[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.] This week, some excellent acts will be featured here in the Bay, including some Stranger Dance favorites: Emily Jane White , Leopold and His Fiction , [...]
An argument could be made that the world is being bombarded with TOO many festival choices. It's a given that should you grace (or live in approximation to) a metropolis, you're going to find at least one festival that draws your attention, takes your money, and drives you to get out the doors and into the crowds. The purpose of these festivals, no matter the impression, is to unite fans and artists into one large consortium--it's a chance for a laundry list of your favorites to play in one place during designated time frames. As it [...]
Update: Shiloe play tomorrow at 6:40PM. The Scatterbrain Jamboree - a benefit for the San Francisco Aids Foundation - takes over Thee Parkside this Friday and Saturday. Our very own Shiloe play on Saturday as part of a stellar lineup that includes local favorites Excuses For Skipping and Schande , not to mention Broken Spindles . Broken Spindles is the side project of The Faint's Joel Peterson. The fabulous Silian Rail will play on Friday night. MP3 - " Gone " - [...]
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Scatterbrain Jamboree , put together by my fellow KZSU DJ Gus the Fat aka Will Cline. It's an event with a lot of great local bands. Ipickmynose fav Silian Rail and band-whose-live-show-I-only-he ar-good-things-about Schande close out the two nights. It's $10 for one day and $16 for two. Pretty good deal for 16 bands. Here's the schedule: Friday / Doors 9pm 1 Silian Rail 12am [...]
Right on schedule with last year's festival, Scatterbrain Jamboree 2009 will take place this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20 and 21, at Thee Parkside . This is a great event - a benefit for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation , and an opportunity to get acquainted with some fantastic local bands, and meet a few new ones. Each day is $10, or you can buy a two-day pass for $16. Friday's show starts at 9pm, Saturday's starts at 3pm. These are all-ages shows, so come on out this weekend! Here's the lineup: [...]
The calm before the Noise Pop storm.... Here are our picks for a weekend of local music. Check out some of these bands in our streaming audio player. Thursday: - Audrye Sessions , As Tall As Lions (NY) and The Soft White Sixties at Bottom of the Hill . 9pm, $13. All ages. Friday: - Scatterbrain Jamboree, Day 1 at Thee [...]
The Scatterbrain Jamboree - a benefit for the San Francisco Aids Foundation - takes over Thee Parkside this Friday and Saturday. Our very own Shiloe play on Saturday as part of a stellar lineup that includes local favorites Excuses For Skipping and Schande , not to mention Broken Spindles . Broken Spindles is the side project of The Faint's Joel Peterson. The fabulous Silian Rail will play on Friday night. MP3 - " Gone " - Shiloe MP3 - " Introvert - Broken Spindles MP3 [...]
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player… Thursday: - The Freeks , Sassy!!! and Hot Lunch at Bottom of the Hill . 9pm, $10. - Tempo No Tempo , Hawnay Troof and Ghosts on Tape [...]
In the dusk of another Valentine's Day, some of us will go to bed in despair, victims of this horrible holiday's deadly talons. But rest assured, desperate souls, this fate is completely avoidable. Local music is here for you. And it will stay with you all through the night. Five fantastic shows will compete for your affections this Saturday night - all very worthy suitors, and all for less than the price of dinner. This also turns out to be a nice preview night for the upcoming Noise Pop and SXSW festivals. [...]
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player… Thursday: - Parker Street Cinema , March of the Mannequins (Chico) and Aim Low Kid at Hemlock Tavern . 9pm, $6. Friday: - The Knockout Presents "SMILE" with: The Hot Toddies , [...]
Every year (well for the last 4 or 5) when Pitchfork releases their best 50 albums/100 singles, I always feel obligated to go through all the artists and try to discover/rediscover some I've never heard of. Why?- I'm not really sure, but probably because all my other friends/journalists/music critics/anybody who listens to similar music does. Obviously my bias is towards electronic music, but im all open ears. From this years countdown Ive heard some new artists I find particularly interesting-- Air France and Portishead (rediscovered in this case) for example. However, I never view Pitchfork as the "ultimate" source of [...]
The Mills Dance Collective are putting on a benefit fundraiser show this Tuesday at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland. Proceeds will go towards the Mills College dance program and their scholarships, as well as the local music scene. Download audio file (sheaintgottime.mp3) Leopold and His Fiction - "She Ain't Got Time" Leopold and his Fiction , a trio from SF, will be livening up the dance benefit with the a [...]
Name a cool band form Oakland. Metallica? Think again. The Hot Toddies are doo-wop bubblegum pop revivalists that proof that you can be cool and cute. Their album Smell the Mitten is picked with smart infectious tunes that are like a freak summer breeze in the cold winter. Founded in 2004 by Heidi Bodeson and Erin Skidmore who tamed up as a songwriting unit they expanded into a quartet of pop prom queens who will the haunt the dreams of pubescent boys and lure the music lover's attention who can have [...]
Photo by Frank Yang Some people spend Thanksgiving with their families. I spend mine with rock'n'roll bands. Two years ago at Pop Montreal , last year at The Phoneix with The National and this year again at the Phoneix with Okkervil River and Crooked Fingers . It's okay - my parents have a habit of being out of the country on Thanksgiving so it's not like I'm a total no-account son. Just mostly. Anyways. It's not like I was the only [...]
Here are this week's concerts. Fri 10/10: The Sword | Black Cobra | BISON b.c. – Slim's Fri 10/10: Chris Isaak – The Fillmore Sat 10/11: Frisco Freakout – Earthless | Crystal Antlers | Wooden Ships | and more – Thee Parkside Sat 10/11: Excuses For Skipping | The Dazzling Strangers | Leopold & His Fiction [...]
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player… Thursday: - Sean Hayes and Trainwreck Riders ( Feature Podcast ) at The Independent . 8pm, $16. - The Dilettantes and Federale (Brooklyn) at Hemlock Tavern . 10pm, $6. - Skygreen Leopards [...]
This Sunday, it's the Folsom Street Fair , which San Franciscans will know isn't your average street party. "San Francisco has served – and continues to serve – as the global epicenter of sexual liberation for the adult alternative lifestyle community," write fair organizers, and this year marks the event's 25th anniversary. There are two stages bands at the street fest this year, including Bay Bridged interviewees Excuses for Skipping ( interview here ) and Von Iva ( [...]
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player. Have a great three day weekend! Thursday: What's going on tonight? Let us know in the comments! Friday: - The Music Lovers ( Feature Podcast ), Harbours ( Feature Podcast ) and FM Radio [...]
This week, our podcast spotlights Excuses for Skipping , a San Francisco indie rock quartet whose 2007 debut Out of Work Early has earned them a bevy of strong reviews for its mix of spacey experimental elements and thick soaring melodies. The album showcases a strong control of both dynamics and layering, as the band can use powerful stacked vocal harmonies and guitars just as well as it can deconstruct those textures into compelling moody pieces. It's catchy, dense rock with strong moments spread liberally throughout. As [...]
Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Review)
TOUR: The Tallest Man On Earth Announces U.S. Dates
New Releases V2.9
[mp3] Joanna Newsom - "Kingfisher"
Hot Chip: One Life Stand
