My friends and I created a mixtape club a few years back with the idea that we'd meet, share mixtapes, listen to mixtapes, eat pizza and have a few beers together. For music obsessives like myself - it was not just a great way to hear new music, but an awesome way to spend the day. The first meeting was a success, so we kept it going - month after month for over a year - until for some reason we just stopped sometime early last year. Recently, we decided it was time to get the band [...]
Two descriptive words that come to mind when I think of the Bay Area are the words 'vibrant' and 'upbeat'. I can't imagine there are many people who have ever visited here who would disagree with the assertion that the Bay Area is constantly pulsing with energy, optimism and creativity. Personally, as a transplant to San Francisco, and also as a well-seasoned traveler, I'm aware of few places in the word that are so progressive and so enthusiastically forward-looking. In part, it is probably for this reason that so many artists, musicians and culinary visionaries have historically chosen to call [...]
This week Kasey and I are doing something a little different. Together with Foodzie and one of their awesome local San Francisco producers, Neo Cocoa , we're doing a little giveaway . Who or what is Foodzie? To quote Kasey, "Foodzie is a pretty awesome company--they help local producers sell their goods on the Web and introduce folks to products that they otherwise might never have heard of, or had access to. If you check out Foodzie's site , you'll probably end up ogling over an array of goodies: chocolate-enrobed candied lemon [...]
Here Here is a lush, seven piece chamber-pop band hailing from San Francisco. Their first EP, The Boy With an Orange , quickly demonstrates the band's potential as future indie-rock superstars. The Boy With an Orange 's opening track, "5678," is a whimsical intro featuring playing children whose voices melt into an upbeat piano melody and lead singer Christian Lyon's gentle, but majestic vocals on the second track, "You Sold Your Shadow." A minute into this track, Lyon is met by a rich, warming violin as the song builds into a dramatic, swirling multi-instrumental [...]
Here's a batch of photos from last week's RUMBLE parties in San Francisco and Los Angeles.... THE RUMBLE: SF @ HARLOT - LILOFEE More pictures by Julie Suchard of the night HERE THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES @ 3 CLUBS - AVI BUFFALO [...]
We're going to give you the chance to say you saw a star back when if you're smart enough to roll out to the 3 Clubs tonight for THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES when FITZ & THE TANTRUMS take over that backroom. Driving down from San Francisco is HERE HERE loaded with new songs from the forthcoming record, as well as another star in the wings, AVI BUFFALO, from Long Beach. DJ's MiCHAEL [...]
The March version of THE RUMBLE: LOS ANGELES just got even hotter as we've added FITZ & THE TANTRUMS as the headliner to this Thursday's show at 3 Clubs . On top of that, we have San Francisco's HERE HERE driving down to debut songs from their forthcoming record, as well as Long Beach's AVI BUFFALO , young guitar hero and amazing songwriter opening up. Our guest blogger this month is FMLY doing live blogging from [...]
Mar 2, 2009, 1:45am
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This Thursday join us as we Rumble with our friends at Future Sounds at 3 of Clubs. This is quite a Rumble with Fitz and The Tantrums bringing the rare Soul mixed with indie that hits you right in the gut and raises you to a new level, Here Here representing San Fransisco and showing us what strings are made of. If you RSVP at Sonic Living then this is a free show!
Words by: Emily Logan Photos by: Reid Williams I love San Francisco. But I have a candid confession to make. Sometimes I get really mad at San Francisco audiences. Whether it's standing stolid before the dancy-est band that's ever come through town or talking as loud as possible while standing in the very front of the floor, I've seen them all. And maybe that's not characteristic of San Francisco per se, but it's frustrating. As the French Kicks played an incredible set at The Independent on Wednesday, the crowd gave them a meager [...]
Noise Pop's second evening steadies the pace with memorable solo performances at SF's Music Halls- Stephen Malkmus at the Great American and John Darnielle ( Mountain Goats ) at the Swedish American - but there's plenty of other great pickings. Sights and Sounds helps contribute to the longwinded philosophical debate of what it truly means to be an artist. Park Life gallery will display the fine art of those we know as musicians, namely Mark Mothersbaugh (Wes Anderson's go-to composer, and of Devo), Bianca Casady (the Coco, her sister is the Rosie) and our [...]
hey, gang, just a few additional points to add to the part 1 write up: obviously there have been too many bands involved in each of these posts to give each the deserved attention within the confines of this particular project; that said, many if not all do warrant - and likely will someday receive, fingers crossed and all that jazz - their own posts. in the meantime, consider yourselves officially encouraged to visit the bands' websites or to nose around in the archives of this site , which does a better job keeping us [...]
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