Photos: Deerhoof at The Mezzanine – November 15th
November 21, 2008
Photos by: Muhammad Asranur
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The Morning Benders’ Live Session EP
November 20, 2008
The Morning Benders recently released a new live EP, available exclusively on iTunes. The five-song set includes three alternate versions of songs from the group’s terrific debut album Talking Through Tin Cans as well as two new songs, an original number called “Back & Again” and a cover of “I Wanna Be Like You” from, yes, the Disney movie The Jungle Book.
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The Morning Benders – “Crosseyed” (from Talking Through Tin Cans)
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The Morning Benders – “Fools Rush In” (Johnny Mercer/Rube Bloom cover)
The band’s final SF show of the year is December 5th at the Rickshaw Stop with The Muslims and Miniature Tigers.
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Weekend Picks: Nov. 20th-23rd
November 20, 2008
Our weekly picks for some great live local music. Take a listen to some of these bands in our streaming audio player…
Thursday:
- The Deli SF presents: The Hot Toddies (Feature Podcast), The Attachments and The Ian Fays (Feature Podcast)at Rickshaw Stop. 8pm, $8.
Friday:
- The Music Lovers (Feature Podcast), Honey Lawless and Si, Claro at Make-Out Room. 7:30pm, $7.
- XLR8R presents: El Guincho, Tussle, Disco Shawn and Oro11 (LA) at The Independent. 9pm, $13 adv, $15 door.
- Or, the Whale (Feature Podcast), The Silent Comedy (San Diego), Harbours (Feature Podcast) and Joe Pug (Chicago) at Cafe du Nord. 9:30pm, $12. [More...]
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Hot Toddies, Attachments, Ian Fays Tomorrow at Rickshaw
November 19, 2008
The Deli SF is presenting yet another amazing show tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 20) night at the Rickshaw Stop. The Hot Toddies, The Attachments and The Ian Fays will be performing, along with a DJ set from the fantastic DJ Elise from SomaFM. [More...]
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Mike Relm: Spectacle
November 19, 2008
Mike Relm‘s new album is serious. But I don’t mean it lacks fun in any way. The album is both a stray from some of the comedic live mash-ups he is famous for and a symbol of Relm’s recent success and his ascent into the “serious” music business. But what’s interesting to consider is how Relm got to be where he is – he’s always embraced a quite paradoxical blend between the silly and the serious. [More...]
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Tour Blog: Low Red Land
November 18, 2008
Life on the road is an amazing experience. It is not, to many people’s disappointment, full of drugs and random sex and tons of cash. Don’t get me wrong, if those things presented themselves I wouldn’t turn them down, but to be realistic it would take a lot of drugs and even more cash to convince somebody to have sex with a short balding Italian with a giant mustache like myself. [More...]
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Episode 140: Music for Animals
November 18, 2008
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This week’s episode is presented by KQED Interactive.
This week’s featured band is Music for Animals, a San Francisco quartet mixing a fondness for classic rock-pop hooks with a stripped-down modern aesthetic. Very longtime listeners to the podcast will remember us first speaking with the group a few years ago, as part of an hour-long Playing in Fog-themed two-band interview, but with the release of a brand new EP titled If Looks Could Kill, we felt that it was high time to dedicate a full episode to Music for Animals. Like their self-titled album, Music for Animals’ latest work is full of catchy choruses and danceable songs, but it also sees them pushing in new directions, with some slower tempos and production choices that highlight the band’s nuanced songwriting. [More...]
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The Harbours offer No Souvenirs
November 17, 2008
Miguel Zelaya’s The Harbours set a high bar for hooky, earnest rock-pop with their debut album Second Story Maker, which we spoke about when we interviewed Zelaya last year. The band’s now emerging from the studio with a brand new album titled No Souvenirs, and a show this Friday at Cafe du Nord. Take a listen to a track from the new album below:
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The Harbours – “Situation” (from No Souvenirs)
