Photos & Video: Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest 2011
July 6, 2011
Monday’s Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest was a really, really good time, and Low Red Land‘s final performance ever was appropriately heartfelt and nostalgia-inducing. Perhaps a little more surprisingly, considering how long it’s been since the trio last played together, they sounded as tight and powerful as ever, and we briefly considered rushing the stage to beg them to reconsider the many new endeavors that necessitate the band’s dissolution.
Instead, Low Red Land’s set served as a fitting end to a day that also included great performances from John Vanderslice, Tartufi, Walking in Sunlight, Finn Riggins, and Whisperlights. Check out videos and photos from the Freedom Fest below.
John Vanderslice – “Pale Horse” from The Bay Bridged on Vimeo.
Low Red Land – “Battles” from The Bay Bridged.
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The Bay Bridged Presents: The Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest!
June 22, 2011
This July 4th, come spend your holiday with us on the El Rio patio for the Sixth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest (3pm, $8, 21+). Six great bands are on deck to help celebrate the things that make this country great: indie music and afternoon beers. Oh, and freedom. Definitely freedom.
By this point, we hopefully don’t need to sell you on the many merits of John Vanderslice and Tartufi, two of our favorite local acts/comrades, but the show also features the very last performance ever by SF trio Low Red Land, the understated beauty of Walking in Sunlight, the welcome return of Idaho prog-pop dynamos Finn Riggins, and Phoenix’s Whisperlights, who are about to release their first full length, Surfaces. It’s a really fun lineup and guarantees to be a hell of a party. We’ll see you there!
John Vanderslice – “Convict Lake”
Low Red Land – “Better Angels”
Some Are Knightz by Finn Riggins
Ulna Habenaha by whisperlights
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Saturday, July 3rd: 5th Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest
July 1, 2010
The Big Time Freedom Fest returns for its fifth year at El Rio this Saturday, July 3rd, presented by Hippies Are Dead. In lieu of the more traditional patriotic party, this particular Freedom Fest celebrates a variety of local and out-of-town bands, the (hopefully) warm holiday weekend and El Rio’s excellent back patio.
This year’s lineup is as follows:
Sands (formerly Dame Satan; with Neil John Thompson from Low Red Land)
Finn Riggins (from Idaho)
Slow Trucks
With Child & Neil John Thompson (opening acoustic sets)
Doors open at 9:00 pm, and the music will start promptly at 9:15. $8 and a 21+ age gets you full freedom access.
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REMINDER! The Bay Bridged Presents: The Fourth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest
July 2, 2009
The Bay Bridged is proud to co-present The Fourth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest this Fourth of July on the lovely El Rio patio. Presented in conjunction with Tartufi, Thread Productions and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the show features eight great bands at a price that can’t be beat, including Bay Area/Bay Bridged favorites like Birdmonster, Two Sheds, Low Red Land, and Birds & Batteries. The show’s an all day affair, meaning that once you’re nice and buzzed on El Rio’s wonderful patio, you’ll still be able to head down to the Bay to not see the fireworks that are totally obscured by the fog.
If you absolutely can’t attend, however, we’ll be streaming the show live over on Justin.tv. Stay tuned for more details on that.
The Fourth Annual El Rio Big Time Freedom Fest
Featuring: Birdmonster, Two Sheds, Low Red Land, Birds & Batteries,
Murray the Thief, Finn Riggins, D Numbers and Writer
Saturday July 4th 2009
El Rio
1:30pm-8pm, $8, 21+
Free BBQ Provided by Sneaky’s
Set times for all of the bands, more info and mp3s below: [More...]
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Weekend Mix: 7/2-7/5
July 2, 2009
Thursday: Moondoggies, Harbours, Sarah Bethe Nelson @ The Rickshaw Stop
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Harbours – “Situation”
Thursday: Double Dagger, Awesome Tapes From Africa (DJ), Mi Ami, Beast Of Thought, Psychic Reality @ The Knockout
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Mi Ami – “New Guitar”
Friday: The Heavenly States, Boatclub, The West Of, The Dashing Suns @ The Uptown in Oakland
The Heavenly States - The Race
The Heavenly States – “The Race”
Saturday: Birdmonster, Two Sheds, Low Red Land, Finn Riggins, D Numbers, Birds & Batteries, Writer, Murray The Thief @ El Rio
Writer - Try and Stop Me
Writer – “Try and Stop Me”
Sunday: Weather Pending @ Mojito’s in North Beach
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Weather Pending – “Tide”
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Two great shows on Saturday
January 23, 2009
I’m going to be attempting to split my time between two very distant shows going on in San Francisco Saturday night – and you should too. Our friends over at The Deli:SF (who are just about to finish their band of the year contest) are presenting a great rock show over at the Hemlock Tavern featuring Low Red Land (one of whom just started a delicious local BBQ company), Ketman (Boston), and Teeeth. If you missed out, Low Red Land kicked off our video podcast series last summer with an incredible acoustic performance on the roof of my house in the Mission.
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Low Red Land – “Better Angels”
On the complete opposite end of town, Maus Haus will be headlining their first weekend show over at Bottom of the Hill. We became entranced with their music after Aaron and Jason dropped a demo over at our HQ. With their incredible set at last years Rock Make Street Festival and the release of their first full length album we expect the band to do great things in 2009. Also performing that evening are local favorites Battlehooch and White Cloud.
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Maus Haus -”Rigid Breakfast”
So to sum it up:
Low Red Land, Ketman, Teeeth @ Hemlock. $7. 9pm
Maus Haus, Battlehooch, White Cloud @ Bottom of the Hill. $10. 10pm
How to make it to both? I’m still unclear – but it will happen.
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Best of 2008: Tartufi on Low Red Land’s Dog’s Hymns
December 30, 2008
The Details: Recorded [mostly] at The Hanger in Sacramento with engineer Robert Cheek tweaking the “knobs” and yanking on ‘levers” – oh and manning the sound board – in July and August of 2008.
The Facts: Dog’s Hymns is an amazing representation of how dynamic and proficient Low Red Land is at laying down a sound that is at once vital and fluid, both essential and inescapably entrancing. The album is able to capture the raw energies of their live set while still projecting a product that is polished and full, thick with instrumentation and vocal treatments.
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Low Red Land – “Better Angels”
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Best of 2008: Ben Thorne of Low Red Land on Dame Satan’s Beaches and Bridges
December 23, 2008
2008 found a number of fantastic local albums seeing release (and one, Tartufi’s Nests of Wave and Wire, seeing a delay that only means it will be my favorite album of 2009), and the best, by far, is Dame Satan’s Beaches and Bridges. It’s a stunning, expansive album that swells and breathes, building on impressive vocal interplay and tasteful musicianship.
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Dame Satan – “The Struggle”
