Posts Tagged ‘Jens Lekman’
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Have you guys heard of the Pop’s Bar in the Mission? Well, every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at Pop’s Bar on 2800 24th St. in San Francisco, they host a thing called DIARY which is a nostalgic night of 90s emo and pop punk music. Including the likes of Sunny Day Real Estate, Death Cab for Cutie, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Braid, Mineral, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Far and Texas Is the Reason. How freakin’ cool is that?
Anyway, tonight has our friends at ipickmynose hosting a show at the Rickshaw Stop with The Wooden Birds, Old Fashioned Way, and Goh Nakamura. The Also lo-fi punks The Thermals play the Bottom of the Hill with Shaky Hands and Point Juncture.
Jens Lekman! Damn you! Why did your show have to sell out so fast? Both shows too! Well if you’re going to both Bottom of the Hill shows on Monday and Tuesday, consider yourself a lucky person…or someone who buys tickets earlier than me. Anyway, for anyone passionate about true metal music, run down to the DNA Lounge to see Mayhem, Marduk, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation and Withered on Wednesday. If you’re not into metal, waltz over to Café du Nord and check out the talented and beautiful Emily Wells. Or even if that’s not your cup of tea, go see Little Joy at The Independent. I don’t care what you do I’m just saying there’s a lot going on Wednesday.
I highly recommend you check out Clues, Birds & Batteries and Geographer over at Rickshaw Stop this Thursday. If you haven’t listened to Clues‘ outrageously genius self titled debut, you are seriously missing out. This is epic songwriting and fun indie rock at it’s best.
Friday (as usual) is pretty packed. Peaches parties it up at the Grand Regency Ballroom. I’ll be dancing like a silly person at the Bottom of the Hill with Holy Fuck and Crocodiles. Indie-poppers The Submarines play The Independent, Del Tha Funky Homosapien drops his rhymes at The Fillmore, and San Jose’s The Blank Club hosts Flying Lotus.
For you jazz fans, Nancy Wilson is making a rare appearance at Yoshi’s Oakland. I’m not sure on tickets, but get there if you can. It should be magical.
I’ve been debating going to this on Saturday. Our friends in The Limousines are playing and it’d be nice to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Metric, Crystal Castles, Wallpaper, and Airborne Toxic Event live. We’ll see I guess. I’m not too impressed with this line-up and I can only imagine the drunkin apes and their slutbag girlfriends that will be infesting the audience…ugh, I think I just convinced myself not to go. Well if you are going, check out The Limousines.
If you’ve decided like me that BFD 09 isn’t your thing, check out The Juan Maclean and The Field at the Mezzanine or the ever-so ambient Animal Hospital at the Li Po Lounge (which I might go to).
See you out there!
Animal Hospital – July 7th
Clues – Remember Severed Head
The Wooden Birds – False Alarm
Emily Wells – Symphony 4: America’s Mercy War
Holy Fuck – Korock
Tags: Animal Hospital, BFD 09, Clues, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Emily Wells, flying lotus, Holy Fuck, Jens Lekman, Little Joy, Mayhem, Nancy Wilson, Peaches, Pop's Bar, The Juan Maclean, The Limousines, The Submarines, The Thermals, The Wooden Birds
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
“Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.”
- James Gates Percival
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Shearwater – Whipping Boy
Laura Veirs – Fire Snakes
Elliott Smith – Twilight
Frightened Rabbit – Poke
Loch Lomond – Bird And A Bear (I Am The Bird)
Tallest Man on Earth – I Won’t Be Found
Great Lake Swimmers – Stealing Tomorrow
Horse Feathers – Working Poor
Damien Jurado – What Were The Chances
Sparklehorse – Most Beautiful Widow In Town
Chad VanGaalen – After The Afterlife
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Asobi Seksu – Thursday (Acoustic)
Sun Kil Moon – Gentle Moon
Jens Lekman – Sky Phenomenon
The One AM Radio – Invitation Only
Do Make Say Think – The Apartment Song
Tags: Asobi Seksu, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Chad VanGaalen, damien jurado, Do Make Say Think, elliott smith, Frightened Rabbit, Great Lake Swimmers, Horse Feathers, Jens Lekman, Laura Veirs, Loch Lomond, Shearwater, Sparklehorse, Sun Kil Moon, Tallest Man on Earth, The One AM Radio
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Holy Land USA, Waterbury, CT
Mine was odd to say the least. There where highs and lows like any other weekend. But it was at it’s extremes at both ends. Let me try to explain. I flew from San Francisco to my hometown of Fishkill, NY to spend time with family and friends as well as see a couple concerts. Here’s how it all went down…
Friday - I flew in to NY the night before and hit the rack as soon as I got to the house I grew up in. So Friday consisted of me hanging out with my mother at the Dia:Beacon Art Gallery for a few hours. We caught up on the usual and talked politics and family stuff. Afterwards I caught a train to Manhattan to hook up with some good friends of mine. We ended up wandering around aimlessly in the city for a few hours and eventually saw the art-rock band, dredg, at the Highline Ballroom. Good show despite a few technical difficulties. Anyway, we went our separate ways and I caught a late train back to Beacon. Somehow ended up going to bed at 4am.
Saturday - So while Friday seemed to work out well, I figured Saturday would be perfect considering I was taking my younger brothers (Steve and Cully) to see dredg again and visit the abandoned amusement park Holy Land in Waterbury, CT. We got breakfast with my dad at the local I-84 diner and played a little Gears of War II before heading out to Waterbury in my mother’s SUV. Now according to the local weather forecast, it was supposed to be cloudy; however that was not the case. It down poured, all day. It would stop once in a while, but then it came back with a vengeance. But that didn’t taint our Holyland USA experience too much. We probably spent a good two hours wandering around the creepy Christian miniature Bethlehem. We left around sundown and made our way to Hartford for the show. So far so good. We ate at Subway and then parked the car behind the venue. The show started out a little on the weird side. The venue bouncers corralled us into a smaller part of the building where we were forced to listen to a local funk-punk band belt out Red Hot Chili Peppers cover songs. Once they opened the main stage doors, another local band started playing, this particular band sounded heavily influenced by Hum and Failure. It was quite dull. On a side note; the band was appropriately called Failure’s Art. Anywho, Judgement Day rocked the house despite a little peddle board malfunction. Telescreen displayed their unique brand of Cinematic Space Rock. dredg brought down the house as usual, but this time was different from the prior night. It seemed they were a little tighter and more entertaining. Oh and my younger brother even got his first flying drum stick from dredg that night. So after the show, we said our good byes to my friends and headed out to the car. This is where things go downhill. Our car got broken into. The passenger window was completely smashed in and they stole my GPS and Steve’s iPod Touch (no, we didn’t have them out in plain view). The dirty fucking thieves even raided every car on the street we parked on. Thankfully my friends stopped by to provide assistance and moral support (many thanks again) while I called the local PD and got my case number. We finally departed Hartford minus one window, but not without seeing a half naked crackhead lumber awkwardly across the I-84 on-ramp. Awesome.
Sunday - I got up around 10am, ate breakfast, bought an external hard drive for my mom and bros, caught a quick cup of coffee with my dad and helped Steve move a broken TV. Around 1pm we headed out to Hawthorne in Steve’s car to see my uncle and grandpa. About halfway into our journey, the car shuts off completely. Now the car won’t turn on, we’re on the side of the road and I have a flight to catch. I distinctly remember the look on Steve’s face once the car died. It was this “Well I just found out God hates me” look. Between his car broken down and the stolen iPod, I’m sure he’s seen better weekends. On the plus side, the tow service took the car to its place of origin; also we got picked up by my uncle who took us to his place where we hung out for a few hours talking politics and family stuff. After saying my goodbyes to my family, my uncle drove me back to JFK that night. Once we got there, we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. I got my plane ticket and drank a glass of Merlot before boarding the plane. The flight was long and a little sad. So much had happened this week that it felt odd that it all happened in just 3 days. The loneliness subsided when I won a round of in-flight trivia (it helps to be a dinosaur nerd).
If you read that whole thing…you’re officially awesome in my book. Anyway, back to the music!
Bodies of Water – Water Here
Jens Lekman – The Opposite of Hallelujah
Andrew Bird – Lull
Sans Seraph – Eyes
(P.S. – Steve I still owe you $10 for that J-Day disc. Check’s in the mail!)<–>
Tags: andrew bird, Bodies of Water, dredg, holy land, Jens Lekman, Judgement Day, Sans Seraph, telescreen
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