Best Music Videos of 2009: PART 3
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Posts Tagged ‘Handsome Furs’
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: June 7th – 13th
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Another eventful week in the Bay ladies and gentlemen. First off, tonight you have the 4th Annual D.A. Taylor Charitable Foundation Benefit at The Independent featuring Rogue Wave and Turf Yard.
Monday Camera Obscura spreads the love at The Fillmore, electro-wacko Patrick Wolf, Living Things, Jaguar Love and Plastiscines weird it up Slim’s, and Handsome Furs will be supporting their newest and best album ‘Face Control’ with railcars and The Cinnamon Band at The Great American Music Hall.
Tuesday hosts Neko Case and Jason Lytle at the The Warfield (which will be on Wednesday too), IAMX (Chris Corner of Sneaker Pimps) will be at Slim’s, and the brilliant Felice Brothers and Willy Mason are performing at The Independent.
Your Wednesday line-up includes an amazing show at the Great American Music Hall with Secret Chiefs 3 and Kayo Dot. Thee Parkside hosts Static Radio with No Harm Done and Jokes For Feelings, The Lemonheads headline at Slim’s, and dueling guitarists Rodrigo y Gabriela and The Mother Hips will be performing at Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
This Thursday we have Canadian rockers The Constantines and Crystal Antlers at the Rickshaw Stop, Swedish indie poppers Love Is All at the Bottom of the Hill, M.I.A. protege Rye Rye at Popscene, and The Von Bondies and Audrye Sessions at The Blank Club in San Jose.
Friday brings the onslaught with powerviolence (yes that’s a real genre)/grindcore trio Magrudergrind at the Gilman St Project in Berkeley, experimental noise pop group Telepathe with Nite Jewel make dance at the Bottom of the Hill, darkwavers She Wants Revenge and Great Northern hit up Bimbo’s 365 Club, Norwegian electro-rockers Datarock play at The Independent, and Wallpaper. crash at the Rickshaw Stop.
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Hippie…err…Harmony Festival at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa is hosting a megaload of freespirited, earth loving, soulful, and psychedelic artists this weekend. You have Shpongle, Matisyahu, India.Arie, Balkan Beat Box, Michael Franti & Spearhead, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Wassabi Collective, Steve Kimock’s Crazy Engine and DJ Gaudi all rocking out from Friday to Sunday. Let me take this opportunity now to mention that I hate Michael Franti. WTF is Rebel Rock? Really? Please stop this nonsense, it hurts my brain thingy.
Saturday is where the party is though. Au Revoir Simone and The Antlers takeover Bimbo’s 365 Club, garage punk wacko Jay Reatard and Thee Oh Sees perform at The Independent, and Papercuts will be at the San Francisco Amoeba Records at 2pm.
My highlight of the week is Bat for Lashes at The Great American Music Hall. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite female vocalists and is already at the top of my Best Albums of 2009 with ‘Two Suns.’ Expect a full report of the show.
See you out there!
Willy Mason – Sold My Soul
Love Is All – A More Uncertain Future
Telepathe – So Fine
Bat for Lashes – Use Somebody (Kings of Leon Cover)
Kata’s Weekend Showcase
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
My birthday week went over pretty well if I do say so myself. Being able to have a crazy Wednesday filled with drunken ballroom dancing and stand-up comedy and a relaxed Thursday that involved reading outside all day and a nice Mexican dinner with a few friends, was an interesing balance. I was able to dedicate some time to listen to the new Stephen Lynch disc. It’s as faux-charming and hilarious as one would expect from the musician trapped in the body of a comedian.
Stephen Lynch – 3 Balloons
Montreal-based producer Tor, sampled a handful of songs from multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens’ last full length, Illinoise, as well as A Sun Came, Seven Swans and Songs for Christmas, with hip-hop heros Aesop Rock, Big Daddy Kane, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), C.L. Smooth, Outkast, Brother Ali, and Grand Puba. The result is amazing.
Download the whole thing here.
Happily unknown and well respected in the indie rock scene, Youth Group has been (yet again) hitting the TV shows with their melodic and dense work. Last time it was the cover of Alphaville’s Forever Young which was used in The O.C. and now it’s What Is A Life featured in Gossip Girl. Hopefully this will boost sales on YG’s upcoming US release of The Night is Ours. They deserve it.
Youth Group – All This Will Pass
The new Handsome Furs came out this week! And…uhh…it’s really fucking good! Knowing full and well how talented Dan Boeckner is with Wolf Parade and the last Handsome Furs album, it was no surprise how amazing this record turned out. With infectious hooks and perfectly witty lyrics, Face Control is definitely one of the best albums to arrive this year. I mean it’s already mid-March and as far as I’m concerned 2009 has 2008 by the balls.
Handsome Furs – I’m Confused
Some band called The Dead Weather is getting some buzz…I wonder why.
The new Manchester Orchestra songs (and videos) are coming along very nicely.
If you haven’t checked out rising hip-hopper P.O.S.’s new album yet…you need to.
