Check out the live stream of Jonathan Mann’s “30 songs in 30 days”
June 24, 2011
Jonathan Mann and some of his musician friends (including members of The Spinto Band) are almost finished with a “30 songs in 30 days” project, which they’ve been working hard at since the beginning of June. Writing a song a day is nothing new for Mann: he has been doing just that (and posting videos of the results on YouTube) since January 1, 2009.
A live stream of the process can be found on Songatron.com, and you can listen to demos of the songs Mann has recorded so far this month below:
Song A Day: The Album (demos) by jonathanmann
Starting on July 1st, people will be able to vote for their favorite 10 songs from the 30 day project, and the chosen songs will appear on the Song a Day album, which will come out on September 28th.
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From the Mailbag: Extra Classic, Teen Witch, moonbell, J. Irvin Dally
June 24, 2011
We get more submissions than we can handle here at TBB, so periodically we’ll dip into the mailbag and check out a bunch of songs we’ve recently received. As always, feel free to let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Extra Classic – “Give Them the Same”
San Francisco’s Extra Classic is led by the duo of Adrianne Verhoeven (who sang and played keyboards in The Anniversary) and songwriter/producer Alex de Landa (who has worked with The Donkeys, Papercuts, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone). The pair’s love of classic Jamaican sounds translated into an all-analog approach for the recording of Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like A Laser Beam. The album is out on CD and 2LP via Manimal Vinyl on September 27th.
TEEN WITCH – I Don’t Mind by WHOA WHOA
Given the duo’s Bay Area pedigree — Tyler McCauley used to be in SF band Tempo No Tempo and Caroline Partamian is one of the bi-coastal The Splinters — I hope that NYC band Teen Witch makes it out here at some point. Uber-catchy surf-garage track “I Don’t Mind” comes from the band’s self-titled cassette EP, currently out on Whoa Whoa Records.
SF trio moonbell explore psychy, shoegaze-influenced sonic space on the band’s debut EP, figurine. The band’s EP release party is July 6th at the Elbo Room, and the folks at Aquarius dig the album quite a bit: “Moonbell…exists in some really awesome place right between Spacemen 3 and early Ride, Swervedriver, and Chapterhouse. Lilting vocals, soaring and dazed guitars all in a smoky vapor of entrancement. Such a great debut!”
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The Boulevard Ear: All About Michael McIntosh
June 24, 2011
Welcome back to the Boulevard Ear, a regular feature on The Bay Bridged, where our man about town examines a community’s live music offerings over the course of one evening. What is it like to be a show-goer whose experiences are dictated entirely by location? Follow Todd as he explores Bay Area music venues by neighborhood, finding a variety of independent music along the way.
The Boulevard Ear ~ All About Michael McIntosh
The shadows grow long over the lawn at Park Chalet, the lower back half of the historic Beach Chalet on the Great Highway. The band has packed up and gone. The first wave of evening diners – showered, tidy in their khakis and black linen shirts – are tucking in napkins on the patio. But the afternoon revelers cannot bring themselves to go home. They linger over pints on the Adirondack chairs, or with bottles of white wine in the surrounding shrubbery.
It is magic hour in the Sunset, on one of those rare days when the last 10 blocks of the western continental United States are the most comfortable place to be in the entire Bay Area. The fates who conjure up high barometric pressure have granted us a stay, perhaps to repay us for those three extra months of spring rain.
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A Sunday evening in the Sunset turns out to be a strange proposition on a day such as this, when that last bottle of wine or pint of beer is all it takes to convince you that such a glorious day need never end. Mollusk Surf Shop, Outerlands, General Store, Trouble Coffee — landmarks of the neighborhood’s revival — are shuttered. (One should put in a word for Mollusk, however – besides winning best surf shop/art gallery honors by a mile, they also host the occasional live set from, say, Sonny and the Sunsets).
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CANT (Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear) announces tour; tickets for Independent show on sale tomorrow at noon
June 23, 2011
Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear has announced a North American tour for his solo project CANT, and he’ll be performing at The Independent on October 5th. Yes, October is a long time from now (who knows if we’ll still be alive?), but tickets go on sale Friday, June 24th at noon, and this seems one that will sell out quickly. Taylor is releasing CANT’s debut album Dreams Come True on September 13th on Terrible Records.
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Camp Art Music Party (C.A.M.P.), 7/22-7/24/11 – where SF/Oakland bands meet the Russian River
June 23, 2011
The Camp Art Music Party (C.A.M.P.) will take place July 22nd – July 24th up north in Guerneville – one of the smallest of the small towns in Sonoma County. The event is meant to mimic the the summer camps of our youth, with plenty of games, classes and group events in between the myriad of bands scheduled to play. The festival will take place on the site of an abandoned amusement park, very close to the banks of the Russian River.
Around 30 bands are scheduled to play, including Salt Minds, James & Evander, Trainwreck Riders, TV Mike & the Scarecrows, the Blank Tapes, Winnie Byrd, the Aimless Never Miss, and many more.
Additional information will be available about the event in the upcoming weeks. In the meantime, watch the C.A.M.P. video promo below, and check out the event website.
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Dominant Legs – “Laughing All the Time”/Melted Toys – “Rose Again”
June 23, 2011
Just in time for the start of summer, here are both sides of a new split 7″ from SF’s Dominant Legs and Melted Toys. The 7″ is out now via French labels Atelier Ciseaux and La Station Radar. Both bands will be supporting Real Estate at The Independent on August 2nd (8pm, $15).
Dominant Legs, “Laughing the Whole Time” by The FADER
Melted Toys, “Rose Again” by The FADER
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Mixtape: Fifteen great songs by Ty Segall (Podcast #251)
June 22, 2011
Mixtape: Fifteen great songs by Ty Segall (Podcast #251)
Our latest podcast episode surveys the music of San Francisco’s Ty Segall, an artist whose prolific and acclaimed solo output hit a new peak with the release of Goodbye Bread yesterday on Drag City. The album is being hailed as a new chapter for Segall, one that finds him successfully employing cleaner sounds in a batch of melodic psych-rock. That the new album is excellent isn’t a surprise for long-time fans: over the past several years, Ty has put out a legion of terrific records incorporating elements of lo-fi, surf, punk, garage and psych-pop. This mixtape captures fifteen great Ty Segall tracks in a survey of the artist’s solo career so far. Goodbye Bread is likely to establish Segall as a bigger name, but this mix confirms that he’s been releasing exciting music for quite a while now.
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The Bay Bridged Presents: The Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest!
June 22, 2011
This July 4th, come spend your holiday with us on the El Rio patio for the Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest (3pm, $8, 21+). Six great bands are on deck to help celebrate the things that make this country great: indie music and afternoon beers. Oh, and freedom. Definitely freedom.
By this point, we hopefully don’t need to sell you on the many merits of John Vanderslice and Tartufi, two of our favorite local acts/comrades, but the show also features the very last performance ever by SF trio Low Red Land, the understated beauty of Walking in Sunlight, the welcome return of Idaho prog-pop dynamos Finn Riggins, and Phoenix’s Whisperlights, who are about to release their first full length, Surfaces. It’s a really fun lineup and guarantees to be a hell of a party. We’ll see you there!
John Vanderslice – “Convict Lake”
Low Red Land – “Better Angels”
Some Are Knightz by Finn Riggins
Ulna Habenaha by whisperlights
