Sunday: Yours Truly/Terroreyez host Magic Bullets, Pregnant, J. Irvin Dally RSVP-only show
April 29, 2011
Terror Eyes and Yours Truly have collaborated again to curate a screening party of their respective work, along with a live show featuring Magic Bullets, Pregnant (Sacramento) and J. Irvin Dally. The party takes place this Sunday at a location which will be revealed only to those who RSVP to the Facebook invitation (8pm, $5). [More...]
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Tindersticks set to play a live Claire Denis film score retrospective for SF International Film Festival 5/2/11
April 29, 2011
This Monday, May 2nd, San Francisco will welcome UK rockers Tindersticks to participate in the City’s annual International Film Festival: Tindersticks will play live along with a montage of scenes from films by French filmmaker Claire Denis. Tindersticks frontman Stuart Staples has been working with Denis for the past 15 years to create the scores for her films, and as a result, we have a unique event taking place at the Castro Theatre (8:30 pm, $30/general, $25/members).
Technicians have scoured archives to collect the original elements and assemble strikingly sensual and alternately meditative and shocking clips from Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Friday Night, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and White Material (the 2009 stunner featuring Isabelle Huppert). For this special event, fellow Tindersticks members David Boulter, Neil Fraser, Dan KcKinna and Earl Harvin join Staples, augmented by additional musicians on strings and brass. The full ensemble will do dramatic justice to Denis’s visionary cinema through gorgeously dark-hued music that blends subtle guitar strumming and delicate violin arpeggios with otherworldly percussion and atmospheric washes of symphonic color over which Staples croons in his inimitable baritone.
Check out a sampler stream of Tindersticks’ film scores, along with videos of scenes from Denis’ films featuring Tindersticks, after the jump: [More...]
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Videos: See The Beehavers and FpodBpod before they play tonight at Amnesia
April 29, 2011
Tonight, April 29th, SeaweedSway presents an all-local folk/rock/pop show featuring The Beehavers, FpodBpod and Montra at Amnesia (9pm, $7). Above, sample FpodBpod’s sweet pop, while below The Beehavers perform what has been described as “gypsy voodoo folk n’ rock n’ roll” in front of a hat shop in North Beach. Both live videos come from the Parlour to Parlour series of interviews with and live performances by a variety of local bands.
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Video: The Wrong Words – “Wrong Again”
April 28, 2011
As a nerd, the ending to The Wrong Words‘ new video for “Wrong Again” stings a bit, but the song’s power-pop-done-right helps ease the pain. The band is at Cafe Du Nord on May 11th with Bare Wires and Tropical Sleep.
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The Boulevard Ear: Whither Valencia?
April 28, 2011
Welcome back to the Boulevard Ear, a regular feature on The Bay Bridged, where our man about town examines a community’s live music offerings over the course of one evening. What is it like to be a show-goer whose experiences are dictated entirely by location? Follow Todd as he explores Bay Area music venues by neighborhood, finding a variety of independent music along the way. First installment: In the Nethers.
The Boulevard Ear ~ Whither Valencia?
We flanneurs make a point of wandering many paths – both beaten and neglected – in search of excitement and edification, and we are fortunate indeed that our benighted burg offers an infinite variety.
However, even in such a honeycomb of possibilities, the connoisseur of fine living finds oneself drawn repeatedly to certain stretches of pavement where culture is robustly served at all hours. Let us not beat around the boulevard, then. Tonight’s topic: Valencia, the Champs Elysees of the hipoisie.
The Mission is, of course, full of many boulevards, and we intend to report on each corner in detail. But Valencia itself is many boulevards, not just across space, but, more to our current point, over time. We have left particles of our soles along this stretch since it housed such long-gone establishments as The Chameleon and The Crystal Pistol (now Amnesia and Range, respectively).
As captured in Camper Van Beethoven’s classic “Down and Out,” the neighborhood was even then decades into its cycle of being embraced for new energy, and reviled for slipping into the clutches of arriviste financiers and self-appointed tastemakers. The past several years has seen a burst of musical activity here, with our finest – Thee Oh Sees, Sonny and the Sunsets, Grass Widow, Fresh and Onlys – holding court on small stages.
And yet lately, our local punditry has sniffed a change in the air, the inevitable hangover that follows a period of creative fecundity. Valencia, one scribe asserts in the latest parlance, has “jumped the shark.”
And so, as your Boswell of bonhomie it is my duty to survey the question first hand: Valencia – in, out, or back in again?
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The P’s and Q’s, The Heated, Tik-Tik Fly at Wild Wild West Sunday 5/1/11
April 28, 2011
This Sunday, May 1st at the Wild Wild West (an underrated venue explored recently via the Boulevard Ear) will feature The P’s and Q’s, The Heated, and Tik-Tik Fly for an early show that doubles as a fundraiser.
The P’s n Q’s – “Grant’s Asylum”
Cristina from the Heated (check out her 12 Songs Project and Etsy store) is raising money for friends who are participating in the AIDS Lifecycle, so this show will feature bottomless PBR in exchange for a $10 donation, as well as BBQ and a raffle for handmade prizes. The show will go from 3:00 – 7:00 pm, with the music starting at 4:00.
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Ganglians return with third LP, first single “Jungle” out now
April 27, 2011
Haven’t heard any news from Ganglians in some time, but, in fact, the Sacramento four-piece is Still Living. Their third LP will be released August 23 on Lefse Records. It’s not too early to pre-order the 2xLP or CD, and, actually, doing so quickly would make you eligible for a limited cassette version of the album and/or poster with your purchase (digital downloads will be delivered August 16).
The first single off of Still Living is “Jungle,” available to download from Lefse:
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TBB Premiere: Thao & Mirah cover “Love is a Battlefield” and play three songs from their new album in New, Improved, LIVE studio session
April 27, 2011
A few weeks ago, Thao & Mirah headed into New, Improved Recording in Oakland, emerging with this stellar New, Improved, LIVE studio session. The session features intimate live takes on three songs from their excellent new self-titled album, and a percussive re-imagining of Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield,” all of which are available for free download below.
As the session indicates, Thao and Mirah have pulled off quite a feat in their collaborative efforts: taking two acclaimed songwriting perspectives and creating from them a unique collection of emotionally resonant songs. Out now on Kill Rock Stars, Thao & Mirah sounds like two musicians operating in an environment of total freedom. When the two in question are Thao and Mirah (with the collaborative help of Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YarDs), this is unequivocally a good thing.
Below, you can download all four songs from Thao & Mirah’s New, Improved, LIVE session, and we’ve also got three videos for you to enjoy. Thanks to Thao, Mirah, Eli Crews, Nathan Fritz and everyone who participated in this terrific session! Check out past New, Improved, LIVE sessions featuring Kyp Malone, Deerhoof, Sleepy Sun, and more at our NIL page.
New, Improved, LIVE, featuring: Thao & Mirah
Thao & Mirah – “Folks”
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Thao & Mirah – “Little Cup”
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Thao & Mirah – “Love is a Battlefield”
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Thao & Mirah – “Teeth”
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Thao & Mirah – “Love is a Battlefield”
