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Bay Area Alternative

Alternative concert and club news for the Bay

About Me



This is a place for you to get news and share your thoughts on the music scene in the Bay Area. Have you seen a kick ass show, and that's not just the drunk talking? Did you just picked up a new cd that makes you pee a little bit in your pants? Did you make out with 8 hipsters at a cool spot before getting tossed in the drunk tank? Post a comment about it and share.

My Interests

Meat markets, jive posturing, 40oz bottles of malt lica, Boones, mullets, peep shows, crack houses, going dumb.

I'd like to meet:

People whos ears are always ringing from too many concerts, bar hopping drunks, ass shakers Nor-Cal bands, People who hate Clear Channel and you.

NOR-CAL BANDS - Send me a message that says ADD or whatever for an add. FYI - LA is not in northern Cali. Sorry, but we have way to much talent in the Bay Area and I can't go through 20 consecutive posts about pay for play shows. Wow, I sound like a music snob, I should move to LA. j/k

Pretty much our entire friends list consists of Nor Cal bands, labels, promoters, artists and music fans so feel free to use it to network and get your name out there. Keep the scene alive and strong!

Music:

Modern Rock: Cure, Ramones, Devo, Beastie Boys, U2, Social Distortion, Depeche Mode, Bob Marley, Violent Femmes, New Order, Duran Duran, Siouxsie and the Banchees, The Smiths, Pixies...

Alternative Rock: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Soundgarden, Offspring, Red Hot Chili Peppers, STP, Sublime, Nine Inch Nails, Weezer, Foo Fighters, Bad Religion, 311, Radiohead, No Doubt, Beck, Oasis...

Between Then & Now - Errrr....ummmm... Don't ask, we are trying to forget those 3 years of active and pimp rock. (exceptions include Deftones and Papa Roach)

Now: The Killers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Kasabian, Jet, The Bravery, Muse, Linkin Park, Coldplay, The Shins, Jimmy Eat World, White Stripes, The Mars Volta, Franz Ferdinand, Strokes, The Faint, A Perfect Circle, The Streets, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, My Chemical Romance, Audioslave, Interpol, Lyrics Born, A.F.I. The Postal Service, Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, Louis XIV, Incubus, Hot Hot Heat, Alkaline Trio, Keane, Donnas, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Gorillaz, Every Move A Picture, Lovemakers, Dredg, Ash, She Wants Revenge, Pinback, The Dandy Warhols, Autolux, Death Cab For Cutie, Subways, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, Nada Surf, The Sounds, Anti Flag, Hard Fi, Editors, Sufjan Stevens, Nine Black Alps, Rock Kills Kid, WOLFMOTHER!!!

Yeah, I realize you know some emocore band playing a garage or an indie band playing an apt in the mission where everyone sits against the wall trying not to move so their hair is not messed up that is not listed here. So what, get over it.

Movies:

24 Hour Party People

Television:

We miss all those shows while puking in the parking lot of a concerts or humping in the bar's bathroom.

Books:

That one Motley Crue wrote.

Heroes:

All the people who died.

My Blog

Is CBS running Live 105 into the ground?

Matty D. sent me this. Pretty good read if you think Live 105 sounds different lately. CBS owns Live 105.   Here's an article by Jerry Del Colliano of Inside Radio. This just reemphasizes that t...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:16:00 PST

Halloween Haunt Guide

   Tom Anger's Halloween haunt guide! Pirates of Emerson: My favorite haunted house for the last few years. They make great use of their space with a scare around every corner. Wea...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:20:00 PST

A weekend without an Alternative

The Bay Area's only Alternative radio station is on vacation as they get festive for pride weekend. Alternative radio will return to the Bay Area on Monday, but how long it will stay after that remain...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:30:00 PST

Page ordered to shut down

November 9th 2005 the Cheap Bastards in Suits legal department who own the bay's only alt station ordered the shut down of the "fans of bay area alternative radio" myspace page....
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:48:00 PST

NEW MORNING SHOW!!

  Big pat on the back for Live 105. This morning at 7:30 am they announced morning show plans for when Stern leaves, and its not a big corporate syndicated show. YAY! January 3rd Live 105...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:37:00 PST

R.I.P. KSJO

A Radio Obituary------NET NEWS as of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2004Updated at 7:11p (PT)It's the end of an era in the BAY AREA, as ALL ACCESS has confirmed that legendary CLEAR CHANNEL Rocker KSJO/SAN JOS...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A fun game


Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

FCC rules the world

Because of the boob, things have gotten bad. House Committee Approves Indecency Fines Of $500,000 Per Violation March 3, 2004When the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 emerged last week from R...
Posted by Bay Area Alternative on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST