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This was the second Take Away Show Nate and I had worked on together. We had just gotten up early from a really late show the night before at Bottom of the Hill and had to drive down to Los Angeles to catch Bodies Of Water for their CD release show.
It was hot, the [...]

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played an in-store performance at Haight/Ashbury’s Amoeba Records in support of their latest album Real Emotional Trash. The crowd was primed and ready as we all waited, filling up half of the entire store’s rows of LPs, for the Jicks to take the stage. The band took the stage after [...]

Marissa Nadler - The Hole is Wide

This was going to be my first time seeing Stars and the anticipation was wearing me out. Seriously, all day at work all I could think about were all the Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell duets I was going to hear that night. It’s pretty safe to say that I wasn’t going to be disappointed. [...]

On the evening of September 17th, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the Handsome Furs duo before their show at the Rickshaw Stop. On tour with with fellow Wolf Parade band member, Dante, playing as Johnny And The Moon, the bands rolled in a little late to their soundcheck. Listening to both acts [...]

There it was in the darkened Thursday night shining brightly with all its yellow glory. The Great American was proclaiming to the city of San Francisco it’s ownership of Battles for that night. I could almost hear the sinister laugh of evil delight coming from the ticket booth…muahahahahaaa ala Vincent Price. (That one’s for you [...]

Handsome Furs - Can’t Get Started

Handsome Furs - Sing! Captain
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Famous / Be Good
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The strapping young lad that is Elvis Perkins and backing band “Dearland” struck up the Neumos stage, in Seattle, last Sunday night, acting as opener to Brooklyn’s darling, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Perkins’s voice alone reeks of the unspoken tragedies of his life, though always honing a latent happiness and simplicity that amalgamates into [...]

To continue with some of the Bumbershoot coverage, we are going to be posting a few of the live KEXP “Secret Show” Music Lounge events that went on that weekend. The first show for Bumbershoot was St. Vincent and why not start there!

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The very beautiful and talented Regina Spektor archetype (on guitar), Marissa Nadler, graced the Showbox stage early last night, willed with the duty of opening for Swedish superstars Pater Bjorn and John. Her gently lilting guitar arpeggios and graceful voice floated warmly over the cold early fall air rushing in through the double doors of [...]

The affable San Francisco two piece headlined the Crocodile Wednesday (9/19) night, and were welcomed to the stage by throngs of eager fans- eclectic, yet excited all the same. Seattle, being one of the hodgepodge music epicenters of the US will definitely make for this kind of an audience at a concert.

Openers Blitzen Trapper and [...]

Friday September 14th, on Bodies of Water’s latest tour with Karl Blau they were supposed to have a stop in Santa Cruz, CA, but due to an unexpected cancellation they had to try and find a quick alternative. In comes a Santa Cruz local named Stanley who coerced his mother into letting the band play [...]

On August 28th, Santa Cruz’s The Crepe Place put on the show with the help of Folk Yeah!. The turn out was not that great for the amount of talent the bands brought, I think maybe 30 people at the most showed up by the end of the evening although some apparently drove down [...]

Plus Ones
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A Girl in Port
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Unless It’s Kicks
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Last week Okkervil River and Damien Jurado (look for his set in the coming weeks) made their way to San Francisco and played an amazing set at The Independent (which has become one of my favorite venues). I remember hanging out during the [...]

The first two days of Bumbershoot left us pretty worn out although the lineup of artists to play that day kept us going.

Andrew Bird started off the day for us at the KEXP Music Lounge. He played an absolutely amazing solo set as opposed to his full band set the night before. Both shows were [...]

Our second day at Bumbershoot wasn’t quite as packed as the first, but still was pretty busy. Some definite highlights were shooting Art Brut, Andrew Bird, and Devendra Banhart. Again the KEXP Music Lounge was great to catch acts earlier in the day which we might have missed otherwise.

Our first show for the day was [...]

This year was our first for attending Bumbershoot. We caught many great bands and met a lot of wonderful people from various news/blog sites. Over the course of the 3 days we probably walked well over a few miles each day and none was as busy as the first day, September 1.
We spent the night [...]

Back in July we caught Benni Hemm Hemm playing at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco for a rare appearance stateside. The Icelandic artist played mostly material from his two full length albums, Kajak and a self-titled album.
Enjoy the streaming concert!

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