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The Bam Team’s 5 Favorite Shows, Albums & Songs of 2014

December 31, 2014 by The Bam Team Leave a Comment

Showbams presents The Bam Team members’ favorite shows, albums and songs from 2014.

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Filed Under: Best of 2014, Editor's Picks, Featured Tagged With: A Perfect Circle, American Football, Aphex Twin, Ariel Pink, Atomic Bomb, Beck, Best of 2014, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Bottlerock Festival, Candlestick Park, Caribou, Chromeo, Cibo Matto, Cinquanta, Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Cold War Kids, Connan Mockasin, crosses, D'Angelo, Darkside, David Byrne, Death from Above 1979, Deerhoof, Die Antwoord, Duck Sauce, Failure, First Aid Kit, FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Foo Fighters, Fox Theater Oakland, Fugazi, Future Islands, FYF Fest, Glass Animals, Great American Music Hall, Greensky Bluegrass, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, High Sierra Music Festival, Holy Ghost, Iggy Azalea, Interpol, Jack White, James Blake, Jamestown Revival, Jamie xx, Jungle, Kendrick Lamar, Lettuce, Mezzanine, MGM Grand, MIA, moe., MS MR, Nine Inch Nails, Nothing, OK Go, Outside Lands Music Festival, Panda Bear, Paul McCartney, Perfume Genius, Phish, Puscifer, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Run The Jewels, Ryan Adams, Sam Smith, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Sinkane, Slims, Soundgarden, Spoon, St. Vincent, Sturgill Simpson, Summer Camp Music Festival, Syd Arthur, Sylvan Esso, Temples, The Antlers, The Bam Fam, The Barr Brothers, The Black Keys, The Chapel, The Cure, The Dead Weather, The Fillmore, The Fonda Theatre, The Forum, The Fox Theater Pomona, The Greek Theatre, The Independent, The String Cheese Incident, The War on Drugs, The Warfield, Todd Terje, Tool, Tove Lo, tUnE-yArDs, TV on the Radio, Tweedy, Tycho, Valley View Casino Center, Volcano Choir, White Fence, William Onyeabor

Showbams’ Top 50 albums of 2014

December 22, 2014 by The Bam Team Leave a Comment

The Bam Team presents the Top 50 Albums of 2014. Yes, ALL of 2014 (ahem D’Angelo).

Filed Under: Best of 2014, Featured Tagged With: Adult Jazz, Alt-J, Angel Olsen, Aphex Twin, Ariel Pink, Beck, Broken Bells, Caribou, Chet Faker, Cloud Nothings, Cold War Kids, Courtney Barnett, D'Angelo, D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Death from Above 1979, Flying Lotus, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Future Islands, Interpol, Jack White, Jungle, Karen O, Kishi Bashi, Mac Demarco, Mark McGuire, Phantogram, Real Estate, Run The Jewels, Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten, SOHN, Spoon, St. Vincent, Strand of Oaks, Sturgill Simpson, Sun Kil Moon, Swans, Temples, The Antlers, The Black Keys, The New Pornographers, The War on Drugs, Thom Yorke, Todd Terje, Top Songs of 2014, tUnE-yArDs, TV on the Radio, Tweedy, Ty Segall, Tycho, White Fence, Woods

FCF finds first-year success for five game-changing reasons

August 28, 2013 by The Bam Team 5 Comments

FESTIVAL REVIEW + PHOTOS: The inaugural First City Festival in Monterey, CA was a big success for five game-changing reasons — view over 170 artist and scene photos.

Filed Under: Editor's Picks, Featured, Festivals Tagged With: Akron/Family, Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, Capital Cities, Civil Twilight, Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, Electric Guest, Father John Misty, First City Festival, Guards, Lucero, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Neko Case, Okkervil River, Passion Pit, Purity Ring, The Antlers, The Black Angels, The Dodos, The Hold Steady, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out

The Bam Team’s 5 Favorite Shows, Albums & Songs of 2014

FCF finds first-year success for five game-changing reasons

FESTIVALS

Desert Daze 2019: Another intriguing lineup loaded with must-see performances takes over Lake Perris

SHOWS

The prolific, often unpredictable King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard turn heavy at LA’s Greek Theatre

FKJ is a one-man, groove-making machine who’s full of surprises as he demonstrates at Shrine Expo Hall

The Raconteurs show all at the Santa Barbara Bowl why we need them after 11 years between albums

In times when we need it most, COMMON continues to spread worldwide love at Apogee Studio

Jim James, The Claypool Lennon Delirium take us on a psych-rock roller coaster at The Wiltern

PHOTOS

Empire of the Sun are walking on more than just a dream after selling out three straight shows in SF

The Lil Smokies take on SF & burn down the house

You Me at Six know how to make their fans go wild as they exhibited at Great American Music Hall

Max Frost brings ‘The Gold Rush Tour’ to Slim’s for a fun-filled night with Mikey Mike

MØ gets colorful & a bit personal at the Fox Theater Oakland after LPX’s energetic opening set

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