Posts Tagged ‘Rogue Wave’

noise-pop 2010 spotlight: Man/Miracle

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Man/Miracle have gotten an unbelievable amount of attention from enthusiastic MP3 bloggers, leading to a perfect spot on tonight’s Rogue Wave show. Anyone that’s felt the lure of bands such as the DeVotchka and Fanfarlo will want to keep listening. In vocalist Dylan “Swimp” Travis, this Bay Area four-piece has found its own Jonathan Richman, a yelping madman that can belt out some pretty impressive and catchy tunes. Meanwhile, the music itself is typically unhinged and under-produced, taking an anything-goes approach that coasts on sheer exuberance and results in moments of profound clarity such as Hot Sprawl and Above the Salon. This is a band for the intelligent listener who’d rather feel music than talk about it.

SOLD OUT
ROGUE WAVE
WITH: PRINCETON, MAN/MIRACLE, TWO SHEDS
BOTTOM OF THE HILL
Doors: 7:00 PM, Show: 8:00 PM
Adv: $15, Door: $15 / 21+

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[mp3] Man/Miracle – Hot Sprawl from The Shape of Things (2009)

Tags: Man/Miracle, Noise Pop 2010, Rogue Wave
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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

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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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