Monthly Mix: June 2009 (Podcast #170)
June 30, 2009
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Our latest Monthly Mix episode of the weekly podcast includes music from nine great Bay Area bands — some submissions we’ve received at TBB headquarters, some stuff we’ve posted on the web site recently, all really good stuff.
About all of the bands:
Oakland songwriter Brian Glaze (“Leader of the Band”) returns with his third LP Green Living, out July 13th on World Famous In San Francisco. He’ll be at McLaren Park on July 18th as part of the Mission Creek Music Festival.
We recently witnessed The Blacks‘ (“Sunday Boys”) stunning and bittersweet final performance, but the band’s legacy lives on with their new album Tiger Songs, out July 21st on Tricycle Records. Check out a great collection of photos from their final show on Flickr.
Oakland’s Sir Lord Von Raven (“Take It or Leave It”) includes members of The Time Flys and The Gris Gris, and their debut LP Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean is out now on HappyParts Recordings. The band has upcoming shows on July 3rd at the Ghost Town Gallery, and July 9th at The Stork Club.
Von Iva (“Guise”) recently released their latest EP Girls on Film, featuring a bunch of new songs alongside tracks from their previous album. The trio has a number of August dates on the East Coast that you can see on their MySpace page.
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Review: The Blacks @ The Rickshaw Stop, 6/18
June 22, 2009
Photos by: Julie Schuchard
Yes indie’d a sincere, sweaty performance out of your SF-based The Blacks. Also a CD release but yes, idie’d again (and proud of ourselves and clever as a left-handed skyhook from Pixar, that is, [look Up] a metanym for “snipehunt”?) our The Blacks, America’s The Blacks and their buttons made of irony say with no emoticons “We [heart] The Blacks”:
Perhaps a discussion lay in the cards about such an eponymous flirtation with, or stab at, art–art as cultural effrontery–but keep in mind this here review comes from a guy who knows not whether any of the band The Blacks’s members really has Black in his name or if that matters at all, and who speaks in awful ragged pidgins so to try and impress French folks trying to seem coincidental . . ; what it’s supposed to call up and mean and everything for people in sitting bookstores on rugs, I mean from a cultural, say Post-Radicalistical perspective but let’s hope we can table that for now and resume later on the same rugged internets or over a joe. No wonder The Blacks are “takers” [see Instinct] in New York City and SF. They are tambourine tossers. Duck! The set was real, real good, the only way the name gets carried off unless of course there’s black in all their names but from the looks of it, well, who knows these days, yeah?
It makes me think of a “Got Milk?” t-shirt saying only redundantly, “Got Got?” in milkfont.
Show was tight.
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The Blacks CD release at Rickshaw tonight
June 18, 2009
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The Blacks – “Sunday Boys” (from Tiger Songs)
As we reported last month, San Francisco-New York trio The Blacks‘ final show is tonight at the Rickshaw Stop with The Red Verse and The Ferocious Few. The band’s second album, Tiger Songs will be available for the first time at the show and will be available on iTunes on July 14th.
Thursday 8pm, $10, Rickshaw Stop, Fell Street at Van Ness
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Live This Month: June 2009 (Podcast #166)
June 2, 2009
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Every month, we dedicate a week of our podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’ve got a dozen great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music!
About the bands:
Touring the West Coast behind their latest album You Can Have What You Want, Papercuts (“You Can Have What You Want”) co-headline with Port O’Brien at The Independent on Thursday, June 25th.
Seattle’s The Maldives (“Tequila Sunday”) head to SF this weekend, for the latest The Bay Bridged Presents show at The Independent on Saturday, June 6th. Or, the Whale headlines the evening, with Built For The Sea also performing.
On Friday, June 19th, Trainwreck Riders (“Chug Along”) play their first SF show since releasing their new album The Perch. The show’s at Bottom of the Hill with The Botticellis and Gilded Rooks.
Little Wings (“Scuby”) headlines a great show of Bay Area folk-rock at Cafe Du Nord on Thursday, June 11th. Michael Musika, honey.moon.tree., and Sleepy Todd also perform.
Celebrating their new album Moondagger, Detroit’s Deastro (“Parallelogram”) head to Bottom of the Hill on Wednesday, June 24th. Locals Battlehooch (celebrating their CD release) and Tempo No Tempo support.
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The Blacks Call It a Day with Tiger Songs
May 21, 2009
It breaks my heart to report word from Tricycle Records that San Francisco-New York trio The Blacks are breaking up, with a farewell performance at the Rickshaw Stop on Thursday, June 18th. Making the final show extra bittersweet, it’ll also double as the “guitar noir” band’s record release party for their second album, Tiger Songs.
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The Blacks – “Ammunition” (from Tiger Songs)
Knowing the band’s electrified live show, their final performance is sure to be more wake than funeral. To that end, the group promises “the biggest tambourine experiment yet”–referring to their mayhem-fueling habit of distributing tambourines to crowds to perform along with them. Before the final show, you can learn more about the band by listening to our feature podcast on The Blacks from late 2007.
Tickets for the band’s final show, with The Red Verse and The Ferocious Few, can be picked up at RickshawStop.com. The band has created the following Frequently Asked Questions regarding their dissolution.
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Things To Do: Halloween in the Bay Area
October 29, 2008
Lost for proper Halloween plans this coming Friday? Need the right excuse to get out of a bad costume party? Have no fear! There’s plenty to do in the Bay Area. Here at The Bay Bridged we don’t want you sitting home alone carving too many pumpkins. There are a lot of great events for this All Hallows Eve, whether you want to hit up an awesome show or just feel like twirling that well fitting costume around in the streets, we have you covered.
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The Red Verse – “Circles”
The Hemlock Tavern features a really terrific all-local bill from the folks at Tricycle Records. The Blacks are celebrating the release of the imaginatively-titled The Seven Inch 7″, which features cover versions of “Never Say Never” (Romeo Void) and “Back to Black” (Amy Winehouse). The garage rock trio will be joined by The Red Verse, The New Centuries and DJ Mario Muse. The label requests that patrons come dressed in a mask or tail. More picks after the jump! [More...]
