Photo: Amoreena Berg Oakland's John Murry , who just wrapped up a European tour, will be playing Great American Music Hall with Chuck Prophet Friday night. Before Murry left for Europe, he released a great video for "Southern Sky" off his The Graceless Age album, which has continued to receive a lot of positive press and attention. I got in touch with him hoping for some quick comments on the symbolism in the video and the show, and ended up having two separate [...]
This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
If you've never experienced The Cabin Down Below Band, you quite literally don't know what you're missing. My advice? Remedy this error as soon as is possible! This week I got my chance to do just that with a night to remember: Petty Fest's first ever stop in San Francisco! The evening was hosted by [...] The post Show Review: Petty Fest at the Fillmore, 02/27/2013 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
It’s good to be king (or queen) and win a free pair of tickets to Petty Fest.
I want to describe this album for the initiated as one that wears it's influences on it's sleeves, but Chuck has been doing this so long I don't want to suggest that he doesn't have a "sound." It's just tough to describe because it sounds so familiar. It's so tightly wound into the lexicon of rock & roll, & his musical vocabulary is so extensive, & his original contributions are of such quality that it's easy to just assume that the Kinks or the Ramones or Tom Petty, or SOMEONE must've done that before, when in fact it may very [...]
Sleepless Nights headliner Red Meat A long list of Bay area artists will honor Gram Parsons Saturday at the Great American Music Hall for the "11th Annual Sleepless Nights: A Tribute to Gram Parsons & Cosmic American Music" . Event organizer and member of Sweet Chariot Eric Shea explains what "cosmic American music" meant to Parsons. "Music writers wanted to call him country-rock, but he pushed back and challenged them to listen more closely so they can hear the soul, gospel, Americana, blues and rock [...]
As 2012 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. On his 10th studio album, Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet found his muse in the city he’s called home for 30 years. Exploring the local landmarks and myths with friend [...]
From the resilient folk of Bhi Bhiman to the poignant rap of Brother Ali and Oddisee, from Bob Dylan’s continuing lyrical excursion to the catchiness of The Dig and The Mowgli’s, here are my 20 favorite albums of 2012. Alabama...
As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. On his 10th studio album, Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet found his muse in the city he’s called home for 30 years. Exploring the local landmarks and myths with friend and poet klipschutz, [...]
As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. On his 10th studio album, Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet found his muse in the city he’s called home for 30 years. Exploring the local landmarks and myths with friend and poet klipschutz, [...]
As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. On his 10th studio album, Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc), Chuck Prophet found his muse in the city he’s called home for 30 years. Exploring the local landmarks and myths with friend and poet klipschutz, [...]
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners! Voting ends on Friday, December 21st , so let us know your favorites now , and tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list! Barry Adamson at KEXP, 03/05/2012 photo credit: Christopher Nelson ( more photos ) Stevie Zoom's 2012 Top Ten Albums [...]
Ben Folds Five will be playing at the Tower tonight after releasing their brand new album The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind last week. This is the first record Ben Folds Five has released in over a decade; during the band's hiatus, Folds enjoyed a solo career in which he produced six solo ... Continue reading
Mixtape: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 Mix (Podcast #287) By its twelfth year, you'd be forgiven for taking the annual occurence of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival for granted. The passing of founder Warren Hellman in December, however, brought with it a reminder that tens of thousands of people didn't always flock to Golden Gate Park for three free days of music each fall. In fact, when one takes all of those elements - the large crowds, the no-cost attendance, the numerous off-the-dial performers - into consideration, the festival's continued [...]
CHUCK PROPHET AND THE MISSION EXPRESS, REDWOOD SON ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) You won't find a more versatile, yet underappreciated, musician and songwriter than Chuck Prophet (although those in the know know ). Aside from a career that has seen him dabble in punk, country, and pop (his first band Green on Red was big in the mid-'80s Paisley Underground movement), Prophet is also a gifted storyteller whose solo work is just as enthralling. His latest album, Temple Beautiful , is a love letter of sorts to his longtime San Francisco home, offering [...]
photo by Jim Bennett Welsh trio The Joy Formidable have released a new video preview/cinematic experience for their upcoming album Wolf's Law due out early 2013. The video, which involves plenty of high-contrast black and white Tree of Life style shots of different things happening (including bears fighting, a person being born, a volcano, and some surgery) in an attempt to portray the "truth of nature," features the song "Wolf's Law," which will not be featured on the album. Check out the video below and make [...]
Mixtape: Things You May Have Missed Earlier This Year (Podcast #280) Words by Ben Van Houten When it was pitched, this episode was known informally as an "underrated bands" mix, a label that seems as unworkable as it feels insulting. In an age of increasing access to an perpetually growing volume of music, and a culture that focuses on always keeping an eye out for the next big thing, the idea that any band could hold any attention long enough to be over-/under-/rated at all seems unlikely. Forget [...]
In A Cloud was a excellent compilation of San Francisco bands released by Secret Seven Records. Now they have announced In A Cloud II , a new vinyl-only compilation with 13 previously unreleased recordings by some of San Francisco's finest, which include many MM faves. Contributors are Vetiver, Ty Segall, Hannah Lew ( of Grass Widow), Wymond Miles ( of Fresh & Onlys), Chuck Prophet, Lucky Eyes, Will Sprott ( of The Mumlers), Sonny & The Sunsets, Paula Frazer, Kelley Stoltz, Bad Backs, Tim Cohen ( of Fresh & Onlys), and [...]
Os dejo con "In A Cloud II - New Sounds From San Francisco", un compilado que junta los nuevos sonidos de la ciudad estadounidense de San Francisco; Chuck Prophet, Lucky Eyes, Papercuts … y que cuenta con una nueva canción de Ty Seagall, “Swang” . Recordad que lo nuevo de Ty Seagall, "Slaughterhouse" tendrá como fecha de salida el 26 de Junio vía In The Red, y promete mucho.
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