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Parergon...
too eclectic melodic fierce tender bluesy jazz psych to be a mere jam band
29 June 2010Combobulated & Whelmed: The Anti-Nostalgia of Pavement Live at Greek 6/25/2010
Notably, they didn’t do any covers (unless I was too wasted to remember).
16 January 2010Nara Denning (featuring Stoo Odom of The Graves Brothers Deluxe), Part II
The Graves Brothers Deluxe were one of the first three rock bands I got into when I moved to the Bay Area, and the only one for which I jumped around in an ape suit.
9 January 2010San Francisco Film-Maker Nara Denning, Part I
In Nara Denning’s Neurotique, words get in the way of the games couples play.
10 June 2009Slanted & Enchanted: Not The Album But The Book(Exclusive Video Interview with author Kaya Oakes))
So Slanted & Enchanted is not exactly “A tragedy of epic proportions!” More of a problem comedy—too realistic to offer the patriarchal cathartic moneyshot. Or, as Kathleen Hanna puts the wait for the Next Big Indie Thing—“It’s almost like this pregnancy where the baby never gets born. I feel like it’s been as if ‘The baby’s coming! The baby’s coming! And it’s five years later. And the woman weights three hundred pounds…and is not having the kid.”
22 May 2009SanFran Music Tech Summit (May 18, 2009)
There’s a growing movement to re-establish connections between the fractalized digital technology and the already established local music scenes. There’s many more money making opportunities if these connections are seen more clearly as a two-way street, especially as the recording and distribution industries have made severe cuts in their ‘regional offices’ (or more autonomous locally-run subsidiaries) in recent years.
1 May 2009Three SF Bay Area Radio DeeJays
I think once having the internet in your car is a normal thing, FM stations will suffer heavily, escpeially if commercial free stations such as Soma FM still exist. I’m pretty sure that college stations will continue to broadcast on line and perhaps having these online station options available in cars will finally pull some of the stranglehold away from Clearchannel….Who knows, it might be just what the music industry needs to recover from this current dire situation it has fallen into.” (Elise Nordling)
1 April 2009Oakland: Sir Lord Von Raven & Brian Glaze (March 2009)
While Sir Lord Von Raven is lonely, lonely, really lonely. He’s still very lonely. He’s Oakland lonely. Ocean lonely. Happy Parts Go-To-Bakeries Lonely. Fats Time Domino FLies Lonely. Chip Shoulder Glamour Grit Lonely. Dorian Grey Mike-The-Cat Lonely…Look him in the eyes, and ask him if he’s satisfied? Death-of-a-ladies-man Buster Poindexter lonely. Same-drummer-as-Brian-Glaze-lonely (Take him quiz question; does Jay Bronzini’s drumming style have anything particularly Italian about it?) Oh solo mio (lonely!).
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