Poor Moon - "People In Her Mind" Organizers for the Huichica Music Festival have announced the lineup for the festival's third installment which will take place in Sonoma County over June 1-2 at the Gundlach Bundschu winery. The scenic and intimate festival will include performances by Beachwood Sparks (who have a new album coming out this year), Poor Moon , and Occidental Brothers Dance Band International as well as Bay Area favorites [...]
Like the title says. A mix for a friend. Bachelorette , Antwon , Grimes , and a bunch of songs that have either already made it on to monthly mixes, or probably will be in the near future. Stream it on 8tracks: http://8tracks.com/topomodesto /mix-for-lena [ cover art by Moebius (AKA Jean Giraud) ]
Antenna Farm Records has reissued Papercuts first proper album, Mockingbird , and we want to give you a copy. Yes, you! This ain't just a reissue, it's a deluxe reissue. For one thing, it's on vinyl — for the first time ever, as Mockingbird was originally released only on CD in 2004. Second, Antenna Farm got every aspect of the reissue just right, from having California "vinyl auteur" JJ Golden cut the lacquer so that the dynamics of the album would leap right off [...]
Listening to the last couple of Papercuts albums, it struck me how readily Jason Quever's songs evoke chamber pop music from a not-too-distant past from a fresh but familiar perspective. Fading Parade (2011) is the latest outlet for his brand of pop nostalgia that puts Papercuts in the same brackets as their friends Beach House and Grizzly Bear, also featuring some of the band's most elegant song arrangements yet. The melancholic undertow of "Winter Daze" is filtered through the veins of snow strewn somnolence, where Quever's vocals ache as pensively as someone's dreamy introspection in the [...]
Can you believe Noise Pop has been going on for 20 years? Neither can anybody in San Francisco. According to the festival's program, the whole thing started out as a "random one-off show put together for an open night in the slow touring month of January 1993." Years later, the festival has evolved into a citywide event that's now a Bay Area tradition. It nurtures the area's creative spirit, and what better locale than San Francisco, a city that has always encouraged people to do their own thing and be themselves. Noise Pop champions those ideals and keeps it interesting. [...]
Date: Wednesday, February 22nd Number of Noise Pop Shows: 7 shows, 24 bands Already Sold-Out: A handful of Craigslist sellers are offering up tickets to see South African electro-rap-weirdo geniuses Die Antwoord , so there are still chances to see the duo perform songs from their new album, Ten$ion , at the Regency Ballroom. Meanwhile, Grimes ' new record, Visions , has been racking up tons of accolades, and Claire Boucher is topping a great Rickshaw Stop bill with oOoOO, Born Gold, and [...]
This being Valentine's day and all, we here at You Ain't No Picasso have decided to spread our love via a giveaway. The prize this year is a free colored vinyl of Papercuts' reissued album Mockingbird. All any one has to do to win is to simply answer a trivia question in the comment section [...]
Check out our list of recommended festival picks and tips for the 20th Anniversary of San Francisco's Noise Pop Festival.
Mixtape: Twenty Bands at Noise Pop 20 (Podcast #271) Noise Pop 20 is just weeks away. From February 21st through the 26th, over one hundred bands will take over SF's venues for six days celebrating independent music. True to form, this year's Noise Pop Festival includes an eclectic mix of veterans and emerging artists, and you'd be wise to buy your tickets soon, because many shows are starting to sell out. To get familiar with many of the bands performing at Noise Pop this year, here's [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
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I'm officially not doing an albums of the year list. There have been so few that I wholeheartedly enjoy, I'd have to do a top 10 that starts at 8. But that is not to say that there wasn't some exceptional new music this year. Click HERE for my favorite tracks from 2011. I'm hoping that 2012 will pick up the pace, but if not, I'll just further recede into the vintage music that I love so much. I hope you enjoy listening to the mixes as much as I like making them. [...]
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Tweet vaso link The year in music that was/is 2011 marked a departure from the prior two in which this blog has been in existence. This in the sense that, as opposed to waiting for albums from bigger bands one could classify as a favorite, there were far more unanticipated discoveries. I often talk of expectations, but this year I had few. For this year end list, I whittled down the list of the year's albums slowly to include those [...]
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Este conteo como el año se esta pasando en chinga, espero que todos ustedes esten disfrutando de cada cancion que ha estado desfilando por aqui desde hace un par de dias y por supuesto, ustedes tambien esten sacando sus favoritas dentro de toda la extensa lista de bandas que editaron este año desde un simple sencillo en 7" hasta un compilado de mas de 3 viniles como el caso de una banda bastante joven que esta haciendo cosas bien chidas la cual escucharan dentro de esta otra parte de los mejores 150 tracks de 2011 y bueno, aun faltan algunas [...]
Live This Month: December 2011 (Podcast #262) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. For a month when few new records are coming out and music journalists spend a lot of time meticulously crafting numerical lists of their favorite albums of the year, there are still a wealth of great live shows hitting the San Francisco area in December. Bands that had big years in 2011 - including Other Lives, Cass McCombs, and [...]
Where better to spend your Friday night than at one of the hottest rock clubs in the universe catching, critically acclaimed San Francisco collective, Papercuts, perform with support from Tim Cohen's Magic Trick (of the Fresh & Onlys) and Cassorla? It's all going down at The Satellite tomorrow in Silverlake, Los Angeles and we're giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky reader! To win just drop us a line HERE and you'll entered to win a pair of tickets for the set. Our winner will be raffled and contacted [...]
Gym Class Heroes have finally released their fourth and much anticipated album "The Papercut Chronicles II". The album was released yesterday, and is streaming on Spotify. It can also be purchased at Target stores for only $7.99 until November 19.
It's so cool that volumes one and two of the Best Songs of 2011 mixtape series have been such a huge hit - literally tens of thousands of page views in just a few weeks. Today's mixtape marks the third volume of the top 2011 songs series. If you didn't have a chance yet, it's [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Being that my typical night consists of hitting the sack at around 10pm, and that my new radio show is Friday nights from 10pm to midnight, I figured that my second show would center around the theme of sleep . So I pieced together a playlist of bedroom pop, chill wave, dreamy shoegaze and what I've dubbed as psychedelic ambiance. I took over for Stuarto just after 10 with a brief description of my first track, which I don't believe made it on air. The switch-over was a bit rushed [...]
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