Local CD/LP releases this weekend: Mount Vicious, The Ghost, Warren Teagarden
August 25, 2009
There are a bunch of local CD releases this weekend. Three highlights below, and you can always check out our concert calendar for all of the upcoming local shows:
On Saturday night, SF/Oakland heavy rock-punk band Mount Vicious celebrate the release of their full length debut Don’t Be a Baby, Come and Get It at the Hemlock Tavern. You can stream the entire album at their Bandcamp page or below:
Ifihadahifi and Pegataur also perform. 9:30pm, $6.
The Ghost were a post-hardcore band that started in Berkeley in 2001 and developed a strong cult following before moving to Chicago, where they put out two albums on Some Records, a Chitown label co-owned by Walter Schreifels of Gorilla Biscuits/Quicksand/Rival Schools. Although The Ghost broke up in 2005, they’re reuniting this Friday at Thee Parkside to celebrate the vinyl rerelease of their Steve Albini-produced debut, This is a Hospital, on Solidarity Recordings.
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The Ghost – “Diffuser”
The Velvet Teen, Drowning With Our Anchors, and For.The.Win. round out the bill. 9pm, $10.
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The Famous unleash Come Home to Me
August 24, 2009
Local indie/alt-country band The Famous release their second album Come Home to Me this Thursday at Cafe Du Nord. The band describes the new album as a “blast of indie rock fused with hard-edged Americana that continues in the direction established on their debut, while venturing into fuzzed-out garage-blues, New Orleans swamp jazz, and Tex-Mex flavored surf.” For the record release, they’ll be joined onstage by Joe Goldmark (pedal steel) and jazz trombonist Charlie Wilson, both guest musicians on this newest 11-tracker.
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The Famous – “Come Home to Me”
In addition to making their new CD available for the first time, The Famous have generously declared that a portion of the proceeds from the Du Nord show will go to a very good cause: the fight against the restrictions felt by local venues via the CA Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). As we’ve written before, it’s an important fight and a cause definitely worth supporting.
Local bands Billy & Dolly and 20 Minute Loop bookend the show. 8:30pm, $10, 21+.
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Petracovich – “Life is Short” (unreleased; live video)
August 24, 2009
Petracovich – “Life is Short” from The Bay Bridged on Vimeo.
Petracovich performed at Amnesia on August 13th to celebrate the release of her new album, Crepusculo. This song isn’t on that album, but I’m hoping it’ll find release somewhere at some point.
The band will be performing live on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” on September 9th.
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Hélène Renaut – “Bumblebee”/Show Tonight
August 24, 2009
Hélène Renaut‘s many musical talents have led her to involvement in a number of different local projects over the years. String arrangements and violin work for Papercuts and Willow Willow, piano, violin and vocals for Donovan Quinn, and vocals for Honeycut add up to a lengthy resume, but she’s also a very talented Bay Area singer-songwriter in her own right. In June, Renaut contributed “Bumblebee” to Autumn Ferment Records‘ first Seasonal Sevens split, celebrating the season of summer with some lush psychy folk recorded by Papercuts’ Jason Quever.
Here’s Renaut performing the song at the Make-Out Room, but I’d also recommend heading to her MySpace page for the studio take:
You can see her tonight at a SMiLE! show at The Knockout. Chelsea Wolfe, J. Irvin Daily and Upstairs Downstairs perform, with DJ Neil Martinson on the decks. 9pm, $7, 21+.
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Rock Make Weekend is Here!
August 21, 2009
The Second Annual Rock Make Street Festival
The Rock Make Street Festival is this Sunday, August 23rd, from 11am to 7pm! The free all ages event takes place on Treat Avenue between 17th St and 18th St in the Mission. Come check out what Flavorpill, the Chronicle and more are calling a must-attend free day of great local music and crafts. Set times for all performances are below:
11:00am – The Psychotherapists
11:20 – Secret Cat
11:40 – The She’s
12:00pm – Photons
12:30 – Boneless Children Foundation
1:00 – The Ferocious Few
1:30 – The Dont’s
2:00 – Two Sheds
2:30 – Silian Rail
3:00 – Odawas
3:30 – Magic Bullets
4:00 – Geographer
4:30 – Low Red Land
5:00 – Music For Animals
5:30 – Tartufi
Come to our Rock Make Pre-Party and Post-Party at the Rite Spot Cafe!
Be sure to also check out our Rock Make Pre-Party on Saturday, August 22nd at the Rite Spot Cafe, featuring performances by Dame Satan, Tiny Television and Marcus Stoesz (of Paper Airplanes). The FREE show starts at 8pm.
After the festival, we’ll be heading back to the Rite Spot for another free show by Carletta Sue Kay and Ramshackle Romeos! 8pm start for that one too.
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My First Earthquake at Thee Parkside
August 21, 2009
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My First Earthquake – “Cool in the Cool Way”
This weekend, hear some decidedly un-grunge tunes at a venue full of divey appeal. Synth popsters My First Earthquake will be playing tracks from their party-perfect album, Downstairs, at Thee Parkside on Saturday. Â The band is steadily gaining attention for their catchy tunes and spot-on social observations, and this dryly witty video doesn’t hurt either.Â
My First Earthquake will be joined by catchy indie-pop-rock trio Ex-Boyfriends and Vitamin Party, who will be rounding out the night with a punky, booze-fueled set.Â
9pm, $7, 21+.
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Guest Blog: Looking Back at The Locals
August 21, 2009
by Anton Patzner
This Sunday, August 23rd, The Matches will take the stage at The Fillmore Auditorium for their final show. When I heard this there was a side of me, perhaps my romantic side, that really couldn’t believe it. This was the band who had truely become “more than local boys”, who would be together forever, singing epic anthems to cheering crowds around the world. My practical side understands. Years of non-stop touring in small clubs and sleeping in motel 6′s will take its toll on any artist and eventually he will want change. Still, I can’t help feeling that this is the end of an important era in Bay Area music.
Judgement Day has known the Matches since even before they were called “The Locals“. My brother Lewis went to grade school with their drummer Matt Whalen and bassist Justin San Souci and saw them play their first show together at the St. Theresa’s school talent show. After that, I would always hear stories about their band from my parents. “The Locals played at Noelle’s birthday party”, “The Locals just opened for Blink 182″, “The Locals won a contest and are touring Japan”. It was almost like my parents were trying to make me jealous. At that time, as a rock-and-roll-dreaming high school student, I wanted nothing more than to have a band that actually played real shows. The jealousy quickly turned to admiration, however, when I finally met these “Locals” and saw what they were doing.
The Matches – “Yankee in a Chip Shop”
I first met Matches singer Shawn Harris outside of The Fillmore, fatefully the same venue where our bands will share the stage for their last show. With a guitar in one hand and a stack of fliers in the other, Shawn was hard at work, promoting his next show at a new Oakland venue called “Imusicast”. He was accompanied by a pair of young girls who were wearing Locals t-shirts and carrying Locals banners on long poles. Having left the Fillmore show early, I had the chance to introduce myself to Shawn before the rest of the audience came out. The name of the show on the flier that he gave me was “L3: Live, Local and Loud”. It featured a handful of cool Bay Area bands and sounded like the perfect chance for me to finally see The Locals. Just then the Fillmore show officially ended and the doors flew open. Shawn took up his guitar and bravely turned towards the oncoming flood of music fans. I watched him break into his song “Superman” and sing for a moment until he was enveloped by the crowd and all I could see were the Locals banners flying above them.
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Video: Geographer – Interview and “Age of Consent” (New Order cover)
August 20, 2009
thebaybridged.com – Geographer from Fenny Kuo on Vimeo.
New Bay Bridged videographer Fenny Kuo recently caught up with Geographer at the Hemlock Tavern, interviewing the band and capturing their take on New Order’s “Age of Consent”. The band has a new 7″ coming out later this year, but you should catch them this Sunday at 4pm at the Rock Make Street Festival.
Fenny’s got some more great videos coming in the future and we’re excited to have her on board!
