Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/6/13-6/12/13

Boo ghost with sunglasses
Opening for Sonny & The Sunsets on Tuesday at The Eagle Tavern

Another week, another nearly exhausting week of amazing rock n roll in the bay area.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/28/12 – 7/4/12

Appearing at the Mountain Winery on Thursday

Happy Independence Day! That’s why you are getting the rare list where nearly every band is from the US. And the only English band has an umlaut in it’s name.  Alright, enough chatter:

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 1/12/12-1/18/12


Playing at Public Works on Thursday night

Dakin’s really busy this week, and frankly, I’m not. I don’t have a day job right now, so I can spend all day finding the absolute best shows for you to go to!  Which ones are those this week? Read on to find out. Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 1/12/12-1/18/12”

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/17/10-2/23/10

Sharing a bill with Visqueen & 311 in Santa Cruz caused this goat to faint.
Playing at the Catalyst this Monday night.

As we warm up to the upcoming Noise Pop Festival, here’s a few shows to let you warm up your earplugs with.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide To Bay Area Concerts: January 6th-January 12th

Opening for Devildriver.

Next week brings us Sketchfest, where some pretty amazing musicians will be in town to accompany some pretty amazing comedians. Then we have the Winter Music Festival, which will be followed by Noise Pop, which will be followed by a series of bands making there way through on their way to SXSW, and then Coachella, then it’s summer. So, please enjoy your last week of regular programming before summer.

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10 Quick Questions with I the Mighty

I the Mighty play fast and loose with gravity
I the Mighty play fast and loose with gravity

I the Mighty are a fairly new band, having developed out of a two-man acoustic project called Breakpoint.  Now signed to Bay Area indie label Talking House Records, we caught up with them as they prepared to play what they expect to be their biggest show yet, this Friday night the 21st at Blake’s on Telegraph in Berkeley.  I the Mighty are:

Brent Walsh – vocals/guitar/piano
Ian Pedigo – guitar/vocals
Chris Hinkley – bass/vocals
Blake Dahlinger – drums/percussion

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