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Toro y Moi announces new album ‘Anything In Return,’ San Francisco listening...
Berkeley resident and chillwave pioneer Chaz Bundick announced his next album under the Toro y Moi moniker. Anything In Return will come out January 22nd via Carpark Records. Here’s the record’s first...
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Side With Us anniversary bash at Thee Parkside, 11/4/12
San Jose’s Side With Us Records is turning three with a big ol’ bash at Thee Parkside on November 4th. Side With Us bands Not To Reason Why and Survival Guide will be playing, along with opener Sim...
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Emily Wells releases free remix LP, playing two Bay Area shows this weekend
Emily Wells released her newest album, Mama, back in April, and it’s safe to say it made a solid impression. So much so, in fact, that 13 bands—including Lemonade, Ed Rodriguez of Deerhoof, The Blow,...
View ArticleVideo Interview: A Place To Bury Strangers at Fun Fun Fun Fest, coming to The...
A Place To Bury Strangers played a set on Sunday down at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas and are scheduled to be all the way up in San Francisco just three days later – yes, tonight – to headline a...
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Photos: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012
I gotta hand it to the organizers of Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas – they really have it figured out. Rather than focus on one genre, the festival has four stages that house acts from a variety of...
View ArticleVideo Interview: San Antonio’s Girl in a Coma at Fun Fun Fun Fest, playing...
While I was down at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, I caught up with San Antonio’s Girl in a Coma. We talked about the festival, the trio’s current tour with Minus the Bear and Cursive, and why they’re so...
View ArticleVideo Interview: El Ten Eleven at Fun Fun Fun Fest, coming to Rickshaw Stop...
El Ten Eleven released their new album Transitions on Election Day, so should we expect to find subversive political messages embedded in the instrumental duo’s new album? I wanted to find out, so I...
View ArticleVideo Interview: WHY? at Fun Fun Fun Fest talking new album, European tour
WHY? may have been founded in Berkeley, but the remaining founders are a bunch of “Ohio boys,” and they have all returned to their home state at this point. But that’s okay, the Bay Area can still lay...
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Grayceon announce new album, ‘Pearl and the End of Days’
Chamber metal group Grayceon has announced that their next album, entitled Pearl and the End of Days, will be out in early 2013 on Flenser Records. The album is comprised of two epic tracks, “Pearl”...
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High On Fire is back in action, playing Slim’s on 12/22/12
After a stint in rehab, High On Fire frontman Matt Pike is back and looking for trouble – which means, of course, that his band is back on the road. The East Bay metal outfit is embarking on a tour...
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Song Premiere: Future Twin – “Getting Theoretical”
All this rain getting you down? Well you’re in luck, because Future Twin has one last little piece of summer to share with you. The Bay Bridged is pleased to offer up the world premiere of the final...
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Win tickets to see John Cale and Cass McCombs at the Regency Ballroom this...
John Cale needs no introduction – he co-founded The Velvet Underground, for fuck’s sake. That puts a person squarely in the “needs no introduction” camp. So I’ll get right to the matter at hand: Cale...
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Win tickets to see Night Beats, The Mallard, and more at Brick and Mortar...
Now this is what you call a stacked line-up: Night Beats, The Mallard, Cool Ghouls, and The Woolen Men, all playing together at Brick & Mortar this Friday night. It promises to be a seriously...
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Q&A: Luke Sweeney (of VOWS) releases solo album, playing tonight at SF’s...
With his two fellow VOWS members now living in L.A., Luke Sweeney was forced to take matters into his own hands, and I mean that pretty literally – Sweeney recorded a solo album, the just-released...
View ArticleVideo: Pancho-san – “A Fool, A Fall, A Foal”
Pancho-san has released a video for the track “A Fool, A Fall, A Foal” off their latest LP, Americans. It was premiered by Magnet Magazine earlier this month, but you can peep it above. There’s a good...
View ArticleMike G.’s Best of 2012
Well, 2012 was a pretty stellar year for music (both from the Bay Area and from the rest of the world), and I just want to call out a few of my local favorites from the year. I’m restricting myself...
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Review and Photos: High On Fire, Goatwhore @ Slim’s, 12/22/12
‘Twas December 22nd and all through the house, no one was sleeping cuz I was blasting High On Fire to get ready for the concert that night. I mean seriously, what better way to ring in the holidays?...
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Grayceon releases epic new track, record coming out 2/12/13 on Flenser Records
Chamber metal outfit Grayceon is set to release its new album, Pearl and the End of Days, on February 12th via Flenser Records, and the first taste has surfaced on Alarm-Magazine.com. This is more...
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New Bay Area supergroup Pale Blue Dot opening for El Ten Eleven tonight, 1/11/13
The East Bay trio known as Pale Blue Dot does not necessarily self-identify as a “supergroup,” but I went there anyway. Comprised of members of James & Evander, The Aimless Never Miss, and B....
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Ticket Giveaway: Want to see Black Cobra, Glitter Wizard, and Lecherous Gaze...
Glam metal maestros Glitter Wizard are supporting doom/sludge metal duo Black Cobra with Lecherous Gaze this Friday night at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall, and we want to send you and a friend for...
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