Halsted - "Walking Shoes" Ryan Auffenberg 's solo efforts, including debut album Marigolds and a spot on the 2009 Noise Pop lineup , have blossomed into a full band project. Halsted is releasing Life Underwater via Ashbury Records and celebrating thereafter with a show at Cafe Du Nord this Tuesday, July 13th. The show will feature Halsted's upbeat rock-pop, from an album that boasts some heavy-hitters in the credits: Life Underwater was [...]
Last night San Francisco's Ryan Auffenberg played to a packed Michelangelo's Cafe for the Underground Music Showcase . Channeling sweet strong pop melodies, Ryan led all of us to be his brilliant backup singers. And yes, in the beginning when he asks who wants to sing and you hear a female immediately pipe in, yeah, that would be me. I am a sucker for a good singalong. Sellout (live at the UMS) - Ryan Auffenberg [...]
[Locals Only is a weekly feature where the Stranger Dance staff focus on the best and brightest of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Feel free to hit us up with any information on local bands, musicians, shows, and other music-related events and projects.] Locals Only is a new feature here at Stranger Dance. To kick things off, here are some picks from this week's collection of shows featuring noteworthy local bands and musicians. All acts listed are Bay Area-based unless noted otherwise. Tuesday, April [...]
Start off your Thursday with a great local Happy Hour show at Bender's from 5-8pm, presented by SomaFM . With the high-energy performances of Scissors for Lefty , Picture Atlantic and Man/Miracle , you'll be pumped for whatever show comes next for you. The Swedish American will host indie princess Thao Nguyen (DC) alongside David Dondero , Sean Smith and Colossal [...]
Well his song, not actually him, despite what my totally convincing photoshopping would have you believe. Fuel/Friends favorite Ryan Auffenberg from San Francisco has a song featured tonight on the season premiere of Private Practice on ABC (9/8c). I know that this is a great melancholy tune of his; I know nothing about the show except that it sounds dramatic and possibly involves either doctors or lawyers. Dizzy Spells - Ryan Auffenberg [ from the 2008 album Marigolds [...]
Happy 4th of July everyone (and to our international visitors: happy Friday the 4th of July)! I love it when national holidays work themselves out to be long weekends- a mid-week 4th just isn't the same. I will hopefully find some sun this weekend, stay away from all that junk food normally associated with summer holidays, and take things pretty chill. While I'm doing all that, I might also just listen to this week's mixtape. Yep, I listen to my own mixes. Anyway, that's all I've got this week... enjoy the mix. [...]
There's a desolate ache to the brand of dusty Americana that Ryan Auffenberg creates from his outpost in the busy heart of San Francisco. As the SF Weekly wrote , "sweet, rough, singer-songwriter kids like Ryan Auffenberg have a powerful animating force — they like to fuck around with folk, and they've got love songs to sing." I called Ryan an artist to watch a few years ago after first hearing the gorgeously melancholy harmonies of "Under All The Bright Lights" and seeing him perform at Noise Pop 2007. Now signed [...]
There's a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to post for a long time now but for some reason or other haven't been able to write about. I thought now would be a good time to just post em all. Nathan Lawr And The Minotaurs - I've been trying to write a post about his new album A Sea Of Tiny Lights for almost a month now but the words, they don't come to me. I like this whole album, it has horns and strings and some clever lyrics. It really [...]
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A crystalline and lovely dream last night involving me slow-waltzing with Ryan Adams in a high school gym with paper streamers all about (yeah, have no idea where that one came from but I ain't complainin') reminded me of an interesting effort I read about called The Dream Project . It involves people calling in and leaving scratchy, half-coherent messages on a dedicated voicemail line (often right after waking), and then a cadre of artists works to visually represent those dreams as part of a larger project. The only catch is that they ask for [...]
Today marks one year (!) since I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS took its first tentative steps with an initial post, and I've been contentedly rolling along ever since, gathering steam as I go. I know that downloading music (and absorbing all that I have to say here) can sometimes be like drinking from a firehose, so I thought to compile you a 20-song mix of my absolutely favorite tracks that I have featured in the first year of this blog. Some of these tunes I posted up way at the beginning when I [...]
If you have a soft spot for the haunting male/female vocal harmonies of Damien Rice, the bright Americana of 'Gold'-era Ryan Adams, or the smooth sounds of Josh Rouse, you will love this next artist. Ryan Auffenberg is a San Francisco singer-songwriter who is making some amazingly good (mature, thoughtful, musically solid) songs for someone of his age (24). He's opened for the likes of Mark Kozelek and Jon Auer (of The Posies), and is starting to gain some well-deserved notice of his own. If you [...]
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