This Week in SF: Picks and a Mix for 5/21-5/27/12
May 21, 2012
Below, enjoy an 8tracks mix featuring local and touring bands performing in SF this week. After the jump, find out more about when they’re all playing! For a full list of upcoming concerts in the SF Bay Area, check our Local Concert Calendar.
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Adios Amigo – “Chicken”
May 21, 2012
Adios Amigo have a new album called Dos coming out on June 1, and they’ve just premiered one of the album cuts, “Chicken”, via Prefix (but you can listen and download below).
Prefix calls Adios Amigo “Psych-pop up-and-comers” and perhaps the up-and-comers bit is right, but I’m not sure about the psych pop. I’ve seen them live a couple times and I guess the tag is as apt as any, cuz mainly those kinda labels are made up anyway. But I’ve always gotten more of a folk rock vibe from them, and “Chicken” certainly bears that out, as it’s built around hushed vocals lines, shuffling drums, an acoustic guitar, and a banjo.
Come see them live for yourself at Du Nord at their record release party the same day the album comes out, June 1.
Adios Amigo, Annie Bacon and Her OSHEN, Al Lover & The Haters, My Second Surprise
Cafe Du Nord
June 1, 2012
8pm, $10
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KALX, Faultline, and Undercover Present: A Tribute to Black Sabbath
May 19, 2012
Undercover Presents is a quarterly project that selects influential albums from the rock and roll lexicon for a diverse assortment of Bay Area musicians to put their spin on it, in both a recorded studio album and a live performance. Past tributes have been the Pixies’ Doolittle and The Velvet Underground & Nico. This time around, guest curator Cornelius Boots has chosen an eclectic group of 50 musicians to reinterpret Balck Sabbath’s 1970 magnum opus Paranoid at the Independent in its entirety with a marching band, a gamelon ensemble, straight-forward rock and roll, and more.
Attendees will go home with a CD recorded by the musicians at Faultline Studios. KALX 90.7 FM will continue to air previews of the album all day.
Here is the line-up:
Extra Action Marching Band – War Pigs
Uriah Duffy + The Memorials (ft. Thomas Pridgen frmr drummer for The Mars Volta) + Jeremy Von Epp of BlackGates) – Paranoid
Novilunio – Planet Caravan
Charming Hostess – Iron Man
Sabbaticux Rex & The Axe-Wielders of Chaos (project by Cornelius Boots) – Electric Funeral
Tiger Honey Pot w/Max Baloian ft. Barbara Byers – Hand of Doom
Surplus 1980 (project by Moe! Staiano, frmr Sleepytime Gorilla Museum member) – Rat Salad
miRthkon – Fairies Wear Boots
KALX, Faultline, and Undercover Present: A Tribute to Black Sabbath’s Paranoid
The Independent
May 19, 2012
9pm, $20
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Main Attrakionz remixes Dominant Legs’ “Make Time For The Boy”
May 18, 2012
Stereogum recently premiered Oakland hip-hip duo Main Attrakionz‘ remix of cross-Bay indie outfit Dominant Legs‘ “Make Time for the Boy.” Squadda Bambino and MondreM.A.N. inject a healthy dose of cloud rap beats and laid-back lyricism into the track, along with a sped-up vocal sample from the original’s opening line. Check it out below:
Dominant Legs – “Make Time For The Boy” (Main Attrakionz Remix)
Dominant Legs also just announced two shows at the end of the month. On 5/30/12, they’re joining Wavves, Smith Westerns, Go Back To The Zoo, Tennis, Mr Wix and SpaceGirls at The Paradiso in Amsterdam for Hilfiger Denim Live, and they play San Miguel Primavera Sound in Barcelona the very next day.
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New 7″ from Grandma’s Boyfriend out on Loglady Records
May 18, 2012
While the designation “punk-pop” might suggest that slick, whiny garbage that somehow became popular around the turn of the millennium, Grandma’s Boyfriend is helping to seize back nervy, sped-up pop for the rest of us. The SF band is giving away their new EP of songs “about getting killed and lost love and girls that just take things too far” below, but this is seven-inch music, so grab one from Loglady. As the flyer indicates, the “cuttiessssst band of 20122#” is currently on tour.
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Sonny Smith releases ‘One Act Plays’ and shares new track from upcoming LP with the Sunsets
May 18, 2012
That Sonny Smith of Sonny and the Sunsets would bridge music and theater is a matter of natural progression. Smith began his musical career at 18 playing Jimmy Yancy covers at mountain town clubs in Colorado before he ended up in Central America writing screenplays whose characters and plots eventually developed into songs. So, it makes sense that in 2005 the Watchword lit-mag would commission Smith to create a CD of plays as songs that would be performed on stage in a production called The Dangerous Stranger.
One Act Plays finally saw a proper vinyl release on May 8 on Secret Seven Records. Appearances by Edith Frost, Neko Case, Miranda July, Andy Cabic, Virgil Shaw, Mark Eitzel, John Dwyer, and others help bring bring to life the fictional vignettes depicted in the songs, “except for ‘Freaks In Space’ and ‘Honey Roy Rockwell,’” writes Smith. “Those two are the complete truth. The terrible truth.” Listen to the warbly album stand-out, “Eddie and Rita”:
Sonny and the Sunsets the band has a new LP coming out on Polyvinyl on June 26. Longtime Companion was written about his breakup with a girlfriend of ten years, and if this track, “Pretend You Love Me,” is any indication, expect a heartwrenching classic country follow-up to last year’s Hit After Hit:
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Check out Billy & Dolly’s new album, recorded by Papercuts’ Jason Quever
May 18, 2012
In 2009, Bill Rousseau and Dahlia Gallin Ramirez released In the Beginning, an appropriately-named debut as the likewise appropriately-named Billy & Dolly. Three years later, the duo of former Monolith members returns with Dally Bon Idyll, a Jason Quever-recorded set of winning AM Gold-meets-FM power pop. It’s top-shelf stuff, and you should stream it below.
After the jump, check out the duo’s new video for “Oh Yeah.”
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SF’s Cazadero releases ‘Dusk for Dawn’
May 17, 2012
New SF band Cazadero serves up dusty folk-rock with a notable country feel on its debut LP, Dusk for Dawn, which you can stream in its entirety below. The band’s first live show is at Viracocha this Friday night (9pm, $10) with Nika Aila States of Red Steppes and special guests.
