Posts by: The Bay Bridged
First City Festival: Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, Beach House lead 30+ bands performing at new summer fest in Monterey
May 20, 2013
Known as California’s “first city,” Monterey has a unique place in the history of arts and culture in the state. Monterey was the site of the state’s first theater, and California’s first newspaper originated from a Monterey printing press. Musically, the city is best known for the Monterey Pop Festival, which predated Woodstock and is credited as setting the template for the major music festival, as well as the annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
This year, you can add a new festival to Monterey’s list of musical accomplishments, as Goldenvoice is bringing over 30 bands to the Monterey County Fair and Event Center on August 24th and 25th for the First City Festival. It’s a ridiculously strong lineup, with top-billed bands Modest Mouse and Passion Pit supported by Beach House, Toro y Moi, Deerhunter, Animal Collective side project Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks (in its first West Coast show), and many, many more.
In addition to all of the performers on three stages, the First City Festival promises a Vaudeville-style variety stage, a full carnival, and local beer, wine, and food offerings.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, May 31 at the festival’s website. In the meantime, dig into the full lineup below:
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Mixtape: San Francisco’s Newest Psychedelic Sounds (Podcast #306)
May 15, 2013
Mixtape: San Francisco’s Newest Psychedelic Sounds (Podcast #306)
It’s almost 18 months since we last did a psych-focused mixtape, which means there’s quite a bit to catch up on. The Bay continues to be a vital source for top-notch mind-expanding bands, whether it’s the heady drones of Carlton Melton and Date Palms, or the swaggering rock of Glitter Wizard and Coo Coo Birds.
Several of the groups included here have new records either out now or coming out soon. Prolific instrumental duo Barn Owl just released its fifth album, V, on Thrill Jockey; meanwhile, cosmic rock group Lumerians is serving up The High Frontier later this year. While we’ve been following some of these bands for years, it’s exciting that they’re joined here by a number of newer arrivals, like Fuzz (a heavy rock project from Ty Segall and Charlie Moothart), Group Rhoda‘s experimental synth songs, and electrified jams from Golden Void and Life Coach (both of which feature the guitar work of Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless).
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Phono del Sol 2013: Thee Oh Sees, YACHT, Bleached, K.Flay top our third-annual music and food festival!
May 13, 2013
The Bay Bridged is proud to announce the lineup of performers at the 2013 Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival! The all day, all ages music and food festival — taking place on Saturday, July 13th at Potrero del Sol Park — will be headlined by SF’s unstoppable garage titans Thee Oh Sees and LA electro-pop virtuosos YACHT.
They’ll be joined on two stages by some of indie music’s most exciting bands, including LA’s garage pop duo Bleached, NYC-via-SF rapper K.Flay, guitar shredder Marnie Stern, and SF synth-pop duo Painted Palms, as well as Blouse, Social Studies, Cool Ghouls, Surf Club and B. Hamilton. In addition to all that great music, some of San Francisco’s finest food trucks will be selling their tasty creations all day long.
Tickets are on sale right now, with a limited number of discount six-packs available (save $5 per ticket by grabbing six for you and your friends). VIP tickets are also available, which include access to a shaded viewing area for the main stage, drink tickets, VIP bathrooms, and a tour of Tiny Telephone Recording led by John Vanderslice.
More information about the festival, including all of the bands and food trucks, can be found at the newly-relaunched PhonoDelSol.com. To keep on top of all of the latest festival developments, be sure to like the Phono del Sol Facebook page and RSVP to our Facebook event.
Phono del Sol is a joint production of The Bay Bridged and Tiny Telephone.
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Enter our Phono del Sol 2013 contest to win VIP tickets!
May 10, 2013
As we announced on Monday, we’re really excited to present the third annual Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival on Saturday, July 13th in Potrero del Sol Park. It’s going be to be a great day of indie music and food, with twelve bands on two stages, and an collection of our favorite local food trucks.
Before we announce our lineup on Monday, we’re giving away giving away a four-pack of VIP tickets to Phono del Sol 2013 on our Facebook page right now! Just like the page (if you haven’t already), then enter this contest, and you’ll be eligible to win! This contest ends Monday morning, so you better enter now!
A further reminder: tickets are on sale right now, with a limited number of discount six-packs available (save $5 per ticket by grabbing six for you and your friends)! To keep on top of all of the latest festival developments, be sure to like the Phono del Sol Facebook page.
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The 2013 Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival is coming on July 13, 2013!
May 6, 2013
We’re proud to announce the 2013 Phono del Sol Music & Food Festival! On Saturday, July 13th, we’ll be returning to Potrero del Sol Park for a great day of indie music and food trucks, and our third year promises to be the best one yet.
For starters, we’re expanding to two stages, meaning twelve exciting bands from the Bay and beyond, as well as a great assortment of our favorite local food trucks. This year’s music lineup is crazy great, and we’ll be announcing all of the details next week.
Tickets are on sale right now, with a limited number of discount six-packs available (save $5 per ticket by grabbing six for you and your friends)! To keep on top of all of the latest festival developments, be sure to like the Phono del Sol Facebook page.
Speaking of our Facebook page, we’re giving away a four-pack of VIP tickets to Phono del Sol 2013 on our Facebook page right now! Just like the page (if you haven’t already), then enter this contest, and you’ll be eligible to win!
Stay tuned — this festival is gonna rule!
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Live This Month: May 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #305)
May 1, 2013
Live This Month: May 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #305)
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.
Few recent artists have transitioned from lo-fi to hi-fi better than Kurt Vile, whose latest album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, is another winner from the Philly-based musician, full of long, languid songs that feel spacious but not aimless. A sense of space also guides Clinic‘s psych-pop offering Free Reign; in fact, the group just released an alternate collection, Free Reign II, with the original album’s songs reconfigured in an appropriately mind-expanding fashion by Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin. More tightly constructed is Shout Out Louds‘ album Optica. The Swedish band’s new release fuses elements of disco and chamber pop into lively, addictive tunes.
Like Vile, Mikal Cronin is also making the move from low to high fidelity look easy. Cronin’s been making great music for a while now, solo and as a member of Moonhearts and Ty Segall’s band, but MCII, arriving on Merge Records, feels like the big screen debut of a real power pop talent. Meanwhile, Sacramento’s Tera Melos just released a new album of frenzied, mathy rock called X’ed Out and are embarking on a US tour to support. With new records also arriving recently from Cool Ghouls and Metal Mother, it’s certainly a busy time for Bay Area bands.
Enjoy the podcast and then go see some shows!
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Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304)
April 17, 2013
Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed (Podcast #304)
All too frequently, remixes are just okay, but when they are great, they’re really something special. A truly great remix can shed new light on the original artist’s work and stand on its own as a unique creation. That’s no easy feat, either, given the tension between staying true to an original song’s components and a reworker’s desire to create something new and personal.
These days, it feels far too easy to get remix fatigue. Reworkings seem to pop up almost immediately after original songs are released, and they can come in such a volume that it can be a challenge to separate the excellent from mediocre.
This mixtape attempts to do just that, highlighting twenty recent songs showcasing San Francisco Bay Area artists getting remixed, Bay Area artists doing the remixing, or, in most cases included here, both. It’s a freewheeling collection that includes a wide variety of exciting local talents.
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Live This Month: April 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #303)
April 3, 2013
Live This Month: April 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #303)
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.
We’re due for an onslaught of anticipated new albums from Bay Area bands, and that outpouring begins this month with a number of the local artists we’ve included in this mix. Both Life Coach and Tartufi have gained members since their last records — Life Coach recently became a duo with the addition of The Mars Volta’s Jon Theodore on drums, while Tartufi gained a third member, bass player Ben Thorne (also of MINOT). On the garage rock front, we’ve included a selection from Shannon and the Clams‘ Dreams in the Rat House, which arrives in late May, and one from Burnt Ones‘ new album on Burger Records.
Plenty of reliably strong live performers are also touring through SF in April, including guitar wizard Marnie Stern, whose The Chronicles of Marnia has great songs as well as the best/most ridiculous title I’ve heard all year. If you’re more inclined toward country rock with an experimental twist, do check out Phosphorescent. I was really impressed by Matthew Houck’s band at South by Southwest; it’s a tight group of musicians who do great service to his rich songs. Finally, Telekinesis knows its way around a great indie pop song, and the band’s live shows find bandleader Michael Lerner drumming and singing with equal vigor.
Enjoy the podcast and then go see some shows!
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