Thursday : Chen Santa Maria , Hiss and Hum , Brown Um @ Adobe Books (8pm) Chen Santa Maria - Live at ATA's 21st Anniversary Fundraiser Friday : Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down , The Thermals , Grass Widow @ Great American Music Hall (9pm, $17) Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - "Know Better Learn Faster" Saturday : The Lonely H , Leopold and His Fiction , [...]
Friday, February 5th - Thao & the Get Down Stay Down co-headlining with The Thermals and Grass Widow @ Great American Music Hall The Thermals - "Now We Can See" To enter send an email to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name and the phrase "I want to see Thao and The Thermals!" in the subject line. The TENTH person to respond will win a pair of tickets to the show! The show is at 9pm, [...]
ZACH THAT: WLFY favorite Thao Nguyen from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down had quite the story to share on twitter: Last night in London our fourth band member, my guitar, was stolen from our dressing room right before the show. last night in london, right after the show, my guitar magically appeared, having been rescued from a police paddy wagon a few blocks away the asshole thief had taken it to a pub and then proceeded to smash [...]
ZACH THAT: WLFY favorite Thao Nguyen from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down had quite the story to share on twitter: Last night in London our fourth band member, my guitar, was stolen from our dressing room right before the show. last night in london, right after the show, my guitar magically appeared, having been rescued from a police...
Is there an instrument sadder than the cello? I don't think so. The Portland Cello Project are a collective of Oregon artists, which have included both Thao Nguyen of Thao With [...]
Avvistata ed ascoltata di recente con i Portland Cello Project – la brillante escursione della Kill Rock Stars records nel mondo della musica da camera - la vocalist di origini orientali Thao Nguyen si riaffaccia sul mercato indipendente, ancora una volta accompagnata dai fidi Get Down Stay Down (da questo il nome della band Thao with the Get Down Stay Down ). Insieme formano un terzetto che ha davvero poco da invidiare ai pesi massimi dell'indie-pop internazionale. Con il secondo album "Know Better Learn Faster" Thao si scrolla definitivamente [...]
As the only SubEx blogger with lady parts, I sometimes feel the need to deliver our little blog a big ol' dose of estrogen! So, today, I'm speaking up for the ladies. Namely, New York-based Elle King (a banjo-wielding blonde with retro-tinged vocals and a repertoire of heartbreaking songs), or Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (a happy frolic of folk/rock perfection that features the adorable singer, Thao Nguyen). Or what about Basia Bulat (whose latest release, Heart Of My Own, is already turning heads with a [...]
Het kost me veel moeite om, na een verblijf in het buitenland, weer wat enthousiasme op te brengen voor Nederland. Ik ben nu weer terug in het land na zo'n twee en een halve week in een zonnig Aziatisch land en er is weinig in Nederland waar ik met niet aan erger. Ik erger me dood aan onze regering, aan de premier, aan het eindeloze getelefoneer in het openbaar, aan de afzichtelijke snowboots en Zuid Amerikaanse mutsen om me heen, aan de mede-reiziger die smakelijk zijn bruine boterham met chocopasta op zit te peuzelelen. En ik vind [...]
Thao Nguyen is a new discovery for me, but she's not new. Her songs are catchy, honest, and spunky. Here's one of her best, a song which Donovan has crowned a "perfect pop song." I'm pretty sure he's right. Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Bag Of Hammers Amazon / iTunes -Chris
Yes, this is a little late, but it doesn't really matter anymore. I've made some very slight changes to the list - some songs I lost interest in after a while, some I moved around, but the top thirty have remained the same. 2009 has been a good year for music, perhaps better than its predecessor, but these songs take some beating. I think the best thing to do is to stream the tracks while reading. Or just download them all, whatever's good for you. All the rather lovely artwork for this list is by Anika , who also [...]
In early 2009 the venerable Kill Rock Stars was once again rewarded for good taste when Thao Nguyen's much lauded second album became the label's best seller of 2008. If that album, We Brave Bee Stings and All, was taking a playful distance on growing pains to adulthood, Thao & Co.'s third album, Know Better, Learn Faster, is a creative, catchy, and often ironically emotive reflection on the timeless theme "love hurts." It's all in the title, as Thao explains on the Kill Rock Stars page for the album: "The album is named Know Better Learn Faster because you can't. [...]
happy new year/decade. what do you think we will call the years of this awkward decade? do you think we will call it "oh-ten" as we called last year "oh-nine" or do you think we will call it "twenty-ten"? awkward, right? whats not awkward is todays song, as it can be a mantra to live by for this new year. see how that all fits together? thao nguyen had never really caught my attention before, but she recently did a guest hosting stint with josiah, perhaps my favorite xmu dj, and it was [...]
2009 will always be remembered as a volatile year. In the wake of so much social, political and economic drama, indie musicians persevered in the face of adversity and turmoil: English rapper Speech Debelle rose from poverty to win the coveted Mercury Prize; young Canadian duo Thunderheist's "Jerk It" found its way onto the soundtrack of The Wrestler ; Deer Tick took the alt-country world by storm, and legendary hip-hop MCs KRS-One and Buckshot joined forces to deliver an outspoken treatise on the state of rap music. Without further ado and in no particular order, here's a rundown of [...]
In preparing some end-of-the-year features that will run over the next week, we were once again struck by how many Bay Area bands made a significant impact on indie music this year. We were pleased to sit down with some of the Bay Area's best this year for interviews on our podcast, and have collected music from 10 of our favorite interviewed bands for this recap episode. If you like what you hear, check out our podcast episodes spotlighting each of these bands. This will be our last podcast of the year, but we'll be continuing [...]
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down Know Better Learn Faster Release Date: October 13, 2009 Label: Kill Rock Stars Thao Nguyen's first album with her new band We [...]
I posted this already but cleaned it up for In Review Online: Thao Nguyen's last album, We Brave Be Stings and All , is a charming if somewhat slight set of songs that I admittedly became quite smitten with last year. Thao's distinctive, agreeable vocal and off-beat perspective on failing relationships perfectly complement the folk-meets-funk sound she and her band create, and though Bee Stings is nothing revolutionary, at the time it seemed a welcome breakthrough for a unique and talented artist. Thao and the remainder of her band—dubbed [...]
If it's December at You Ain't No Picasso, then it's time for Mixmas! Every year I like to turn YANP over to some of my favorite bands to showcase some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. They pick a theme, five songs that fit the theme and then share a little about why [...]
Prior to playing with her band The Get Down Stay Down in our studios recently, Thao Nguyen accepted an unprecedented gastronomic challenge. She faced off against OPB's own Stephanie Lawson and held her own with the same cool demeanor that informs her music. Her latest, Know Better Learn Faster , was released in October on kill rock stars . Don't miss the band's session, coming here later this week... Thao in the opbmusic Saltine Challenge from opbmusic.org on Vimeo . [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009 Below you'll find the first part of my Top 50 Songs Of 2009! Enjoy. Couple of things ... My only criteria for the list was that the tracks had to be from the pool of over 600 that made an appearance here at Side One: Track One over the course of the last 11 months. This list is not a good representation of my Top 25 Albums Of 2009 (they will be [...]
Thao Nguyen is the hetero-indie dudes' dream girl: an adorable multi-instrumentalist who wears her heart on her sleeve yet is secretly really sad (but not too sad to dance). What makes Nguyen an even better catch is that she flies past the whole Jenny-Lewis-bunny-like-adorabl eness and straight into Ani DiFranco-intensity, with darker-than-Feist throaty vocals.
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