Weekend Picks and Links: June 28th-July 1st
June 28, 2007
Here’s what’s going on this weekend in the Bay Area. As always, check the Local Concert Calendar for our full listings.
Thursday:
- Trainwreck Riders were hit by a drunk driver while on tour, suffering some injuries, a lot of broken equipment and a busted van. On Thursday night, Or, the Whale will replace the band at their scheduled Bottom of the Hill show, playing alongside the Riders’ tour partners The Black Diamond Heavies and Abi Yoyos. All door money from the show will go to a fund for Trainwreck Riders’ medical bills and lost equipment and van. The show starts at 8:30pm, is $10 and is all ages. You can also send the Riders a donation and some kind words at their MySpace page.
Friday:
This Friday night is thoroughly packed. Here are only a handful of the good shows:
- The Lonelyhearts, The Invisible Cities, Liam Carey from Mandrake, and Rykarda Parasol at Mama Buzz Cafe. The show starts at 7pm and is $5
Click to listen to our feature episode on Invisible Cities!
Click to listen to our feature episode on Rykarda Parasol!
- Music for Animals‘ CD release show at the Rickshaw Stop, with Mooney Suzuki and Photo Atlas. The show starts at 8:30pm, and is $10/$12. Check out our preview here.
- The Pirate Cat Radio benefit at the Elbo Room. The show starts at 9pm. Catch our preview here.
- Social Studies at Bottom of the Hill with The Fast Computers, Pants Pants Pants (releasing their new CD), and Blue Skies For Black Hearts. Show starts at 9pm and is $10.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Social Studies!
- Dreamdate at The Knockout with Isabellas and Battlehooch. Show starts at 10pm and is $5.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Dreamdate!
Saturday:
- Moggs at the Hemlock Tavern, with Replicator and Colony of Watts. Show starts at 9:30pm and is $6.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Moggs!
Sunday:
- The SaveNetRadio benefit at Bottom of the Hill, featuring performances by Ted Nesseth of The Heavenly States, Matt Lutz of The Herms, HIJK, and Miyako Ueki of Peloton. Read our preview here. The show starts at 6pm and is $3-$5.
Around the Web:
- Net radio went silent on Tuesday to protest the royalty hikes, and the SF Weekly has a series of articles about the issues. Support the SaveNetRadio campaign!
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Floored Festival at El Rio on Saturday
June 27, 2007
If you’re a regular reader of the site, you’re probably very familiar with The El Rio at Mission and Cesar Chavez. With its friendly bartenders, amazing outdoor patio, and shows featuring both local acts and regular Sunday Salsa, it’s a tough place to pass up. If you’ve got the time this Saturday, you should stop and check out the Floored Festival going on during the afternoon and late into the evening.
Floored Festival you say? That’s right, all of the money raised from this event will go towards redoing the venue’s front room floors. Even better, these new floors come with the promise of being “lovely and strong and [will] make you want to dance”!
Here is a tentative schedule of the great acts performing:
OUTSIDE/Patio
4pm DJs
5pm TBD
6pm Mi Ami
7pm Sergio Iglesias & the Latin Love Machine
INSIDE…
9:30pm Jenny Hoyston’s Paradise Island
10:15 Lemonade
11:15 Bronze
12:15 Tussle
So stop on by, enjoy some great music and drinks, and let’s all help to get the El Rio a new floor!
For more information about the bands and the event, check out the El Rio’s web site here.
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Music for Animals CD Release Party!
June 27, 2007
This Friday, Music for Animals is celebrating the release of their self-titled first full length album. This release is being put out by our good friends and great local label, Three Ring Records. We’ve been looking forward to this album for some time and are thrilled to see it in press! If you haven’t checked them out live, you’ll definitely be in store for a great time and an awesome party! Also on the bill are The Mooney Suzuki, a rock driven quartet from New York, and dance-rock outfit The Photo Atlas (Denver, CO) who are in the midst of an intense nationwide summer tour.
Check out the track “Worry” off of Music for Animals’ new album here, and then head on over to iTunes to pick up the full album!
Be sure to also check out the feature show we did with both Music for Animals and Ex-Boyfriends last summer. This is a unique show for us as we interviewed both bands at once. It’s a crazy episode but also one of our best!
Click to listen to our feature episode on Music for Animals!
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Episode 70: Monthly Local Mix for June 2007
June 26, 2007
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Once again, we’re taking a week off airing a feature show on a single band to bring you this collection of eight songs by some great San Francisco Bay Area groups.
Caves kicks off this week’s episode with a song from their excellent album Here is Vision. We first caught the band’s dynamic songwriting at a live show we reviewed here and were excited to hear that the band’s recorded work is equally strong. You can pick up the album over at the band’s MySpace page.
Long-time favorites Love is Chemicals are currently prepping their second album, the follow-up to their 2005 self-titled release. The track we’ve included in this week’s episode is their brand new song “Let Me Come Down,” which you can only find on our brand new compilation, The Bay Bridged, Volume 1, which you can purchase at our online store. Get more Love is Chemicals at their web site and MySpace page, and check out our interview with the band here.
We featured Oakland’s Mandrake almost a year ago, an episode you can find here. At that time, the band was still working on its terrific debut full-length Featherweight, which is now available in local record stores. The band is celebrating the CD’s release at the Hemlock Tavern on Wednesday, July 25th. You can get more info at Mandrake’s MySpace page.
Brian Glaze is back with a brand new album called Rainsplitter and, from the sound of the title track, it’s another winner from this Oakland singer-songwriter. Hear more songs from the new album at Brian’s MySpace page and the Birdman Records web site. Your next opportunities to check him out live are at the Hotel Utah on Tuesday, July 3rd and the Uptown in Oakland on Thursday, July 5th.
Make Me recently released their debut album It Only Hurts The First Time, a delightful, poppy record reminiscent at times of 90s indie rock sounds and a lot of fun. The band has a tour scheduled for the Pacific Northwest; check their MySpace page for all of the dates. The album is in stores now and can be purchased from Make Me’s web site.
We is Shore Dedicated is an exciting project from Sam Tsitrin of The Ebb and Flow, and Chris Cline of Scrabbel, along with jazz bassist Dmitry Ishenko. Find more of their music at their web site and MySpace page, and you can purchase their self-titled debut CD from CDBaby. Check out the latest on The Ebb and Flow here.
On their self-titled debut album, Ellul mix acoustic instruments, a variety of electronic devices, and vocal harmonies to skillfully craft moody, complex and rewarding music. You can hear more at their MySpace page and can purchase the full length from their label, Sounds Are Active. That site also has a collection of interesting remixes of songs from their debut. The band is currently on tour. Check the MySpace page for those dates.
Indie-shoegaze rockers Astral‘s latest release Transmission is an exciting set of epic dark rock songs with some shoegazer and psych feel to them. It’s also a prelude to a new full length album we’re looking forward to later this year. You can get all of the details at their MySpace page and web site. Astral is celebrating the release of the EP on Wednesday, July 18th at the Elbo Room with Peloton and The Love X Nowhere.
Thanks for listening! Make sure you pre-order your copy of The Bay Bridged, Volume 1 at our online store and come to our CD release party on Friday, July 13th at Thee Parkside, featuring The Dont’s, Love is Chemicals, The Old-Fashioned Way and The Lonelyhearts!
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Pirate Cat Radio benefit this Friday
June 25, 2007
While we’re on the subject of radio, another one of our favorite webcasting stations, Pirate Cat Radio, is having a benefit concert Friday night at the Elbo Room to support its unregulated broadcast activities. The show, hosted by Blag Dahlia of The Dwarves, features four bands: psych-rockers Turn Me On Dead Man, the new wave-influenced Sixteens, country-punks Ill Gotten Gainz and punk rockers P.A.W.N.S.
In addition to the music, the Pirate Cat folks are promising–and this is a direct unedited quote–”BURLESQUE DANCERS! Dancing little people! Lots of Free Porn (the kind that exploits men, not women)! Special Raffle Prizes, stolen from Clear Channel radio stations!” Sounds like it should be quite an evening.
The show starts at 9pm, is an $8 donation to support Pirate Cat, and is 21+.
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Save Net Radio!
June 25, 2007
You may have noticed the SaveNetRadio banners rotating through our site, and the current fight over the royalty structure for webcasters is an important issue worth your time. In short, due to pressure from lobbyists tied to the major record labels, the Copyright Royalty Board ruled on March 2nd to increase the fees webcasters pay to play music online by 300-1200 percent, fee changes that are retroactive to January 1, 2006 and which will force most if not all Internet broadcasters to shut down completely.
Before the new rules go into effect on July 15th, a grassroots coalition of artists, labels, listeners, and webcasters has been fighting back, challenging the CRB’s decision in court and seeking legislation that would overrule the CRB and set more reasonable royalty rates. Two of our favorite Internet radio sites, Bagel Radio and Soma FM, have been covering the issue in great detail, and you should head to their sites for the latest on the fight. While the coalition has gained some steam in Congress, your support is needed. Click here to find out how you can get involved.
This Sunday, July 1st, Ted from Bagel Radio and Elise from Soma FM are throwing a benefit to raise money for the SaveNetRadio coalition at Bottom of the Hill. The show features live performances by Ted Nesseth of The Heavenly States, Matt Lutz of The Herms, HIJK, and Miyako Ueki of Peloton along with DJ sets by Ted and Elise, a raffle and a lot more. You can find out all the details about Sunday’s show here.
The show starts at 6pm, is a suggested $3-$5 donation, and is 21+.
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Weekend Picks and Links: June 21st-24th
June 21, 2007
This weekend’s picks from TheBayBridged.com…
Thursday
- Or, the Whale at Amnesia, with Canada and Artemis the Human. Show starts at 9pm and is $5-$7.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Or, the Whale!
Friday
- Ex-Boyfriends at the Hemlock Tavern with Looker and Lou Lou & the Guitarfish. Show starts at 9:30pm and is $7.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Ex-Boyfriends!
Saturday
- The Ebb & Flow and The Dont’s at the Hemlock Tavern with The Tender Few. Show starts at 9:30pm and is $7. You can find out what The Ebb & Flow have been up to here.
Click to listen to our feature episode on The Ebb & Flow!
Click to listen to our feature episode on The Dont’s!
- The Val Papadins at the House of Shields with Mr. Vague. Show starts at 10pm and is $5.
Click to listen to our Monthly Mix featuring The Val Papadins!
Around the Web:
- The Guardian also likes Birds and Batteries‘ I’ll Never Sleep Again.
- The SF Weekly reviews digital download sites.
- Oakland’s Pants Pants Pants are giving away their new album Ok, Fine here.
- Indie heavyweights abound at the Treasure Island Festival.
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Sugar, Gold and Creme
June 20, 2007
I didn’t see the chocolate-covered strawberries, but it’s entirely possible that I just missed them amidst everything else last Friday night at 12 Galaxies, the CD release party for Sugar & Gold‘s Creme. The room was packed and hot and many sought refuge outside just to cool off between solid sets from openers Schande and Persephone’s Bees and the motivational antics of Get In Shape, Bitch.
In many ways, it was the ideal crowd for Sugar & Gold’s mix of electro, soul, pop, funk, and about a hundred other genres–sweaty, liquored-up, and ready to dance. While Creme is a sleek record, well-produced in a way that brings out its smoothness, the band’s live show brought the intensity to get this crowd moving. I’m not sure whether it was just a sweet mix from the 12Gs folks or whether the band was consciously upping volumes and tempos, but the sound was big and forceful, compelling a bunch of indie-rockers to start jumping around.
The band was obscured by excellent visuals by Cosmic Hex, but it was clear they were having a great time as well. We left exhausted and thoroughly satisfied with a bottle of Sugar and Gold hot sauce which is, by the way, delicious. Count the evening’s final score Sugar & Gold 1, Standing There With Your Arms Folded Too Cool For School 0.
