- Mixtape: San Francisco's Newest Psychedelic Sounds
Listen to the new Bay Bridged mix of Bay Area psych-rock, featuring Lumerians, Disappearing People, Golden Void, Coo Coo Birds, Barn Owl, and more.
[May 16, 2013]
- Live This Month: May 2013
Listen to the newest Bay Bridged mix of great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring Kurt Vile, Tera Melos, Clinic, Shout Out Louds, Suuns and more.
[May 3, 2013]
- Mixtape: Bay Area Artists, Remixing and Remixed
Listen to The Bay Bridged podcast of "truly great" remixes of or by Bay Area artists.
[April 21, 2013]
- Live This Month: April 2013
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands playing the Bay Area this month, including: Beach Fossils, Life Coach, Marnie Stern, Vacationer, Sonny Smith, Shannon and the Clams, and more.
[April 4, 2013]
- Mixtape: Fifteen Highlights from South by Southwest 2013
Listen to The Bay Bridged's recap of the best rock, punk, psych, and electronic pop from South by Southwest 2013. Featuring Parquet Courts, Teen, Blue Hawaii, Slow Magic, and PAWS.
[March 24, 2013]
- Live This Month: March 2013
Listen to the latest Bay Bridged for a sampling of some great local and out-of-town bands performing this month in the Bay Area. Featuring La Luz, Iceage, Chelsea Light Moving, Wax Idols, Widowspeak, and more.
[March 7, 2013]
- Mixtape: Fourteen Songs about Love for Valentine's Day
Listen to The Bay Bridged selection of sweet and bittersweet indie tunes for your Valentine's Day soundtrack: featuring Chromatics, Mwahaha, Girls, Little Wings, and Cass McCombs.
[February 13, 2013]
- Live This Month: February 2013
Listen to The Bay Bridged sampling of great local and out-of-town bands performing in the Bay Area this month, including Foxygen, Shugo Tokumaru, Two Gallants, and The Ruby Suns.
[February 5, 2013]
- Beyond the Bay Area: A Sacramento Mixtape
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of Sacto bands, including: Fine Steps, English Singles, DOOMbird, Sister Crayon, Sea of Bees, and more.
[January 17, 2013]
- Live This Month: January 2013
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands playing the Bay Area this month, including Lenz, Kowloon Walled City, White Fence, Warm Soda, Mister Lies, and more.
[January 3, 2013]
- Mixtape: Twelve Bay Area Highlights from 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged "best of" 2012 mix, featuring Bay Area bands Dirty Ghosts, The Fresh and Onlys, Ty Segall, Friendzone, and more.
[December 25, 2012]
- Live This Month: December 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands playing the Bay Area in December, including Tumbleweed Wanderers, Dum Dum Girls, Moon Duo, Turbo Fruits and more.
[December 1, 2012]
- Mixtape: Singer-Songwriters of the San Francisco Bay Area
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix featuring local singer-songwriters, including Sun Kil Moon, Emily Jane White, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Eight Belles, and more.
[November 15, 2012]
- Live This Month: November 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands playing the Bay Area in November 2012, including tunes by Maus Haus, Social Studies, The Love Dimension, Mark Eitzel, A.C. Newman, Tamaryn and more.
[November 1, 2012]
- Mix Tape: Highlights from Bay Area Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix surveying the current state of the Bay Area punk scene, including Rank/Xerox, Street Eaters, Loma Prieta, Wild Moth, Ceremony and more.
[October 24, 2012]
- Live This Month: October 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands playing the Bay Area in October, featuring Chris Cohen, Allah-Las, Laetitia Sadier, Coachwhips, K.Flay, and more.
[October 3, 2012]
- Mixtape: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 Preview Mix
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of acts that will be appearing -- for free -- in this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival this October 5-7 in Golden Gate Park. And give a little thanks to the fest's founder, Warren Hellman, who passed away last December.
[September 20, 2012]
- Live This Month: September 2012
Listen to the Bay Bridged mix of music by bands playing the Bay Area this month, including Weekend, Sic Alps, Exray's, Holograms, Nude Beach and more.
[September 5, 2012]
- Mixtape: 2012 Rock Make Street Festival Preview Mix
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands scheduled to perform September 15 at this year's Rock Make Street Festival.
[August 15, 2012]
- Live This Month: August 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of tunes by bands playing around the Bay Area this month, including Twin Shadow, Birds & Batteries, Chromatics and more.
[August 5, 2012]
- No Voices: A Collection of Bay Area Instrumental Rock
Listen to the Bay Bridged mix of new instrumental rock, featuring Barn Owl, Silian Rail, Yalls, Date Palms and more.
[July 25, 2012]
- Live This Month: July 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of music by bands playing the Bay Area live this month, including The Ettes, The Fresh & Onlys, Codeine, and Aesop Rock.
[July 4, 2012]
- Mixtape: Things You May Have Missed Earlier This Year
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of eleven bands, some local, some not, whose 2012 releases should not be overlooked.
[June 26, 2012]
- Live This Month: June 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mixtape of bands that will be performing in the Bay Area in June 2012, including Exray's, Japandroids, Here We Go Magic and more.
[June 6, 2012]
- Live This Month: May 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands performing in the Bay Area this month, featuring TV Girl, Ty Segall & White Fence, Whirr, and Dean Wareham.
[May 3, 2012]
- Mixtape: Checking Out New Bay Area Hip Hop
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of recent Bay Area hip hop, featuring Main Attrakionz, Friendzone, MondreM.A.N. and Lil B. Please Note: This episode contains adult language and situations.
[April 25, 2012]
- Mixtape & Review: Highlights from the 2012 South by Southwest Music Festival
The Bay Bridged highlights from the 2012 South by Southwest Music Festival, featuring Ume, Free Energy, R. Stevie Moore, Purity Ring, and more.
[March 21, 2012]
- Live This Month: March 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands performing in the Bay Area this month, including Ceremony, Crocodiles, White Fence, Chuck Prophet, Yalls and more.
[March 1, 2012]
- Mixtape: If Presidents Liked Indie Rock
In honor of Presidents' Day, we decided to make a mixtape that answers the following never-before-asked questions: what contemporary indie music might various presidents from history have liked?
[February 20, 2012]
- Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop
The Noise Pop Music Festival (February 21-26, 2012) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of bands that have appeared throughout the fest's history, including: Joanna Newsom, John Vanderslice, Rogue Wave, Spoon, Imperial Teen and 15 more.
[February 18, 2012]
- Live This Month: February 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix of music by bands play live around the Bay Area this month, including Grimes, Future Twin, Eleanor Friedberger, Sea Lions and Laura Gibson.
[February 2, 2012]
- Live This Month: January 2012
Listen to The Bay Bridged podcast sampling some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing this month in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Churches, Poor Sons and Primitive Hearts.
[January 5, 2012]
- Mixtape: Twelve Bay Area Highlights from 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged mixtape featuring 12 great tracks released by a dozen of the Bay Area's best bands including tUnE-yArDs, Girls, Exray's and Lumerians.
[December 17, 2011]
- Live This Month: December 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged audio guide to December's Bay Area live music highlights, including upcoming shows by Her Space Holiday, Cass McCombs, Papercuts and the SHE'S.
[December 3, 2011]
- Mixtape: Music to Drink Beer to
Listen to the Bay Bridged mixtape of indie music and beer pairings.
[November 28, 2011]
- Live This Month: November 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged audio guide to this month's Bay Area live music highlights, including upcoming shows by M83, Wild Flag and Real Estate.
[November 3, 2011]
- Live This Month: October 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged mixtape of live music highlights for October 2011, including Girls, The War on Drugs, The Soft Moon and Melted Toys.
[October 6, 2011]
- Mixtape: 2011 Rock Make Street Festival Preview Mix
This Saturday, Sept. 17, The Bay Bridged hosts its fourth annual Rock Make Street Festival featuring tons of local arts and crafts and food and beer and wine and, oh yes, local bands. Listen to this mix tape of the musicians that will be performing.
[September 12, 2011]
- Live This Month: September 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged picks for live music in September, featuring Pepper Rabbit, Man/Miracle, Jens Lenkman and more.
[September 1, 2011]
- The Ones That Got Away
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix featuring bands who have recently left the Bay Area.
[August 18, 2011]
- Live This Month: August 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged monthly podcast of live music goings on about town. This month features the Outside Lands Festival in GG Park, the Bay Bridged fundraiser Regional Bias and a whole slew of bands in town to promote recent or upcoming releases.
[August 3, 2011]
- Live This Month: July 2011
As the summer touring season heats up, a bunch of buzz bands are coming through town, including Iceage, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Cold Showers. Listen to The Bay Bridged roundup of live music highlights for July 2011.
[July 7, 2011]
- Live This Month: June 2011
Listen to the Bay Bridged podcast highlighting bands visiting SF in June, including My First Earthquake, Matt Bauer, The Wooden Birds, and Black Lips.
[June 2, 2011]
- Live This Month: May 2011
This month's podcast features Cass McCombs, The Raveonettes, No Joy and Melted Toys, who will all be performing live in the Bay Area this month.
[May 4, 2011]
- Live This Month: April 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged sampler of bands performing in the SF Bay Area this month. Kurt Vile, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Akron/Family are among those coming to town in April.
[April 7, 2011]
- San Francisco at South by Southwest: The Mixtapes
Every March, thousands of bands, industry types, and music fans converge on Austin, Texas for the annual South by Southwest Music Festival. Listen to The Bay Bridged mixtapes featuring the amazing Bay Area bands who will be at the festival this year.
[March 12, 2011]
- Live This Month: March 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged podcast sampling some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing this month in the San Francisco Bay Area.
[March 4, 2011]
- 2011 Noise Pop Festival Preview Mix
Listen to The Bay Bridged mix featuring some of the buzzworthy bands at this year's Noise Pop Festival, now celebrating it's 19th (!!!) anniversary!
[February 16, 2011]
- Live This Month: February 2011
Listen to The Bay Bridged audio guide to live music in the Bay Area for February 2011.
[February 3, 2011]
- Live This Month: January 2011
The Bay Bridged samples some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in January 2011.
[January 5, 2011]
- Live This Month: December 2010
The Bay Bridged samples some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the SF Bay Area this month.
[December 2, 2010]
- Live This Month: November 2010
Listen to The Bay Bridged sampling of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the San Francisco Bay Area this month.
[November 4, 2010]
- Kelley Stoltz Talks About Home Recording and 'To Dreamers'
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with local musician and home recording wizard Kelly Stoltz, whose latest album To Dreamers is out now.
[October 26, 2010]
- Birds & Batteries
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with Mike and Jill from SF band, Birds & Batteries.
[October 19, 2010]
- 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival Mix
This week, The Bay Bridged offers a sampling of the many great bands taking part in the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival, October 16 & 17, 2010.
[October 4, 2010]
- Tamaryn
This week, The Bay Bridged profiles San Francisco's Tamaryn, the duo of singer Tamaryn and producer Rex John Shelverton, whose debut full-length The Waves is out now.
[September 21, 2010]
- 2010 Rock Make Street Festival
Listen to The Bay Bridged preview podcast for Sunday's Rock Make Street Festival.
[August 21, 2010]
- Devotionals
This week, The Bay Bridged profiles Devotionals, a San Francisco band combining the talents of Tyson Vogel (Two Gallants) and Anton Patzner (Judgement Day).
[August 16, 2010]
- Social Studies
The Bay Bridged interviews San Francisco's Social Studies upon the release of their first full-length album, Wind Up Wooden Heart.
[August 1, 2010]
- 2010 Mission Creek Music Festival
After a weekend of shows in Oakland, the 2010 Mission Creek Music Festival kicks into full swing this week with concerts around the City, featuring a bunch of ace, predominantly local bands. This mix includes ten bands playing Mission Creek shows.
[July 13, 2010]
- Magic Bullets
This week The Bay Bridged interviews SF's Magic Bullets, whose second full length album, Magic Bullets, came out June 15 on Mon Amie Records.
[June 26, 2010]
- The Dont's
This week The Bay Bridges showcases SF indie rock band The Dont's, who release their third album, Those Delicate Chemicals, this month.
[June 20, 2010]
- Emily Jane White
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with local singer-songwriter Emily Jane White, on the heels of the US release of her second album, Victorian America.
[May 22, 2010]
- Kacey Johansing
This week, The Bay Bridged spotlights the very talented Kacey Johansing, whose debut album, Many Seasons, comes out next month on Porto Franco Records.
[May 16, 2010]
- Sean Hayes
In March, local folk-rock hero Sean Hayes released Run Wolves Run, his sixth solo album. While some artists might be in coasting mode by album number six, Sean is still finding new ways to develop his sound.
[April 25, 2010]
- Photons
Just as they are about to release their first full-length album, the San Francisco chamber pop group Photons has announced they are breaking up.
[April 17, 2010]
- Sonya Cotton
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with San Francisco local Sonya Cotton.
[March 28, 2010]
- The Mantles
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with San Francisco band The Mantles.
[March 21, 2010]
- Noise Pop 2010 Preview Mix
The latest Bay Bridged podcast highlights ten of the great bands performing during the 2010 Noise Pop Music Festival, which kicks off on Tuesday, February 23.
[February 18, 2010]
- Sonny and the Sunsets
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with San Francisco band Sonny and the Sunsets.
[January 21, 2010]
- Ten from 2009
Want to learn more about the Bay Area's thriving local music scene? Listen to the final Bay Bridged podcast for 2009, featuring ten songs by ten local bands that made a significant impact on indie music this past year.
[December 28, 2009]
- Sleepy Sun
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with two members of San Francisco psych-rock band Sleepy Sun.
[December 20, 2009]
- Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with local musician Thao Nguyen, who discusses her band The Get Down Stay Down and their latest release Know Better Learn Faster.
[December 3, 2009]
- Or, the Whale
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with Alex and Lindsay of the San Francisco seven-piece country-rock band Or, the Whale.
[November 21, 2009]
- Still Flyin'
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with five members of San Francisco band Still Flyin'.
[November 15, 2009]
- WHY?
The Bay Bridged interviews WHY?'s Yoni Wolf about his band's latest release, Eskimo Snow.
[October 16, 2009]
- Wallpaper.
This week's episode of The Bay Bridged features Oakland-based electro-R&B-pop duo Wallpaper.
[October 4, 2009]
- The Dodos
This week, our podcast features The Dodos, a San Francisco band who need little introduction if you've been following indie rock over the past few years.
[September 26, 2009]
- Railcars
Listen to The Bay Bridged interview with Aria C Jalali, the mastermind behind SF band Railcars.
[September 10, 2009]
- Dame Satan
Members of the SF psychedelic blues band Dame Satan discuss Beaches and Bridges, their latest release.
[August 17, 2009]
- Rubies
San Francisco band Rubies discuss the inspiration behind their new album, Explode from the Center, touring Russia and more.
[July 30, 2009]
- Thee Oh Sees
Through a relentless performance schedule and some excellent recordings, it's tough not to consider Thee Oh Sees one of the top rock bands in the Bay Area.
[July 27, 2009]
- Papercuts
This week's podcast profiles Papercuts, the indie rock-pop band led by San Franciscan Jason Quever.
[June 24, 2009]
- Grand Lake
Listen to an interview with Grand Lake, an Oakland quartet whose debut Nevermint that's been generating much buzz.
[June 14, 2009]
- Odawas
Listen to a conversation with Michael Tapscott and Isaac Edwards of the Odawas, a duo that fuses ambient synth tones and singer-songwriter rock.
[June 3, 2009]
- Cryptacize
This week's podcast features Cryptacize, an Oakland quartet of eclectic pop wizards who recently released their excellent sophomore album, Mythomania.
[May 19, 2009]
- Garrett Pierce
This week's podcast features Garrett Pierce, a singer-songwriter whose new album, All Masks, was just released on Crossbill Records.
[April 24, 2009]
- From Monument to Masses
This week, The Bay Bridged visits with From Monument to Masses, a San Francisco/New York based trio writing forward thinking instrumental rock music with elements of electronica, hip-hop and prog-metal.
[April 7, 2009]
- Jocelyn Kane
This week, The Bay Bridged features an interview with Jocelyn Kane, the Deputy Director of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission.
[March 27, 2009]
- Dizzy Balloon
This week's podcast features rock-pop quintet Dizzy Balloon, a group who established a name for themselves at a quick pace when their three song demo began receiving substantial radio airplay a few years ago.
[March 15, 2009]
- Sholi
This week, we are proud to feature Sholi, an art-rock trio who have been one of our favorite bands since we first heard them around the inception of The Bay Bridged.
[February 28, 2009]
- Leopold and his Fiction
This week's featured band is San Francisco's Leopold and his Fiction, a trio that turns pieces of garage rock, folk, psych and Americana into a remarkably cohesive and engaging mix called "vintage rock."
[February 16, 2009]
- The Matinees
The Bay Bridged showcases San Francisco duo The Matinees, whose second CD, Make The Leap, comes out later this month.
[January 26, 2009]
- Goh Nakamura
This week, The Bay Bridged spotlights Goh Nakamura, a San Francisco singer-songwriter.
[January 19, 2009]
- Michael Zapruder
The Bay Bridged spotlights Michael Zapruder, an incredibly talented San Francisco singer-songwriter whose album, Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, was released in late October 2008.
[December 16, 2008]
- The Heavenly States
This week The Bay Bridged spotlights The Heavenly States, a four piece rock group out of the East Bay who released their latest full length Delayer earlier this year.
[December 5, 2008]
- French Miami
This week, The Bay Bridged spotlights French Miami, a San Francisco band whose synth-rock sound is as immediately gripping as it is difficult to pigeonhole.
[December 2, 2008]
- Music for Animals
The Bay Bridged interviews Music for Animals, a San Francisco quartet mixing a fondness for classic rock-pop hooks with a stripped-down modern aesthetic.
[November 22, 2008]
- maus haus
This week's podcast features San Francisco experimental pop sextet maus haus, a band that ranks as one of the most promising young groups in Bay Area indie music.
[October 29, 2008]
- Loquat
This week, Christian and Ben spotlight San Francisco's Loquat, a quintet that creates catchy, melodic indie pop with a mix of electronic and traditional rock sounds. This episode features an interview with the band and 4 songs off of their brand new full length album, Songs of the Sea.
[October 18, 2008]
- Bart Davenport
This week, Ben and Christian interview Bart Davenport, a Berkeley native whose lengthy music career has spanned RB, garage rock, and electronic pop with The Loved Ones, The Kinetics, Persephone's Bees and Honeycut.
[September 12, 2008]
- Judgement Day
Ben and Christian interview Anton and Lewis Patzner of Judgement Day, a violin-cello-drums trio from Oakland that plays instrumental rock that is as intense as it is unconventional.
[August 12, 2008]
- Two Sheds
Christian Cunningham and Ben Van Houten interview Sacramento/San Francisco based folk-rock quartet, Two Sheds. This episode includes songs from the band's recent self-titled EP and their debut album, Strange Ammunition.
[July 18, 2008]
- Built for the Sea
Christian Cunningham and Ben Van Houten profile San Francisco atmospheric rock group Built for the Sea.
[June 20, 2008]
- Geographer
The Bay Bridged is a podcast dedicated to the San Francisco Bay Area sound. This episode, the first to appear on KQED, includes an interview with Mike Deni and Nathan Blaz of the San Francisco indie rock band, Geographer, along with four tracks from Innocent Ghosts, the group's highly anticipated debut album. Deni and Blaz discuss the group's origins and how electronic music has influenced their sound, among other topics.
[May 22, 2008]
