Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Worker Bee, Peter Wolf Crier, The Sandwitches
January 19, 2011
To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged.com with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name to one contest. Winners for each show will be decided using the guidelines listed below.
Thursday, January 20th
Worker Bee, Sleeptalks, Nick Reinhart, Sunbeam Rd. @ Cafe du Nord
To win a pair of tickets to the show be the SECOND person to enter!
The show starts at 8pm, $10, 21+. Purchase advance tickets here.
Peter Wolf Crier, Retribution Gospel Choir, Cannons and Clouds @ Bottom of the Hill
To win a pair of tickets to the show be the THIRD person to enter!
The show starts at 9pm, $10, 21+. Purchase advance tickets here.
Tuesday, January 25th
(((folkYEAH!))) presents Winter Residency with The Sandwitches, Art Museums, Rachel Fannan (of Sleepy Sun) @ Slim’s
To win a pair of tickets to the show be the FIRST person to enter!
The show starts at 8pm, $5, 6+. Purchase advance tickets here.
Cannons and Clouds – “Chameleons Migrate South”
Sunbeam Rd. – “Waves”
The Sandwitches – “Back to the Sea”
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Mixtape: Surveying the Indie Pop Renaissance (Podcast #241)
January 19, 2011
Mixtape: Surveying the Indie Pop Renaissance (Podcast #241)
We love psych rock, garage, folk rock, singer-songwriter stuff, and a variety of other musical genres here at The Bay Bridged, but our first love was, and will forever be, indie pop. From the jangly to the synthy, an uber-catchy, clever pop song is something to be treasured. After what felt like a few slightly lean years for the genre (from our perspective, anyway), we’re now in the midst of a real fertile time for great indie pop. This month’s mixtape collects over an hour’s worth of great new and recent indie pop songs, including tunes from almost a dozen Bay Area-based artists. Enjoy!
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Black Swans play Bay Area shows this week, after split with Bonnie Prince Billy
January 18, 2011
Photo: Lydia Deakin
The unabridged book of American songwriters would include pages on Bob Martin and Larry Jon Wilson. But not that many pages. In order to understand their contributions one would need to push past the Haggards and Hardins, the Goffins and Kings, the Everlys and Earles, and dive headlong into the footnotes and sidebars. It is in this historical underbrush that Jerry DiCicca operates. The impresario, producer, and yes songwriter (nom de plume: The Black Swans) has spent the good part of four years stoking a rediscovery of these two diamonds-in-the-rough, culminating with the release of Larry Jon Wilson (Drag City) in June of 2009, which DiCicca co-produced. Wilson had appeared in “Heartworn Highways,” the 1981 film that also featured Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and a young Steve Earle. But in spite of this and a run of four albums on Monument Records (home to Roy Orbison, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton and others) he sunk below the commercial radar, appearing only sporadically over the next 30 years. After his unexpected death in 2010 DiCicca’s The Black Swans and Bonnie “Prince” Billy released a split-45 paying tribute to the honest-voiced Georgian.
It would seem that DiCicca gathers no moss. Between making records with Wilson and Bob Martin he was wracking up critical acclaim for his own; the next, Don’t Blame the Stars, is slated to appear via Misra Records this spring. Meanwhile, the “Satisfied Mind Tour†carried The Black Swans through fifty shows in final two months of 2010 and after a holiday break the band has picked back up on the West Coast. Their Bay Area gigs are listed below.
Thursday 1/20 – The Stork Club with Horns of Happiness, TV Mike & the Scarecrowes
Friday 1/21 – The Red Devil Lounge with Passenger & Pilot and Hypnotist Collectors
Saturday 1/22 – The Rite Spot with Lesser Lights
Sunday 1/23 – The Knockout with Pancho-san, Will Sprott (The Mumlers)
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Uzi Rash and The Babies at the Ghost Town Gallery, Saturday January 8th 2011
January 18, 2011
I missed local locos Uzi Rash when they performed as the Monks for Halloween at thee Parkside. I would not make that mistake again. I arrived to the Ghost Town Gallery mid-set and the energy was intense. One member was standing atop his amp with the only light in the room shining out from behind him. These guys have been making drug-tainted, psychedelic grooves since 2007 at least. Their debut record High and Phree was released in 2009 on Brooklyn’s Freedom School Records. They write songs like “I’m a Trashbag” with barely decipherable lyrics over vertigo-inducing riffs that at times reminds me of a demented extended Velvet Underground jam. Other instrumentals like “Serf Rock” demonstrate what may lie beneath the noise, something completely different. These guys take experimental to new heights. If all the bay area garage bands are starting to sound the same to you, look no further. They take part in many art shows around town and will perform at another on Friday March 4th at Oakland’s cherished 1,2,3,4 Go Records.
Over at the bar, Greg Ashley was serving up ice cold Pabst and Tequila. He kindly returned half of the tip I handed over.
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Sonya Cotton writes EP in memory of her mother, launches Kickstarter campaign
January 18, 2011
Sonya Cotton wrote a six-song EP in memory of her mother, who passed away a year and a half ago after being diagnosed with cancer. To support the recording process, Sonya has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an album that, in her words, “is for all of us.”
Sonya Cotton – “It Wasn’t Long Ago”
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I’m asking for $10,000 to fund the recording of an album that is a tribute to my mother, who died of cancer a year and a half ago. The album also explores more general themes of loss: the loss of safe space, of home, of wild animals and wild spaces. The goal is to record live – 6 band mates in the same room – at Hyde Street Studio C with Mr. McDowell, at the end of February. Six more local guest musicians will also be adding their talents in overdubbing sessions.
“It Wasn’t Long Ago” is a truly beautiful folk song, and a perfect introduction to what Sonya is working to accomplish. Please consider donating to her campaign, and spreading the word accordingly.
Sonya Cotton will be playing a show at the Rickshaw Stop on January 25th, along with Ever Isles and Honeycomb (8:00 pm, $10).
Previously:
- In 2010, Kickstarter ushered in a new era of fan-supported albums
- Podcast Episode 206: Sonya Cotton
- Sonya Cotton releases ‘Red River’
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Recommended, 1/17-1/23: Young Prisms, Jake Mann, Worker Bee, and Retribution Gospel Choir
January 17, 2011
Every Monday, we’ll be offering you early picks for some of the week’s best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings.
Young Prisms – “Feel Fine”
Melted Toys – “Lost Connection”
Sunbeam Rd. – “Circular Breathing”
Jake Mann & The Upper Hand – “Days Are Long”
Grand Lake – “Spark”
Retribution Gospel Choir – “Workin’ Hard”
Cannons and Clouds – “Chameleons Migrate South”
Young Prisms launch tour, new album at Bottom of the Hill
With Friends for Now, SF’s Young Prisms seem to have taken the dreamy, reverb-drenched beach pop of their debut EP and turned up the distortion something fierce. That edge is a welcome compliment to the group’s talent for engaging, hazy melodies. The album’s out January 18th on Kanine, and the band’s playing at Bottom of the Hill on January 19th, with Ganglians, Melted Toys and Speculator.
Worker Bee headlines all-local bill at Cafe Du Nord
“Drenched In Cycles,” from San Jose’s Worker Bee, has the infectious enthusiasm of 90s indie rock mixed with the proggier right-turns of a group that began as an instrumental act. They’re well-paired with similarly indie-prog locals Sunbeam Rd., as well as Sleeptalks and Nick Reinhart (of Tera Melos), at Cafe Du Nord on January 20th (8pm, $10).
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Lumerians – “Atlanta Brook”
January 14, 2011
Via Impose, here’s a new song from Oakland’s Lumerians, from the band’s upcoming album Transmalinnia. The record is out March 1 on Knitting Factory Records.
Previously:
- Lumerians: The Bay’s next great psych band?
- Photos: Sleepy Sun, Lumerians, True Widow, Kings & Queens @ BotH
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J. Irvin Dally – “Sun Room”
January 14, 2011
Sun Room – j. irvÃn dally from j. irvÃn dally on Vimeo.
I feel like I’ve been calling J. Irvin Dally a prodigy for years, but this young musician blossomed into quite a mature songwriter. “Sun Room” will be released as a 7″ with the Oakland-based label Pretty Blue Presents next month. The song is available to download above, paired with this beautifully shot murder sequence starring Jordan himself, done by Steve Lamme and Applehorse Media.
Jordan Dally lived in Sacramento during the time of his first full-length and EP, both available to stream on his Bandcamp page. He recently returned to his native LA area, but add him to your “must-see” bands at SxSW this year.
