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Mp3: Totimoshi - Ladron
12 Galaxies was the host to three incredible bands on July 8th, Big Business, Triclops! and Totimoshi, who were celebrating the release of the album Milagrosa. Totimoshi’s sound leans heavily on dense yet concise riffs, leaving room for drummer Chris Fuggit to relentlessly pound his drums without stepping on the arrangement. [...]

Mp3: Tilly And The Wall - Pot Kettle Black
Tuesday night is the new Saturday night, well, at least it was when Tilly And The Wall played at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The place was packed, fans were eagerly cheering and singing along. Oh, not too mentioned that balloons and confetti were everywhere. [...]

Mp3: Jesse Sykes - LLL
Jesse Sykes opened the second night of hers and Earth’s encore show at the Tractor Tavern on July 29th, which was also the final night of the tour. A slightly more tense than usual Jesse took the stage with her band and played a great mix of old and new songs [...]

Ours are touring behind the new album, Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginery Enemy) which was produced by Rick Rubin. The last two dates of the tour were also the first two dates, which were canceled. The band hasn’t said anything why the 2 dates were canceled, but lead singer, Jimmy Gnecco (the [...]

Damien Jurado toured last Fall opening for Okkervil River. He brought with him his band, Eric Fischer and Jenna Conrad, to play quite a few new songs they’d been in the process or getting recorded for about a year.
At the time his rendition of Low’s “Murderer” had just been released on the blogs [...]

A new project we are working on is called “Interiors”. Each episode will feature a band playing music to a group of fans at various homes throughout the city. For this premier episode we have The Annuals playing an intimate show in a 1930’s home to a small group of fans.
This is our preview [...]

Last summer we got together with Jesse Sykes at the 4th Annual Songwriter Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
She played a quick set to a very excited crowd with songs almost entirely from her latest album Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul.

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This was the second Take Away Show Nate and I had worked on together. We had just gotten up early from a really late show the night before at Bottom of the Hill and had to drive down to Los Angeles to catch Bodies Of Water for their CD release show.
It was hot, the [...]

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played an in-store performance at Haight/Ashbury’s Amoeba Records in support of their latest album Real Emotional Trash. The crowd was primed and ready as we all waited, filling up half of the entire store’s rows of LPs, for the Jicks to take the stage. The band took the stage after [...]

Marissa Nadler - The Hole is Wide

This was going to be my first time seeing Stars and the anticipation was wearing me out. Seriously, all day at work all I could think about were all the Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell duets I was going to hear that night. It’s pretty safe to say that I wasn’t going to be disappointed. [...]

On the evening of September 17th, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the Handsome Furs duo before their show at the Rickshaw Stop. On tour with with fellow Wolf Parade band member, Dante, playing as Johnny And The Moon, the bands rolled in a little late to their soundcheck. Listening to both acts [...]

There it was in the darkened Thursday night shining brightly with all its yellow glory. The Great American was proclaiming to the city of San Francisco it’s ownership of Battles for that night. I could almost hear the sinister laugh of evil delight coming from the ticket booth…muahahahahaaa ala Vincent Price. (That one’s for you [...]

Handsome Furs - Can’t Get Started

Handsome Furs - Sing! Captain
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The strapping young lad that is Elvis Perkins and backing band “Dearland” struck up the Neumos stage, in Seattle, last Sunday night, acting as opener to Brooklyn’s darling, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Perkins’s voice alone reeks of the unspoken tragedies of his life, though always honing a latent happiness and simplicity that amalgamates into [...]

To continue with some of the Bumbershoot coverage, we are going to be posting a few of the live KEXP “Secret Show” Music Lounge events that went on that weekend. The first show for Bumbershoot was St. Vincent and why not start there!

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The very beautiful and talented Regina Spektor archetype (on guitar), Marissa Nadler, graced the Showbox stage early last night, willed with the duty of opening for Swedish superstars Pater Bjorn and John. Her gently lilting guitar arpeggios and graceful voice floated warmly over the cold early fall air rushing in through the double doors of [...]

The affable San Francisco two piece headlined the Crocodile Wednesday (9/19) night, and were welcomed to the stage by throngs of eager fans- eclectic, yet excited all the same. Seattle, being one of the hodgepodge music epicenters of the US will definitely make for this kind of an audience at a concert.

Openers Blitzen Trapper and [...]