Best Music Videos of 2009: PART 3
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Posts Tagged ‘Girls’
Vampire Weekend – Cousins
Girls – Lust For Life
Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – When We Swarm
Handsome Furs – I’m Confused
Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
Bob Dylan – Beyond Here Lies Nothing
Cass McCombs – You Saved My Life
This Week in Bay Area Live Shows: Nov 21st – 27th
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Tonight, Saturday November 21st
Metalocalypse: Dethklok and Mastodon with High on Fire and Converge
San Jose State University @ 6:30 pm
the PRINCE vs MICHAEL experience
Madrone Lounge @ 7:00 pm
Girls, Tamaryn, Dominant Legs
Bottom of the Hill @ 10:00 pm
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Dominant Legs – young at love and life from Ryan Lynch’s Album (2009)
Sunday November 22nd
Fanfarlo, Freelance Whales, the Mumlers, and DJs Miles (Live105/popscene) and Bagel Ted (Bagel Radio)
Rickshaw Stop @ 8:00 pm
Fanfarlo
Amoeba Music SF @ 2:00 pm
Thrice, The Dear Hunter, Polar Bear Club
The Grand at the Regency Center @ 7:30 pm
Friendly Fires, The xx, Holly Miranda
Independent @ 9:00 pm
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Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot from Reservoir (2009)
Monday November 23rd
Friendly Fires, The xx
Independent @ 8:00 pm
WOLFMOTHER, HEARTLESS BASTARDS, THENEWNO2
Fox Theater Oakland @ 8:00 pm
Tuesday November 24th
Warren G plus Dam-Funk & U-N-I
Independent @ 9:00 pm
Wednesday November 25th
DOMESHOTS plus SAINT VERNON & STOMACHER and THE TENDERLOINS
Time Out @ 8:00 pm
Max Tundra / Deastro / white cloud
Bottom of the Hill @ 10:00 pm
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Stomacher – Heavy On It (HVYR On It Mix) from Heavy On It (HVYR On It Mix) Single (2009)
Next Friday November 27th
Simian Mobile Disco, JDH and Dave P
Mezzanine @ 8:00 pm
The Books
Noe Valley Ministry @ 8:15 pm
Hottub
Mighty @ 9:00 pm
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Hottub – 1-2-3-GO! from ON BLAST! (2009)
Kuestionnaire: The Morning Benders
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Berkeley’s The Morning Benders’ debut album, Talking Through Tin Cans, was released on the 6th of May, 2008 on +1 Records to some to some pretty positive responses. The light and creative tunes won the hearts of those who enjoyed fun indie pop without the gimmicks. The Morning Benders also received praise from all corners of the media, including being named the top album in iTunes’ Alt/Rock Indie Spotlight Best of 2008 feature. As of now, they have been hibernating and tirelessly writing and recording their follow-up record, Big Echo, with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear co-producing and mixing. It is due out in early 2010.
This week, vocalist and guitarist Christoper Chu takes a break from recording and answers the Kuestionnaire.
1. Could you state your name and what you do in the band?
christoper chu, vocals and guitar
2. How would you describe your sound?
really cool
3. What is your favorite local band?
right now, girls
4. Any concerts that blew your mind recently?
dirty projectors @ fox theatre, fools gold @ independent
5. Any non-musical influences you would like to mention?
george r.r. martin’s “fire and ice” saga, truffau, wong kar wai, harry potter, ghandi, my cat zooey
6. If your music was to be the theme of a film/TV show, what would it be?
Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
7. What musician/artist would you like to collaborate with for a day?
Eno or maybe R. Kelly
8. What is the album you listen to on a cold rainy day?
sea change and pink moon
9. List four songs you would listen to on a roadtrip?
the village – new order
heartbeat – annie
feel it all around – washed out
im a flirt (remix) – r kelly
10. Where do you see yourselves in 7 years?
2016
11. What is the last book you read?
harry potter and the deathly hallows
12. Is image a factor in music or is it a waste of time?
big factor, and big waste of time
13. Any embarrassing moments on stage you would like to share?
one time a crackhead snuck in the backdoor of a venue we played in north carolina and tried to make out with julian (our drummer). i was having a good time watching, but i think it was an embarrassing moment for julian.
14. Any favorite tour locations?
north carolina (read above)
15. Lastly, what is your present state of mind?
free
The Morning Benders – 
Waiting For A War from Talking Through Tin Cans (2008)
Girls – Life In San Francisco from Lust For Life 7″ (2009)
This Week In Bay Area Live Shows: Sept 6th – 12th
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Sorry folks but it’s an epically slow week for shows in the Bay this time around. But I’ll see what I can give you…
Tonight is Wavves, Ganglians and Best Coast play the Rickshaw Stop and John Legend and India.Arie perform at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre.
Monday, Philly based pop act Cold Cave and Veil Veil Vanish hit up The Knockout.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and YACHT pull a double nighter at Oakland’s Fox Theater. I don’t know if it’s sold out or not but I think night two still has some tickets available.
Wednesday night is a hard night for fans of lo-fi garage rock; Vivian Girls and The Beets crash the Rickshaw Stop and Cass McCombs, Girls and The Papercuts hit up The Great American Music Hall. Flip a coin.
Thursday finds LA’s HEALTH with San Fran’s Mi Ami and Denver’s Pictureplane at Bottom of the Hill, the Maxïmo Park show at The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center is canceled, Raconteur Brendan Benson does The Great American Music Hall, and Vivian Girls perform at San Fran’s Amoeba Records at 6pm.
Friday we have Irish punkers Flogging Molly at the Fox Theater, Metallica comes to Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium At Marin Center in San Rafael, Oakland’s The Lovemakers do The Independent, and Japanther and Ninjasonik rock out at El Rincon.
Saturday, The Killers and New York Dolls perform at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and one hit wonder (I’ll Kill Her) Soko plays The Independent.
See you out there!
Cold Cave – Youth and Lust from Love Comes Close (2009)
YACHT – Ring The Bell from See Mystery Lights (2009)
Vivian Girls – When I’m Gone from Everything Goes Wrong (2009)
Mi Ami – New Guitar from Watersports (2009)
This Week in Bay Area Live Shows: July 19th – 25th
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
This Week In Bay Area Live Shows: Feb 22 – 28 + Noise Pop Festival
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Want to find a reason to get out of the rain and into some amazing live events? I give you Noise Pop 09! The Noise Pop Festival, which runs this Tuesday, February 24th through Sunday, March 1st, 2009, is an ambitious iteration of San Francisco’s favorite indie music, arts and film. For their 17th anniversary, Noise Pop 2009 will honor what’s made it the best-loved celebration of indie music and culture since its humble birth in 1993. This years music will feature such indie superstars like Antony and the Johnsons, Martha Wainwright, Stephen Malkmus, Deerhunter, St. Vincent, A.C. Newman, French Kicks, No Age, The Submarines, and Ra Ra Riot, among many many others. Noise Pop also features a long list of artist/photographers whose work is currently being displayed at the Mini Bar at 837 Divisadero St in San Fran. Also, there are some great films being showcased this week including Wilco’s Ashes of American Flags, Andrew van Baal’s Largo (a movie I’ve been waiting to see for months), and independent record store documentary I Need That Record. Of course I’m leaving out a whole bunch more but that’s what I’m looking forward to. I plan on catching one or two films and hopefully see Kool Keith (Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom) at the Mezzanine. All listed Noise Pop shows will be highlighted in blue; so go grab a badge and have fun this week.
As for non-Noise Pop events; today is quite busy for the Bay Area. You’re got Far (live video below) at Slim’s, Modest Mouse at the Fox Theater, and Michael Zapruder at the Bottom of the Hill tonight. See you out there!
Far – Pony (Ginuwine Cover) from kata rokkar on Vimeo.
Sunday – 22nd:
Modest Mouse / Mimicking Birds
The Fox Theater
Oakland, CA
Far / Low Red Land / Hot Tub
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Michael Zapruder / Tim Williams / Mist and Mast
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Monday – 23rd:
Inca Ore / Ghost To Falco
The House of Nostromo
Oakland, CA
Tuesday – 24th:
Noise Pop Opening Night Party
Deerhunter / Omar / lilofee
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco CA CA 94103
Antony and the Johnsons
Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium
San Francisco CA
Damiera / In Reverent Fear / The Urgency
The Casbar
Santa Rosa, California
Wednesday – 25th:
Blondie
The Fillmore
1805 Geary Boulevard
San Francisco CA 94115
The Mountain Goats
Swedish American Hall
San Francisco, CA
French Kicks
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Matt Costa / An Horse / Two Sheds
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Stephen Malkmus / Peggy Honeywell / Kelley Stoltz
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco CA 94109
True Widow / Kings & Queens / Sleepy Sun
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Thursday – 26th:
Josh Ritter
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Thee Oh Sees / Tyvek / Unnatural Helpers
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down / David Dondero / Sean Smith
Swedish American Hall
San Francisco, CA
Kool Keith (Dr. Octagon vs. Dr. Dooom)
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco CA CA 94103
Goblin Cock / Warship / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell St
San Francisco CA 94102
Martha Wainwright
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
From Monument to Masses / Crime In Choir / Built for the Sea
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
SomaFM Noise Pop Happy Hour
Scissors For Lefty / Picture Atlantic / Man/Miracle
Bender’s Bar
San Francisco, CA
Friday – 27th:
Ra Ra Riot
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
St. Vincent / Rafter / Cryptacize / That Ghost
The Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco CA 94109
The Morning Benders / The Submarines / Rademacher
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Dear and the Headlights / Miniature Tigers
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Thank You / Mi Ami
Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
Port O’Brien / Odawas
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114
maus haus / Tempo No Tempo
benders
San Francisco, CA
Bohemian Carnival
Gooferman / Busdriver
DNA lounge
375 11th St
San Francisco CA 94103
Saturday – 28th:
A.C. Newman / Dent May
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco CA 94117
Themselves / Boy in Static / Rainbow Arabia / Yoni Wolf
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Ceremony / Cruel Hand / Mind
Gilman St Project
924 Gilman Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
N.A.S.A. / Wallpaper / Flosstradomus
Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street @ Mint
San Francisco CA 94103
Portugal. The Man / Girls
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114
Bob Mould
Café du Nord
2170 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94114
The Matches / Ex-Boyfriends / Dizzy Balloon
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street
San Francisco CA 94107
Matt Wertz
Slim’s
333 11th Street
San Francisco CA 94103
Michael Zapruder – Happy New Year
Antony and the Johnsons – Epilepsy Is Dancing
Dear and the Headlights – Talk About
The Mountain Goats – No Children
N.A.S.A. – Money (feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip)
St. Vincent – Now, Now
Dr. Octagon – Earth People
Josh Ritter – To The Dogs or Whoever
