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Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire) at Hotel Utah on May 1 with Gregory Rogove & Colin Stetson

April 13, 2012 by Zack Frederick · Leave a Comment »
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Arcade Fire violin player and solo musician Sarah Neufeld — not to be confused with Arcade Fire cofounder (and Win Butler’s wife) Régine Chassagne — will bring her violin flare to the Hotel Utah on May 1st with two other strays from mega-popular indie bands: Gregory Rogove from Devendra Banhart’s backing band, performing a minimalist piano set, and Colin Stetson of Bon Iver adding some groovy solo saxophone work.

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Julia Holter to play the Rickshaw Stop on Sunday, April 29

April 13, 2012 by Sarah Gagnon · Leave a Comment »
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Julia Holter is a 27-year-old classical composer for the modern age — that is to say, with a pop sensibility. Her ethereal music appeals to the nerd in all of us, from the musicality, which includes dissonance that is, at times, evocative of Stravinsky, to the intertextuality at play that adds dimensions beyond the song’s aural elements. Tragedy, the aptly named debut album Holter released late in 2011, is structurally based on Hippolytus, a Greek play by Euripedes, and “Marienbad,” the first single off of Ekstasis, her just-released sophomore effort, is a nod to the highly acclaimed experimental French film dating back to 1961, Last Year with Marienbad. No wonder her songs often sound like they’re coming from a different era.

And yet, despite her traditional background, Holter is able to cloak her training in more contemporary garments, while maintaining an avant-garde ethos that sets her sound apart from the sea of synth pop floating around these days. Between the two records, the latter is decidedly more accessible, if only because she has included more radio-friendly songs (including “Marienbad” and my favorite, “In the Same Room”). Still, the complex vocals, whose multi-layered parts are all sung by Holter herself, are often evocative of the kinds of pieces meant to be performed in church, and, to me, that’s precisely what makes them so engaging. Whatever the case, Julia Holter is writing some of the most exquisitely beautiful songs this side of the millennium. See her perform them at the Rickshaw Stop on Sunday, April 29.

In the meantime, check out the official video for “Moni Mon Amie,” which was directed by Yelena Zhelezov, below.

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Video: Dirty Ghosts – “Ropes That Way”

April 13, 2012 by Kyle Fortinsky · Leave a Comment »
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There are worse things you can spend four minutes watching than Dirty Ghosts‘s Allyson Baker rocking out solo on various sunny sidewalks, belting out the band’s new single, “Ropes That Way,” off their debut album Metal Moon. And hey, whaddaya know? Those minutes exist, thanks to their new video directed by TV Carnage, which you can check out below.

The band is currently in the midst of their first major tour (ending with a hometown show here on May 5th at Cafe Du Nord), and you can keep up with all the happenings on their WordPress blog made specifically for the month-long adventure. Full remaining tour dates below.

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Trails and Ways – “Tereza”

April 12, 2012 by Kyle Fortinsky · Leave a Comment »
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Wasting no time in penning a follow-up to 2011′s Temporal, Oakland’s Trails and Ways are offering the first track to upcoming LP Trilingual for free over on Bandcamp. The track is titled “Tereza” and you can check it out below.

The band also plays the Rickshaw on April 25th, supporting The SHE’S and The Bilinda Butchers, where we hope to get a glimpse of additional Trilingual cuts.

The SHE’S, The Bilinda Butchers, Trails and Ways
Rickshaw Stop
April 25, 2012
8pm, $10

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Video: Magic Bullets – “What Took You So Long”

April 12, 2012 by Zack Frederick · Leave a Comment »
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With the release of the seven track EP Much Ado About, San Francisco indie pop five-piece Magic Bullets are now officially finished as a band (don’t act surprised — we’ve been mourning the break-up for quite some time now). They’ve left us with one more treat, though. in the form of a new music video for the single “What Took You So Long.” Created with footage from their last days on tour by guitarist Corey Cunningham, the black and white video is a goofy, lo-fi montage of the band laughing and fooling around.

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Doseone – “Last Life”

April 12, 2012 by Nicole L. Browner · Leave a Comment »
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Doseone - Anticon

Doseone – “Last Life”

One of Anticon’s multi-operational co-founders, Doseone, finds time in between 13 & Gold, Themselves, Subtle, and other projects to release a solo album next month. G Is For Deep comes out May 29 on Anticon, of course, and the first glimpse of it premiered last week on Stereogum in “Last Life.” The track shows a deviation from the usual breathy, high-pitched rapping to a soft-spoken, poppier feel akin to The Notwist.

Album art and tracklisting are after the jump.

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tUnE-yArDs: new video for “My Country,” Kickstarter project launched for SF Rock Project

April 12, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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tune-yards - photo by Chloe Aftel

Adding to the already-long list of reasons to love tUnE-yArDs, here’s the band’s new video for “My Country” (directed by Mimi Cave, who was also responsible for this clip for “Bizness”). The kids in the video come from Brightworks and the SF Rock Project, and the band has also launched a Kickstarter project to get an instrument lending library started for the Rock Project.

tUnE-yArDs’ spring and summer touring includes that live scoring gig at the SFIFF on April 23rd and a co-headlining date at the Fox with St. Vincent on the 24th. More details below.

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