The other writers were really good about turning their work in on time. I was not. This is so late, I know. I just want to tell any and all of my pretentious friends that no, I will not go see Where The Wild Things Are with you this weekend. I'm taking my two little cousins, aged six and ten respectively. We are seeing it first thing tomorrow morning, simply because I can not bear the thought of having to hear you talk about how great Dave Eggers is or even worse, what [...]
[Locals Only is a regular 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.] While Regional Bias looks to the Bay Area music community as vibrant and inspiring, the Deli SF -presented Dorkfest looks at it from the other side: Does the Bay have something special to offer, and is there a real sense of cohesion [...]
Tonight : Sonny & the Sunsets (73 Release Party), Small Sur (Baltimore), Nate Grace (Austin) @ Amnesia Sonny Smith - "Day in the Life of a Heel" Friday : Regional Bias: A Celebration of Bay Area Music and Culture to Benefit The Bay Bridged . Featuring performances by French Miami , Adam Stephens and The Finite Plain , Or, the Whale (acoustic), and Leopold and his Fiction , DJs [...]
It's time for another Ticket Giveaway Wednesday! In addition to these great shows, you can win a pair of tickets to our own fundraiser, Regional Bias , in giveaways being held by our friends Broke-Ass Stuart and Mission Mission . Sunday, August 2nd - Deerhoof @ Great American Music Hall Deerhoof are back home headlining this Sunday at Great American Music Hall . If you [...]
We're back from Comic-Con 2009! And holy shit what a journey of epic proportions. I'll be posting pictures and a day to day "what happened" in the near future (probably tomorrow). But for now lets go over the last week of July and what is the August concert season. Tonight, Band Of Skulls conquer Café du Nord. I'd love to go to this but I'm suffering from a slight cold. BUT these guys fucking rock. Check'em out. Monday is Spinnerette (ex- Distillers ) at the Great American Music Hall, [...]
Click for Full Poster The Cultural Affairs Commission at UCLA Presents: JAZZ REGGAE FESTIVAL at UCLA Presented by SCION JazzReggaeFest.com A Culture of Change Memorial Day Weekend May 24 – 25, 2009 It's weekends like these which make you fully appreciate every moment of living in a beautiful place [...]
hometapes : Download the single, The Fade , as fast as you can here . This is the Summer of Megafaun. Their highly-anticipated second album, Gather, Form & Fly , is a monument to a band that hundreds have experienced on stages, under trees, in galleries, on floors, in headphones, and through radios-with-the-windows-down over the past three years. All the hints they've given us —- from songs Stereogum described as "mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics" to [...]
Railcars - life of st edmund (ponds) + "CASTLES" Railcars recently tipped us off to this catchy-noisy track, containing the first two songs from the band's upcoming cathedral with no eyes EP, which is coming out digitally and on 123 vinyl in August. The EP's not the only thing the band has in the works right now. They're also prepping a 73 split with LA's Former Ghosts , a new collaboration between Freddy Ruppert (This Song is a Mess But So Am I), [...]
This week, MCMB had the privilege to interview Jacob Sinetos, the lead singer and guitarist for the San Francisco based band, Anderson Congress. Here's their brief bio from their myspace page: Jake Sinetos first began playing music under the Anderson Congress moniker in 2003, playing dark experimental music as part of the 'Under the Radar' group of musicians'. After two years of solo work he
Daft Punk After Parties 2007 Alive Tour Click the images to see more photos! Best Dance Recording WINNER: Harder Better Faster Stronger Daft Punk Thomas Bangalter & Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, producers; Thomas Bangalter & Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixers Track from: Alive 2007 [Virgin Records] NOMINEES: Ready For The Floor Hot Chip Hot Chip, producers; Dan Carey, mixer Track from: Made In The Dark [Astralwerks/DFA] [...]
Daft Punk After Parties 2007 Alive Tour Click the images to see more photos! Best Dance Recording WINNER: Harder Better Faster Stronger Daft Punk Thomas Bangalter & Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, producers; Thomas Bangalter & Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, mixers Track from: Alive 2007 [Virgin Records] NOMINEES: Ready For The Floor Hot Chip Hot Chip, producers; Dan Carey, mixer Track from: Made In The Dark [Astralwerks/DFA] [...]
by Jim Meyer Jim Meyer, aka Jimmy Valentine, is your Charm City Rollergirls co-host and a stand up comedian who will be performing at The Baltimore Comedy Factory January 22nd, 23rd and 24th and will be hosing monthly open mikes at The Golden West Cafe starting in February. 10. Billionaires Apparently Worlds Worst Panhandlers In desperate need of billions to stay afloat until next year, the CEOs of the big three packed up their Louis Vuitton bindle sticks, hopped a ride on an east bound Learjet and started [...]
(photo by Orrin Anderson) Everyone's favorite iTunes App Store soundtrack band, The Submarines , are heading out to play gigs for, wait for it, you, me and the bourgeoisie. Sorry, we sort of had to do that. Anyways, the band will be sharing the stages all over the US with The Morning Benders . You should totally pick up a copy of Honeysuckle Weeks , the excellent pop genius record from the duo of John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard, which we described as "winding vines filled with sweet nectar-filled berries that are [...]
Following on the heels of this historic election, the NY Times ran a fascinating article detailing the history of visits to the White House by black luminaries: Within days of his inauguration, as Barack Obama and his family begin to feel at home in the White House, Malia and Sasha will perhaps be scampering about the mansion's staircases, bedrooms and formal public rooms. As appealing as the prospect of that scene is, it is also a poignant reminder of how long it took for African-Americans to feel they had an equal place in [...]
At the beginning of “Norway”, the new single from Baltimore’s Beach House, there’s a hint of the second-hand organ that dominated most of their self-titled [...]More about Beach House
WE SHOT THE MOON will be chatting on the AR Community tomorrow night in our first ever "Wednesday Night Web Chat." Here's the scoop: every [...]More about Lady GaGa
Das hat mir heute den Abend gerettet. Vampire Weekend covern Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere”. Ist mir ja vorher nie so aufgefallen, wie [...]More about Vampire Weekend
You like feuds, right? Because this new Beck song is the baby of the feud of the year and it’s pretty messy. The story goes like this: [...]More about Beck
It’s another Monday. Specifically, it’s a Mike Monday remix of “Zum Zum” by the Spanish duo Thugfucker. Featured on the Zum Zum EP with [...]More about Animal Collective
If you’re unfamiliar with who Neon Gold are by now then you should consider this one of many wake-up calls. Several releases after their entrance [...]More about The xx
Beyonce has recently released the deluxe version of 'I Am...Sasha Fierce' which includes 4 bonus tracks and a DVD. The deluxe edition came out on November 2nd, [...]More about Beyonce
The 44th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from singer Van Pierszalowski [...]More about Lil' Wayne
Like come on...it has been so musically dead over the past couple days. Some good...I guess ok songs have dropped but nothing that blew me [...]More about Kanye West
When the BBC Sound of 2009 anointed Master Shortie's debut LP came and went with little fanfare earlier this year, most suspected that there just wasn't room for [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
