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Flaming Lips interview - Photo by Paige K Parsons

Interview: Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd discuss ‘The Terror,’ the evolution of their live show and much more

Premiere: DSTVV – “Healing Enargy Crystels”; cassette out 5/28/13 on Wormhole Records

This Week in SF: Picks and a Mix for 5/20-5/26/13

First City Festival: Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, Beach House lead 30+ bands performing at new summer fest in Monterey

SF’s Jagjaguwar talent Skygreen Leopards release @ Amnesia Saturday

July 9, 2009 by John Shea · Leave a Comment »
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This Saturday at Amnesia Bar in SF (9pm, $8) the Skygreen Leopards will be releasing their new album Gorgeous Johnny (Jagjaguwar) which will only serve to further solidify their retro pop sound. Very much like a Kinks/50′s,60′s throwback, totally refreshing at the same time — which sounds a bit counter-intuitive, I’m sure.

Our local Jagjaguwar representation is made up of two singer/songwriters (Glenn Donaldson & Donovan Quinn), who write and arrange most of the music, and the Skyband, (Jasmyn Wong, Nick Marcantonio & Jason Quever) who all have enough talent among their ranks to warrant a listen.

Skygreen Leopards - Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass
Skygreen Leopards – “Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass”

Opening the night is Pumice,who are in the midst of a west coast tour, and Bay Area duo Ignot Rot.

Yerba Buena’s upcoming season promises more hours, more musical art

July 9, 2009 by Brian Davidson · Leave a Comment »
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Leslie Shows - 'Shape Quarry'
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has released their schedule for the 09′-10′ season with some new changes aimed to make the arts more accessible. For starters, the gallery hours have shifted to stay open later, recognizing the fact that a majority of it’s patrons work or attend school during the day. They are also planning to offer more “free with gallery admission” events, including same-day gallery admission with all paid YBCA events.

This year’s schedule features a galaxy of human creation. PUSH PLAY>YBCA Summer Festival will kick off the season withÂ Wallworks, where artists (some include Makoto Aida, Edgar Arceneaux, Chris Finley, Tillman Kaiser, Odili Donald Odita, Amanda Ross-Ho, Yehudit Sasportas, and Leslie Shows) create large-scale works on gallery walls and public spaces.

Also appearing as a part of the new season will be Until The Light Takes Us, a film by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, which we talked about earlier this week. The film only shows from July 9th to July 11th, so get your tickets!

The season’s events present evidence of a close relationship with music, including a festival with musicians and bands from all walks of life. Click here to check out the complete schedule of events.

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Ticket Giveaway Wednesday (Part 2 of 2): Cracker, Tortoise, LUCE

July 8, 2009 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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You know the drill already…Plenty of great shows coming up and plenty of tickets to score!

Friday, July 10th – Cracker @ The Independent

Cracker - Photo by Jason Thrasher

David Lowery and Cracker head to The Independent this Friday in support of the band’s first album in three years, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey. A recent recording by NYCTaper confirms that the band has maintained both its wit and its blend of American rock sounds in the interim. Lowery’s Camper Van Beethoven cohort Victor Krummenacher opens. 9pm, $20/22.

To win tickets to this show, be the first person to respond to @thebaybridged with the sentence “I want those Cracker tickets!” and your full name.

Monday, July 13th – Tortoise @ Great American Music Hall

Tortoise

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Tortoise – “Prepare Your Coffin”

Tortoise, Chicago’s elder statesmen of experimental-/post-rock, just released their first new album in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship, on Thrill Jockey. The label describes the album as “a document of where musical intersections and dialogue are occurring at a given moment in time…with nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges.” They’ll be at the Great American Music Hall with labelmates Pit Er Pat next Monday. 8pm, $25.

To win tickets to this show be the third person to send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name, “I want to see Tortoise!” in the subject line, and the completed sentence, “Tortoises are better than sea turtles because _________.”

Saturday, July 11th – LUCE, The Gun & Doll Show, Pollux @ Great American Music Hall

LUCE – “Acid Rain” (Live at the Little Fox)

There’s an all-local triple CD release show going on this Saturday night at the Great American Music Hall. San Francisco’s LUCE have a hard road to the release of their new album Corner of the World (including a house burning down and complete gear/van theft). The Gun & Doll Show are a SF institution and their latest album American Radio Two is their second take on musical styles across the radio spectrum. Pollux opens the show. 9pm, $20.

The second person to send an e-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with their full name and the subject line “Take me to Luce!” will win a pair of tickets to the show!

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The Rural Alberta Advantage at Bottom of the Hill this Thursday

July 8, 2009 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Frank, AB”

As I mentioned in the notes for this week’s podcast, The Rural Alberta Advantage were a SXSW highlight, with an amazing set full of emotion and energy that reached a cathartic apex in the trio’s in-the-audience performance of the song “Goodnight” (video here). The trio’s stripped-down rock is built around insistent melodies, and the songs capitalize by being short and to-the-point. Hometowns, the group’s debut album, was re-released yesterday on Saddle Creek, and it’s quite good, although I’d still give the advantage to the live show, which you can see when the group stops in SF this Thursday night for a show at Bottom of the Hill.

The Rural Alberta Advantage – “In The Summertime”

The Bay Bridged, Volume 2 contributor Okay and Asthmatic Kitty artist Half-Handed Cloud round out the show, which is presented by ipickmynose. 9pm, $10, All Ages. Recommended!

Ticket Giveaway Wednesday (Part 1 of 2): Rubies, Bray, The Veils

July 8, 2009 by Christian Cunningham · Leave a Comment »
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Thursday, July 9th – Rubies @ Rickshaw Stop

Rubies will be celebrating the US release of their album, Explode from the Center, with a dance party at the Rickshaw Stop tomorrow. Indie folk artist Little Wings and local disco-electro group Windsurf will be supporting.

The third person to send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with their full name and the subject line “I want to see Rubies!” will win a pair of tickets to the show!

Saturday, July 11th – Bray @ The Independent

Bray
Another album release hits The Independent on Saturday with Bray releasing their new full-length @mphibian. Also performing are locals RubberSideDown who are in the midst of quite the street festival circuit here in Bay Area having played the Haight Street Fair and SF Pride earlier this summer and have a scheduled performance at the Festa Italiana Street Fair later in the month. All attendees to this show will receive a copy of Bray’s latest album!

Bray - Only the Brave
Bray – “Only the Brave”

To win tickets to this show be the 5th person to send an E-mail to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name and “I want to see Bray!” in the subject line.

Monday, July 13th – The Veils @ Bottom of the Hill

The Veils will start their North American tour tomorrow and will be stopping by Bottom of the Hill on Monday in support of their recently released Rough Trade album, Sun Gangs. They put together an informative video of sorts all about them which you can watch here:

The Veils will be playing with Secretly Canadian’s Foreign Born for most of their tour dates, except for Los Angeles where they’ll be headlining their own show at Spaceland. Opening the show is Cleveland based Other Girls.

To win tickets to this show, be the first person to respond to @thebaybridged with the phrase “I want to go see The Veils” and include your full name.

Thursday’s show at The Rickshaw Stop is $10, starts at 8pm, and is 18+.
Saturday’s show at The Independent is $12/$15, starts at 8pm, and is 21+.
Monday’s show at Bottom of the Hill is $10/$12, starts at 9pm, and is all ages.

Are You Ready For Some Phoenix? Too bad…but the night was salvaged anyway

July 8, 2009 by Jake Butler · 1 Comment »
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Boyz Noize
Being a huge fan of Daft Punk, I was stoked to see that Phoenix was coming to SF for the Spectrum Festival (author’s note: guitarist Laurent Brancowitz was in the group Darlin’ with Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter,who, after being described as a “bunch of daft punk” by a reviewer went on to start Daft Punk while Brancowitz joined forces with Phoenix).Â I knew many of the other artists in the lineup, but it was Phoenix that brought me, a half dozen of my friends, and many others to the show.Â As fate would have it, lead singer Thomas Mars contracted a viral infection affecting his vocals and Phoenix dropped out of the lineup hours before the show.

Never one to let my parade be rained upon, I pushed forward with fervor…as did the now closer Boyz Noize, who brought the house down with rockstar spinning and hours of pounding fists with the most ardent of fans amidst his techno wizardry.

The day was met with the somber note of Phoenix’s absence, only to be followed by my entry to the Regency around 9pm, which revealed a lackluster turnout.Â The organizers not only had to battle a missing headliner, but also had to compete with the Pride Parade festivities happening to fall on the same date.Â Despite the slim pickens early on, those present were very evidently enjoying themselves and the staff were great about dealing with ticket issues.

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Photos: Spectrum Festival @ The Regency

A reconfigured Grand Lake headlines “OMFG Oakland”

July 7, 2009 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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Grand Lake – “Concrete Blonde On Blonde”

“OMFG Oakland!,” indeed. The 2009 Mission Creek Music Festival kicks off this weekend with a couple of Oakland shows, before heading back across the Bay for next week’s festivities. Saturday’s show is a great lineup of local folks at Rooz Cafe in Oakland. The full lineup includes Grand Lake, Make Me, White Cloud, The Blank Tapes, Colossal Yes, The Splinters, Ghost and the City, The Dashing Suns and The Double U.