SF Station's event picks this week
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Thu Sep 2
Mumiy Troll are «rockapops» superstars in their native Russia, and audiences across North America will see why when the Vladivostok and Moscow-based foursome, whose «Polar Bear“ EP is out now. What do they sound like? That’s apparently in the ear of the listener – the band is widely praised, but comparisons vary...
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Thu Sep 2
"The Growlers play party music that's shot through with an undertone of melancholy. It's as if their sepia-tinted rock songs come equipped with both the drunken cheeriness and the nauseating hangover...
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Thu Sep 2 - Fri Sep 3
Jenny and Johnny first started working together in Los Angeles in 2005, after being introduced by Conor Oberst. Rice had traveled to Nebraska to make his first record before moving to L.A., where Lewis was beginning work with Mike Mogis on her solo debut Rabbit Fur Coat...
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Friday, September 3, 2010
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Fri Sep 3
The Limousines were born over instant messenger in the summer of 2006 while singer Eric Victorino was in England recording an album with his band Strata and Giovanni Giusti (AKA Nozebleed) was cranking out beats back home in the Bay Area...
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Fri Sep 3
The Sore Thumbs are three guys from The SF/ Oakland Bay Area who decided to put together a band in early 2001 focusing on a stripped down traditional punk style.....you can call it Classic Punk, Steet Punk or just plain ol Rock 'n Roll it doesnt really matter The Sore Thumbs play it with a passion and intensity that makes everybody move...
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Fri Sep 3
Lights Over Paris is much more than a rock band, it’s a lifestyle. The multifaceted band based out of Hollywood, CA is bringing back the fun and the party that is rock n’ roll. The music they play is a direct representation of the madness and love that spills out of each member...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
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Sat Sep 4
Gone are the days of Gilman spitfire and street cred, the latter of which has hung in the balance for two decades now. Never ones to give a flying you-know-what about whatever kind of "cred" they might have, Green Day have channeled their youthful belligerence into a wacky, non-offensive live show...
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Sat Sep 4
Singer-songwriter Ruth Gerson released her latest album, “This Can’t Be My Life,” on July 20, 2010 via Wrong Records, her first release for the label. Gerson says, “Writing the album got me from nowhere to some- where and through the second hardest part of my life.”
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Sat Sep 4
BIG HIGH embarks on their first west coast tour, starting with a CD release show at Seattle's legendary Crocodile Cafe, ground zero of Seattle's rock music scene for the last 20 years...
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Sun Sep 5
Cold Cave are an experimental electronic pop group from Philadelphia and New York City who make melodic synthscapes with jackhammer beats. They acknowledge the dark roots of synthesizer music as well as its potential for making the brightest pop with their hard songs celebrating the contradictory beauty of the human condition...
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Sun Sep 5
Tight Knit is the fourth full-length album from Vetiver—singer/songwriter Andy Cabic’s ever-evolving musical home base. Luminous and surprising, Tight Knit unfolds like a road trip down Highway 1, towards Cabic’s home in San Francisco...
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Sun Sep 5
With Magic Kids' Debut album "Memphis" they fully realize the sounds hinted at with their first singles- massive, intelligent and ecstatic POP MUSIC...
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Sun Sep 5
"[live]...her music is filled with a near erotic intimacy: sparse, atmospheric Americana with sharp, imagistic lyrics, great guitar playing and a velvet voice." - Neil McCormick, Daily Telegraph
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Monday, September 6, 2010
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Mon Sep 6
Instinctively nomadic and musically inquisitive, Panda Bear (Noah) has always been searching the land for inspiration and meaning...
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Mon Sep 6
Part swampy juke joint brawlers, part smooth Philly warehouse doo-wop crooners, a sprinkling of wild-eyed, demon-haunted art hustler, and a hint of punky kindergarten playroom Pollyannas, Man Man bring their incomparable vision of "pop music" to bear with Rabbit Habits, their Anti- Records debut...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Tue Sep 7
BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow (of Portishead). The band have very strict guidelines governing the recording and writing process of their work...
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Tue Sep 7
AA Bondy is an American folk/alternative artist from Birmingham Alabama. Bondy gained acclaim from his first band Verbena. The band broke up in 2003, after which Bondy moved into his house in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York...
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Tue Sep 7
While "They sound kind of like Pavement" has become cliched parlance in the music world, it still holds meaning for this talented Oakland five-piece. Indifference, malaise, and anger are expressed in singer David McKay's vocals in often monotone phrasings as well as the occasional wild screaming...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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Wed Sep 8
Showcasing singer-songwriters across three different genres of music, Sound Check is an opportunity for fans to experience some of the biggest rising and established independent artists in a very intimate and beautiful outdoor setting...
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Wed Sep 8
More than clever verses and catchy choruses, truly timeless albums offer listeners the keys to another world; they catapult you into another frame of mind and jostle your soul a little bit along the way. Broken Side of Time , Alberta Cross' ATO Records debut, is one of those albums...
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Wed Sep 8
After the Archers of Loaf disbanded, noted songwriter and indie-rock icon Eric Bachmann took his music in a different direction when he formed CROOKED FINGERS in 2000...
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