Posts Tagged ‘Amanda Palmer’
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
Lake Tahoe is in the Bay Area right? Sure it is…I don’t know I’ve only lived here for a year. It’s relivent enough to mention though. Wanderlust Festival is this weekend (July 24-26th) up in Lake Tahoe. The line-up includes Andrew Bird, Broken Social Scene, Spoon, Rogue Wave, Mates of State, Girl Talk, Kaki King, Gillian Welch, Jenny Lewis, Michael Franti & Spearhead (eww), Amanda Palmer, Spearhead, Jai Uttal, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Mutaytor, The Honey Brothers, and The London Souls. The pictures of people doing Yoga are kind of freaking me out, but it looks fun nonetheless. Anywho, here’s this week’s schedule…
Today has veteran shoegaze act Trespassers William and Robert Gomez with The Theatre Fire at the Hemlock Tavern, sfSoundSeries presents avant-garde masters Milton Babbitt, Alvin Lucier, Olga Neuwirth, Matt Ingalls, and Hans Thomalla at the ODC Theater, and the mighty Judgement Day, TRICLOPS! and The Definite Articles rock out at the Bottom of the Hill.
Monday features Blue Öyster Cult at Slim’s and hip hop acts Awol One, Factor, and Ceschi at the Element Lounge.
Tuesday will be pretty packed with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Girls, and The Champagne Socialists performing the Rickshaw Stop, electro-act Casiotone for the Painfully Alone will be at the Bottom of the Hill, and the ever-so amazing hip hop group Doomtree featuring Sims, Cecil Otter, Paper Tiger, Dessa, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak will be playing the Elbo Room.
Wednesday has synth-pop sweetie La Roux with io echo at Café du Nord, the Fake Problems show at the Bottom of the Hill is canceled, and experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes keep it real at the Rickshaw Stop.
Thursday, The Weakerthans play The Great American Music Hall, hip-hop legends De La Soul hit up The Fillmore, and singer-songwriter iaWillm Fitzsimmons soothes The Independent.
Friday has of Montreal and Jon Brion at the Fox Theater in Oakland and reggae acts The Lions, Bedouin Soundclash and Rootbeer featuring Pigeon John hits up Slim’s.
Saturday has the reunited No Doubt, Paramore, and The Sounds at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and local indie pop act maus haus plays with Rainbow Arabia at the Bottom of the Hill.
I’ll be at ComicCon a majority of this week, but those are your recommendations for this week. Have fun!
Olga Neuwirth – 
Lost Highway
Trespassers William – Sparrow
Ceschi – Frank Purpose
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Kurt Cobain’s Cardigan
SIMS – Muziektes
Paper Tiger – 1995
De La Soul – Big Mouf (Clean)
The Lions – Salam Hadji
Tags: Alvin Lucier, Amanda Palmer, andrew bird, Awol One, Bedouin Soundclash, broken social scene, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cecil Otter, Ceschi, De La Soul, Dessa, Factor, Gillian Welch, girl talk, Girls, Jai Uttal, Jenny Lewis, Judgement Day, Kaki King, mates of state, Matt Ingalls, Michael Franti & Spearhead (eww), Mike Mictlan, Mike Mictlan & Lazerbeak, Milton Babbitt, No Doubt, Olga Neuwirth, Paper Tiger, Paramore, Rogue Wave, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, SIMS, Spearhead, spoon, The Honey Brothers, The Lions, The London Souls, The Mutaytor, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Triclops!, Wanderlust Festival
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Monday edition! Okay yeah I’m late on the Bay Area post but if you saw how my weekend went you’d understand. Anyway, if you made it out to the Laura Stevenson show last night, consider yourself lucky, she’s a special gal. Keep an eye on her. Okay, lets get started!
Tonight Coldplay heads over to the Shoreline Amphitheatre to entertain the white people, post rock heroes Tortoise and Pit Er Pat are leaving the The Great American Music Hall in awe, folk metal band Wolves in the Throne Room hit up Slim’s, Tori Amos plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and the San Jose Center For The Performing Arts on Tuesday, also Summer Cats and Magic Bullets perform at The Knockout tonight, New Zealand rockers The Veils and indie pop act Foreign Born crash the Bottom of the Hill.
Tuesday features Blonde Redhead at The Independent for two nights, the beautifully reunited Azure Ray play Nickel City Arcade in San Jose, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head rocks Café du Nord,…oh yeah and some website called Kata Rokkar presents post rockers Gifts From Enola with Winfred E. Eye and Glaciers. That should be fucking awesome!
Wednesday we have the lovely Laura Veirs at Café du Nord, instrumental group Pink Mountain play San Francisco’s Amoeba Records at 6pm, and Tears for Fears stop by the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
The Mission Creek Music Festival featuring Judgement Day, Evangelista, Ann Magnuson, Jessie Evans, Shogun Kuntoki, William Winant, Weasle Walter, Moe!, Staiano Trio, Pop Noir, Ink Blots, Nacotheque, Juan Son, Curly Lou, Clara Gustavson, Dead Meadow, Xoel Lopez, Mranda Lee Richards, the Extra Action Marching Band and many many others will be pretty much all over the city from the 15th to the 22nd of July. More on that later on in the week.
Also going on this week is the The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival with Amanda Palmer, Lucero, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Loco Bloco, etc. I had no idea what this was until just now. It looks wild. The event will take place In Oakland right off the West Grand Avenue exit, between at the Oakland Army Base and the East Bay MUD Facility, at the corner of Wake Avenue and Engineer Road.
Thursday will have me visiting the Great American Music Hall to see Azure Ray and Cursive’s Tim Kasher. It wil a nice evening of calm heartfelt music on O’Farrell Street. Psychedelic rocks Thee Oh Sees with Meth Teeth (best band name?) at The Eagle Tavern, and indie punkers Girl in a Coma play the Bottom of the Hill.
Friday, Brand New returns with Dios at Slim’s, Infected Mushroom plays at The Grand Ballroom At the Regency Center, thrash rocks Sabertooth Zombie rip-up 924 Gilman St., indie hip-hoppers Cage and Yak Ballz come to destroy The Great American Music Hall, THE VERY BEST (Radioclit & Esau Mwamwaya) come to party it up at Mighty, noise rockers Pterodactyl perform at the Hemlock Tavern, and the Great Northern and Eulogies show at Mezzanine is canceled.
Saturday, progressive art rocks Water & Bodies and Ambiance play the Hotel Utah, lounge DJ Bonobo will be at Mighty, and Three Mile Pilot crashes at the Bottom of the Hill.
Oh and hang out with Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth at the San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY concert on July 18th at Davies Symphony Hall.
Lots going on. See you out there!
Water & Bodies – Something I Can Grasp
Azure Ray – If You Fail
Blonde Redhead – 23
Foreign Born – Early Warnings
Tags: Amanda Palmer, Ann Magnuson, Azure Ray, Clara Gustavson, Coldplay, Curly Lou, Dead Meadow, Evangelista, Gifts From Enola, Glaciers, Ink Blots, Jessie Evans, Juan Son, Judgement Day, Loco Bloco, Lucero, Moe!, Mranda Lee Richards, Nacotheque, Poor Man's Whiskey, Pop Noir, San Francisco Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY, Shogun Kuntoki, Staiano Trio, The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival, the Extra Action Marching Band, The Mission Creek Music Festival, Tortoise, Water & Bodies, Weasle Walter, William Winant, Winfred E. Eye, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xoel Lopez
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
I won’t be going, but if I was, these would be my highlights. Now I know it will be impossible to see all of these bands/artists, I know how SXSW works. However, the SXSW website has a plethora of free songs for you to sample to assist you in your decision. If you are not going, go ahead and download them anyway; there’s obviously a reason why these bands were picked to showcase their music this year.
Abe Vigoda – Don’t Lie
AIDS Wolf – Tied-Up In Paper
Black Lips – O Katrina!
Boats – 500%
Cage – Shoot Frank
Cut Off Your Hands – Turn Cold
dredg – The Papal Insignia
Doomtree – FLEX
Fair to Midland – Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes
The Felice Brothers – Frankie’s Gun
Sage Francis – Conspiracy to Riot
Eugene Francis Jnr & The Juniors – Beginners
Laura Gibson – Spirited
Hamell On Trial – When You’re Young
Lisa Hannigan – Lille
HEALTH – Crimewave
Hot Lava – Apple+Option+Fire
Junk Science – Hey (the sequel)
Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me
Kylesa – Said And Done
The Mother Hips – Mission in Vain
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Slow Motion Tag Team
Or, the Whale – Call and Response
Amanda Palmer – Leeds United
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Port O’Brien – I Woke Up Today
Rademacher – Believer
Radioclit – Kamphopo
Say Hi – Northwestern Girls
Scissors for Lefty – Ornamental
Langhorne Slim – Restless
Takka Takka – Everybody Say
Themselves – Dark Sky Demo
J. Tillman – Steel On Steel
Trainwreck Riders – Through Unto The End
White Lies – Death
Wildchild – Whenimondamic
Yak Ballz – Dirt Empire
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer – Death or Radio
Tags: Abe Vigoda, AIDS Wolf, Amanda Palmer, Black Lips, Boats, cage, Cut Off Your Hands, doomtree, dredg, Eugene Francis Jnr & The Juniors, Fair to Midland, Hamell On Trial, HEALTH, hot lava, J. Tillman, Junk Science, Kraak & Smaak, Kylesa, Langhorne Slim, Laura Gibson, Lisa Hannigan, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Or, Passion Pit, Port O'Brien, Rademacher, Radioclit, Sage Francis, Say Hi, Scissors For Lefty, Takka Takka, The Felice Brothers, The Mother Hips, the Whale, Themselves, Trainwreck Riders, White Lies, Wildchild, yak ballz, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer
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