Instagrammed at Rockage 2.0!
Day three of Rockage begins in one hour! Last day of indie music + retro video games/tournaments + free play arcades + pinballll! Today is kids day—kids under 12 get in free! Come find Cartoon Bar Fight—we’ll be running the N64 again today! Come play with us!!
Rockage is at the San Jose Woman’s Club
75 S. 11th Street, San Jose.
(A block from SJSU)
Rockage, Curious Quail and Cartoon Bar Fight featured in The Brown Paper Tickets Blog this week!
Brick and Mortar 1.14.13, a set on Flickr.
All photos © 2013 Valentina Photography
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HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU! -YOUR BAND
Written by Jody Amable
Going to Rockage2.0? Of course you are. (You are, right?). While it’s mostly a celebration of video-game-geekery in all its glory, Rockage also serves as a sneaky way to introduce those who came to game to some badass local bands as well. If you’re heading down south next weekend, here are the Bay Area bands you need to see.
FRIDAY, 2/8/13
Curious Quail, San Jose: Personally, we can’t think of a more appropriate band to play such an event. Curious Quail build their sound off of a dreamy foundation of bleeps, bloops and other electronic noises. They’ll be appearing as part of the Make a Scene San Jose showcase at 8:30.
Cartoon Bar Fight, San Jose: We’ve already introduced you to Cartoon Bar Fight, San Jose’s spooky siren-song troubadours. Also part of the Make a Scene showcase, they’ll be bringing their mysterious gloom to the stage at 9:10. They’ll also be in charge of the N64 arcade, should you wanna throw down with the band.
San Francesca, San Jose: San Francesca are another appropriately dystopian band for an event that celebrates digital other worlds. Full of distant echoes and distortion to spare, San Francesca always offer an entrancing live show. See them directly after Cartoon Bar Fight at 9:50.
SATURDAY, 2/9/13
GNARBOOTS, San Jose: “Unmissable chaos” reads the press release in regards to San Jose’s GNARBOOTS. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. GNARBOOTS is the band that brought us this can’t-not-go-viral gem, and they’ll be bringing the weird at 5:10. Check out this collab with Minibosses, also appearing at Rockage on Saturday, below.
SUNDAY, 2/10/13
Dog Party, Sacramento: Here at The Bay Bridged, we’ve been known to embrace our neighbors to the east, so for the purposes of this list, we’re counting Sacramento in. Dog Party, made up of teenage sisters Gwen and Lucy Giles, are a thrilling blast of party rock that’s meant to be played live. Catch them bright and early Sunday at 1:40.
Honorable mentions: Matthew Joseph Payne (Oakland), Good Hustle (San Jose), Crashfaster (San Francisco), The Albert Square (San Jose).
HEY THIS IS A REMINDER! :D We are playing the Make A Scene San Jose showcase this year at ROCKAGE 2.0 alongside our friends in Curious Quail, San Francesca, Good Hustle and many more! Rockage is a three-day festival of indie music and retro video games!
The event runs Feb 8-10, and we will be playing on Friday, Feb 8th. Doors are at 3PM, music starts at 5PM, and the we’ll go on near 8PM.
We’ll also be running the N64 station the whole weekend! Advance tickets for the whole thing are here or you can get them at the door.
Also, a special online $10 ticket for FRIDAY ONLY is available here!
You’re kinda silly if you don’t come to this. ;)
"Summer Snow" live at XBar/Homestead Lanes for the Silicon Valley Brownout, 1.12.13. Lovely Cassandra Croft is on backup vox. Thanks to La Vie en Photos.
Thanks to Valentina Photography for this shot of us last week at Brick and Mortar in SF!
Our first tour came to a close last night in SF! Thank you so much for coming out to see us along the way! And thank you to the venues who hosted us, the bands who played with us and to our friend Eric for helping make it happen! Can’t wait to play for you againnn. See you Feb. 8th at Rockage: San Jose!
This’ll be the spot for all our tour photos!
San Diego was so fun last night—THANK YOU to my old hometown friends, my family, to Down UFO and Mittens for sharing the bill with us, and to Justin and the Tin Can for hosting us. More pixxx later on. -K
Dirk’s dad got excited and got all these. YEAH! Buy everything ever here!
NEXT TOUR STOP — TONIGHT IN SANTA CRUZ! 8PM/ALL AGES/$8!
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CBF!
Happy Holidays, CBF friends. In case you didn’t see it on our FB, we’ve made our new album, Reincarnate, available for free download until the end of the year. Hope some of you will grab it!
Go here.
December 18, 2012
Written by Jody Amable
Though they’ve been around for a while now, 2012’s been a big year for San Jose’s Cartoon Bar Fight. With the release of Reincarnate just last month and the press comin’ a-knockin, Cartoon Bar Fight will embark on a month-long tour of California in the new year.
The tour features a ton of Bay Area dates, including San Jose, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, Cupertino and San Francisco. No matter where you are, you’ve no excuse to miss these up-and-comers. View the full set of dates here and listen to “Reincarnate,” the title track off their new record, below.
CBF will also take the stage at Rockage in February.
Just announced. So very happy to get to play with Picture Atlantic, French Cassettes, The Ghost Of Wrights, A Yawn Worth Yelling, Sentinel, Bonnie & the Bang Bang, Hello, The Future!, Son of Heatwave, The Record Winter, ColorScout, Mike Huguenor (of Hard Girls/Shinobu), KiWi TIME and many more along the way!
Facebook event with complete info here— we’ll update that space regularly for each show.
