiery Furnaces” in the subject. The FIFTH and EIGHTH entries will each win a pair of [...]
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Harlot is opening its doors one night a month to a new showcase sponsored by Tricycle Records and Future Universal to feature local independent bands. Though the kickoff event lends to the local electro-pop talent, “Eclectic Live” welcomes all genres of indie music. Tomorrow night (9pm, $5), check out Tricycle Records’ The Frail and LLeggs [...]
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This week, our podcast features Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, a trio led by San Francisco singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen. Nguyen and her band (comprised of Adam Thompson on bass, keys and guitar, and Willis Thompson on drums and percussion) first attracted widespread attention with last year’s We Brave Bee Stings and All [...]
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Billy & Dolly – “Younger Days”Ex-Monolith members Bill Rousseau and Dahlia Gallin Ramirez are back with their new band Billy & Dolly, and a debut album called In the Beginning. Produced by bandmate/20 Minute Looper Nils Erickson and recorded and mixed by Jay Pellicci, the album’s packed with catchy guitar- and piano-driven power pop. [...]
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SF’s The Society of Rockets have a brand new collection of mind-expanding pop coming out this month titled Future Factory. The band calls the double LP “a day-glo hybrid of revisionist sci-fi pop and rarefied rhumba rumbles. To enjoy while watching planets collide.” In any event, they’ve posted a couple of the new [...]
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So both Girls shows (Friday at the Swedish American Hall and Saturday at Bottom of the Hill) are totally sold out, but we’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway to the Swedish show (8pm, All Ages).To enter: Send an e-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your name and the phrase “I want to see Girls” in [...]
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Part 1By: Joshua RampageThere are a candid few who can welcome an inconvenient and uncomfortable interruption into their lives so readily, but I was getting a little bored with feeling healthy every day anyway. So I did some smooching and before anyone could start snorting, I was sick. Self-diagnosing led me to believe I was [...]
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New, Improved, LIVE participants Citay have been hard at work this year on a new album, but they also took some time to compile reworkings of songs from 2007’s Little Kingdom into a new album called Remixes. Says Dead Oceans:From the ambient textures of White Rainbow’s “Eye on Dollar” remix to Cornershop’s Anthony Saffery [...]
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Sad news to report today on Friday the 13th from All Shook Down: Annie’s Social Club will be closing her doors on New Years Eve for good. The announcement was originally posted via E-mail to the ever-popular SF Indie List:Subject: This Weekend at Annie’s Social Club, plus some sad news…We hate to do this, [...]
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