The Bay Bridged Welcomes Emily Logan!
January 23, 2008
The Bay Bridged is proud to welcome Emily Logan as our News Editor. You probably already know Emily as the former editor of The Deli SF, where she’s delivered daily high-quality coverage of the local music scene for some time now. You can get to know her better from a recent profile by the SF Weekly’s BetterKnowanSFBlog.
In her capacity here, Emily will be coordinating news content on our site and doing regular music blogging along with Christian and Ben and our team of contributors. Emily’s first blog entry will go up later today. Needless to say, we’re thrilled to have her on board and are looking forward to making 2008 the best year yet for The Bay Bridged.
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Episode 98: January 2008 Monthly Mix
January 22, 2008
The Parish
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Every month, we take one week of the podcast to spotlight a number of different songs by some great local bands. Included in this week’s show:
Maus Haus (MySpace) is an exciting new group featuring Jason Kick (also of The Lovely Public) and Aaron Weiss (also of Social Studies). The band recently released a self-titled sampler and plays its first show on February 7th at the Hemlock Tavern.
We’ve included Oakland’s The Parish (MySpace/web site) on a Monthly Mix before, but this song comes from the band’s Storm Driven Bird EP, which came out in December on Gold Robot Records. You can download “Dummy in Trouble” here.
We recently interviewed Matt Jones from Master/Slave (MySpace) for an upcoming episode of the podcast and are big fans of the band’s catchy synth rock. The song we’ve included comes from the Expensive Tastes EP, but they will be releasing a new full length album soon. The band is playing at Hotel Utah on January 23rd and the band is touring the US in March and April.
With their unique mix of synth-layered folk, The Lonelyhearts (MySpace/web site) are truly one of our favorite local groups. We featured the band a while back, and the song we’ve included in this episode comes from their latest release The Four-Wheel Drive EP.
The Clarences (web site/MySpace) recently sent us their self-titled debut of catchy indie pop. The band has upcoming performances at the Ghost Town Gallery on January 25th and the Retox Lounge on February 7th.
We’ve also included a song from Touch Committee (MySpace), off of their self-titled EP–also known as The Bear Record for its cover art–which they recorded with Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden Studio. Touch Committee’s next show is January 30th at the Edinburgh Castle.
Better Than Aliens (MySpace) provided us a song from their catchy self-titled demo. Word is the trio will be recording a studio record in the next few months. The band’s next show is at the Retox Lounge on February 15th.
Aim Low Kid (MySpace/web site) released their debut album Soundtrack for the New Depression last year on Tricycle Records. The country-influenced rock group will be at the Rickshaw Stop on Feburary 6th. They were also recently selected to play at Noise Pop 2008.
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Sholi Covers: Googoosh, Newsom, Seal
January 21, 2008
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San Francisco art-pop quartet Sholi have been quite busy lately. In addition to continued work on the band’s highly anticipated debut full length album, which they hope to release later this year, they’ve just put out a new covers 7″ titled Hejrat. The band also has a number of shows this month in California and New York, including a show tonight at Cafe du Nord alongside The Castanets and El Olio Wolof.
The A-side, also titled “Hejrat,” is a cover of a song by 1970s Iranian pop star Googoosh, sung in Farsi and reinterpreted musically with Sholi’s signature layered pop sound. The B-side is a cover of Joanna Newsom’s “The Sprout and the Bean.” The band explains the connection between the two songs as:
Both songs speak to a displacement, a search for place or identity, that could be interpreted at the individual or cultural level, and we find that the pairing ties two worlds together in a deeply moving way, at a time when political rhetoric unfortunately escalates to the opposite extreme.
The 7″ songs aren’t the only covers the members of Sholi have been doing. Eric Ruud challenged some friends to cover Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose,” and recently posted the results to the band’s web site. Some of the versions are surprisingly good although, depending on how many times you heard the song in the mid-90s, you might not be able to listen to all of them in one sitting.
You can order Sholi’s new 7″ and see all of the tour dates at Sholi’s web site. You can listen to “Hejrat” and more music at their MySpace page.
Tonight’s show starts at 9pm and is $10.
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Plugs, Site News, Etc.
January 18, 2008
Every Friday, updates about our latest site features, our expanding online store, and more…
On the site:
Feeds: Many of the features on our site are syndicated through RSS Feeds you can find a little way down over on the right column. Just pop those in to your news aggregator and you can stay up to date on the latest music news and reviews, show listings, and more! Also, make sure to subscribe to our free weekly podcast by clicking here.
Calendar: Anyone can now submit an event for our Calendar! Just head to the Calendar page, click “Add” (in the lower-left corner) and give us the details. We’ll take a look at your submissions and post our favorites.
Submit news: Do you have a tip to send us? Are you in a band you’d like us to cover? Click here to send us your tips and contributions!
In our store:
Have you been to our Online Store recently? We’ve got half a dozen great albums available for purchase in CD or high-quality mp3 format, including our compilation The Bay Bridged, Volume 1, along with posters and more. Every purchase you make supports local music and supports our site as well. We’ll be expanding the store in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for updates!
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Weekend Picks: January 17th-20th
January 17, 2008
The Music Lovers
Enjoy the holiday weekend! Here are some great shows to check out.
Thursday
- Music For Animals and The Attachments at the Rickshaw Stop, with The Gomorran Social Club. 8pm, $10.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Music for Animals!
Friday
- The Music Lovers at the Make-Out Room, with Hot Pink Feathers and Young Moderns. 7:30pm, $6.
Click to listen to our feature episode on The Music Lovers!
- Magic Bullets and The Blacks at Bottom of the Hill, with The Blakes. 9pm, $10, All Ages.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Magic Bullets!
Saturday
- Finest Dearest and Empty Rooms at the Hemlock Tavern, with Top Critters. 9:30pm, $7.
Click to listen to our feature episode on Finest Dearest!
Sunday
- Rademacher and Here Here at the Make-Out Room, with Death to Anders. 8pm, $6.
- Two Seconds at Bottom of the Hill, with Two Left Feet and The Audiophiles. 9pm, $8, All Ages.
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Empty Rooms: new EP, Hemlock on Saturday
January 16, 2008
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It’s been a while since we checked in with San Francisco’s Empty Rooms, a quartet whose dark and textured melodic rock we featured on the podcast back in 2006. Following a number of delays, the group is just about to release the follow up to their strong self-titled debut, an EP titled Lacuna. The guys recently posted a great song from the new record to their blog, and a couple more songs were posted over at The Last Pop Song. Check out a new track below:
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Empty Rooms – “Off With His Head”
The band’s gearing up for a bunch of shows to support the new EP, including one this Saturday at the Hemlock Tavern. Saturday night’s show also includes performances from our old friends Finest Dearest along with San Francisco’s Top Critters. The show starts at 9:30pm and is $7.
You can check out more from Empty Rooms at their MySpace page.
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The Rickshaw Stop’s Fourth Anniversary
January 16, 2008
Congratulations to the Rickshaw Stop! The venue celebrates its fourth anniversary on Thursday, having established itself as one of the city’s premiere rock clubs and a staunch supporter of local indie music. To that end, the Rickshaw’s anniversary show Thursday night offers a potpourri of local goodness headlined by the old-timey sounds of The Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
Joining the Gomorrans are two old Bay Bridged favorites, Music for Animals and The Attachments. It’s an inspired pairing of catchy pop-rock music. Check out some songs below:
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Music for Animals – “Worry” (from Music for Animals)
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The Attachments – “Kar-la-la”
DJs Fresh Pink and Roscoe 2000 of KALX will be spinning records between sets. The show starts at 8pm and is $10.
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Episode 97: Port O’Brien
January 15, 2008
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This week we feature Oakland’s Port O’Brien, a terrific indie rock band incorporating elements of folk and Americana into a sound some critics have compared to indie luminaries like Will Oldham and Bright Eyes. We first witnessed Port O’Brien opening for the latter artist–at the behest of singer-songwriter M. Ward, who has identified them as one of his favorite new bands–one of a number of well-deserved successes for the group in ’07, which also included opening for Modest Mouse in Europe, and supporting Rogue Wave on a nationwide tour.
As we noted in a review earlier this year, the group’s successes are richly deserved, with an energetic live show and a couple of fine self-recorded releases. Last summer’s The Wind and The Swell collects the band’s favorite songs from those two records, and it’s an excellent introduction to their signature catchy group vocals and loose-but-energetic style of playing. Lyrically, singer-guitarist Van Pierszalowski’s songs address themes of isolation, relationships, and nature influenced by the summers that he spends working in Alaska on his father’s fishing boat, a trip that other band members now join him in.
We spoke with Port O’Brien at the Rickshaw Stop in December, discussing their whirlwind year just before their first show back after their cross-country trip. In addition to the interview, this episode features three songs from The Wind and The Swell and an exclusive demo of a song which will be on their upcoming first studio-recorded album.
The band has a few upcoming shows, and you really should try to check them out if you can:
Saturday, February 2nd
Swedish American Hall
with Nada Surf
7:30pm, $20, All Ages
Saturday, March 1st
Cafe du Nord
with Delta Spirit and What Made Milwaukee Famous
9pm, $10/12, All Ages (part of the 2008 Noise Pop Festival)
Hear more Port O’Brien over at their web site and on their MySpace page. The band periodically updates its Alaska blog as well. You can purchase The Wind and The Swell directly from American Dust Records as well as on iTunes.
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