CAMERAPHONIC

Friday September 14th, on Bodies of Water’s latest tour with Karl Blau they were supposed to have a stop in Santa Cruz, CA, but due to an unexpected cancellation they had to try and find a quick alternative. In comes a Santa Cruz local named Stanley who coerced his mother into letting the band play [...]

On August 28th, Santa Cruz’s The Crepe Place put on the show with the help of Folk Yeah!. The turn out was not that great for the amount of talent the bands brought, I think maybe 30 people at the most showed up by the end of the evening although some apparently drove down [...]

The first two days of Bumbershoot left us pretty worn out although the lineup of artists to play that day kept us going.

Andrew Bird started off the day for us at the KEXP Music Lounge. He played an absolutely amazing solo set as opposed to his full band set the night before. Both shows were [...]

Our second day at Bumbershoot wasn’t quite as packed as the first, but still was pretty busy. Some definite highlights were shooting Art Brut, Andrew Bird, and Devendra Banhart. Again the KEXP Music Lounge was great to catch acts earlier in the day which we might have missed otherwise.

Our first show for the day was [...]

This year was our first for attending Bumbershoot. We caught many great bands and met a lot of wonderful people from various news/blog sites. Over the course of the 3 days we probably walked well over a few miles each day and none was as busy as the first day, September 1.
We spent the night [...]

We met up with Jesy and Ben before their show August 15, 2007 at the Elbo Room in San Francisco to work out various logistics of filming and recording them as well as getting to know them. Jesy and Ben’s job at a Mexican resturaunt, how great it is to have a booking agent now [...]

Last last month, going on a few hours of sleep after the Casiotone For The Painfully Alone show (Part 1/Part 2/MP3s) we had caught the night before, we jumped in the car and headed south to catch the Bodies of Water record release show at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. After the long drive [...]

As mentioned in the prior post, last month we met with Michael Andrews on a short tour of his opening for The Bird And The Bee. It was a great and low tempo show. Other than that, I don’t think there is much else to say that hasn’t been gone over in the [...]

Last week we caught Casiotone For The Painfully Alone at the Bottom of the Hill. It was the last stop on the tour with The Donkeys and they both put on great shows.
The Donkeys picked things up after the opener and really kick started things for a wild night. As Nate already mentioned in the [...]

Last month, on July 13th, we made our way out to the East Bay to meet up with the members of the new group, Cryptacize. Their members are made up of Nedelle (solo folk artist), Chris (from the Curtains), and Mike (music teacher, cowbell artist extraordinaire).
A few hours after that, we met back up with [...]

Marissa Nadler played to a small crowd last month at the Hemlock Tavern and luckily for us we were there and granted permission to document the show. Marissa’s soft spoken voice and dreamy lyrics really captivated the crowd and made for an amazing show at the Hemlock.
She’s recently gotten some great publicity as part of [...]

The team of Cameraphonic was incredibly fortunate to have the pleasure of spending a few hours with Essie and her guitarist, Patrick in Santa Cruz. With some time to spare before her scheduled performance at Café Pergolesi, we all relaxed over a meal and enjoyed the mellow and lighthearted conversation that flowed around the [...]

Continuing with the Essie Jain love-fest, here are the mp3s from the San Francisco show. It was a great show and too bad she had to deal with a Friday night bar crowd.
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David Bazan, ex-Pedro The Lion, came through town again last week (06/21) opening for The New Year on one of the last solo tours he will be on for awhile after beginning to tour this Fall under the name Black Cloud. We made it out to see him and catch up a bit as we [...]

Dolorean, fronted by Al James, is a Portland, OR based group who came through town playing three shows in the Bay Area last May in support of their latest release, You Can’t Win. I had the pleasure of catching up with Al again at all three of the shows and meeting his great touring band [...]