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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Noise Popped! Sunday 2/28:
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros / The Watson Twins @ Bimbo’s

March 3, 2010

OK, last wrapup. I’ll make this a quick one so we can all get back to listening to music.
I had never seen the Watson Twins before, and had expected them to be countryish, but it looks like I missed the boat on that part of their career, because they’ve segued into a sort of soulful [...]

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Excuse Me, Miss, I Think You Dropped Something:
The Greatest Albums Not Making Enough “Best Of 2009″ Lists

December 21, 2009

It’s year-end best-ofs time, and there are hundreds of lists (themselves listed at Largehearted Boy) out there for the mining. This year’s themes seems to be:

working hard to convince yourself there are better albums than Merriweather Post Pavilion,  just so you don’t appear to be following the crowd
taking the Decemberists and Andrew Bird for granted
either [...]

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Love Hangover: TIMF Photo Phest

October 19, 2009

Dear hearts, I’m plumb spent!
I’ll have some more music for you tomorrow, but until then, here’s a selection of photos from last weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival.
(Many more pictures at my flickr page, you two-bit festival hustlers!)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Dan Deacon

Thao Nguyen

Sleepy Sun

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Treasure Island Preview:
Hot And Heavy, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Candy, Jesus Christ

October 12, 2009

Well, dear hearts, let’s just jump right into it. The Treasure Island Music Festival is this weekend, which means back-to-back 10-hour days of well-selected music, lots of quality lying-on-a-blanket time, and the best view of San Francisco there is.
Today’s reason for loving the TIMF:  there are two stages and nobody plays simultaneously, so you don’t [...]

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Love Hangover: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros with Fool’s Gold (Independent, 9/15/09)

September 16, 2009

Just a public shout-out and thank-you to the two bands that filled me with real joy last night.
Two months of roaming the country with ten+ band members wedged into a bus appeared to have worn headliners Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros out, but they had that blissful glow of children allowed to stay up [...]

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How To Spend Twenty Dollars In San Francisco

September 9, 2009

I’m having difficulty trying to keep track of the good music coming to town next week, so let me just spell it out a little here.
Tuesday 9/15 – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros with Fool’s Gold (Independent, $10)
Wednesday 9/16 – Fanfarlo (Popscene, free before 10PM, $8/10 after)
Friday 9/18 – The Drones (Cafe du Nord, [...]

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I Want You To Be Smiling As Much As I Am [video]

September 8, 2009

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: “Home”

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Bye-Bye To The Too-Good-To-Be-True Kind Of Love

August 21, 2009

As long as we’re talking about lanky frontmen who sing like preachers, let me drop some English about  my new favorite band, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes.
Pretty much all I need to tell you is that they’re a twelve-person band with a Jesus-Freaks-in-the-desert thing goin’ on, and you’ll understand how I fell so hard [...]

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