Jonathan Richman review over at KQED
June 18, 2008
We’ve got a new article up today over at KQED discussing Jonathan Richman’s latest album Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild. As a reminder, Richman’s at the Make-Out Room now through Thursday.
Michael Zapruder Signs With SideCho Records
June 16, 2008
Congratulations to talented indie songwriter Michael Zapruder, who just announced signing to Southern California label SideCho Records. Quote their announcement:
SideCho Records is very pleased to announce the signing of Michael Zapruder to the label’s roster! Michael Zapruder’s music has been praised from coast to coast, from Magnet Magazine to KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic in LA; and Pitchfork Media to Austin’s South by Southwest.
His unique songs always arrest listeners, and with his debut album on SideCho Records, entitled Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope, the recorded document has finally fully caught up to the writing. Recorded in one marathon two-week session with Scott Solter, (whose other credits include Spoon, Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice).
Dragon… has a deeply eerie power that hypnotizes us. The songs, as Zapruder’s always do, overleap the boundaries of the expected without ever leaving listeners feeling betrayed, and end up seeming like new classics. The band, sometimes referred as Rain of Frogs is an unlikely and ever-expanding community of the Bay Area’s finest musicians, now numbering around thirty members, and including members of the Decemberists, Camper van Beethoven, and Tom Waits’ bands.
Zapruder’s first record was a quadruple record of songs written and recorded one per week for the year of 1999.
Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope will be released October 2008 on SideCho Records.
Zapruder also sent us the new album’s track list and directed our attention to the
band’s Tumblr blog. The track list is:
1. Happy New Year
2. Lucy’s Handmade Paper
3. Ads for Feelings
4. Can’t We Bring You Home
5. Black Wine
6. Harbor Saints
7. South Kenosha
8. Bang on a Drum
9. White Raven
10. Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
11. Experimental Film
The Heavenly States’ Sasquatch Tour Diary
June 4, 2008
Fun Sasquatch Festival diary from The Heavenly States (Feature Podcast) over at All Shook Down. Supporting their great album Delayer, you should get tickets early for one of their three (!) nights with Spoon (!) this September at The Fillmore.
A new HIJK video and a look behind the scenes
June 2, 2008
Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote us recently to point out this music video she shot for HIJK’s (Feature Podcast) song “Alibi,” as well as a great article she wrote about making the video. If you’re curious how music videos are made, take a read, and check out the video below:
Four Tet, Maus Haus + Group Show in Fine Art Saturday
May 29, 2008
If you’ve got no plans for this Saturday, May 31, you should head on over to the Mezzanine to check out a great local music and art mix. CreativemindsSF and MEZZANINE present Four Tet, our very own Maus Haus and DJ sets by Sensitive Men (with feelings).
The show will also feature over 30 bay area artists and the Canvas of Hope Project. Artists include Bay Area art students, emerging artists, and the medical students/artists who created the Canvas of Hope Project at Touro University.
The art reception is from 8-10pm, and the show starts at 10. Tickets are $15 and well worth it for the great entertainment and supporting local artists and musicians.
Here’s a list of participating artists: Alexa Alexander, Alissa Anderson, Whitney Austin, Kevin Baer, Alex Bargas, Steve Bird, Krescent Carasso, Shoshanna Cohn, Eilish Cullen, Rio-Lindsay Decker, Ryan Dixon, Joelle Donofrio, Natasha Emter, Tara Lisa Foley, Danielle Genzel, Chinhnam Hathuc, Robert S. Kelley, Mary Kornblum, Kyle Lee, Jeanne Lorenz, Melissa Love, Taryn McCabe, Mel Marzahl, Bianca Mondragon, Sarah Nibecker, John Noonan, Nicholas Fletcher Park, Sarah Poole, Ysabel Price, Robert Stone 3rd, Clare Sydlowski, Anne Terpstra, Allison Tungseth, Chano Uribe, Elisa Marie Wallin, David Young.
The Blank Tapes’ Covers Album
May 28, 2008
Saw this message on the old Myspace today from Matt Adams of The Blank Tapes. As Adams noted in our recent interview, he’s been working on a covers album (along with a bunch of others) for a while now, and now it’s available:
so i recorded a cover album a year ago and just mixed and mastered it last month. it’s call “friends & favorites” and has 16 tracks.
most of the songs are by people you’ve never heard of, but a few you might know.
leonard cohen, little wings, the kinks, graves, matt mccluer, kathryn jensen, fpodbpod, out of work sailor, lee be, dirdy birdy, sleepy todd, garuda, ricky nelson, obo martin, jeff manson & my brother ryan. there ya go. it also features singing from alot of the friends i covered.
also- i recorded it right after i finished my last CD “daydreams”
lemme know if you want a copy
-matt
New Deerhoof/Tussle side project
May 22, 2008
Just got an e-mail from Double Negative Records‘ Disco Shawn about a show he’s DJing at this Friday at The Knockout. In addition to Tempo No Tempo and The Splinters, the show will feature a performance by Lets, a new project featuring Satomi from Deerhoof and Tomo from Tussle and Hey Willpower. No word what the new group sounds like, but with that duo involved, the possibilities are limitless.
The Knockout, 9:30pm, $5, 21+.
Win tickets to Outside Lands!
May 21, 2008
Scott from Anyone’s Guess just posted a friendly reminder that there are still several days to enter his contest to win three-day passes to the Outside Lands Festival.
You do have to make an original video or song about climate change to enter (details on his site), but there are still several days left, and that’s a pretty sweet prize.
