Arcadio, Mist & Mast, The Definite Articles @ The Rickshaw Stop
May 30, 2008
Last Wednesday (5/21/2008) featured a great local bill over at The Rickshaw Stop with Arcadio, Mist & Mast (Feature Podcast), and The Definite Articles. Photographer Francis Chung was at the show to capture the night - check out the photos after the jump!
Four Tet, Maus Haus + Group Show in Fine Art Saturday
May 29, 2008
If you’ve got no plans for this Saturday, May 31, you should head on over to the Mezzanine to check out a great local music and art mix. CreativemindsSF and MEZZANINE present Four Tet, our very own Maus Haus and DJ sets by Sensitive Men (with feelings).
The show will also feature over 30 bay area artists and the Canvas of Hope Project. Artists include Bay Area art students, emerging artists, and the medical students/artists who created the Canvas of Hope Project at Touro University.
The art reception is from 8-10pm, and the show starts at 10. Tickets are $15 and well worth it for the great entertainment and supporting local artists and musicians.
Here’s a list of participating artists: Alexa Alexander, Alissa Anderson, Whitney Austin, Kevin Baer, Alex Bargas, Steve Bird, Krescent Carasso, Shoshanna Cohn, Eilish Cullen, Rio-Lindsay Decker, Ryan Dixon, Joelle Donofrio, Natasha Emter, Tara Lisa Foley, Danielle Genzel, Chinhnam Hathuc, Robert S. Kelley, Mary Kornblum, Kyle Lee, Jeanne Lorenz, Melissa Love, Taryn McCabe, Mel Marzahl, Bianca Mondragon, Sarah Nibecker, John Noonan, Nicholas Fletcher Park, Sarah Poole, Ysabel Price, Robert Stone 3rd, Clare Sydlowski, Anne Terpstra, Allison Tungseth, Chano Uribe, Elisa Marie Wallin, David Young.
Weekend Picks May 29th - June 1st
May 29, 2008
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player…
Thursday:
- The Junior Panthers, Dora Flood and The Parties at Cafe du Nord. 9pm, $10.
- Whitey On The Moon, Micropixie and Andalou (Kristeva) at Amnesia. 9pm, $6.
Friday:
- Ladyhawk (Vancouver), Neva Dinova (Omaha) and The Parish at Bottom of the Hill. 10pm, $10/$12, 18+.
- Harmony in My Head Festival: with Sassy, Karina Denike and The Flirts, Beach Girls and Blue Rabbit at El Rio. 9pm, $7.
Saturday:
- Beatbeat Whisper (Feature Podcast), Jeremy Dallus, Ghost Bees (Halifax) and The Shrouded Strangers at Mama Buzz Cafe. 7:30pm, $tba.
- Sonny Smith and Prairie Dog at Make-Out Room. 7:30pm, $7.
- Four Tet and Maus Haus at Mezzanine. 8pm, $15.
My First Earthquake Debut EP, Show Sunday
May 28, 2008
Local indie pop group My First Earthquake will celebrate the release of their new EP Tremors this Sunday at the Make-Out Room.
The new EP comes after many months of the band playing live shows, refining their sound and figuring out which songs to feature on their debut EP. Singer Rebecca Bortman explained, “Since we’re a pretty new band we’ve definitely taken a lot of queues from our fans and people who come to our shows.” In the end, they put together a collection of six songs that fit together well.
My First Earthquake - “Teleprompt” from Tremors
For this first project, the band went all over San Francisco taking advantage of any free studio space they could, the most accessible of which was keyboardist/bassist/vocalist Chad Thornton’s wood-paneled living room. From there, the band passed the album on to Patrick Elliot, who mixed the album, but not without lots of input from the band.
The Blank Tapes’ Covers Album
May 28, 2008
Saw this message on the old Myspace today from Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes. As Adams noted in our recent interview, he’s been working on a covers album (along with a bunch of others) for a while now, and now it’s available:
so i recorded a cover album a year ago and just mixed and mastered it last month. it’s call “friends & favorites” and has 16 tracks.
most of the songs are by people you’ve never heard of, but a few you might know.
leonard cohen, little wings, the kinks, graves, matt mccluer, kathryn jensen, fpodbpod, out of work sailor, lee be, dirdy birdy, sleepy todd, garuda, ricky nelson, obo martin, jeff manson & my brother ryan. there ya go. it also features singing from alot of the friends i covered.
also- i recorded it right after i finished my last CD “daydreams”
lemme know if you want a copy
-matt
Birdmonster Shows With Superdrag, New Album Looms
May 28, 2008
Birdmonster is busy preparing for the release of their new album From the Mountain to the Sea, which comes out Aug. 5. In the meantime, they have released two great new songs on their MySpace page and will play two nights at Bottom of the Hill this Sunday and Monday, June 1 and 2, with Superdrag.
The new songs have a more polished feel than from their previous album No Midnight, both in musical execution and recording quality. The two new songs also reflect a slightly lighter side of the Birdmonster we know, revealing a depth and complexity that was just under the surface before. Check out the new songs on the band’s MySpace page.
Episode 116: May 2008 Monthly Mix
May 27, 2008
This month’s mix episode features songs from nine great Bay Area bands. More about all of the bands below:
Local garage-rockers The Mantles (”Trust”) have been receiving quite a bit of good press for their debut 7″ on Dulc-i-tone Records. The group has a number of shows coming up in June and July, with their next at the Hemlock Tavern on June 13th.
Last of the Blacksmiths (”At An Early Hour”) recently celebrated the release of their new album entitled Young Family Song and the CD is a worthy follow-up to the group’s excellent 2005 debut. The band will be at Sophia’s in Davis on July 11th.
Local synth-poppers Sweetie (”Saturdays”) celebrate the release of their brand new Saturdays EP, out today on local label Gold Robot Records. You can check out another song from the record over at Macktronic.
Bay Area Scenecast Part 1 on Cokemachineglow
May 26, 2008
Late last year The Bay Bridged was approached by Cokemachineglow to jointly put together a Scenecast featuring what we considered to be some of the best music the Bay Area has to offer. Together we sat down with Andre Perry and after several E-mails and many months we narrowed the episode down to 14 great bands. As you will read below, given the wealth of great music from the Bay Area this will be the first Scenecast in a series dedicated to promoting music from the area. Be sure to stay tuned to Cokemachineglow in the future for the other installments in this great series.
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BAY AREA SCENECAST PART ONE
Curated by Andre Perry (of CMG) and Ben Van Houten and Christian Cunningham (of the Bay Bridged Podcast)
Several months ago I came up with the idea of continuing Cokemachineglow’s periodic Scenecast series by contributing an entry on the Bay Area music scene. So I teamed up with some of the area’s best music bloggers, The Bay Bridged, and together we put together a tracklist of artists and songs that represent the Bay Area. But given the distance of a few months, all I can say now is: what the hell was I thinking? You see, while many cities would like to claim a diverse scene, San Francisco and its surrounding areas really do represent a vast range of musical projects. It truly is the scene of a thousand faces. There’s so much going on it’s kind of mind numbing: from the indie-rockers, to the noise-rockers, the country folk revivalists, the hippie-folk purists, the garage rockers, the Goth rockers, the minimalist techno heads, the minimalist house heads, the jazzy-house heads, the diva house heads, the drum n’ bass fiends, the electro freaks, the found-sound geeks, the alt. country dudes, the punk marching band enthusiasts, the left-field hip-hop crews, the hyphy hip-hop crews, the post-rockers, the glitch-rockers, the prog-rockers, the dream-poppers and space-rockers, the “we only use recording gear from 1970 and before” rockers, the “we only use recording gear made after 2000” rockers, and the “we’ll mix one or more of the above genres” folks, there’s a lot to take in.
