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)
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
theSTART at The Bottom of the Hill
We’re switching things up here at Kata Rokkar. No more long lists of Bay Area live shows on the Sunday post. It’s gotten tedious and time consuming and frankly I don’t think anyone really reads the whole thing. What will be happening is a separate calender page opening in the next few days. I’ll be posting the best of the Bay Area shows there from now on. This post will be dedicated to highlighting what’s good this week and reviews of any shows I may have attended. If you are sweating right now and wondering where to go to find the best in Bay Area shows until we launch the calender, head over to The Bay Bridged and click on their calender. While you’re there, check out their podcasts, show coverage, and comprehensive interviews.
Okay enough of that. Last Thursday’s theSTART show was full of the band’s greatest songs from their last 8 years as well as a sneak peak at their latest project, Normandie. What I love about theSTART is that they are a band that could have given up 5 years ago and no one would have blamed them. The criminally underrated band pushed on despite changes in line-up and poor record sales. They constantly evolve and mesh styles like shoegaze, glam pop, dance, and goth rock to create a style all their own. With the assistance of lead vocalist Aimee Echo’s signature vocal style, the band still performs beautifully live with their high energy sets. You can still catch the band on tour or at this year’s SXSW.
The Limousines at the Rickshaw Stop
Electro-pop outfit, The Limousines have been brewing up tunes for almost 2 years now and still don’t have a record to show for it. What they do have is a live show filled with flashing fluorescent lights, heavy beats, and techno-pop songs buried in static. Thursday’s show at the Rickshaw Stop was a unique and entertaining look into a group that has been molding it’s identity over the past few years. While they do not have any shows lined up right now, according to lead vocalist Eric Victorino, they do have various record labels circling and interested in showcasing their potential. This could be good news for fans of a band that has yet to release anything outside of their myspace (or this website).
As for this week, the Cut Copy show is obviously sold out, so good luck trying to find tickets on craigslist. Today Jim Norton is doing a show at Cobb’s Comedy Club, that should be a good time. Secret Chiefs 3 are playing Masada Book II in full over at Yoshi’s in San Fran on Tuesday. There’s still some tickets left for the Asobi Seksu show at the Independent. And do your best to make it out to the local Amoeba Records at 6pm on Friday to see a solo set by freak-folker Phosphorescent for free before he heads over to Café du Nord that night.
See you out there!
theSTART – The 1234
The Limousines – Dancing At Her Funeral (Demo)
Asobi Seksu – New Years
Phosphorescent – Reasons to Quit
Tags: Amoeba Records, Asobi Seksu, Cut Copy, Jim Norton, Phosphorescent, Secret Chiefs 3, The Limousines, theSTART, This Week In Bay Area Live Shows
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