We’ll be covering the Treasure Island Music Festival as it happens!
October 16, 2009
If you can’t make it to Treasure Island this weekend, we’ll be liveblogging throughout the festival and throwing up some photos and videos as well. You can follow the liveblogging here at the web site, and we’ll be posting some updates on Twitter as well.
If you are going, be sure to grab the festival schedule, the Treasure Island iPhone App and our TI Preview Mix. Oh, and be sure to swing by the Ferris wheel when we tweet about “Ferris Wheel Confessions.” We’ll pay for your ride if you unburden your musical soul to our camera.
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Songwriter Sessions: Chantelle Tibbs
October 16, 2009
Songwriter Sessions is Bay Bridged contributor Chris DeMento’s new series of of audio profiles with Bay Area singer-songwriters. In the first episode, Chris gets to know Chantelle Tibbs and Hoan Ton-That.
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Songwriter Sessions, episode 1: Chantelle Tibbs and Hoan Ton-That
Chantelle Tibbs will be performing on October 25th at the Subterranean Arthouse in Berkeley, and on November 4th at Annie’s Social Club (with Emily Bonn and Melanie Keller).
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Devendra’s studio experience captured in “Walillamdzi” montage
October 15, 2009
Devendra Banhart fans will be exhilarated to catch a glimpse of the process of making Where Will We Be, due out Oct. 27. The short captures Banhart working with Paul Butler (Band of Bees), all synced to the concluding song of the album, “Walillamdzi.”
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Weekend Picks: 10/15-19
October 15, 2009
Friday: Bowery Boy Blue, Tether Horse, Lesser Lights @ House of Shields (9pm, $5)
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Bowery Boy Blue – “Now We Will Be Brothers”
Saturday: WHY?, Au, Mt. Eerie, Serengeti & Polyphonic @ Great American Music Hall (9pm, $16)
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WHY? – “The Blackest Purse
Sunday: Joseph Childress, Honeycomb, Jacsha vs. Jascha, Jeremy Dalmas @ Makeout Room (8pm, $7)
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Honeycomb – “Cough Syrup”
Monday: Beach House, Papercuts @ Bottom of the Hill (9pm, $14)
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Papercuts – “You Can Have What You Want”
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Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Monsters of Folk @ The Fox Theater
October 14, 2009
It’s been a while since we’ve had a Ticket Giveaway Wednesday on the site so today we are pleased giveaway a pair of tickets to Monsters of Folk who will be playing this Saturday evening at The Fox Theater on Oakland.
Monsters of Folk, which includes Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward and Mike Mogis, will perform a 2 1/2 hour musical event showcasing brand new songs from their recently released self-titled debut album, as well as songs fans have come to enjoy from their respective Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket and M Ward catalogues.
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Monsters of Folk – “Say Please”
To enter send an E-mail to contest[at]thebaybridged.com with your name and “I want to see Monsters of Folk” in the subject line. The 5th person to enter will win!
The show starts at 8pm, tickets are $39.50 – $45.50 and can be purchased ahead of time here.
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Contest: Alternative Tentacles’ Thirtieth Anniversary
October 14, 2009
Local institution Alternative Tentacles Records celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. Beginning with The Dead Kennedys’ “California Uber Alles” single in June 1979, the label has since released over 400 records from a diverse roster of talented bands. AT is still going strong in 2009, with recent releases from Turn Me On Dead Man, Alice Donut, Star Fucking Hipsters, and Jello Biafra’s latest project, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, which also features members of Victims Family and Faith No More.
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Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine – “The Terror of Tinytown”
Alternative Tentacles is celebrating its thirty years with a three day “Incest-A-Thon” at the Great American Music Hall from November 5th through the 7th. Biafra and the Guantanamo School headline all three nights, and they’ll be joined by a different set of AT artists each night. Thursday includes Citizen Fish, Star Fucking Hipsters, and MIA. Friday features Ludicra, Munly & the Lupercalians, and Knights of the New Crusade. Saturday brings Alice Donut, Victims Family, and Burning Image. Each show starts at 8pm, and is $20/22 and all ages. Three-day passes are also available.
To help Alternative Tentacles celebrate its thirty years, we’re holding a contest to give away a pair of passes to all three thirtieth anniversary shows! Second prize is a $50 credit to Alternative Tentacles’ online store!
To enter, e-mail contest@thebaybridged.com with the subject “Alternative Tentacles” and your answers to the following questions, which have been adapted from the AT artist interviews at the Alternative Tentacles blog.
What is your first memory of Alternative Tentacles? Where were you in 1979?
What is your favorite Alternative Tentacles band? What is your favorite Alternative Tentacles release?
How would your life be different without Alternative Tentacles?
Where do you see yourself in 2039?
The deadline for entry is Friday, October 23rd at noon. The best answers win!
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Two weeks of Mi Ami + These Are Powers
October 14, 2009
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Mi Ami – “New Guitar” (from Watersports)
Recent Thrill Jockey signee Mi Ami is tearing up the Bay Area this month with rambunctious electro Brooklynites These Are Powers.
Friday, 10/16: Mi Ami with These Are Powers, Pit Er Pat @ 21 Grand in Oakland (8:30pm, $8)
Friday, 10/23: Mi Ami with These Are Powers, Gowns @ The Knockout (10pm, $5)
The band’s first release for their new label will be the Cut Men 12″ in December. 20jazzfunkgreats has a great track from their recent entry in Hoss Records‘ “Techno” series, the almost entirely electronic Towers Fall 12″.
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Friday: The Music Lovers’ final show
October 13, 2009
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The Music Lovers – “Masculine Feminine”
San Francisco’s The Music Lovers are calling it a day this week, with a final, early evening concert at the Make-Out Room this Friday night (7:30pm, $7). The band released three very well-regarded full lengths of cosmopolitan pop on Le Grand Magistery, but according to their MySpace blog, they’re now “scattering to the four corners of the Earth.” The Minks open Friday’s farewell show.
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