Head Like a Kite HEAD LIKE A KITE, ALEK.FIN, BIG LIGHT, AND KILL KILL KILL ON THURSDAY DEC. 16TH AT SPACELAND, 1717 SILVERLAKE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ $8/ 21+.
In case you missed it late yesterday, a bunch of New Year's Eve announcements hit the internets that I think you'd all be quite psyched about. First up, the gang in Surprise Me Mr. Davis collectively announced a two-night run at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco featuring sets from SMMD, The Slip , Nathan Moore and Big Light over the two nights. I've seen this show before and I'd love to see it again, especially on a New Year's Eve that's spent walking distance from my [...]
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The boys in San Francisco's Big Light will tour this summer in support of their debut album, Animals In Bloom. I see these guys as spectators at just about every show I go to these days. I'll be seeing them perform and hang out at High Sierra as well, and they'll be opening [...] Related posts: Apollo Sunshine Announce New Album, 2008 Tour Dates Tea Leaf Green Tour Dates Tonight: The Apollo Sunshine Experience and More Tour [...]
Maybe it had something to do with Hole's performance on Friday, but a thunderstorm moved through Austin in the early hours of Saturday morning, sending temperatures plummeting and kicking up a nasty north wind that had more bite than any guitarist I saw all week. SXSW attendees on Saturday scrambled for their winter clothes, if they brought any, and scrambled to buy some if they didn't. The always-hot Rachael Ray party highlighted the afternoon; newly reconfigured L.A. quartet the Like [pictured above] played Stubb's; and photographer Scott Dudelson sent these photographs. [...]
Triceratops I wanted to write a song in a minor key. This and Good Time are the only two songs on the record that someone else contributed to. Jeremy Korpas, our guitar player, helped write some of the lead guitar parts. It's kind of wicked. We wanted to make an all-out face fuck guitar tune. It's abrasive. For a while we'd hear crickets every time after we played it at a show. People we confused. I think it has some pretty good hooks. I used to tell [...]
From their just-released album Animals In Bloom on Reapandsow Inc Big Light is a rock band from San Francisco. Formed in 2007 as a vehicle for singer/guitarist Fred Torphy to get his songs into the world, the band achieved instant recognition and legitimacy with the early addition of bass player Steve Adams. A fixture in the Bay Area music scene and founding member of pop/rock jam stars ALO, here Adams gets to flex his rock & roll muscles. Part guitar-rock opus, part psychedelic [...]
On March 13, San Francisco's Big Light finally makes their New York City debut at Sullivan Hall. All of our West Coast friends have been raving about this band since they formed in 2007, so us New Yorkers couldn't be more excited to check out these young rockers, especially after hearing their debut album Animals In Bloom - which comes out tomorrow. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Fred Torphy pens most of Big Light's songs and gets his inspiration from the likes of My Morning Jacket, [...]
With so many bands (over 90 at last count) ready to diverge on San Francisco for the second annual Outside Lands Festival this weekend, we thought it'd be helpful to provide some playlists so you know what to look forward to. With that in mind, here is the third and final installment of our daily playlists. Enjoy below and check out previous playlists for both Friday and Saturday . MP3s: Tenacious D - "Double Team" M.I.A. - "Way Down in the Hole" [f. Blaqstarr] (Tom [...]
With so many bands (over 90 at last count) ready to diverge on San Francisco for the second annual Outside Lands Festival this weekend, we thought it'd be helpful to provide some playlists so you know what to look forward to. With that in mind, here is the third and final installment of our daily playlists. Enjoy below and check out previous playlists for both Friday and Saturday . MP3s: Tenacious D - "Double Team" M.I.A. - "Way Down in the Hole" [f. Blaqstarr] (Tom [...]
I'm psyched for the Big Light and Nathan Moore webcast coming up in an hour or so. Watch it live at jambase.com/live . Big Light, along with very special guest Nathan Moore, will be doing a special live performance webcast this afternoon, Thursday June 4. You can watch it online starting at 2pm PST / 5pm EST at http://www.jambase.com/live Related posts: Nathan Moore Worked It For Me Last Night Bonnaroo 2006 [...]
Our good buddy Lauren Siegal is back with her second review for LMB after she saw a rather incendiary performance by Nathan Moore on Tuesday night at the Connecticut Yankee here in San Francisco. Here it goes. -Justin Once I got over wanting to rip his clothes off (side note, his jeans were already ripped and after a few minutes of strategizing, I concluded that there were only six more rips necessary to fully de-pants him) and started to listen to him play, I quickly became a Nathan Moore fan. It's not [...]
Those highlighted in yellow-orange-ish will be invading this years already jam-packed Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. It seems as though the country/folk lovers got their wish with Conor Oberst, Lucinda Williams, Avett Brothers , and Tea Leaf Green . I was pretty psyched to see Bat For Lashes up their despite that fact that I'm seeing her next month at the Great American Music Hall. Los Campesinos! fits perfectly in this line-up and hopefully I won't have any scheduling conflicts that causes me to miss their set. But this addition to [...]
San Francisco's second annual Outside Lands festival, to be held at legendary Golden Gate Park, has just added some big names to their already-impressive line up. The festival, taking place August 28th-30th, now features Lucinda Williams, Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, The Avett Brothers, Bat for Lashes, and Los Campesinos!, as well as local talents Tea Leaf Green, Zion I, Big Light, Darondo with Nino Moschella, and Groundation. Weekend and VIP passes still available on the festival website . Official lineup: [...]
Review and Photo by: Joseph Hayes It's no secret that a countrified resurgence in Indie music has been in vogue for some time now. Don a vintage western, invest in an old hollow body guitar and stock up on obscure Will Oldham records and you're halfway there. But, only at the risk of your own talent and intentions. Thankfully, Friday's bill at the Bottom put just enough of a distinctive spin on the twenty-first century Indie rock rodeo. Unfortunately, I was unable to catch much of AB and the Sea [...]
Sure, there's nothing more disappointing during a presidential race than being in "foregone conclusion" California. But while we won't get the stump speeches or ad barrage that the swing states are getting, that doesn't mean that there aren't ways to get involved. To that end, there are a number of fundraiser shows for Barack Obama this week featuring some great indie music. Check out our rundown after the jump. Tuesday, October 14 OBAMAMANIA, featuring Chuck Prophet , Touched by a Janitor , [...]
This week's podcast is our latest monthly mix episode, featuring new music, recent music and otherwise excellent music from seven Bay Area bands and one from the Central Valley. More information about all of the bands below: Blue Rabbit ("Separate") recently released their debut EP Separate digitally and the title track is some great rolling cello-pop. You can pick it up at their MySpace page , and can see the San Francisco folk-rockers on October 19th at the Fiesta [...]
Apart from my daily tasks at work and the recent bouts of weekend get aways such as college reunions, bachelor parties and preperation for moving next month, there has been absolutely no time to write about the music that I love. But now, due to circumstances both induced on my own over the weekend and a [...]
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