Updated: Honeycomb’s upcoming EP; not playing Elbo Room Wed; show on 1/29
January 19, 2010
An ongoing collaboration of local musicians and friends, Honeycomb has many familiar faces, such as cellist Nate Blaz of Geographer and folk singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing. This local flavor has together created a new EP scheduled out this spring.
The release party for the EP will work in conjunction with Honeycomb’s Noise Pop appearance (with John Vanderslice, Nurses and Conspiracy of Venus at the Swedish American Music Hall Feb. 26). But for a sooner preview, they’ll be performing this Wednesday at the Elbo Room with The Spindles and Annie Bacon & Her Oshen (9pm, $7).
Update: As noted in the comments, Honeycomb won’t be playing Wednesday night, although Annie Bacon & Her Oshen and The Spindles will still be performing. Honeycomb will, however, be playing on January 29th with Michael Musika at a special Chasing the Moon event. More details here.
To hold us over, Honeycomb recently sent us this soulful number from the upcoming EP:
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Honeycomb – “Milky”
For a more thorough preview of their upcoming release, head to the Elbo Room tonight, also playing are Annie Bacon & her OSHEN and The Spindles.
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Reminder: The Mantles, Sonny & the Sunsets with The Yummy Fur tonight
January 18, 2010
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The Mantles – “Bad Design”
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Sonny & the Sunsets – “Too Young to Burn”
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Lucky Dragons + New Villager play ‘Ecotones’ opening this weekend
January 18, 2010
This weekend, Lower Deck Gallery is hosting the opening of an art-music interactive exhibit entitled Ecotones with two nights of 8pm receptions. The purpose behind Ecotones is to “present a latticework of fantastical wilderness and urban mythology” through both installations and live music from New Villager, Lucky Dragons and DJ Summer Camp.
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New Villager – “Rich Doors”
The exhibit features a number of local contributors, including Andrew Leland (managing editor of The Believer) and video artist Ben Dickinson, as well as interactive opportunities for the audience. In past experience with Lucky Dragons, it’s likely they’ll invite audience participation in their sound installation.
Ecotones will be on display until February 6 at 2295 3rd St in the Dogpatch. More information can be found on the gallery’s website.
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Dominant Legs, Young Prisms, Woodsman, Weekend @ Hemlock Tavern, 1/8
January 15, 2010
Photos by Rachel Keenan and Nicole L. Browner
The beauty of catching a show at the Hemlock Tavern (in addition to consistently great booking and cheap PBR tall boys), is that the back room can feel full with even 20 or 30 people in the crowd. Last Friday, that wasn’t even an issue, though, as three of the Bay’s most buzzed about bands–Dominant Legs, Young Prisms and Weekend–and Denver’s Woodsman packed the place, with a line of disappointed would-be attendees extending down the bar.
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Weekend – “Youth Haunts”
Weekend was first and set expectations high for the rest of the evening. Post-punk by way of garage rock (or perhaps vice-versa?), the band seamlessly keeps its expansive atmospherics grounded in intense, raw playing. It’s one thing to appreciate the ambition of songs like “Youth Haunts” (from their forthcoming Mexican Summer 10″), where the band takes the long way to get to the big part. It’s something else entirely that the song is captivating throughout (a sense that carried across their whole set). I’m not sure what the band’s plans are beyond the 10″, but they were pretty fucking great on Friday.
The long and winding (compositional) road may have been less kind to Denver’s Woodsman, whose two guitars/two drummers attack initially felt a little more formless. Loud songs in a small room lost some of the texture in the band’s recordings; as a friend said early in the set, “Wait, they have two drummers?” Things got better as the group continued, particularly as the tempos slowed and things got a little quieter. At that point, the drummers’ layers were better defined, creating some wonderful push-and-pull moments before the quartet surged into an epic ending that felt more than earned.
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Young Prisms – “Weekends and Treehouses”
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Gram Parsons Tribute Concert @ GAMH Friday
January 15, 2010
Sleepless nights make for tired days, and a life without Gram Parsons would be a life without alt-country as we know it. The Sleepless Nights series here in San Francisco was started eight years ago by Eric Shea as a tribute to the late great musician. “Sleepless Nights” is the title of Parsons’ 1976 posthumous album of covers and unreleased Grievous Angel tracks, as Parsons died of a drug overdose in 1973 at the age of 26. In his heyday, Parsons managed to bridge the gap between country and rock and roll, paving the way for bands and artists like Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Mekons, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, and more.
This year, the Sleepless Nights series will feature a handful of talented bands, and save for Los Angeles’ Elisa Randazzo, all of them are local: Red Meat, The Stone Foxes, Sweet Chariot, The Real Sippin’ Whiskeys, The Parties and Paula Frazer.
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The Stone Foxes – “Beneath Mt. Sinai”
The show will take place Friday, January 15th at the Great American Music Hall – doors at 8:00 p.m., show at 9:00, $13 gets you through the door.
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Jel, Religious Girls + more play ‘Belly’ art opening
January 14, 2010
At the American Steel Building in Oakland this Friday, several local acts presented by Pretty Blue Presents (Jel, Religious Girls, Chelsea Wolfe, J. Irvin Dally) will provide live music for a free opening of the exhibit entitled Belly:
Belly is an independent exhibition of emerging artists who share a curiosity in the co-dependent relationship between the beautiful & the depraved. Introducing the works of recognizable & striving artists alike, Belly was organized from the ground up by those wishing to take full control of not only their work but also the environment in which that work is experienced. Bringing together artists, writers, musicians, & filmmakers, Belly will attempt to transform the 14,000 sqft “American Steel†building
Two of the acts are driving down from the Sacramento area — both Chelsea Wolfe and J. Irvin Dally lend to darker and delicate folk. Preview the most recent music J. Irvin Dally on his Despistado EP:
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J. Irvin Dally – “Brasil (Adelir de Carli”
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Weekend Mix: 1/14-18
January 14, 2010
Thursday: Tan Dollar, Weed Diamond, Weekend @ Adobe Books (7pm)
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Weekend – “Youth Haunts”
Friday: Nobunny, Dreamdate, The Touch-Me-Nots @ Stork Club (9pm)
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Dreamdate – “I Told You”
Saturday: Casy & Brian, Bang Maiden, Orinthology @ Thee Parkside (9pm, $5-20)
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Casy & Brian – “Rumble in the Jungle 1974″
Sunday: Emily Jane White, Foxtails Brigade, Devotionals, Jeremy Dalmas @ The Makeout Room (7:30pm, $)
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Foxtails Brigade – “Chat With Sivan”
Monday: The Yummy Fur, The Mantles, Sonny & the Sunsets @ Cafe du Nord (8pm, $10) January 14, 2010 [Editor's note: With this post, we're pleased to announce the addition of Anna Gazdowicz to The Bay Bridged staff. Anna will be helping manage the blog as well as contributing to the site, and she comes from doing great work at Stranger Dance and, before that, The Deli SF. Welcome Anna!] In addition to louder happenings, an evening of more shadowy music awaits us at the Hemlock Tavern on Thursday, January 13th. Il Gato (winners of the Bay Bridged’s own recording grant) are set to open, in anticipation of their forthcoming All These Slippery Things. Check out “Burning Red (The Fa Fa Fa Song)”, a respectable lesson in clinky baroque-folk. BurningRed-Demo.mp3 Ash Reiter is also on the bill, her beautifully warm folk in tow, followed by The Shants, a band that exudes comfort in subdued Americana. Thursday’s show is the first in the Shants’ mini-tour of California, which also sees stops in Stockton (January 15th at the Plea for Peace Center), Nevada City (January 16th at the Chief Crazy Horse Saloon), and Chico (January 17th at Cafe Flo). ash-reiter-la-bahia.mp3 MyTownIsUnderwater.mp3 The Hemlock show starts at 9:00 p.m. and costs $5.
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Il Gato, Ash Reiter, The Shants @ Hemlock Thursday
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