It's Friday, and that means you can really throwdown at Next Big Nashville tonight. No having to worry about the alarm clock ringing in the morning, or going to work hungover. And if you're living in poverty and couting the days til payday next week, you don't even have to worry about having a badge or wristband to get a taste of NBN09. This years festival features the absolutely free Honky Tonk Takeover from 7-10 pm tonight on Lower Broad. Tootsie's will host Black Diamond Heavies, The Clutters and We Were The States, The Wheel features Blacklist Royals and Joshua [...]
TUNE IN Today For George Pringle, Future Of The Left, Battle, The Bouncing Souls, John Foxx, The Heavenly States, Club Silencio, Miike Snow, Supercreep, Los Campesinos, Metronomy, Brendan Benson, The Godfathers, APB, Super Furry Animals, Doves, Lush and 109 more!
One usually equates "tall boys" of beer with baseball games and college kids, but Minneapolis man-diva Har Mar Superstar (née Sean Tillmann) has decided to serenade these tasty beverages all classy-like. Full disclosure: this song was originally written by Har Mar and Greg Kurstin ( Britney Spears, Lily Allen, Kylie Minogue ) for Britney Spears , who probably would have meant something else by the title (wink wink, nudge nudge). Instead, she passed on the tune and Har Mar has made it his own, preserving the double entendre to the fullest. He may not have her moves, [...]
TUNE IN Today For Radio 4, Interpol, Project Jan Project Jenny, Talking Heads, Letters Vs. Numbers, The Wonder Stuff, Datarock, The Big Pink, Torch Song, Detachments, Rancid, The Tears, The Radio Dept., Hockey, The Heavenly States, Foreign Cinema, Ween and 109 more!
*MP3: Themes - "Epic World" Minneapolis-natives-now-Portla nd-residents Themes are playing a double-header tonight with an all ages show at Eclipse Records at 5pm (with Total Babe) and at the Turf Club at 9pm with Heavenly States and Ice Palace. They are fantastic live, I highly recommend going to one or both of these shows. MySpace (Ian Anderson)
Har Mar Superstar Announces Fall Tour Dates Releases Teaser for "Tall Boy" Video, Featuring Eric Wareheim With his new album 'Dark Touches' coming out next month (October 13th; Dilettante Recordings), Har Mar Superstar is getting ready to shimmy across stages near and far on his upcoming Fall tour. See below for confirmed dates and more shows in October and November will be announced soon! Har Mar also has a video for "Tall Boy" coming soon. Check [...]
[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, [...]
Or, the Whale @ Cafe du Nord during Noise Pop 2008 This week there are a couple cool events with lots of good local bands. Friday hols Regional Bias , the Bay Bridged's benefit show, in store for us. Two bands that I always enjoy live are playing: French Miami and Or, the Whale . I've seen both of these bands in recent weeks (and many times in the past) and they both put on excellent shows. John Vanderslice is [...]
We caught up with The Heavenly States back on July 3rd, when they played a gig at The Uptown to an enthused Independence Day weekend crowd. The show consisted of not only a ton of material from last year's Delayer , but also a bunch of new tunes that the band had been working up. Fast forward one month, and it turns out the band had been working up those tunes with good reason: they've been in LA for the past few weeks recording the Delayer follow up. Working with [...]
I am celebrating the Fourth with a photo of my beautiful state flower, the golden poppy. These are from earlier this spring, but I still have a few hanging on against the summer heat. While I picked these bands for the word "states" in their name, they are all U.S. artists, and each of these albums deserves its own review because the songs are so good. This is a beautiful album from Los Angeles' State Shirt. Give your ears a special present and listen to more of the songs. You will want [...]
Ted Nesseth of the Heavenly States at The Fillmore, from the HAD Archive It's been a while since we caught The Heavenly States in a live room, but word on the street is that they've been diligently working away on new material, and are set to record a new album entitled HE LP! in the coming months. Tasty. Lucky for us, the Bay Area natives have decided to do all of us a solid with a free show tomorrow night [...]
Thursday: Moondoggies , Harbours , Sarah Bethe Nelson @ The Rickshaw Stop Harbours - "Situation" Thursday: Double Dagger , Awesome Tapes From Africa (DJ), Mi Ami , Beast Of Thought , Psychic Reality @ The Knockout Mi Ami - "New Guitar" Friday: The Heavenly States , Boatclub , The West Of , The Dashing Suns @ The Uptown in Oakland [...]
Did I grab your attention with that headline? Good. Orange has put together a very nifty giveaway for this year's Glastonbury . You simply guess where in his field a bull named Desmond (yes, a real bull) will be at 3pm every day. They've set it up like a kind of grid, so you essentially pick a square and let the dice fall where they may. They have 18 pairs of tickets, so you certainly have more than one chance to get it right. Take your shot here . They have a 'bull cam' and have [...]
Every month we take a look back at some of the records that have had a huge impact on the music world and this time the Pixies take centre stage. A great band relies on friction, combustible tension between members, hatred even. With this comes great music. By the time Bossanova came along the Pixies were at breaking point, a feat all the more remarkable considering the last album they released was the acclaimed Doolittle they should have been swimming in the dollars, picking [...]
Coming up this Memorial Day weekend is the 2009 Sasquatch! Music Festival , held at The Gorge up in Washington. I've got a few friends heading up for the event but I won't be able to make it there first-hand, yet again. I opted to save myself for Phish a bit, but for the folks that are heading up to the festival this weekend, you're in for a serious entertainment treat. With some top-tier music acts headlining the festival, some amazing smaller-stage stuff like Battles and Rogue Wave, and a set of comedians bound to make [...]
The daily mix: 1) The Little Bicycles: "Patrick Moves to N.Y." 2) Pointed Sticks: "Real Thing" 3) Blind Pilot: "One Red Thread" 4) Andrew Bird: "Oh No" 5) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: "A Teenager in Love" 6) XTC: "Making Plans for Nigel" 7) The High Dials: "Soul in Lust" 8) The Pixies: "Ed is Dead" 9) Pavement: "Passat Dream" 10) The Heavenly States: "Pretty Life"
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sean Bones - Easy Street (MP3) Harlem Shakes @ Highline Ballroom ( more by Ryan Muir ) The lineup at Pianos tonight (5/6) at has had some changes since we last wrote about it. Harlem Shakes are still playing a free early show with The [...]
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The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
