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Toro Y Moi

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    March 5, 2012

    Live Review, 3/3/12: Cloud Nothings Grow Up at Bottom of the Hill

    Cloud Nothings Saturday, March 3, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: The high school graduation test. Four songs into a fevered, triumphant set at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday, Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi stopped playing and said hello: "I'm glad we're playing an all-ages show, because that me ... More >>

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    July 21, 2011

    Memory Tapes's Dayve Hawk on Pop Music, Fatherhood, and Being the "Weird Kid"

    Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk​ A couple summers ago -- 2009, to be exact -- several bedroom musicians arrived at approximately the same sound. Their music seemed as though it was recorded on melted cassingles. The critical watchwords were "dayglo", "spectral", and "nostalgic", though lovers and hat ... More >>

  • Music

    July 6, 2011

    After "Portlandia", Washed Out Trades Sampling for Songwriting

    Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk​ A couple summers ago -- 2009, to be exact -- several bedroom musicians arrived at approximately the same sound. Their music seemed as though it was recorded on melted cassingles. The critical watchwords were "dayglo", "spectral", and "nostalgic", though lovers and hat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    In Print: Washed Out Trades Sampling for Songwriting, and More

    Washed Out's Ernest Greene​After Portlandia, Washed Out trades sampling for songwriting: Washed Out might be the most perfect band name ever conceived: It captures the gist of Ernest Greene's music in two simple words. Bright, explosive hues could have easily ruled his synth-driven pop, but he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More

    Three days of this for 2011!​As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Toro Y Moi Calls It an Early Night at Great American Music Hall

    ​Toro Y Moi March 25, 2011 @ Great American Music HallBetter than: Walking through the Tenderloin in hail. Toro Y Moi may seem like another foreign language moniker for another East Coast college grad's bland "chillwave" solo project, but after a consistently entertaining performance at Great Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Easy Fame in the Pitchfork Era: Be Young, Find a Trend, Get a Drum Machine

    Dirty Beaches: This could be you!​Did you want to play at SXSW, but perhaps felt you weren't ready? Are you comfortable with stylish gloss instead of creative substance? Do you know how to work a drum machine?Well, good news kids: You don't need to work much at making music anymore -- at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    SXSW So Far: The Highlights and Lowlights of Two Days in Austin

    The Dodos​Far more occurs in the maelstrom of South-By than bears retelling -- even in just two music-packed days. So in lieu of lengthiness, here's a drive-by roundup of the highlights and lowlights from our last two days in Austin. HighlightsSqueezing onto a tiny, cramped balcony at 1 a.m. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Friday Night: L.A. Fave Low End Theory Comes to S.F., Gives the City Exactly What it Needs

    ​Low End Theory S.F., with Daedelus, Baths, Gaslamp Killer and moreJanuary 21, 2011@ 103 Harriet Better than: Suffering through a pack of smelly trustafarians to hear some heavy bass. Let me waste no time getting to the point: Low End Theory SF is everything I've wanted a hip-hop/dubst ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2010

    Toro Y Moi: Show Preview

    ​Low End Theory S.F., with Daedelus, Baths, Gaslamp Killer and moreJanuary 21, 2011@ 103 Harriet Better than: Suffering through a pack of smelly trustafarians to hear some heavy bass. Let me waste no time getting to the point: Low End Theory SF is everything I've wanted a hip-hop/dubst ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Ghostface Killah's Fear of God, and the Thermals' Temporary Chill

    Ghostface​From SF Weekly's print music section:Ghostface Killah: This might be a common belief, but Ghostface is an uncommon man. For starters, he's intensely observant. In the rap game, his strength of recall is Proustian. His skill in breaking a verse's picture into jagged crystals is Joycean. M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Hear Shlohmo Remix Toro Y Moi Before Toro Y Moi's Friday Show

    "Shlohmo makes me sleepy"​And thus does S.F./L.A. beatmaker Shlohmo take on the spacey chillwave sensibilities of Toro Y Moi. Here he remixes "Fax Shadow" into a brooding, dribbling, echoey soundscape. It's for your ears, after the jump.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Is Chillwave the Sound of Summer 2010?

    Washed Out wonders if he's your summer fave.​It may be hard for us S.F. residents to tell, but summer is here, and that means it's time to bust out our brightest, shiniest, dreamiest, and, uh, summeriest music to help make these months (more like weeks in our case) that much more memorable. Of cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    How to Succeed in Indie Music? Five Formulas For a Blog-Worthy Band

    Maybe you won't admit it -- at least to your would-be fans -- but we all know it's the truth. No matter how stunning your lack of ambition may be, no matter how much you say you like sharing a one-bedroom with four guys and perfecting lattes for corporate assholes to pay the rent, you want that indi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Best Albums of 2010: We Roundup the Lists

    Jason NocitoBeach House tops many critics' Best of 2010 lists​Music publications love to compile their personal (though not always eclectic) tastes into easily digestible lists of loves, hates, bests, and worsts, and that's largely because music fans love reading them. While some tastemakers wait ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2010

    Dream On

    Jason NocitoBeach House tops many critics' Best of 2010 lists​Music publications love to compile their personal (though not always eclectic) tastes into easily digestible lists of loves, hates, bests, and worsts, and that's largely because music fans love reading them. While some tastemakers wait ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Cheat Sheet for Cassettes to Care About in 2010

    ​Toro y Moi Chazwick Bundick's brand of chillwave is less grandiose than Washed Out and less distinguished than Neon Indian but makes better-suited cassette listening with more minimal dance grooves than nostalgia-evoking 80s chintz effects. You can even dance (grind?) to "You Hid" sober. ​N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Behind the Beat with DJ Dials (Change the Beat, Soundpieces)

    ​Never let it be said that Noah Bennet Cunnigham is lazy. His hustle knows no bounds. He DJs, designs airport art installations, produces tracks, and manages our premiere glitch-hop outfit, Lazer Sword. As DJ Dials, he explores the depths of futuristic booty tunes and next-level bass music with ed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    More San Francisco Parties @ SXSW

    The Fresh & Onlys on the night they kicked the cat outta the band​If you're headed down to Austin in March for the big music industry party SXSW, there are a bunch of locals hosting great acts throughout that week. We told you about our big bash on Friday, March 19 with Superchunk, the xx, the ... More >>

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