Aquarium Drunkard welcomes one of our all-time favorites, Silver Jews, to the Echoplex Friday September 26th. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Joos fan? Leave your name, email address and your favorite David Berman lyric(s) in the comments below. James Jackson Toth supports. Previously: Silver Jews, David [...]
Nashville, Tennessee based indie rock husband and wife duo Silver Jews will release their 6th full length album entitled ??Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea??(Drag City) in June, according to a spokesperson for the band.??David & Cassie Berman??The album will be the group's follow up to 2005's ??Tanglewood Numbers??, an album which broke the Silver Jews long-standing touring ban. David Berman had l...
Silver Jews frontman David Berman is ditching music and becoming a screenwriter...or a muckracker. He's calling it quits with the band he shares with his wife Cassie and started 20 years ago. "I'm forty two and I know what to do," he told fans in the band's forum, Drag City "I'm a writer, see?"(Another sign of how bad the music industry is -- frontman gonna try and sling it in Hollywood.)"I alw...
Some of you may have noticed the announcement in our "coming soon " section that I would be posting an interview with Silver Jews frontman David Berman. Some of you may have even been eagerly awaiting to read it. Berman prefers to stick exclusively to email interviews because he feels that they give him more [...]
This podcast is a mixed bag of rock, pop and folk, some stuff that's new to pat radio and some old favorites. Ben Hamilton of BenCo Presents stops by to talk about the series of concerts at the Milo Arts Center and give away a pair of Silver Jews tickets. As I type this, no one has claimed those Silver Jews tickets. Download, listen, win. Stream: http://patradio.org/blix/wimpy.php Make wit...
Right off the bat, I'm going to openly and officially claim the proceeding interview as a "success". I'm sure that you will all draw your own conclusions and, most likely, many of them will be different than mine. Many of you will even leave your own comments contradicting my assessment. I probably didn't ask the [...]
This Friday, Nov. 7, SF360 Film Club, the San Francisco Film Society's monthly social screening series, will be screening Michael Tully's Silver Jew at The Mezzanine. The film is a documentary-travelogue hybrid following the band Silver Jews (Nashville) during a recent trip to Israel. Preceding the film are two shorts produced by XLR8R magazine on the [...]
From the good folks over at Permanent Records :We wanted to let you all know that we've got 16 tickets to giveaway to tonight's Silver Jews show going down at the Metro. It's an 18 and over show with a starting time of 10pm. The tickets will be FREE with any purchase you make from us today and are first come first serve so please don't call and ask us to hold tickets for you.We're open 'til ...
Dance party in the Woodman kitchen last night. Maybe it was because I wanted to give a shout out to my Jewish brethren on Yom Kippur or maybe it was the fact that I was given a last minute hall pass tomorrow night for the Silver Jews show at the Metro. Either or, Mommy wasn't [...]