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Subject: Indie Rock and Indie Pop
Jamie Stewart's infinite sadness is exhausting
April 8, 2009Immigrant Songs
August 21, 2002New Dodos Record Due This Fall
Big news from the Dodos camp this morning. The local indie pop act finished up work on its third full-length, Time To Die, which will come out September 15, while also expanding its membership by one. Time to Die was recorded in Seattle with famed producer Phil Ek, the man behind many of the big Northwest indie acts of the last decade, from Built to Spill to the Shins and Fleet Foxes. And while Ek helped steer the new Dodos disc, another musician, 21-year-old Keaton Snyder, augmented the drum 'n
June 17, 2009Treasure Island Headliners Leaked: Girl Talk, Flaming Lips, MGMT
J. Michelle MartinThe Flaming LipsThis year's Treasure Island Music Festival should be another one for the weekender history books, if the early leaked acts booked to perform are any indication. Unofficially on tap to perform Oct. 17 and 18 are MGMT, MSTRKRFT and Girl Talk (Sat) and Flaming Lips (who have a new record coming out), Beirut, and Decemberists (Sunday). These six are pretty top-tier acts in the indie rock/indie-leaning electronic worlds, and, well, Flaming Lips and outdoor music even
June 23, 2009Miike Snow
June 17, 2009King Sunny Adé's legnthy reign
June 17, 2009MP3 of the Day: Woods
I went camping in the Santa Cruz mountains last weekend, and who knew a Brooklyn quartet could sound so perfect for evenings under a canopy of giant redwoods? I guess the group's name--Woods--was a small hint. These four New York dudes skew folksy pop with eerily effeminate vocals, flashes of Dinosaur Jr.-ish guitar distortion, and a meandering aesthetic that's more slyly psychedelic than all out jam band. Woods' sound is kinda cute in a coy way, where it's just strange enough to be sorta artsy
June 30, 2009Dirty Projectors continue to rise above
July 1, 2009The Pains of Being Pure at Heart stock up for indie stardom
July 15, 2009Juan Son makes quirky Mexican pop
July 15, 2009Tiny Vipers' uneasy listening
July 22, 2009Last Night: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Girls at the Rickshaw Stop
Sandy KimGirls: None of those females are actually in the bandThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart, GirlsTuesday, July 21, 2009Rickshaw StopBetter than: Being at Popscene in the late '90s.There's a point in every great band's career when its hometown crowds realize something has changed, and definitely for the better. The group that could crowd the Hemlock on a week night, or that was a poorly kept secret among one class of intrepid nightlifers suddenly shifts its weight and you feel, standing there
July 22, 2009The Dodos
July 29, 2009Track of the Day: Yo La Tengo
Steve GullickYo La Tengo is one of those bands that fell into a deep slump for a number of years. After sparking the indie rock imagination early on, they released a number of predictable, zzzz-inducing records that made few waves and broke little new ground. I say all this as a set up to their new single, "Here to Fall," because the song is excellent, and I never would've guessed it came outta this group. KUSF played it this morning, and it's immediately and immensely catchy. The tune is a g
July 29, 2009Depeche Mode
August 5, 2009Stripmall Architecture Plays Café Du Nord Thursday
Hey shoegazers! Yeah, you. Up here. That's it. Do you have a hankering for trance-inducing, dreamy indietronica? Does the mention of a band somewhere in-between Sigur Ros and the Cocteau Twins make those little hairs on the back of your neck tingle? If so, you owe it to yourself to check for Stripmall Architecture's show at the Café Du Nord on Thursday. Rising from the ashes of defunct San Rafael outfit Halou, Stripmall Architecture has emerged to give you your musical opiate fix--no sy
August 19, 2009Start It Up
August 19, 2009Kurt Vile loses job, gains indie clout
August 19, 2009Outside Lands Picks Part 1: Five Ways to a Fitter You
August 26, 2009The buzz, the truth, and the Mannequin Men
September 2, 2009Retro Reverb
September 2, 2009The Dodos aim for pop simplicity
September 9, 2009Girls hook fans with addictive debut of hazy hits
September 9, 2009Vivian Girls
September 9, 2009Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tonight, Tomorrow at the Fox
O. & Co. : The Yeah Yeah Yeahs There's been some talk around town that Oakland's Fox Theater--which rolled out its snazzy, remodeled digs in February--was being underutilized, especially with promoters Another Planet Entertainment, involved in the massive Outside Lands festival and also booking shows at the Greek Theater and the Independent. Talk, as they say, is cheap, however. Tonight the Fox hosts the first of eight shows in ten days, with NYC's post-punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ,
September 9, 2009Almost Gold
October 24, 2007The Hairy Man Group
October 17, 2007SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program
October 17, 2007Fiery Furnaces
October 17, 2007Bridge School Benefit Announces Lineup
At the Bridge: Fleet Foxes The annual Bridge School Benefit lineup, which happens October 24 & 25 at the Shoreline Ampitheater, has been announced. In addition to mainstay and organizer Neil Young, this year's talent list includes Coldplay's Chris Martin, No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, Monsters of Folk, Gavin Rossdale, Fleet Foxes, and Wolfmother. In addition, Jimmy Buffet plays Saturday, while Adam Sandler plays Sunday. Music Editor Jennifer Maerz gushes she's particularly stoked about Fleet Fo
September 15, 2009Bon Iver
September 23, 2009A Place to Bury Strangers
October 14, 2009Treasure Island: Indie-rock elders move forward
October 14, 2009Boom Riggins
October 14, 2009Neil and Pray
October 14, 2009Treasure Island Music Festival, Day One
It takes an iron will and a penchant for risk to submit to the risky calculus of the day-long music festival. In the weeks leading up to the Treasure Island Music Festival, there was no doubt that the lineup would yield something for just about any modern music fan from dreaded dubstep nodders to house bangers to junglists to those with a love of guitars and human voices and all points on the music appreciation spectrum in between. With a Saturday lineup that featured MGMT, Crown City Rockers, M
October 19, 2009Treasure Island Music Festival, Day Two
Christopher VictorioThe Flaming LipsDay Two: The Flaming Lips, Beirut, The WalkmenOctober 18, 2009Treasure Island Music FestivalBetter Than: Being stranded on any other island.Sunday's festival goers had to be a little more hardy and wind-resistant to enjoy day two of the Treasure Island Music Festival. But cooler weather also may have made the investment into a few ridiculously priced beers or Soju drinks worthwhile. By the time the day's headliners made their grand entrance onto the island'
October 19, 2009The Bridge School Benefit
October 21, 2009Q&A with Blind Pilot's, Israel Nebeker
Joseph SchellIsrael Nebeker of Blind Pilot.Israel Nebeker is the lead singer and guitarist for Portland's own, Blind Pilot, whose debut album, 3 Rounds and a Sound, has quickly launched the band into indie folk pop stardom. SF Weekly sat down with Nebeker yesterday to chat about the benefits and detriments of touring via bike versus touring via van, what it's like to return to San Francisco with a huge crop of new fans, and why a near miss meeting Snoop Dogg at Lollapalooza left Nebeker heart
October 22, 2009Track of the Day: Ring Trick
San Francisco's Ring Trick is a very goal-oriented artist. For one month the electronic producer/musician plans on uploading one new demo a day to his blog. "The only rule," he writes, "is that it has to be recorded and produced in the span of 24 hours."Scroll down the page and you can hear a batch of dreamy, soundtracky tunes influenced by the great minimalist, ambient composers and heavy shoegazer idols. With every new song, Ring Track also posts a video for the artist who has particu
October 22, 2009The Price Is Fright
October 21, 2009Last Night: Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Adam SandlerNeil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert October 25, 2009Shoreline AmphitheaterCheck out our Bridge School slideshow by Christopher Victorio here. Better Than: watching AC/DC play at Marine World. Combine a huge rock' n roll show with a school benefit and you're bound to attract a crowd of hip parents. It felt like family day at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater yesterday, with all of the tin
October 26, 2009Built to Spill’s struggles to capture its signature sound
October 28, 2009Basement Jaxx
October 28, 2009Black Rock City
October 28, 2009Last Night: New Folk Rock Supergroup The Emerald Triangle
The Emerald TriangleMonday, Nov. 2, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Watching Vetiver open for Chris Robinson's Wooden Family open for Jonathan Rice open for Ryan Adams open for Interpol.Paul Scott "We're aware that this is a very strange thing," Vetiver front man Andy Cabic announced from the stage last night, his eyes tucked under a floppy brown hat. "It's a thing that doesn't really exist outside of here."It was the San Francisco songwriter's way of explaining that the band he was performin
November 3, 2009Blues Control’s sonic hypnosis
November 4, 2009Pickups Amnesia: Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club
View more photos in "Silversun Pickups & Metric @ Verizon Droid Launch."Indie rock music met tech at last Friday's Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, where Canadian Band Metric and Silverlake band Silversun Pickups played to celebrate the launch of Verizon Droid, an iPhone contender much anticipated by key members of the technology community including Techcrunch demagogue Michael Arrington. Yes, mobile snobs might salivate at the Droid's Google-powered navigation sys
November 10, 2009mr. Gnome brings surreal sounds from Josh Homme's studio
November 18, 2009It's a Family Affair
November 18, 2009
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