... almost 2 years. i will post more insightfully as time and my schedule permits, as i really think MOG is pretty special. I have been working in two bands as of late... Big Light and Rifle. Big Light released our EP digitally yesterday, and the physical CD's will be avilable at our CD release party on thursday night 6/26 at the 12 Galaxies in SF. I have posted the free promo track from our EP...
last night, i went to this venue in sf i had not been to before... the rickshaw stop. cool spot. i had a free ticket to go see the silversun pickups and two other bands i hadn't heard of before... one called viva voce, and the first band that played, who's name i don't know, and i disn't see. regardless... i was there to see the headliner, silversun pickups. i like their album. i don't think it's
... three words that best describe andrew bird... it's late and i'm faded, so i apologize for any anomalies in the text...so, a couple of years ago, this dude andrew bird made my top 5 shows of the year... i went with a great friend of mine and had no previous exposure to this guy or his music. it just so happened at the time a few years ago, that this guy was on ani defranco's record label (righ
to all three or so of you who were waiting to see what happened last night at the mars volta's tour opener at the intimate (800 capacity) catalyst club in santa cruz, ca - my apologies for taking so long to post about it.so, as the title of the post may reveal, the performance was pretty fucking brilliant. i mean, i could sit here and write slightly variegated superlatives to describe the show, or
In a few minutes, I'm being picked up from work - don't tell my boss i'm leaving work early for a rock concert - to head down to Santa Cruz with some homebread and check out the Mars Volta's tour opener at the Catalyst. I've got butterflies and sweaty palms. here's to hoping that the new/old drummer will make me not miss Jon Theodore, here's to wondering how they are gonna pull off (but i know the
there are free streams of many performances "here":http://blueroom.att.com/inc_event_mediaplayer/player.php?id=#vtopthe secret machines play at 3:30 PST. they are wonderful in concert.
I don't listen to much electronic music these days... seems like over the last 5 years or so, there has been an emergence of bands that have managed to do one of several (or more) things - either persue and capture a concept for their sound that they can successfully reproduce live, or are truly advanced instrumentalists (or play with those who are) who can play the shit out of their instruments o
you know, country music is potentially the most misunderstood genre of music...i imagine, depending on your roots, that it may take a significant amount of time during one's lifespan to realize that there is so much country music that isn't country western... stuff that isn't like it at all... stuff that can resonate inside you in a very profound way... and especially if your maturation is at ...