You know it's a good week when Insane Clown Posse are playing an opera house in Oakland. Just sayin'... Thursday, May 30th !!! at Rickshaw Stop Sacramento is, quite surprisingly, a really funky town. The city has brought us a lot of bass heavy groove acts, however none are quite is rich and deep as [...] The post Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/30/13-6/4/13 appeared first on Spinning Platters .
Hola by Ash Reiter TREEFORT FEST AFTERPARTY: ANIMAL EYES, ASH REITER, PONY VILLAGE, COUCHES, TALKATIVE ( Bunk Bar , 1028 SE Water) Boise's Treefort Music Fest is trickling West. Animal Eyes is the lone act not to have made an appearance at Treefort, having just come off a nationwide tour. Masters, if not inventors, of the power accordion and the boisterous lounge chorus, they front a lineup of good-time, easy-to-like pop music from Alaska and Oregon. Former Oakland schoolteacher Ash Reiter and her eponymous band create a cocoon of ooh-la-las [...]

Horse Feathers & friend Horse Feathers , out promoting Cynic's New Year which you can stream at Kill Rock Stars' Bandcamp , is on a tour that hits Knitting Factory in Brooklyn tonight (11/14) with Frank Fairfield (who has toured with Fleet Foxes and Cass McCombs ) and David Dondero (who returned to Ghostmeat Records in 2011 after three albums on Conor Oberst's Team Love label). It's a solid bill of folky male singer-songwriters. [...]

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Sure, ACL starts tomorrow. Doesn't mean we get to take off from live music, especially when you have a band like Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing the friendly confines not once, but twice. Weather did its best to cooperate. The crowd was excited to witness. I was too, I spent a little time with GY!BE many years ago, but they fell off the radar, likely due to the relative silence form the band. But with their first new recorded material in ten years, Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! [...]

Very few bands can filter into the mainstream with their integrity intact, the exceptions albeit rare are huge (ie Arcade Fire , The Black Keys ), The Avett Brothers look to be one of those exceptions with their new album The Carpenter . I don't care if I'm sharing the same sentiment as ten thousand Justin Bieber fans... " I And Love And You " is an amazing song no matter how [...]
It's time for another beautiful week of rock & roll! LA's FYF Fest is bringing a bunch of really special gigs to SF, starting this week Desaparecido's first ever show in SF! It's going to be a good Late Summer. Thursday, August 23rd Eleni Mandell, David Dondero, Shel at Cafe du Nord Eleni Mandell [...]
EMILY WELLS, TIMMY STRAW ( Doug Fir , 830 E Burnside) When considering New York-based Emily Wells, one cannot help but observe, in awe, the amount of sounds that can emit from one woman. Beginning as a classically trained violinist, Wells merges perfectly the well-groomed nuances of symphonic grandeur with the undeniably carnal, primal pulse of heavy hiphop beats, in cooperation with whatever other devices might exist to help her achieve looped sonic bliss. Wells' relatively quiet internet presence depicts her as blurry and enigmatic. Not to mention the scant recordings; she has only three official [...]

Words, videos and photos by Brendan Sullivan This past year, I witnessed somewhere between 80 and 90 concerts, depending on your definition of what qualifies as a "concert" and also on my list-making abilities and forgetfulness. I can't think of any that I genuinely hated. I can think of some that were lackluster, some that I had high hopes for that let me down, some that were fun at the time but leave me with nothing stellar to write about now, and some that were really good but didn't quite make the grade. [...]
Kevin Seconds has announced a run of tour dates beginning tonight. Many of the shows will feature David Dondero and Kevin will also be performing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles with Bouncing Souls and American Steel.

The above photo is of the Palm House in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens, and was taken and passed on to me by Dylan, of Blueback Hotrod legend. And given that the weather outside is all kinds of shit I thought there would be a sort of bitter irony in using it today. See - that's how nice Edinburgh can be, so what the fuck is this pissing rain all about? Anyhow, traditional British whingeing aside, it's going to be a pretty bloody mental week this week. Thursday is going to be a particular swine, what with the awesome David [...]
This week goes from 0 to 60 in about 5 shows: ► British songstress Adele , who postponed L.A. dates in June because of a bout of laryngitis, brings the songs from her Top 10 album "213 to the Greek Theatre, a show rescheduled from June 6. That's her video for "Rolling in the Deep," above. She visits the Palladium on Wednesday. ► Fresh from an appearance at Outside Lands, Little Dragon headlines the Roxy. The Swedes released their third album "Ritual Union" last month. ► South Carolina-bred songstress Nikki [...]

Last Saturday's (August 6) show at the Tipsy Teapot was a special treat as Lonnie Walker, David Dondero, and Old Bricks took the stage. Summertime in Greenville can be hit or miss for an event like this, but a good crowd was present from the beginning and slowly grew through the night. photo credit: Laura Lama David Dondero started the night, which was a bit of surprise to many of the fans in attendance and members of Old [...]

Today's Edition: David Dondero and Lonnie Walker at Tipsy this week, 24 Reasons to love the Pacific Festival, considerations of interest, and VIDEOS! David Dondero joining Lonnie Walker at the Tipsy on 8/6 Lonnie Walker ( check out our previous feature on LW ) is an old favorite of Greenvillean hipsters, punks, and ne'er do wells (present company included) who frequent the indie scene here, but David Dondero is a name that might escape that same group. [...]

Photo courtesy of Hugh Twyman Words by Brendan It's another one of those weekends coming up. You know, the kind where there's way too much to do and looking at the concert schedule makes you just wanna bounce around town all evening and see everything all at once. Is it just me? I bet not, because there are plenty of choices for live music in the next few days, you're bound to find something you like. Stream some mp3s right off the bat and read [...]

O'Death @ The Echo A NIGHT OUT WITH O'DEATH, DAVID DONDERO & FRANZ NICOLAY @ THE ECHO On a night full of confessions, reflections, and parables, Brooklyn band O'Death kept the feet busy and the mind moving with the magic of their bluegrass punk-rock efforts. Franz Nicolay who opened his set with " the only mariachi disco tribute song to a dead superhero " summed up the evening best when he said " Coming up next, David Dondero will break your heart, and after that O'Death will put it back [...]