Posted in Bay Area, Bay Bridged, KQED, blogging, live music, music, reviews on June 9, 2008 | No Comments »
As posted on KQED here >>
Port O’Brien, claimed by both the Bay Area and the Central Coast as their own, has been continuously growing in popularity as their music moves beyond the college radio curcuit and across the country. The band’s indie-infused folk tunes are painfully catchy, tugging at heart strings and boot straps alike.
Port [...]
Posted in Bay Bridged, festivals, live music, music, reviews on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hype. It’s a fascinating thing. The cynic in me wondered if the hype surrounding M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel’s new project She & Him was all based on the good looks and cult popularity of Ms. Deschanel. Hey, I admit I myself am guilty of being slightly enamoured of her, considering she was in one [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Deli SF, live music, music, reviews on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Rykarda Parasol - “Hannah Leah”
Elephone - “Moving Beds”
I don’t mind going to shows alone. Sometimes it’s nice not to have someone yelling in your already ringing ear and distracting you from the music. But when there are four bands playing, there’s a lot of down time between sets to sit on a bar stool and [...]
Posted in Bay Area, Deli SF, live music, music, reviews on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The Finches - “Daniel’s Song” mp3
The sinosauropteryx prima is a birdlike dinosaur with short, feather-like fibers on its body. That’s what I learned at the Academy [...]
Posted in live music, music, reviews on May 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Luckily, Bjork can rock a live show so much that it doesn’t matter if she looks like an ant on the stage. Complete with pyrotechnics, the “Ten Icelandic Brass Girls” in florescent gowns, Mark Bell in-the-flesh, and costumes that looked like a bad 80s joke, Bjork’s show was one of the best, most polished shows [...]
Posted in Bay Area, live music, music, reviews on May 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bet you thought “potential heart attacks” was a band, eh? Not a bad band name, I’d say, but in this case I’m referring to the potential heart attacks from the “concealed and stroboscopically encoded information” that was present at the I am Spoonbender show at the Mezzanine last Friday. I am still not convinced that [...]
Posted in Bay Area, live music, music, reviews on May 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Zapruder played with Rykarda Parasol, The Harbours, The Caves and The Golden Messenger String Band last Thursday. It was the first time I had seen Zapruder and his Rain of Frogs live, so it was exciting. Aside from some tuning and capo problems, it was an excellent set, even with just four members present. [...]
Posted in music, reviews on May 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a little sample of what’s on my playlist right now:
Guther - Sundet: I heard pieces of this album from a friend last year, and knew it was on Morr Records, but I never ordered it. Finally I found a copy in Streetlight, and it’s as good as I thought. Not quite Lali Puna or [...]
Posted in live music, music, reviews on April 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I went to just about the strangest show I’d ever been to on Friday night. Each band felt like a different night - like I was in a totally different place with completely different people. Here’s what I saw:
The first band, August House, was a typical Orange County band, on the verge of “emo” but [...]
Posted in Bay Area, blogging, live music, music, reviews on January 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve officially started writing for The Deli SF, a great local music ‘zine. I’ve added a link bar on the right side of the page for stories that I’ve had published there. Hopefully there will be at least one a week. Here’s the first one, and after this I won’t post them in the blog [...]
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