Chasing the Moon
March 18, 2009
Local recording engineer Scott McDowell spearheads a really terrific monthly video podcast called Chasing the Moon. Documenting some intimate nighttime performances by local bands that look and sound great, it’s a series well worth checking out.
Head to chasingthemoon.pdcst.com to check out the show. March’s episode features a set from Silian Rail, with past episodes spotlighting Oona and Indianna Hale. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes and via Feedburner.
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Bandloop Introduces New iPhone Application
March 18, 2009
While at a mini Bay Area show of sorts over at the Mohawk last night, we ran into Owen Grace, one of the founders of Bandloop, who was excited to show us the next big project they have been working on. It turns out they’ve been quite busy moving into the mobile world with the release of the Bandloop iPhone Application which merges their already extensive concert listings on bandloop with an interactive map that automatically locks into your location and loads the appropriate shows for the night.
We were definitely impressed with the quick demo we saw and look forward to using it here at SxSW and when we’re back in the Bay Area. This freely available application can be found on iTunes by using this link or by searching on the iPhone App Store with the phrase “band loop”.
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Company Car CD Release This Saturday
March 17, 2009
San Francisco’s Company Car will celebrate the release of their new album at Bottom of the Hill this Saturday, March 21. Company Car has been satisfying the Bay Area’s craving for quality indie-punk-rock for years. The new music has all the classic elements, plus a few punctuated harmonies and some more melodic ballads.
They’re playing with two other great local bands, The Trophy Fire and Overview, as well as LA’s Max and the Marginalized. The show starts at 9pm and costs $10.
Here’s a cute little preview montage they made for the occasion: [More...]
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The Bay Bridged heads to SXSW
March 17, 2009
As we’ve been mentioning, Christian, Emily and I are heading to Austin today for the South by Southwest Music Festival. In addition to being a really fun annual ritual, it’s also where the original idea for The Bay Bridged was birthed so there’s a special significance for us beyond five days of gratuitous overconsumption.
As you’ll notice at the top of the middle column, we’ll be live-blogging over the next five days in addition to posting local and Austin-based stuff on the blog for the rest of the week. Over at The Deli, Anna’s done a bang-up job of highlighting Bay Area parties and showcases, including our Bay Area Takeover party on Thursday, March 19th. If you’re heading to Austin, we’d really love to see you there.
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Episode 155: Jocelyn Kane, SF Entertainment Commission
March 17, 2009
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With The Bay Bridged heading down to South by Southwest this week, we thought we’d bring you a special episode of our weekly podcast. If SXSW is at least ostensibly about discovering the “next big thing” in independent music, there’s much more to music’s future than just finding new bands. Indeed, a healthy indie music scene requires an artist-friendly environment, meaning that music’s future is intertwined with the future of housing, the economy, health care, and other areas of life in the City of San Francisco. With that in mind, this week’s podcast features an interview with Jocelyn Kane, Deputy Director of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission.
The Commission is the City agency charged with tackling music as a public policy issue. In addition to the many other hats she wears and has worn in the Bay Area music community, as Deputy Director Jocelyn is in a unique position to discuss the issues that musicians have faced living and performing in San Francisco, the issues that they are likely to face in the future, and the City’s role in sustaining San Francisco independent music.
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Cryptacize: songs from Mythomania
March 16, 2009
The folks over at Asthmatic Kitty have posted a bunch of mp3s from the excellent new Cryptacize album to whet your appetite for Mythomania‘s arrival on April 21st. This is the second release from the band, which includes Nedelle Torrisi (Nedelle) and Chris Cohen (The Curtains, ex-Deerhoof), and it’s full of catchy, ambitious nuggets of retro-informed art-pop.
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Cryptacize – “Blue Tears”
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Cryptacize – “Tail and Mane”
I’ve been told that the group had a superb performance at Noise Pop and you can catch them tomorrow night at Bottom of the Hill with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Duchess Says. 9pm, $10/$12.
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Harbours release, Baghdad by the Bay showcase (with Bay Bridged discount!)
March 16, 2009
Miguel Zelaya’s Harbours have digitally released No Souvenirs, the band’s second album of hooky singer-songwriter rock-pop, now available on iTunes. Examiner.com recently posted a great interview with Miguel, noting that the album is a mix of live-in-the-studio performances and more manicured songs. Take a listen to a couple below:
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Harbours – “Situation”
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Harbours – “No Souvenirs”
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The Bay Bridged Guest DJs at KUSF (Updated with Playlist and Link to Audio)
March 14, 2009
In case you missed The Bay Bridged on KUSF yesterday, here’s the playlist from the show. You can listen to the entire hour at KUSF-Archives.com.
french miami – science fiction
vetiver – sister
the botticellis – table by the window
birds & batteries – lightning
maus haus – irregular hearts
papercuts – future primitive
the morning benders – grain of salt
the red verse – circles
garret pierce – adam
sholi – all that we can see
leopold and his fiction – tiger lily
window twins – poison arrow
emily jane white – liza
Thanks again to the great folks at KUSF for having us!
