KEXP In-Studios, Make-Out Room Party
January 15, 2009
Seattle’s amazing radio station KEXP 90.3FM is doing their first ever remote broadcast from the Bay Area on Jan. 28, 29 and 30. This comes after the Bay Area won their “City-to-City Challenge” during their last fundraising drive. The DJs will be broadcasting from a studio in Berkeley, and bringing the Bay Area some great events and music in the process.
The first exciting event is a series of live in-studio sessions. These sessions are free and open to the public, but you must RSVP on their website and they’re already filling up fast! Sessions that remain available are:
Her Space Holiday (UPDATE – full)
Citay
Mi Ami
High Decibels (UPDATE – full)
Odawas and a few more to be announced.
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Weekend Picks: Jan. 15th-18th
January 15, 2009
It’s officially concert season, folks. This weekend is packed with great local music. Check out some sample tracks in our streaming audio player…
Thursday:
- The Blacks, Death of a Party (final SF show) and The New Centuries at Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $10.
- Big Light, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers and The Blank Tapes at Cafe Du Nord. 9pm, $12.
- The Hospitals, Girls, Work and Long Legged Woman at The Eagle. 9pm, $?.
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Devil Makes Three Thurs. and Fri. at The Independent
January 14, 2009
While their own press release describes them as “punky vintage American backporch blues,” there’s a lot more to Santa Cruz’s The Devil Makes Three than a blues band. This three-piece manages to blend the grace of acoustic music with the energy of a rock band. They will play this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16th and 17th, at The Independent, presented by KPIG.
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The Devil Makes Three – “Old Number Seven”
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Episode 146: Goh Nakamura
January 13, 2009
Stream the episode:
This week’s episode is presented by KQED Interactive.
This week, our podcast spotlights Goh Nakamura, a San Francisco singer-songwriter whose many musical talents you might have heard via his solo work, his involvement in local indie pop band The Invisible Cities and through his performances on soundtracks for films like American Gangster. Nakamura’s love of music has long found him playing in various bands, but he credits a solo Elliott Smith performance with opening his eyes to the power of a solo acoustic performance. Inspired by Smith, Leonard Cohen and others, his first album was a collection of solo home recordings that established him as a strong songwriter capable of creating emotionally resonant moments out of songs that mixed folk, indie pop and acoustic rock components.
It was four years until Nakamura released his follow-up, Ulysses, which came out last August. Instead of making another purely solo release, the songwriter worked with a number of talented contributors, whose vocal harmonies and full band instrumentation provide the backbone for a diverse and engaging release. And in making a full-band-oriented album, he has begun confronting the challenges of performing not just as a member of a group, but as its frontman. It’s a position he has more than earned. [More...]
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The Raveonettes Interview and Prize Pack Giveaway!
January 12, 2009
One of our favorite non-local bands, The Raveonettes, is coming to San Francisco’s Bimbo’s on Friday, January 23rd, where they’ll be performing with San Diego’s The Soft Pack (tickets here). We had the chance to interview Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes over e-mail to discuss their recent series of digital EPs, a love of Christmas music, and what they’re currently working on.
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The Raveonettes – “Come On Santa” (from Wishing You A Rave Christmas)
In addition to the interview, we are giving away an incredible prize pack for one lucky fan! All you have to do is send an E-mail to contest[at]thebaybridged.com including your name and mailing address and answers to the following questions: “What is your favorite Raveonettes song? Why?”
Included in the prize pack:
- Lust Lust Lust on vinyl
- All four Raveonettes digital EPs
- A signed poster
- A pair of tickets to the Bimbo’s show
The winner will be chosen and notified on Thursday, January 15th at noon.
And now to the interview…
The Bay Bridged – Why release a series of digital EPs, as opposed to a full length follow-up to Lust Lust Lust?
Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes – EP’s are a funny medium cause you can explore and express so much with just 3-4 songs and it keeps it interesting and fresh especially in our case cause we wanted to put out 4 of them and wanted them to be distinctly different. [More...]
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The Botticellis: “Here I Go Again” (Whitesnake cover)
January 12, 2009
The Botticellis recently contributed a recording to the Barcelona-based Buffetlibre DJs‘ “Rewind” project, a ongoing collection of indie and underground artists covering a wide variety of 70s, 80s, and 90s hits. The Botts are covering British hard rock band Whitesnake‘s hit “Here I Go Again,” redeeming an otherwise jocky jam with an understated, beautiful performance.
From the site:
Why have you chosen this journey back in time in particular?
I was really into 80s hair metal in elementary school, it was my rebellion against classical violin. I thought it would be fun to transform a three-chord power-ballad into something a little more subtle & harmonically interesting.
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The Botticellis – “Here I Go Again” (Whitesnake Cover)
It’s worth diving into the Rewind site, as there are a number of great covers there, including Starfucker‘s take on “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and Sportsday Megaphone‘s “Ever Fallen In Love”.
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Noise Pop Announces New Artists, Presale
January 9, 2009
Update: The preliminary festival schedule has been posted!
Yesterday, Noise Pop made some exciting announcements about their 2009 festival, which takes place Feb. 24 through Mar. 1 at venues throughout San Francisco. The announcement includes the addition of some great local and non-local acts and info about presale tickets and badges.
First things first, artists added to the headline lineup are:
Bob Mould (DC)
Thao (DC)
The Ohsees
Sleepy Sun
Ra Ra Riot (Syracuse, NY)
Sholi
From Monument To Masses
All of this is atop the fantastic list of already-announced artists: [More...]
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Weekend Picks: Jan. 8th-11th
January 8, 2009
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player…
