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Today’s Vegetable:
I Am Just The Host For This Body

March 11, 2010

Last week I promised you some Honeycomb, so here it is for yer assured enjoyment: a lovely local gang of crackpots who know exactly what they’re doing and sound like they can take it wherever they like. I sense the opportunity to see them in small venues slipping away…
Five stars and two thumbs up, go [...]

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Best of 2010:
Citay – Dream Get Together
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me

March 8, 2010

Putting two more up on the Big Board today!
Citay’s super-Californian twin-guitar adventure Dream Get Together is a sweet leap.
Citay – Mirror Kisses (feat. Merrill Garbus from Tune-Yards)
http://www.citay.net
and Joanna Newsom’s latest, a triple-LP of unbelievable goodness (if y’all don’t know, ya better ax somebody). I might as well just put four Have One On Mes [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
You Were Smokin’ Cigarettes With Your Big Red Lips, And Girl, You Made Me Wish That I Was Dead

March 5, 2010

Have I told you how much I love Spencey Dude & The Doodles? I have? Frequently? And recently? Then how come I haven’t posted a song yet?
Taken care of, chilluns.
Spencey Dude & The Doodles – Flirting from their self-titled 7″ on Rob’s House Records
Next show’s March 26 at the Hemlock. If I’m upright, I’ll see [...]

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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 Popped!:
Citay / Scout Niblett / Greg Ashley / Tape Deck Mountain
Café Du Nord, 2/25/10

February 26, 2010

Hey, listen — how do you feel about soaring twin-guitar leads? Oh yeah, well how about if they’re played by a lefty and a righty, so it’s like a mirror image? And the lefty’s playing an upside-down Flying V? That do anything for ya? Well, what if there’s also ladies singing “ahhhh” in harmony over [...]

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You Found Another Way To Tell The Truth [video]

February 18, 2010

Locals, locals, locals! One more post to make you not mind that your rent’s so high.
Here are the Morning Benders giving their new song “Excuses” the Phil Spector treatment, accompanied by pretty much everybody who lives around here:

… and here’s the recorded version, plus one more from their upcoming album Big Echo:

You can [...]

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San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival On Now!

February 18, 2010

Crap, dudes, I caught too caught up watching curling and thinking about Chris Collinsworth’s pocket square to shout out about the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival, which started last Friday.
It runs through Sunday, so there’s still plenty of time and plenty of action, though — tonight we’ve got local bluegrass stalwarts High Country & [...]

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During Noise Pop But Not Actually In Noise Pop Preview 2010:
Sleepy Sun / Wooden Shjips / Carlton Melton
(New Parish, 2/26)

February 18, 2010

With all that’s going on at Noise Pop on the 26th, you might not have noticed that there’s a redamndick bill going on at Oakland’s latest rock spot, The New Parish (which I hear is sweet, but haven’t seen yet). Two of San Francisco’s mightiest psychedelic rock bands, with a little extra juice from up [...]

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Bonus Beats:
A Taste Of Poison Paradise
Or,
Down Dirty Stinky, Grime & Grisly

February 11, 2010

Too much good stuff coming into the inbox lately — gotta relieve the pressure with bonus beats!
Here’s our beloved Or, The Whale (March 12, The Independent) doing a beautiful cover of Britney’s “Toxic” for Cokemachineglow’s Fantasy Podcast:
Or, The Whale – Toxic
http://orthewhale.com
http://www.myspace.com/orthewhale
… and hell, if you’ve been around this vegetable patch for long, you know there’s [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Fires In The Mountain, Fires In The Afternoon

January 19, 2010

SF’s Citay knows how and they don’t mind sharing. They’ve got that extry-Californy vibe that makes you kinda stare off into space and see yourself rambling along the coastal hills with your best friends while the sun refracts like the Star of Bethlehem.
Then they throw down the soaring twin-guitar leads and you say, “Oh [...]

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