Hip Hip Hooray

Matt Adams has one of those semi-one-man bands: It's called the Blank Tapes, and a lot of people wonder why it isn't more famous. The music is rompy-stompy folk rock one minute, and stretched-out, sunwarmed balladry the next. Adams is a hip hipster hippie — he is, and his band is, implicated in the zeitgeist of interest in the music and culture of the 1960s counterculture. But a lot of people look only to the stereotypes of those times, and miss what was important about them in the first place: culling from the past, invention, an emphasis on joy to spite joylessness. Adams gets to the heart of a certain kind of '60s sound by leaning on the strong talents around him in the Mission District music scene, including Indianna Hale, Josh Bruner, and recently, the returned-from-Portland Sean Olmstead of Fpod Bpod. The recent self-released record, Home Away from Home, is a document of a man and a scene well worth hearing, whether you're a hippie or a square.

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Os Beaches and Apache Thunderbolt share the stage.
Sat., Aug. 14, 9:30 p.m., 2010