We Are The Willows - A Funeral Dressed as a Birthday (mp3) * Atmospheric melancholy from Bon Iver labelmates We Are The Willows. They've made a new EP available as a "name your price" download on their label's site . The above song is from their full-length debut A Collection Of Sounds And Something Like The Plague , which was released in November. Buy @ Amazon *mp3 hosted by label & posted w/ permission of artists' PR Reps ****************************** [...]
Amores Vigilantes - I Love You More Than You Love Me San Francisco duo Amores Vigilantes release their debut CD West Coast Kingdom this Thursday the 17th at Cafe Du Nord (9pm, $10, 21+), where they'll be joined by Scrabbel , Seventeen Evergreen , and DJ Neil Martinson (SMiLE!). Amores Vigilantes - "Millions of Brazilians" From Three Ring Records : Parts of the Amores Vigilantes album...was secretly recorded in the basement [...]
Every month, we dedicate the first week's podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've got ten great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music! Subscribe to The Bay Bridged's podcast to get each week's new episode downloaded free to your iTunes! About the bands: [...]
I have to get to shows really early so that I can find a place to put my ass, so I see a !lot! of opening bands. You know how that goes: you see a lot of OK bands, but you have to learn to kind of space out through bands you don't particularly care for. Every once in a while, though, you score with a great band you've never heard of. Last Wednesday's U.S.E. show at du Nord? Mega score! I've never seen so many people smiling through three bands in a row. [...]
Kurt Vile Plays Spaceland on Friday Night Here's an abridged version of my live music options post. Pretty great weekend for shows. Friday 10/23/09 [Pick of the Night] Kurt Vile & the Violators / White Arrows / Under the Asbury @ Spaceland ($10) - Talented guy from Philly with a new album out on Matador. Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard /John Roderick @ El Rey (Sold Out) - Performing the songs [...]
The Invisible Cities ' 2nd album Houses Shine Like Teeth is out now, and they are giving away 500 free downloads . The album has 14 tracks of rough-around-the-edges rock and dreamy boy/girl harmonies ranging from the quietly sublime to the confidently noisy from a band that was voted the "Best Indie Pop Band" in the 2005 San Francisco Bay Guardian's Reader poll. Every download includes a bonus mp3 mixtape curated by the 'cities - the tunes were generously offered by their friends to help with the album launch. The bonus tracks are from [...]
Three Ring Records has released a 13 song music sampler on E-Music, available to download for free! Here is the tracklisting, followed by a link to download the compilation. 1. Love is Chemicals - Our Darkest Days and Nights 2. Solar Powered Peopl - Melting Ice and Snow 3. Audio Out Send - Calling on the Girl 4. The Lonelyhearts - Harlequin Bands 5. Manuok - Serves You Right 6. Pu2213 - Selfless 7. The New Slave - No More Endlessly 8. Aim Low Kid - Tango 9. Andy McWilliams - By Boat 10. Rykarda [...]
This week's episode is presented by KQED Interactive . This week's podcast showcases SF duo The Matinees , whose second CD, Make The Leap , comes out later this month. When the band's 2007 release, Sleepy Seeds , arrived at our studio, it won us over instantly. In a region with some quality indie pop, the band's debut definitely stood out, with strong harmonies and endearing songs created from just two voices and two guitars. Both band members, PF Dumanis and Jaime Borschuk, come from a history of involvement [...]
Evenals vorig jaar hebben we ook voor 2008 een overzicht gemaakt van Eclectro's hoogtepunten. In 3 categorieën (meest gelezen, meest interessante discussie en meest gezichtsbepalend) kijken we nog 1 keer terug op een heel mooi muzikaal én persoonlijk jaar. Want hoe snel we ook nieuws brengen, hoe trefzeker onze adviezen ook zijn, hoe meeslepend onze verslaggeving ook was, het staat of valt allemaal met jou, de lezer. Bedankt dus dat je er dit jaar weer in grote getale was! Lies, damned lies, and statistics [...]
On The Rickshaw Stop's website the show was officially billed to start at 8:00. Knowing that one of the three bands, The Eulogies, had cancelled due to illness, I arrived at 9:00, semi-late and trying to balance my strong dislike of arriving anywhere too early with my earnest responsibilities as the concert's music writer. As it turned out I wasn't semi-late, I was way too early. The place was
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player… Thursday: - Longwave (NYC), Scrabbel ( Feature Podcast ) and Eulogies at Rickshaw Stop . 8 pm, $12. - My First Earthquake , Nobody from Ipanema and The Invisible Cities at Hotel Utah [...]
Here are this week's recommended concerts. Fri 12/5: The Morning Benders | The Muslims | Minature Tigers – Rickshaw Stop Foggy Holiday CD Release: The Trophy Fire | The Heavenly States | The Federalists | I The Mighty – Bottom Of The Hill Los Lobos | David Lindley – The Fillmore [...]
New York is my favorite city in the whole world. I love that I can do anything I want at just about any given time, and if I can't do it quite at that moment, I know it's only hours away until I can do it. I'm elated to be living back in my birthplace, although I enjoyed the California weather for 5+ years, I am not California material at this point in my life. It's a gorgeous place to visit but I am a New Yorker at heart and I will always have a yearning in my soul if [...]
New York is my favorite city in the whole world. I love that I can do anything I want at just about any given time, and if I can't do it quite at that moment, I know it's only hours away until I can do it. I'm elated to be living back in my birthplace, although I enjoyed the California weather for 5+ years, I am not California material at this point in my life. It's a gorgeous place to visit but I am a New Yorker at heart and I will always have a yearning in my soul if [...]
Every month, we dedicate a week of our podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've got ten great bands playing some excellent shows this month, so head out and see some live music! About the bands: San Diego's The Muslims ("Beside Myself") recently changed their name to The Soft Pack , which means their buzz-building The Muslims LP is no longer self-titled. They'll be playing with [...]
Goh Nakamura , the San Francisco indie songwriter who can make the topics of parking tickets and minimum wage into beautiful songs, will play his CD release show with Scrabbel and Michelle Amador (Brooklyn) at Cafe Du Nord next Wednesday, August 20. His second album is entitled Ulysses , and is a collection of songs the way Nakamura does them best - with sensative guitars hovering below emotional melodies. His lyrics on the new album seem to have gotten [...]
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