Reminder: Vendor applications for Rock Make Street Festival are due THIS Friday, 9/2!
August 31, 2011
Vendors, one final reminder that you only have until Friday, September 2nd to apply to participate in the fourth annual Rock Make Street Festival, returning to Treat Avenue at 18th Street in San Francisco on Saturday, September 17th from 12pm to 7pm (Facebook event). Presented by The Bay Bridged, Tartufi, and Cookie and the Dude, the free, all ages, all day celebration of local independent music, arts, crafts, and food recently announced the full slate of acclaimed local indie bands that will be performing, and vendor spots are quickly filling up.
After Friday, vendor applications will be closed. Until then, applications are being accepted at RockMake.com.
The 4th Annual Rock Make Street Festival is presented by:
The festival is also generously supported by our sponsors: Deli Radio, Scoutmob, Faultline Studios, KOOBA, Purebred Productions, Good Vibrations, El Rio, The Verdi Club, Lexington Club, and Rock Band Land.
You can also see photos and video from previous festivals and listen to mp3s from all of this year’s performers on the Rock Make web site.
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Video: Ferris Wheel Confessions from the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival!
August 31, 2011
Every year, The Bay Bridged heads to the Treasure Island Music Festival with two goals in mind: catching some great music, and helping attendees unburden themselves of embarrassing musical secrets through “Ferris Wheel Confessions.” High above last year’s Treasure Island festivities, we probed the minds of a number of you, as well as performers like The Sea and Cake, Surfer Blood and Phosphorescent. Enjoy the entertaining fruits of those music-focused therapy sessions above.
Also, the results of yesterday’s pre-TIMF confessions query, answering the eternal question “What’s the best (and worst) music for getting it on?”:
The best music/song for getting it on would have to be hip-hop or indie. Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’ comes to mind (and memory)…haha! CSS ‘Music Is My Hot Sex’ has a good beat & lyrics…music is definitely my hot hot sex. The worst…country and/or classical music. Classical is too distracting & country has no beat for my…well, beats.
Best: Instrumental music, preferably on vinyl so that when the side is over the record player just keeps going around making that end-of-the-side sound. I like that sound — it’s very post coital. Johnny Hodges “In A Mellow Tone” or John Zorn’s “The Gift” are good. You don’t want anything too interruptive. Good shopping music basically. But there are limits to this. Anything remotely Kenny G-esque and neither of you will ever be able to finish because you’ll be cringing too much.
Worst: Rap. Great for when you’re driving around the city thinking dirty thoughts, terrible in the sack. The bravado and boasting is hard to compete with. And anything that sounds even remotely misogynistic will kill the mood in a flash.
In middle school I told a boy that I wanted to lose my virginity to U2′s Sunday Bloody Sunday.
I was being honest and I was (obviously) clueless.
I was a sixth grade hussy.
Best music for getting it on: The Dream “Falsetto” That song is intended to be put on repeat while you just put in ‘work.’ Any track that has lyrics such as, “It’s all over now. You can calm back down. We can talk in this key right here,” is meant for a night of threading and breading.
Worst music for getting it on: Anything by Kenny Chesney. That country version of Jimmy Buffett crap he tries to put out makes my dick soft. #REALTALK
Best music:
Crash Into Me- Dave Matthews Band
So Long, Lonesome- Explosions in the Sky
Peacock- Katy PerryWorst music:
Macarena- Los Del Rio
Who Let the Dogs Out- Baha Men
Fuck A Dog- Blink-182
Congrats to the winners, who will each be getting a free ferris wheel trip during Treasure Island 2011, taking place on October 15-16, 2011.
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Live This Month: September 2011 – an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #256)
August 31, 2011
Live This Month: September 2011 (Podcast #256)
In Live This Month, we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two big local-focused events top this month’s calendar. First, we’re pleased to be co-producing the free, all ages 2011 Rock Make Street Festival, taking place on September 17th at Treat Avenue and 18th Street in the Mission District. Additionally, the Mission Creek Music Festival returns to SF and Oakland for its fifteenth installment this month. Beyond those fests, the September concert calendar seems heavy on out-of-town acts playing can’t-miss shows in SF, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a whole lot of great local bands accompanying them.
We’ll be serving up a Rock Make mixtape in the near future, in the meantime, hear new music from Pepper Rabbit, Devon Williams, Man/Miracle, Jens Lekman and more.
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About the bands:
LA duo Pepper Rabbit (“Murder Room”) just released Red Velvet Snow Ball on Kanine Records. The band’s North American tour with BRAIDS and Painted Palms comes to Bottom of the Hill on September 27th.
Devon Williams‘ (“Your Sympathy”) new album Euphoria came out this week on Slumberland Records. Williams’ West Coast tour behind the record comes to the East Nile on September 3rd and the Rickshaw Stop on the 4th.
Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman (“An Argument With Myself”) will be performing at the California Academy of Sciences on September 29th. The show is a Nightlife event that is doubling as a Treasure Island Music Festival pre-party.
Local indie pop trio Dreamdate (“Pyramids”) is one of our longtime favorite bands. You can see Dreamdate twice this month: at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records on September 3rd and at Thee Parkside on September 29th.
September 27th is a big day for SF band Dominant Legs (“Hoop of Love”). That’s the day the band’s first LP, Invitation, comes out, and, that night, the group performs at Cafe Du Nord with Nurses.
Active Child (“Hanging On”) is LA musician Pat Grossi’s electronic pop project. Chad Valley and Silver Swans perform alongside Grossi at Bottom of the Hill on September 28th.
Unfortunately, after the recording of this show, Tennis‘ (“Is It True?”) tourmates The Vaccines cancelled the bands’ upcoming tour due to illness.
Pamela (“Lie Down”) consists of two members of The Splinters, and the duo just released the Pamela is Hungover tape on Whoa Whoa Records. The band celebrates the release at Thee Parkside on September 15th, with Part Time, Surf Club, and Permanent Collection.
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Washed Out’s Yours Truly session includes cameos from Dominant Legs, The Frail
August 31, 2011
Yourstru.ly Presents: Washed Out “Far Away” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
On the surface, it’s about as random of a collaboration as one could come across. Before Washed Out headlined the Great American Music Hall last month, Ernest walked a few blocks over to Hyde Street Studio C where Yours Truly did their thing, with studio engineer Scott McDowell (Birds & Batteries, Sean Hayes, Geographer) capturing the session’s audio.
The first striking thing about this video is the “soft rock” approach Erwin takes to the otherwise pronounced “chillwave” genre he’s been trailblazing. After a seconds of “Far Away,” a smooth saxophone rolls in, and the shot widens to expose the guitarist for San Francisco’s Tricycle Records band The Frail – Rob Pera evidently assisted on Washed Out’s set that night. A couple bars later, the camera scans upward to Ryan Lynch of Dominant Legs.
How were all these San Francisco musicians enlisted into the Washed Out band for this session? The Bay Bridged asked Ryan Lynch to fill in some of the facts:
Ernest and I have known each other for a while. He contacted me about remixing one of my early demos back when MySpace messages weren’t all spam. We’ve been in touch ever since. He asked me to play on this track a couple days before the session and I was more than happy to do it. He said there has never been any guitar on a Washed Out song, so I just made sure not to mess it up.
It’s safe to say that Lynch didn’t mess anything up. Rather, maybe it’s time for Washed Out to consider adding on a guitarist and taking this “soft rock” approach to a new level.
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Tonight, 8/30/11: Lilac vinyl release at Engine Works
August 30, 2011
In addition to playing Mission Creek Oakland this weekend, Lilac will be playing a vinyl release party for their self-titled EP tonight at Engine Works (9:00 pm, $5).
Fellow locals Swiftumz will also be celebrating a record release for their debut album, and Sacramento’s English Singles are set to open the show.
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Video: Why? fall tour teaser includes song leak; band plays seated show at Great American 10/5
August 30, 2011
The thought of a tour documentary from Why? would naturally involve everything strange and slightly uncomfortable, as seen in this teaser directed by Scott Fredette and Ben Nicholson. Yoni Wolf is rocking a new hairdo these days, and is heading out on the road with Serengeti starting mid-September. At the end of the teaser, you hear a little bit of the new track “Distance,” which will be on the next Why? LP out on Anticon sometime next year.
According to PR, this Why? tour is going to be a little bit different than past tours. The full band (including brother Josiah and Doug McDiarmid) will perform “intimate” sets to seated crowds, allowing time for audience questions. The San Francisco show is on October 5 at the Great American Music Hall, and is on sale now. Full dates are after the jump.
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Contest: Win a ride on the Treasure Island Music Festival’s ferris wheel – just confess with us!
August 30, 2011
Just like we did in past years, The Bay Bridged will continue its tradition at the 2011Â Treasure Island Music Festival of conducting “Ferris Wheel Confessions.” In exchange for a free ride on the island’s ferris wheel and getting the best views of the festival, brave souls must make a music-related confession!
Get warmed up for this year’s festival confessions by answering us one thing:
What’s the best (and worst) music for getting it on?
Email your answer to contest@thebaybridged.com, and by the end of the day today (Tuesday) we’ll pick the 6 best answers to receive a free ride on the ferris wheel at the 2011 Treasure Island Music Festival.
Tomorrow we’ll share those winning answers (anonymously, of course), and reveal our video of confessions from the 2010 festival. In addition to festival-goers, we caught a few on-camera confessions from performers The Sea and Cake, Surfer Blood and Phosphorescent. Stay tuned.
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Thee Oh Sees announce new album: ‘Carrion Crawler/The Dream’
August 30, 2011
If you haven’t checked out Castlemania since its June release, you only have a few months left before Thee Oh Sees release another new album. Recorded live to tape by Chris Woodhouse in Sacramento, Carrion Crawler/The Dream will arrive on In the Red on November 15th. According to the band’s announcement:
“As I’m sure most would agree,†explains Dwyer, “Castlemania was more of a vocal tirade. This one’s meant to pummel and throb.â€
The band has some West Coast dates before the Treasure Island Music Festival. After TIMF, they’ll be touring North America. Full tour dates below.
