Chewing Pine
SURFING ON STEAM
John Dwyer (ex-Coachwhips) fronts the San Francisco garage-pop outfit Thee Oh Sees . Sonically, the group's material is as thick and gruff as his previous band, only this material contains an energy and greater detail that Coachwhips lacked. "Carol Ann" shimmers with dynamic guitar strums, sugary spring reverb and boy-girl vocal interplay that adds a playful quality against the chugging chord progression. The quartet have so many releases it's hard to tell where one should begin. Guess I'll have to ask the band myself. [...]
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Sound On The Sound
This may be the very first time that I've posted about a band a second time, and I don't do so lightly. Thee Oh Sees album from last year, The Master's Bedroom Is Worthing Spending a Night In , is still, I shit you not, in heavy rotation at The Daily Choice Headquarters. This is nearly a six, maybe seven months after I first heard the album, I'm still pushing it's unique, squawky blend of distortion, surf rock, and reverb to the maximum volume from any speaker source I can find. Thus, the recent knowledge that they'd [...]
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The Bay Bridged
Words and Photo by: Ben Van Houten Thursday's show at Cafe Du Nord was a diverse and highly entertaining mix of psych rock, punk, and lo-fi bands appropriately capped by another winning set from the always excellent Thee Oh Sees . The SF band was clearly the primary draw for the sold-out crowd, as the first several audience rows bopped up and down to songs from the band's ever-expanding catalog, including some new ones from Help , forthcoming on In the Red . Having seen [...]
EAR FARM
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Artist: Thee Oh Sees Title: Carol Ann Link Text: Carol Ann File Name: 01 Carol Ann.mp3 Bitrate: 176 kbps Year: 2008
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The Bay Bridged
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 [...]
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kata rokkar...
Want to find a reason to get out of the rain and into some amazing live events? I give you Noise Pop 09 ! The Noise Pop Festival , which runs this Tuesday, February 24th through Sunday, March 1st, 2009, is an ambitious iteration of San Francisco's favorite indie music, arts and film. For their 17th anniversary, Noise Pop 2009 will honor what's made it the best-loved celebration of indie music and culture since its humble birth in 1993. This years music will feature such indie superstars like Antony and the Johnsons , [...]
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Artist: Antony and The Johnsons Title: Epilepsy Is Dancing File Name: epilepsyisdancing.mp3 Year: 2009
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Compost Modern Art
Episode 2 of The Forest City Rockers is out! It features Thee Oh Sees ! Check it out: The Forest City Rockers - Episode 2 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo . Episode 3 will feature Crash Normal whos 7 inch ep will be out soon on Compost Modern Art . Snacks. Oh, my brother made me a new logo. Looks alot better than the one I made in 5 minutes (see earlier post)
The Bay Bridged
This week's podcast episode is the first of two mixes spotlighting some of the many excellent bands performing during the 2009 Noise Pop Music Festival . We're pleased to be partnering with Noise Pop this year to once again deliver comprehensive coverage before, during, and after the festival. This episode features ten great songs from a mix of local and touring artists. About the bands: Thee Oh Sees ("Ghost in the Trees") kick off the show with an excellent song from their [...]
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Forest Gospel
Three more releases that require a closer look. Thee Oh Sees The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (04.2008, Tomlab) I blame this 2008 omission on Wooly Mammal. After listening to the record, his basic sentiment was 'meh' and you know what? I listen to way too much music to be bogged down by some meh-worthy album. However, I kept seeing the record lauded all over the place and finally decided that I needed to find out for myself and thank goodness I did. [...]
Just Press Play
For some reason I've been receiving email correspondence from Kanye West. Here's his latest message: "THIS IS MY LAST DAY IN PARIS AND IT'S BEEN CRAZY. I'VE MET SO MANY DOPE PEOPLE. I FEEL SO INSPIRED BY THE TRIP… I'VE BEEN THINKING OF RAPS, BEATS, CLOTHES, VIDEOS ,STAGE DESIGNS AND PHILOSOPHIES … I ALWAYS FEEL MY BEST WORK IS MY NEXT WORK… I'VE MADE SOME GOOD CHOICES AND SOME MISTAKES… I'VE BEEN LOVED AND HATED…. I'VE BEEN HAILED AND RIDICULED… I'VE BEEN INVITED TO SHOWS AND AS USUAL ASKED NOT TO COME… I'VE BEEN [...]
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The Bay Bridged
DC9 At Night
20JazzFunkGreats
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Artist: Thee Oh Sees Title: Carol Ann Link Text: The Ohsees- Carol Anne File Name: The_Ohsees-Carol Ann.mp3 Bitrate: 176 kbps Year: 2008
Three Imaginary Girls
More Cowbell
Sound Bites
Show of the Year: Jarvis Cocker | Music Hall of Williamsburg | 7.21.2008 "Seeing Jarvis Cocker makes you realize that almost all other bands are chumps. This is how it's done. This is a show. This is charisma. This is It. You can't take your eyes off him. My #1 show of 2007 was his show at Webster Hall (and I hate Webster Hall) and this one was better." And also these... Red Mass | M for Montreal Festival | [...]
Someone to Love More Than Music Sound Bites
2008 was a great year for good music and a pretty good year for great music. I kept expanding my list from 20 to 25 to 30, and then back down to 20 (sort of). Deciding what would be my #10 took forever. (The top #9 have been there for a while, with the order shuffling around till seconds from this posting.) And actually my Top 5 were as close as they've been in ages. My rules: whatever year an album is first made available in any legally obtainable format (CD, vinyl, digital, etc), that is the year it's eligible. [...]
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the finest kiss
In Latin, they used to say, De gustibus non est disputandum . Roughly translated it means, I'm right and you're wrong. No really, it translates to There's no accounting for taste . Since this blog is a one person show, this list was created in a vacuum. The only debates that happened putting this list together went on inside my head, and since my tastes lean toward pop, this list reflects just that. As far as how this year compares with previous years, there wasn't one record that jumped out at me a screamed best record of the [...]
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