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That’s Hardly What She Said, Another Year At Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Part1)

By Sean On October 9, 2013 · In Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Indie Rock, Uncategorized

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Part 1)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Acoustic/Freakons, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
October 5,2013
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, Ca

That’s Hardly What She Said

Every year in the fall San Francisco puts on the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and oh how […]

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Kylesa, Torche and Ruby The Hatchet Converse About Life

By Sean On September 11, 2013 · In Metal, The Chapel, Uncategorized

Kylesa, Torche, Ruby The Hatchet
August 29, 2013
The Chapel
San Francisco, Ca

Kylesa, Torche and Ruby The Hatchet Converse About Life

The best things in life are free? What a cute idea. Sadly we live in a world where this is pretty much only true in the reality depicted by […]

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Flashback Friday: With Screw 32 and A.F.I.

By Sean On September 6, 2013 · In Flashback Fridays, Punk Rock, Seaman's Lodge, Uncategorized

Screw 32, A.F.I.

Sometime in 1995

Seaman’s Lodge

Nevada City, CA

Flashback Friday

The Best Concert I Ever…Let’s Just Leave It At That

                Holy shit, thought I. It may have even been a weeknight –though probably not because Marnie was over at…wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. Everything in its […]

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Flashback Friday: Staring Big Business, Pins of Light and Grayceon

By Sean On August 29, 2013 · In Bottom of the Hill, Flashback Fridays, Metal, Uncategorized

Big Business
Pins of Light
Grayceon
June 27, 2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca

Flashback Friday

…In Which Big Business, Pins of Light and Grayceon Load Us With Marvel

                The night’s expectations glistened in a laborious aftermath of, well, labor. Work: to the layperson. An eight hour journey […]

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Red Fang: Premiere First Single of Upcoming Album ‘Whales and Leeches’


By Candice On August 28, 2013 · In Metal, News

From Relapse Records:

Red Fang: Premiere First Single of Upcoming Album ‘Whales and Leeches’

The Portland, OR-based group Red Fang have debuted the lead single–“Blood Like Cream,” from their third studio album, Whales and Leeches– on SPIN.com. Listen to the song which SPIN hails “a gruff, flesh-hungry challenge to Queens of the Stone […]

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Pins of Light – Interview

By Candice On June 25, 2013 · In Elbo Room, Interviews, Uncategorized

Band: Pins of Light
Shane Baker – Vocals and bass
Jake Palladino – Guitar
Ravi Durbeej – Guitar
Phil Becker – Drums

Interview Date: May 3, 2013

A little over a year ago, on a night of pajama laden boredom, I was lazing around browsing through my Twitter feed when I […]

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Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety

By Sean On June 17, 2013 · In Bimbo's 365 Club, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Show Reviews, Uncategorized

Man Or Astro-Man?, Terry Malts and The Chucklberries
May 8, 2013
Bimbo’s
San Francisco, Ca

 Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety

I got pretty flippin tickled with I heard Man Or Astro-Man? would be landing their rocket ship at Bimbo’s in the North Beach quadrant of […]

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Heavy Glow – Interview

By Candice On May 1, 2013 · In Interviews, Neck of The Woods, Rock and Roll

Heavy Glow Interview
Neck of the Woods
April 10, 2013

 

“If you forget about it, play your music,

and people dig it, then everybody’s happy”

– Jared Mullins

Sean and I were super stoked when we received and email from Heavy Glow’s manager.  They […]

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In the Dreams of Mud and Honey – Mudhoney and Hot Lunch April 12, 2013 at Slim’s

By Sean On April 23, 2013 · In Indie Rock, Show Reviews, Slim's, Uncategorized

Mudhoney and Hot Lunch
April 12, 2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca

In the Dreams of Mud and Honey

Candice and I were excitedly yearning to be elevated beyond the valley of youth via goddamn kick-ass music. Remember Grunge? It used to be a genre. It seems to not […]

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…Then We Take Oakland. (Leonard Cohen at The Paramount Theater)

By Sean On March 20, 2013 · In Folk, Show Reviews, The Paramount Theater, Uncategorized

Leonard Cohen
March 2, 2013
The Paramount Theater
Oakland, Ca

 

…Then We Take Oakland. 

Remember the days when you used to watch a movie and part way through it you’d be like, “I’m totally gonna go down to My Local Record Store and get this soundtrack after I get […]

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