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Best Of 2010 Catchup Glut!
The Earl Brothers / Free Energy / The Drums / Gil Scott-Heron / Blitzen Trapper / Arcade Fire

August 4, 2010

This year, instead of just putting albums on my Faves of 2010 page, I decided to bring a little more attention to them, writing a little about each one as it’s added. What with Baby Vegetables running my schedule, however, this task has been put off repeatedly until it’s just silly. So lemme catch up [...]

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Return Of The FOMO:
Edward Sharpe Performing On The Street Outside The Fillmore

July 28, 2010

I thought that I had, through hard work and medication, conquered my fear of missing out (FOMO) — until I found about this occurring after Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros’ 5/27 Fillmore gig. The lesson here? Go see every band you like every time they play, then hang out on the sidewalk all night [...]

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Treasure Island Music Festival Lineup Announced:
Your Ass Has Already Been Kicked

July 12, 2010

I’m usually shagged by the end of a day at the Treasure Island Music Festival, so I’d often be found heading out a tad early, happy to beat the crowds and not minding missing the Raconteurs. But this year’s headliners give a man reason to tough it out with a smile on his aching feet: [...]

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The Mission Creek Music And Arts Festival Is On!

July 9, 2010

This year’s Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival kicked off last night and continues through July 18 with shows all over the place, all the time, so no excuses, pepples. Check the schedule for all the details, but here are a few higlights: Tonight: Music & dance performances at 21 Grand Sunday, 7/11: An all-day, [...]

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Everybody Was In The French Resistance … NOW!
I Mean, TONIGHT!

April 27, 2010

Disciples of St. Eddie will wanna hit Bottom of the Hill tonight as Mr. Argos and G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N. Dylan Valdes bring their real-world responses to rock myth to the stage. Most excellent Art Brut guitarist Ian Catskilkin tags along.     “G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N. (You Know I’ve Got A)” http://www.myspace.com/fixingthecharts

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Hey, It’s Record Store Day Tomorrow!

April 16, 2010

So get off yer computer and go down to a real place where music lovers sell music to music lovers while playing music for you! It’s the 3rd annual Record Store Day, which means there’s all sorts of performances, limited releases, and all-around celebrations going on at your local independent record store. Seriously, it’s really [...]

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Taking Time To Make Time, Making Time To Be There (in other words, see you soon)

March 11, 2010

Time to air out the Vegetable drawers and reacquaint myself with the world. Back on Monday the 22nd with music to slap your hamhocks to.

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Hey, Don’t Miss This:
Yo La Tengo Perform Covers Of Your Choice Tonight For WFMU

March 5, 2010

The wickedass, free-form, and listener-supported WFMU is in the middle of its marathon fundraiser, and tonight at 8-11PM Eastern (that’s 5-8PM Pacific, stoners) they’ll be playing the cover requests of folks who pledge at least $100 to keep the dream alive. Tune in at wfmu.org.

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Noise Popped! Friday 2/26:
John Vanderslice / Nurses / Honeycomb / Conspiracy of Venus @ Swedish American Hall,
Spencey Dude & The Doodles / Weekend @ Bender’s

March 1, 2010

Phew, holy crow. You can have one of those “this is why I go out to shows” nights any time of the year, but to have three nights like that in a row, you probably need an assist from a festival. Noise Pop packed the weekend with great music and made it hard not to [...]

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Noise Pop 2010 Preview:
The Undercards

February 24, 2010

Noise Pop Death March begins! What with all the head-turning headliners, it can be easy to miss one of the major highlights of Noise Pop: loads of interesting openers. This is where you find the gems — these are no random acts thrown on by the label or venue, each show has like three opening [...]

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