Photos: LoveLikeFire, The Frail, The Teenagers @ The Independent
April 30, 2008
Local acts LoveLikeFire and The Frail opened up the evening at The Indpendent last Tuesday (4/22/08) supporting The Teenagers before they headed off to Coachella over the weekend.
Muhammad Asranur was at the show and captured some great photos of the night.
Vetiver New Album, Show at GAMH May 6 - Win Tickets!
April 30, 2008
Next Tuesday, May 6, Vetiver returns to San Francisco to play the Great American Music Hall with the Kelley Stoltz band and The Mumlers. And thanks to GAMH, we have TWO pair of tickets to this show to give away. Just email contest@thebaybridged.com before Friday at noon to enter, and we’ll choose two winners at random.
The show takes place the day after the release of their latest project, Thing of the Past on Gnomonsong Records. The band seems to release albums every two years, and Andy Cabic (who has also toured as a part of Devendra Banhart’s band) and crew decided it was time to bring an album of covers to the table. The album is full of songs that inspired the band, many of which come from lesser-known artists, from Hawkwind to Ian Matthews to Garland Jeffreys. The full band includes Cabic, Brent Dunn (bass), Sanders Trippe (guitar/vocals), Otto Hauser (drums/keyboards) and Kevin Barker (guitar/banjo/vocals), but the album features many guest performances, including Vashti Bunyan and Michael Hurley.
Episode 112: April 2008 Monthly Mix
April 29, 2008
This week we’re bringing you our latest Monthly Mix, featuring new and unreleased tracks from eight great local bands! Check out the details on all of the groups below:
We Is Shore Dedicated (”Gladiator Cointoss”) open the episode with a song from their latest album Rainbo Donuts. The group is a studio project featuring Sam Tsitrin (The Ebb & Flow) and Chris Cline (Scrabbel) among other talented local musicians.
Psych-folk group Dame Satan (”Suffrin’ Daughter”) just released their new album Beaches & Bridges, which they are streaming in its entirety here. The band will be opening for Dead Meadow at Slim’s on May 24th. They’re also part of Ghost Mansion Records, which we recently profiled here.
We’re still really digging the CD we received from Maus Haus (”We Used Technology (but Technology Let Us Down)”), the indie supergroup who we’ve profiled and seen live. You can catch them on May 8th at the Hemlock Tavern.
Botticellis on Daytrotter
April 28, 2008
Continuing the stream of local bands on Daytrotter, the site recently featured The Botticellis. The group’s debut full length Old Home Movies comes out later this month, and you can hear four songs from the album in our podcast episode spotlighting the band.
Radio, Radio
April 28, 2008
Over at ipickmynose, Adrian recently posted the upcoming schedule of bands that will be appearing live on KZSU on the next several Wednesday nights:
April 30: Geographer
May 14: The Botticellis
May 21: Two Sheds
May 28: The Ian Fays
Head to his site for all of the details.
Are there other locally-focused shows on the radio? I know there’s KALX Live on Saturday nights. What else?
Fort Gallery Benefit for the Gulabi Gang Saturday
April 28, 2008
This Saturday, three amazing local acts come together to support an incredible group of women in India. Two Gallants, Conspiracy of Venus and The Deciders will all gather at Fort Gallery in Oakland, an interdisciplinary art space that frequently hosts great local music.
Two Gallants, who are about to embark on a month-long tour of Europe, were recently booked to the Outside Lands festival in August, and will appear at Bonnaroo in Tenn. in June. This show will be just the beginning of an exciting year for them. Conspiracy of Venus, the sister group to Conspiracy of Beards, is a women’s choir that sings their own unique versions of songs from Bjork to Rufus Wainwright. The Deciders are a bluegrass-meets-grunge outfit from SF who seem to be on a bit of a break aside from this show. Hopefully we’ll hear about a new project from them soon.
ClubWiki.org - A Great New Venue Info, Booking Wiki
April 28, 2008
A fantastic new site called ClubWiki.org was launched on Friday. It’s a venue information and booking site in wiki format. For the founder, Ethan, it’s a stepping-stone for more online musician resources down the road. You can read updates and more info about the site’s conception on the ClubWiki Blog, but here’s the general idea:
You start by searching for venues either by location or name. It even pre-populates the field as you start typing the name of a venue (these little details make me happy). Each venue entry provides basic info like location and phone number, as well as details that are very useful to bands trying to book shows, like capacity, a booking email address, house gear, parking, etc. On each page, you can also search for more venues within that musical genre and within a certain distance.
Review: Wiretap Benefit, 4/16
April 25, 2008
4/16/08 — Wiretap Benefit at Thee Parkside featuring Cones, The New Centuries, and Pidgeon: a night of totally super awesome awesomeness, save for 2 dudes getting robbed at riflepoint at the side door, which, so long as you’re not one of those 2 dudes, is only moderately awesome. . . .
For reals. Madness (being the cowering neurologics of your psychosexually repressed response to the fine print at the bottom of your super awesomeness contract determining that “you shall be made to run forever in an underground manwheel generator in the event of mandatory nuclear vacation, regardless of . . .” and to money, or to some unrequited, curious FRIENDcrush typography, the damned “curious” and its patrons or the wrath of sexcrazed robots, sour robotmilk, this milkmustachioed post-hipster over here, conjuncted deixis and chiasmatic lesbian make-up sex, conjunctivitis or that milkmustachioed hipster over there) happens sometimes. Yes, sometimes riflepoint madness happens like in old movies laced with aphrodesia (see Aphrodesia, see also what up, mommies) and slung by the hip shoulders of queer actors which is to suffice to say yes, sometimes riflepoint stickups happen here in lovely SF-badmovie HD, AD 2008, when you’re out seening the City dead, klippin’ like a lookalike klezmerfunkjunkie to the soundtrac.
