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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My First EarthquakeGenerationals
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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 1 By: Joshua Rampage There 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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SF’s B and Not B, well, I’ll let them tell it:It was a warm, sunny autumn day in San Francisco, and we decided to spend it driving around town in the back of a van full of hot amps. The things we do for rock!B and Not B – “Breaking the Law (Immigrant Song)”Will this [...]
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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts‘ latest Big Idea Night party celebrates the “State of the Queer Nation,” with music by Hottub and DJ Black, the Diamond Daggers queer burlesque troupe, and performance artist Tim Miller. The party takes place this Saturday night and it’s free with RSVP. Also on the itinerary: [...]
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Okay, so maybe the title says it all on this one, but we’re looking to get rid of some inventory on some of the great items in our online store, so we’ve taken one-third off of the prices on all items. Head to the store to check the sale out!Here’s a quick rundown of [...]
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Thursday: Lloyd Family Players, Michael Musika, Indianna Hale, Quinn Deveaux and the Blue Beat Review @ The Rickshaw Stop (7:30pm, $12)Indianna Hale – “Ode to Sleep”Friday: My First Earthquake, Generationals, The Attachments, Goh Nakamura @ Cafe du Nord (8pm, $10)My First Earthquake – “Vow to Vowels”Saturday: Man/Miracle, Golden Gram, Quinn @ LoBot Gallery (8pm, [...]
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Vanilla March by 20 Minute LoopA week or two ago, this Sunday’s 20 Minute Loop show at Bottom of the Hill turned into the last 20 Minute Loop show. Forever. One of the Bay’s longest-running indie pop bands, the group released a series of smart, winning albums that earned them significant acclaim and [...]
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Man/Miracle – “Hot Sprawl”Man/Miracle played a great set the other night at the Rickshaw Stop, and their debut full length The Shape of Things is an infectious collection of nervy songs recommended especially for fans of Talking Heads, The Feelies, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.This Saturday (8pm, $5), the band celebrates the new CD’s [...]
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Friday, November 13th – My First Earthquake, Generationals @ Cafe du NordTo enter: Send an e-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your name and the phrase “I want to see My First Earthquake” in the subject. The THIRD person to enter will win.The show is $10, 9pm, 21+.Saturday, November 14th – Or, the Whale CD Release [...]
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Being well established in the great cannon of 60s minimalism, a local and an alumni of UC-Berkeley nonetheless, the great crowd for Terry Riley’s L@TE performance on Friday was no surprise. The environs were chilling, the Berkeley Art Museum that looks like the inside of a giant mausoleum with great balconies and intense art everywhere. [...]
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At times reminding me of another of my local favorites, Geographer, at others reminding me of some earlier Radiohead stuff, 7 Orange ABC showed up last Thursday at the Starry Plough in Berkeley ready to rock, roll, chill, psych out, and get a less-than-packed house (but still a solid showing of people) lost in the [...]
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