Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, KQED, blogging, live music, music, reviews on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
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Port O’Brien, claimed by both the Bay Area and the Central Coast as their own, has been continuously growing in popularity as their music moves beyond the college radio curcuit and across the country. The band’s indie-infused folk tunes are painfully catchy, tugging at heart strings and boot straps alike.
Port [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, blogging, live music, music on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Adrian and the ipickmynose blog will be presenting a great show at Annie’s Social Club this Wednesday, June 11. The show will feature three local bands - Geographer, Two Sheds, and Marabelle Pheonix - as well as Friday Mile from Seattle.
Appropriately, Geographer and Two Sheds have been getting a lot of love from the ipickmynose [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, interviews, live music, music on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Click Here to download your exclusive Ghost Mansion Records mp3 sampler!
When the founders of Ghost Mansion Records say they’re in it to have fun and “celebrate good music and good vibes,” they mean it. There’s nothing uppity or exclusive about this operation. Case in point - they took a random music blogger into their home [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, interviews, live music, music on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Some bands spend years cultivating a loyal fan base in the San Francisco Bay Area before making their way into the national music community, and some seem to bypass the local scene alltogether, either because their style doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere or because they were catapulted into the spotlight before the local scene [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, live music, music on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Known for occasionally terrifying concertgoers by bursting into tears mid-song, Mark Eitzel of American Music Club has quite a reputation to uphold. It’s been almost 26 years since the band formed, but he has mustered up the courage to give it another go with a new band in 2008.
An SF institution for many years, AMC [...]
Posted in Bay Bridged, festivals, live music, music, reviews on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hype. It’s a fascinating thing. The cynic in me wondered if the hype surrounding M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s new project She & Him was all based on the good looks and cult popularity of Ms. Deschanel. Hey, I admit I myself am guilty of being slightly enamoured of her, considering she was in one [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, interviews, music on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
A feast for the ears, but a nightmare for google search, Oakland’s Why? kicks off a nearly two-month tour in SF this week. The music is a combination of an infinite number of styles – from hip hop to indie to psych and beyond.
I spoke with Yoni Wolf, Why?’s mastermind, over the phone last weekend [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, interviews, live music, music on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
poster by Maus Haus’ own Joshua Rampage
New San Francisco band Maus Haus hasn’t even played their first show yet and they’re already creating buzz around the local music scene. Perhaps one can attribute this to the familiarity of two of their members – Jason Kick of The Lovely Public and Aaron Weiss of Social Studies. [...]
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