The Sandwitches – ‘Duck Duck Goose’ EP out on Secret Seven Records
June 23, 2010
Either The Sandwitches have some longstanding resentment against the lullabies they heard as little girls, or they just felt like taking something bright and putting a lampshade on it. The Duck Duck Goose EP (Secret Seven Records/Empty Cellar) will have a 500-quantity run on vinyl and is available for preorder, shipping July 13. From Secret Seven:
On their latest Vinyl release, Heidi and Grace from San Francisco’s The Sandwitches perform four heartbreaking acoustic lullabies interwoven with the spookiest sessions of Duck Duck Goose! ever caught on tape. Recorded and Produced by Wymond Miles (The Fresh & Onlys) and The Sandwitches, Duck Duck Goose! features haunting renditions of Tim Cohen’s “Rock of Gibraltar” (a bonus track from the Two Sides of Tim Cohen), and of the Oscar-nominated ballad “Baby Mine”, from what some say is the most heartbreaking moment in Disney cartoon history. Stamped on one-sided 12″ vinyl, the initial pressing of this EP is limited to 500 copies brought to you by Secret Seven Records and Empty Cellar.
The Sandwitches – “Song of Songs”
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Photos: Butterfly Bones, Delphic @ Rickshaw Stop 6/16
June 22, 2010
Butterfly Bones
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Finest Dearest: final show, new record
June 22, 2010
Well, here’s a downer. We’ve followed and been friends with SF’s Finest Dearest from their chamber pop days to their more recent 90s-inspired sound. Unfortunately, as the above flyer indicates, the band is calling it quits, with a final show at Epicenter Cafe (7pm, $5) and a new album, Good Enough, available on iTunes. I don’t have any more info about the new record, but here are a couple of tracks:
Stirling Says and Drowning With Our Anchors open Saturday’s farewell show.
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Festival news: early lineups revealed for On Land, All Shook Down, and Mission Creek fests
June 22, 2010
You presumably know about Outside Lands and we’ve revealed a little bit about this year’s Rock Make, but details have emerged recently about a number of other festivals taking place over the next several months.
Interstellar Regions: Oneohtrix Point Never from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.
Root Strata recently announced the lineup for the second On Land Festival, running September 2nd through 5th at Cafe Du Nord and the Swedish American Hall. Locals Barn Owl and The Alps top separate days of the experimentally-inclined fest, alongside Charalambides, the returning Grouper, and the ambient drone of Oneohtrix Point Never. The full list is at On Land’s web site.
Neon Indian – “Sleep Paralysist” Video from GreenLabelSound on Vimeo.
Meanwhile, the SF Weekly’s All Shook Down Festival takes over North Beach bars and clubs on Sunday, July 25th. Neon Indian and Janelle Monae top a lineup filled with locals, including A B & The Sea, Personal & The Pizzas, Grass Widow, Birds & Batteries, Citay, The Ferocious Few, Bare Wires and many more. The fest is $10 for access to all of the various venues.
The Fresh & Onlys – Vanishing Cream from EyeBodega on Vimeo.
Finally, while there’s been no official announcement, the Mission Creek Music Festival has posted what would appear to be a preliminary/working schedule for the 2010 festivities on their web site. The crown jewel of listed events is a free show at McLaren Park on Saturday, July 17th, with The Fresh & Onlys, Grass Widow, Ganglians, Brian Glaze and the Night Shift, Grand Lake and more.
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Left Coast Live 2010, June 21-26
June 21, 2010
The City of San Jose – not necessarily known as a quintessential destination for live music in the Bay Area – now boasts another year of Left Coast Live, a music festival and conference in the southern branch of the Bay. For 2010, the festival has managed to snag the likes of OK Go and Yo La Tengo as headliners, among a variety of other artists (over 100 bands in total):
Left Coast Live (LCL) is a week-long music experience that showcases more than 100 national, regional and local live acts playing in 20 venues in downtown San Jose from June 21 – 26. Left Coast Live 2010 reveals the future of music with its progressive forums June 21 – 24, and enlivens the San Jose SOFA district with an interactive music experience June 24 – 25. LCL ignites the Bay Area music community, establishing Silicon Valley as a regional destination for live music.
Left Coast Live 2010 takes place this week, June 21st through June 26th, at various venues in San Jose. The individual weekday schedules are free, open to the public, and fairly low-key (various shows, screenings, panels), and Friday and Saturday are packed to the brim with live music and events. Admission is $15/day in advance, $20/day at the doors for Friday and Saturday’s events.
The Mumlers – “Coffin Factory”
Other notable acts include the Mumlers, Neon Trees, Free Energy, Two Sheds, Sea of Bees, and many more. The full Left Coast Live 2010 schedule (with the built-in ability to create and print customized schedules) can be found and explored on the Left Coast Live website.
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Review: My First Earthquake, The Downer Party, The Attachments @ Rickshaw, 6/17
June 21, 2010
Photos by: Anna Gazdowicz
My First Earthquake has a gift for humor that is tricky to achieve in song. Last Thursday at the Rickshaw Stop they released their new EP, Crush, which has refined what they do best – funny, nerdy dance songs with glimpses of gravity.
Starting with old favorites, “Vow to Vowels” and “Cool in the Cool Way,” MFE got the upfront audience enthusiastically singing along. The most striking element of their performance was frontwoman Rebecca Bortman’s ebullient stage presence and agile voice. With dead-on pitch and unique cadence, Bortman was a pleasure to watch singing live.
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Tuesday: Il Gato releases ‘All These Slippery Things’ at BotH
June 21, 2010
Baroque indie-folk ensemble Il Gato celebrates All These Slippery Things Tuesday, June 22 at Bottom of the Hill (8pm, $8) with The Shants and Jen Grady (cellist to Emily Jane White, Garrett Pierce, Adam Stephens). Il Gato will recreate the album in full with a string section and banjo, before the record is released on July 13 (with more purchasing information to be posted on their website).
Il Gato – “On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)”
Il Gato’s newest record comes a long way from the shy debut recordings of 2007. A perfect invitation to listen to the album, “On Feathers & Arrows” gives a sampling of the thick compositional creativity that All These Slippery Things should be chock-full of. Commenting on the record, writer Daimian Holiday Scott noted that it was inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and that the album’s 13 tracks mark in and mark out as one musical concept with illustration throughout. The album was tracked at Tiny Telephone and completed in an Oakland apartment.
Il Gato is scheduled to play a string of local shows listed below. For more information leading up to the July 13 release (like the teaser above), follow the Il Gato blog.
7/10: San Francisco – BlueSix with Lea Carey Grant, Wolf Larsen
7/28: Santa Cruz – The Crepe Place with Bill Baird, Jesse Woods
8/1: San Francisco – Hemlock Tavern with Bill Baird, Jesse Woods
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Sade Sundays: Adrift In the Sea of Perdition XXVIII
June 20, 2010
Part One: Michael Tapscott
I was a loaded pistol or at least a loaded squirt gun this past Wednesday night. I felt like I’d let you, the reader, down in recent months. Sade Sundays had been taking time off for no good reason, being sort of half way here with you when we were here at all. Suggesting random tunes and Randy Newman videos, and perhaps the worst came when I offered a two sentence review of the new CocoRosie record last month.
I’m here to apologize, and if this article doesn’t seem as a grand apology full of witticism and tremendous recommendations of the best records you’ll ever hear, know at least that it started with an apology.
The idea was undemanding, Joshua and I would sit in his overstuffed room in the Mission and listen to the new Dolphins into the Future record, The Music of Belief (Release the Bats), and see where this happening took us. Josh had recently awoken to the world of mysticism in ambient  music, which I have been a long and gaudy proponent of. I’ve spoke to you at least twice in the past of this Belgian master of the ultramodern tome poem, most recently earlier this year with the baffling great A Horseback Ride to the Temple of Montu cassette he released under the moniker of Duncan Cameron.
The new album is long, over an hour, but the range of emotion in a seemingly uncomplicated and palpable sound was shocking. There was an urgency Josh noted audibly and I noted physically as he mentioned, “once you’re already under water any more movement and you’re just wasting oxygen.†We were drowning. Hard and heavy is life and after both taking trips back to our Midwestern homelands recently the failure of us as “normal†people had become quite obvious.
