Photos: Treasure Island Music Festival 2011, Day 2
October 19, 2011
Editor’s note: A fantastic time was had by all at the 2011 Treasure Island Music Festival. Please enjoy these beautiful photos from Day 2 of the festival, courtesy of Moses Namkung. Photos from Day 1 can be found here.
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Video: Pancho-san – “Kick the Fences Down”
October 19, 2011
Pancho-san “Kick The Fences Down” from Jim Granato on Vimeo.
Check out this video directed by Jim Granato for the song “Kick the Fences Down” by Pancho-san (members of Beulah and Rogue Wave). The track is on their album Oh, Mellow MelodyBandcamp site. The band does not have any shows booked in the near future, but is working on another album due out early next year.
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Interview: Nick Waterhouse is more than a sum of influences (playing tonight at Slim’s)
October 19, 2011
Editor’s Note: Nick Waterhouse is a local musician taking part in a revitalization of soul and R&B music here in the Bay Area. Nick Waterhouse and The Tarohs feat. The Naturells play tonight at Slim’s. Also performing are the Allah-Lahs and DJ Carnita from Hard French. Check out our exclusive interview with Nick below.
The Soul and R&B resurgence of the last few years in the form of dance parties starting with 1964, and now Oldies Night, Lost and Found, Hard French, and others are nothing novel. San Franciscans have had a pan-generational love affair with Soul and R&B music for decades now. The City by the Bay was home to Sly and the Family Stone, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Darondo, and others who have come and gone, along with the throngs of transients, leaving behind relics of a bygone era — namely vinyl records for young collectors to rediscover. DJs like Nick Waterhouse, Primo, and Lucky have all contributed to this second renaissance, of sorts, while rejecting the false sense of nostalgia that comes with a theme party. “It makes non-subculture people more comfortable getting to the core of what’s great about the records instead of the cultural baggage that goes with it,” observes Waterhouse.
For the San Francisco-based devotee to the old school, it’s always been about the music and nothing more — whether DJing, composing, producing records for his label Pres Records, recording at the Distillery, or performing with his live band, The Tarohs, and his back-up singers, The Naturelles.
Embracing cyberspace as a means of convenience, I chatted with him via email about his love of music, his obsession with analog recording, and what is on the horizon for Pres Records.
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Photos: Treasure Island Music Festival 2011, Day 1
October 19, 2011
Editor’s note: A fantastic time was had by all at the 2011 Treasure Island Music Festival. Please enjoy these beautiful photos from Day 1 of the festival, courtesy of Moses Namkung. Stay tuned for more!
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Young Prisms release acoustic b-sides and demos of select tracks from ‘Friends for Now’
October 19, 2011
While Young Prisms has been quietly working on new material, in the meantime the band has made some of their unreleased recordings available for the first time on this new cassette from Portland label Gnar Tapes (started by the band White Fang). The Demos cassette features acoustic recordings of various tracks from the band’s Kanine debut, Friends for Now, as well as demo versions of some of those songs. Those sessions previously brought us the acoustic version of “Weekends and Treehouses,” the opening track on the City Limits Presents: San Francisco compilation, curated by Ears of the Beholder and See the Leaves.
The band is in the process of recording another album to be released early next year — you’ll hear updates from us first. They’re in New York this week for CMJ after finishing a light tour with Big Troubles. Friday, they’re playing the CMJ Imposition with White Fence. See their full schedule here.
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Balkan Bacchanal at the Starry Plough with Agapi Mou, Disciples of Markos and Inspector Gadje 10/15/11
October 18, 2011
Disciples of Markos
Opa! The music of the Balkans is alive and well in the Bay Area. All 3 of these bands are local and kind-hearted, the show was a fundraiser for Sweet Relief, an organization providing aid for musicians in need. A funtastic night of Greek music. Turns out Guinness substitutes nicely for Ouzo.
Bouzouki and drum
Disciples of Markos are a very special treat. They play the music of Markos Vamvakaris known as the patriarch of Rebetiko, a wild folk music that Markos helped create in the 1930s hash dens of Greece. Markos was a master of the bouzouki (a Greek lute) and in the Disciples of Markos we have another master of the bouzouki in Dave Murray. This latest incarnation of the band has 6 members (including accordian, drum and both male and female vocals). Most of the song titles involve hash. Although there are no other dates scheduled yet, do catch Dave’s other band – The Squirrelly Stringband – at the monthly square-dance every 1st Friday at Berkeley’s Niebyl-Proctor library.
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LA’s High Places to perform in Oakland on Friday, 10/21/11
October 18, 2011
LA’s High Places just released the duo’s third LP on Thrill Jockey, a collection of electronic art-pop called Original Colors. The band’s only Bay Area show, and the first of a series of upcoming dates on the West Coast, is at Oakland’s Liminal Space on Friday night (8pm, $8), with David Scott Stone, Hondo, and Julia Mazawa.
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More free Clift Sessions shows announced: NewVillager, The Strange Boys, Little Boots
October 18, 2011
After a series of free shows earlier this year, the Clift Hotel‘s Clift Sessions are back, with three free shows on the horizon. First up is NewVillager this Friday, October 21st, with The Strange Boys celebrating the release of their new album, Live Music, on Saturday, October 29th. Little Boots rounds out the announced dates, performing on Tuesday, November 22nd.
You can RSVP for all three shows here.
