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Monday, September 7th, 2009
by RiftDweller
This Labor Day Weekend marks the tail-end of the summer of 2009; savor it with this little gift from us at Kata Rokkar…
The XX – 
Intro from XX
The Notwist – Pilot from Neon Golden
Caribou – She’s the One from Andorra
School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep from School Of Seven Bells
M83 – Skin of The Night from Saturdays = Youth
Fever Ray – Triangle Walks from Fever Ray
Björk – Isobel (Transfunk Mix) from Motorbass – Remixes
…music video? – Postrockfeelgoodsongofthemillenium from Fireproof Your TV
Codeseven – Alt Wav from Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds
The Album Leaf – Writings On The Wall from Into The Blue Again
Volcano Choir – Island, IS from Unmap
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue from Ambivalence Avenue
The Walkmen – Four Provinces from You & Me
City Breathing – Under The Din of a Dying Marquee from Look How It’s Snowing Upwards, Look How They Move Towards Heaven
Papercuts – Future Primitive from You Can Have What You Want
Division Day – Azalean from Visitation
Portishead – Pedestal from Dummy
Woven – Triumpheting Strength from Designer Codes
Tags: Bibio, Björk, Caribou, City Breathing, codeseven, division day, Fever Ray, M83, mixtape, music video, Papercuts, playlist, Portishead, School of Seven Bells, the album leaf, The Notwist, The Walkmen, The XX, Volcano Choir, woven
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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)
Tags: 4th Annual D.A. Taylor Charitable Foundation Benefit, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Au Revoir Simone, Balkan Beat Box, Bat For Lashes, Camera Obscura, datarock, Great Northern, Handsome Furs, Harmony Festival, India.Arie, Jay Reatard, Love Is All, Magrudergrind, Matisyahu, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Neko Case, Papercuts, Patrick Wolf, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rogue Wave, Rye Rye, Secret Chiefs 3, Shpongle, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Static Radio, Steve Kimock's Crazy Engine, Telepathe, The Constantines, The Felice Brothers, The Lemonheads, The Von Bondies, This Week In Bay Area Live Shows, wallpaper., Wassabi Collective
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Water & Bodies (ex-Kaddisfly) finally released their much anticipated self-titled EP this past week. They put art, integrity and diversity into a sleek tapestry that blends progressive, aural collages into a rock based concept. Each song it’s own story, they’ve drawn comparison to everyone from Quicksand to Sparta, while remaining uniquely Water & Bodies. For them, the journey is more important than the destination.
You can purchase the album here, which will be available on vinyl in the near future. You can also catch them on tour in their home state and opening for the mighty Far…
May 30 2009 8:00P
The Poet House
Bend, Oregon
Jun 3 2009 8:00P
Satyricon (All Ages w/ FAR)
Portland, Oregon
Jun 6 2009 8:00P
The Space (w/ Diamond Liars)
Salem, Oregon
Jun 21 2009 9:00P
Ash Street Saloon
Portland, Oregon
Water & Bodies – Something I Can Grasp
Alright! I can finally go nuts about this record that I’ve been listening to the past few weeks; Jeremy Enigk’s OK Bear. It’s fantastic! I would say this is a greatest hits (although it’s not) of Jeremy Enigk’s work. The record combines the brilliant songwriting of his Sunny Day Real Estate days (April Storm) with the raw emotion of his previous solo material (Vale Oso). You can even catch a little Fire Theft in the poppier songs (Late Of Camera) on the record. I am very happy with this one and it definitely will end up on the End of Year list for me. The record came out this past Tuesday so run to your nearest record store and pick it up.
Other records to check out that came out this week are Bloc Party’s Intimacy Remixed which can be heard in full here, the beautiful Hanne Hukkelberg released Blood from a Stone, the physical release of Papercuts’ You Can Have What You Want came out, and San Francisco based experimental alt-country band Trainwreck Riders released The Perch (highly recommended).
Jeremy Enigk – April Storm
Hanne Hukkelberg – Midnight Sun Dream
Trainwreck Riders – Safety Of A Back
Tags: Bloc Party, Hanne Hukkelberg, Jeremy Enigk, Papercuts, Trainwreck Riders, Water & Bodies
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Happy Record Store Day! So what’s going on in your neighborhood? Here in the bay we’ve got Amoeba Records hosting Kylee of Loquat at 2pm, Kelley Stoltz at 3pm, John Vanderslice’s DJ Set at 4pm, and Aesop Rock’s DJ set at 5pm. Up at the Rasputin Berkley, Silversun Pickups play at 4pm and Mr. Loveless play Rasputin Concord at 5pm.
Oh and here’s my favorite quote on Record Store Day by Gavin Hayes of dredg, “Record stores are cultural gathering places where people go to share a common interest…their love for music. They are nostalgia and hot summer days. Record stores are ditching class to buy a record the day it comes out. They are Amoeba, Rasputin, and Aquarius and the distinct smell of the old records in the basement of the local mom and pop store. The record store is Run DMC on cassette tape. They are Iron Maiden posters, metal t-shirts and the magazine rack. The record store is a yellow and red Tower Records bag littered with CD labels. They are the listening stations, in store performances/signings, and staff recommendations. They are the used and local section and the free publications and zines at the front door. They are distributors of a product made up of dreams, effort, and heart that have the capability to change lives and outlooks, determine individuality, and divide or unite.”
Oh and this one by Patton Oswalt, “The idea of, ‘The journey is the destination’ is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a ‘More Like This’ link on the internet.”
John Vanderslice – My Old Flame
If you have noticed that some of our mp3 have mysteriously disappeared…you can take it up with the hosting site Boxstr. We are currently using Box.net from this moment on until they figure things out.
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A handful of exciting releases this past Tuesday.We’ve got The Boy Least Likely To’s The Law Of The Playground, Ida Maria’s Fortress Round My Heart, Metric’s Fantasies, Papercuts’ You Can Have What You Want, Silversun Pickups’ Swoon, and Medeski Martin & Wood’s Radiolarians II. I highly recommend the new Metric and Papercuts albums. In fact, I’ve really been digging Papercuts with their Dinosaur Jr meets Notwist sound. Plus they’re local, so that’s a plus.
Metric – Help I’m Alive (The Twelves Remix)
Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch (Chin and Troublemaker Remix)
Papercuts – Future Primitive
Atmospheric rock band
Water & Bodies (ex-
Kaddisfly) have released some new tunes and they seem to be finding their niche. I hear potential, but these tracks still need to grow on me. We’ll see…
Jeremy Enigk has released yet another song entitled
Life’s Too Short from his upcoming album,
OK Bear on his myspace page. The vocals are similar to
Return Of The Frog Queen but the song is way heavier than anything off Frog Queen. I am loving this direction he’s going in. May 12th Baby!
As previously posted on
Stranger Dance; local venues like Bottom of the Hill, Great American Music Hall, Slim’s and Café du Nord might have to be forced to shut down unless they can meet the ABC’s requirement stating that half of their sales come from food. However, according to this recent article at
SFgate, it seems as though there will be some peace and understanding among the ABC and San Francisco business owners. Including talks of a new type of license. This is very good news for the Bay Area concert goer, so we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks.
Tags: aesop rock, Boxstr, dredg, Jeremy Enigk, john vanderslice, Kelley Stoltz, Kylee, loquat, Metric, Mr. Loveless, Papercuts, patton oswalt, Record Store Day, SILVERSUN PICKUPS, twitter, Water & Bodies
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