August 2010 Monthly Mix (Podcast #228)
September 2, 2010
August 2010 Monthly Mix (Podcast #228)
Our latest (and a little belated) Monthly Mix episode of the weekly podcast features music from eight Bay Area bands, including a bunch of tracks from recent and upcoming releases. Enjoy!
About this week’s bands:
To Dreamers, the latest album from Kelley Stoltz (“I Don’t Get That”), comes out on October 12th on Sub Pop. He’ll be playing at the Mezzanine on September 10th, and then celebrating the release of the new record at Cafe Du Nord on October 15th.
Young at Love and Life is the debut EP from Dominant Legs (“About My Girls”). It’s available now from Lefse Records.
Fiveng’s (“Give Me A Taste”) first release is a single on Beach Tapes. You can download both songs at Beach Tapes’ Bandcamp page.
In August, Bronze (“The Rouge Became”) released a 7″ picture disc on World Famous in SF. No shows upcoming, but we’ll keep you posted.
Burnt Ones (“Kaleidoscope Eyes”) recently moved from Indianapolis to San Francisco. Their first full length, Black Teeth & Golden Tongues, is out now on Roaring Colonel Records, and they’ll be at El Rio on September 22nd.
Oakland’s The Dashing Suns (“Future Thunder”) just released their full length Really Like You on The Council. The band doesn’t have any local dates currently announced.
Birds & Batteries (“Strange Kind of Mirror”) release Panorama on October 12th on Spune/Velvet Blue Music. Their record release show is October 15th at Bottom of the Hill.
Adam Haworth Stephens‘ (“The Cities That You’ve Burned”) solo debut We Live On Cliffs comes out on Saddle Creek at the end of September. He’ll be headlining The Independent on October 2nd.
Live this week: 8/24-29
August 24, 2010
Tuesday, August 24:
Grand Lake (record release), It’s For Free Grace, Sean Smith & the Present Moment, James and Evander @ Cafe du Nord
Il Gato, Sandy’s (Alexi of the Botticellis), Debbie Neigher @ Viracocha
Wednesday, August 25:
Sweet Bones, Huff This!, The Mallard, Dylan Tidyman Jones @ Kimo’s
Thursday, August 26:
Lazer Sword, Rainbow Arabia, Religious Girls, Sister Crayon @ Rickshaw Stop
Royal Baths, Th Mrcy Hot Sprngs, Outlaw, Lilac @ Hemlock Tavern
Light Asylum, You, Veil Veil Vanish, Sssleeping Desiress @ The Knockout
Wallpaper., The Downer Party @ California Academy of Sciences
Friday, August 27:
Audrye Sessions, Dave Smallen and the Serious Relationship, Devotionals @ The New Parish
Trainwreck Riders, Pine Box Boys, Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, Virgil Shaw @ Great American
Cannons and Clouds (album release), Winfred E Eye, By Sunlight @ Bottom of the Hill
The Younger Lovers, Hornet Leg, Orca Team, Neighbors @ Milk
Snob Theater: Jonah Matranga, Ash Maynor @ The Dark Room
Saturday, August 28:
From Monument to Masses (last show), Judgement Day, Silian Rail @ Great American
The Shants, Vandella, Not An Airplane, Coyote Girl @ Hotel Utah
Nortec Collective, Loquat @ The Independent
Sunday, August 29:
Pure Hell – A Celebration of the Life and Times of Makh Daniels with Bomber, DJ Hellhound @ Rickshaw Stop
Sonny & the Sunsets, End of Summer @ Amnesia
Il Gato – “Burning Red (The Fa Fa Fa Song)”
Wallpaper. – “I Got Soul, I’m So Wasted”
Trainwreck Riders – “Chug Along”
Silian Rail – I Is Somebody Else”
From Monument to Masses – “Between God & Elvis”
Sonny & the Sunsets – “Day in the Life of a Heel”
Woven Bones, Sandwitches, Splinters – Bottom of the Hill, 8/18
August 24, 2010
Don’t you love it when the first band steals the show?
I mean, of course we don’t totally love it – we’d prefer to be knocked out by everyone on the bill. But there is something thrilling about the lesser-known, usually younger, usually greener openers getting up there, channeling their nerves and excitement into a great set and showing everyone how it’s done.
That’s what The Splinters, a quartet from Berkeley, did at Bottom of the Hill Wednesday night, and they brought a bunch of their buddies with them to take audience of the night honors as well. The Splinters have attracted a fair amount of attention here lately (see our podcast #225), and I am happy to confirm that they deserve it.
The band’s recordings show off their fairly straightforward garage-rock-with-girl-group-topping formula. The songs are well-crafted and get effectively in your head. But the group elevated their game by light years on stage, and it was all about their energy.
It wasn’t just the friendly, club-house connection with the audience. These gals were having a blast together. Lauren “Ketchup” Stern worked a mad tambourine and managed to both draw focus and share attention with her band mates. Drummer Courtney “Juju” Gray, the group’s strongest musician, grinned the whole night like a kid on her first trip to Disneyland. The vocal harmonies hit every nail.
They earned 100 extra points – with me at least – by doing switchies. For one song, Juju moved to guitar, Ketchup took over the drums, Caroline “Spex” Partamian hit the tambourine and Ashley “Flapjacks” Thomas stayed where she was.
Then Gray went back to merrily bashing her kit.
Live this week: Bay Area shows 8/17-22
August 17, 2010
Tuesday, August 17
The Blank Tapes, Ash Reiter, Pat Hull @ Bottom of the Hill
Wednesday August 18
Wavves, Young Prisms @ Rickshaw Stop
The Fresh & Onlys, Honey, Blasted Canyons @ The Knockout
Woven Bones, The Sandwitches, The Splinters @ Bottom of the Hill
Thursday, August 19
Darker My Love, Sonny & the Sunsets @ The Independent
Total Trash Fest: Hunx & His Punx, Shannon & the Clams, Okmoniks, Thee Goochi Boiz, Miss Chain and the Broken Heels @ Thee Parkside
Ida, Michael Hurley, Westwood & Willow @ Bottom of the Hill
The Lickets, Tied to the Branches, Odd Owl @ Hemlock
Friday, August 20
Bats in the Belfry, Glass Cake, Natalie Alyse, Batmen, Tiny Knives @ Mama Buzz Cafe
Persephone’s Bees, The Soft White Sixties, Angel Island, DJ Omar @ Cafe du Nord
Total Trash Fest: Gentleman Jesse and His Men, Personal & the Pizzas, Barreracudas, The Wrong Words, Meercaz @ Thee Parkside
Saturday, August 21
Slang Chickens, Man/Miracle, Yellow Dress @ Hemlock Tavern
Sunday, August 22
Rock Make Street Festival with Tartufi, AB & the Sea, Social Studies, Butterfly Bones and more
The Horde and the Harem, The Aimless Never Miss, The Buttercream Gang, And I Was Like, What? @ Rickshaw Stop
Ash Reiter – “La Bahia (from Daytrotter Session)”
Honey – “Tree’s Sun”
The Splinters – “Blood On My Hands”
The Wrong Words – “What Went Wrong”
Man/Miracle – “Hot Sprawl”
Sonny & the Sunsets – “Day in the Life of a Heel”
Michael Hurley – “Porland Water”
New 7″ releases from the Sandwitches and the Splinters on Southpaw
August 12, 2010
Gorilla vs. Bear reports a duo of 7″ single releases on Southpaw Records – The Sandwitches‘ “Makes Me Sick” and the Splinters‘ “Blood on my Hands.”
The Sandwitches – “Makes Me Sick”
The Splinters – “Blood on my Hands”
The releases are available for a limited time, with 500 total and the first 100 on color vinyl. The singles will also be available for purchase on Wednesday, August 18th at Bottom of the Hill, where the two bands will be opening for Austin’s Woven Bones (9:00 pm, $10, 21+, presented by KALX).
Live this week: Bay Area shows 8/10-15
August 10, 2010
Wednesday, August 11
Thralls, Sunbeam Rd., Ghost Animal, Rangers @ Hemlock
Pancho-San (record release), Dinosaur Feathers, Lonnie Walker @ Bottom of the Hill
Thursday, August 12
Or, the Whale (record release), These United States, Boxcar Saints @ Bottom of the Hill
Teen Daze, Gobble Gobble, Blackbird Blackbird, Kites Sail High @ Milk
The Donkeys, T.V. Mike and the Scarecrowes, The Horns of Happiness + local DJs @ Rickshaw Stop
Friday, August 13
Tokyo Police Club, Freelance Whales, A B & the Sea @ Rickshaw Stop
Saturday, August 14
Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine, La Plebe @ Great American Music Hall
The 21st Century, Antartica Takes It!, Mark David Ashworth @ Kimo’s
Myths, Death Sentence: Panda!, Moses Campbell @ 21 Grand (Oakland)
Sunday, August 15
Dan Sartain, Leopold & His Fiction, The Twinks @ Hemlock
Mark David Ashworth – “Clean Slate”
Pancho-San – “There Were Trumpets Blaring”
The Horns of Happiness – “Coal Wasted Avalanche”
Leopold & His Fiction – “Golden Friends”
Video: One Night Music session with Devotionals
August 5, 2010
Another live performance made possible by One Night Music was posted last week, featuring Devotionals, the project of one of Two Gallants (Tyson Vogel) and the Patzner brothers. Vogel has been living and playing music in the city for a long time, and this session captures a few moments of his recollection, not to mention was recorded with a perfect backdrop — the very San Francisco-feeling dwelling of Michael Musika. It goes without saying that this session holds an intimacy spot on to Devotional’s appeal, and the session notes from ONM’s Elia Vargas definitely agree:
That Saturday afternoon at Michael’s, there was a lot of bustle, a lot of movement, but the quiet rhythms – those wondering sounds you must strain to hear, like squinting at the sun through a rain-drop – suggested the world is just as small as it needs to be. Little fairies tiptoed on the keys of old typewriters. Devotionals commanded everyone’s attention.
Friday, Devotionals will celebrate their record release at Bottom of the Hill with Kacey Johansing and Sean Hayes (9pm, $12). More songs from the session are posted on Vimeo and the ONM site.
Live This Month: August 2010 (Podcast #225)
August 4, 2010
Live This Month: August 2010 (Podcast #225)
Every month, we dedicate the first week’s podcast to highlighting some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing soon in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’ve got eleven great bands playing some excellent shows around the Bay in August, so head out and see some live music!
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About the bands:
The Splinters (“Blood on my Hands”) celebrate the release of their new 7″ on Southpaw Records at Bottom of the Hill on Wednesday, August 18th. Woven Bones and The Sandwitches (who also have a new Southpaw 7″) also perform.
Grand Lake (“Spark”) celebrate the vinyl release of Blood Sea Dream on Hippies Are Dead Records this month. They’ll be performing at Cafe Du Nord on Tuesday, August 24th, with Its For Free Grace (Ted Nesseth of The Heavenly States), Sean Smith and The Present Moment, and DJs James and Evander.
Yellow Fever’s (“Bermuda Triangle”) nationwide tour heads to The Independent on Saturday, August 7th. Locals Thee Oh Sees and Bare Wires round out the bill.
In May, Birmingham’s Dan Sartain (“Atheist Funeral”) released Lives. As part of his US tour, Sartain will be at the Hemlock Tavern on Sunday, August 15th with Leopold and His Fiction and The Twinks.
Still Flyin’ (“Higher Than Five”) are playing at our 2010 Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday, August 22nd. They’re also performing at our NightLife show at the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday, August 19th.
Austin’s Pure Ecstasy (“Dream Over”) are playing a couple of shows in San Francisco early this month. They’ll be at 111 Minna on August 5th and Amnesia on August 6th.
