January Mixtape: Best of the Bay Area [Part 1 of 2]
We decided to change things up for this month’s mix. Instead of working around a theme (Christmas, Harmony, etc.), we’re highlighting some of the best artists from San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.
After pouring through our local music collection, we came up with so much good music that we quickly realized that it’d be impossible to whittle the list down to a single mix, so we’re making this a two-parter. This month’s installment will feature some of the more toe-tap-worthy with next month’s dedicated to songs with less than 80 BPM and/or folkier choices (and no, we don’t think of folk as a four-letter word).
We tried to stick to current acts and bands that still identify with the Bay Area — artists that might be sitting next to you on the MUNI any given day. Green Day, Journey and the Counting Crows might have been “local bands” back in the day, but none of them are playing Slim’s or the Rickshaw Stop anytime soon.
Some of these bands have gotten more press (The Dodos, Geographer, Deerhoof) than others, but we promise there’s not a weak one in the bunch.
Best of the Bay Area Mixtape [Part 1 of 2] [.zip file*]
- The Botticellis – “Old Home Movies” | Buy
- The Dodos – “Red and Purple” | Buy
- Birdmonster – “Born to be Your Man” | Buy
- Geographer – “Can’t You Wait” | Buy
- Man/Miracle – “Pushing and Shoving” | Buy
- The Heavenly States – “Lost in the Light” | Buy
- LoveLikeFire – “Unlighted Shadow” | Buy
- The Morning Benders – “Boarded Doors” | Buy
- Howlin’ Rain – “Dancers at the End of Time” | Buy
- The Oh Sees – “Two Drummers Disappear” | Buy
- Maus Haus – “Rigid Breakfast” | Buy
- French Miami – “Science Fiction” | Buy
- Deerhoof – “Offend Maggie” | Buy
- Citay – “First Fantasy” | Buy
- Wooden Shjips – “We Ask You to Ride” | Buy
*To import the songs as an ordered playlist, go to iTunes, click on File > Library > Import Playlist… and select the .txt file in the mix folder.
For more, check out Best of the Bay Area, Part Two as well as our monthly mixtape and San Francisco music archives.
hey for some reason when i down load the playlist it says that it is corrupted
Hey Nick, sorry to hear that didn’t work for you, but the playlist looks OK from our end. Try it again and let me know if it doesn’t work.
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Loving the French Miami and Birdmonster tracks.
what an incredible listing! toe-tapping, indeed.
I’m really into LoveLikeFire so I’m glad you’ve mentioned them :) I was trying to find bands similar to them and I came across this new band also from Liverpool called Sound of Guns, don’t know if you’ve heard of them. I’d really recommend them. Here is their official site-
http://soundofguns.wordpress.com/