Pitchfork posted this video today–hot on the heels (or should we say hooves?) of our interview with RPC’s Chris Eaton.
Enjoy!
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
^^ Jason Reeves ^^
THURSDAY:
For those of you who like your punk fast and dirty like grandma used to make, Jay Reatard is playing at the Casbah tonight. Helping blow the roof off the place will be fellow punkers Cheap Time, as well as San Diego’s very own The Sess, who are part of Single Screen Records’ batting-a-thousand roster of awesome local bands.
Those cut from a more sensitive cloth can go check out Jason Reeves at Soma tonight, who will happily help you relive the painful memory of every girl who, for one reason or another, just didn’t feel like dating you anymore. Jon McLauglin will be opening.
Continue reading ‘Weekend Concert Lineup: July 31st - August 2nd’
Rock Plaza Central recently played San Diego’s Beauty Bar in support of Are We Not Horses?, and lead man Chris Eaton kindly agreed to do an interview. He answered our questions by email while immersed in recording demos for the band’s as-yet-untitled upcoming release. Eaton and his band have been called “stars in waiting” by Rolling Stone and Are We Not Horses received high marks from Pitchfork Media, so we’re pleased to pick his brain. In addition to being one of the most creative songwriters working today, Eaton is also known for two novels, The Inactivist and The Grammar Architect (a “cover” of a Thomas Hardy book).
Continue reading ‘Interview: Chris Eaton of Rock Plaza Central’
Dr. Dog
June 7, 2008
Soundboard/Audience Mic matrix
Be there! Be there! Be there!
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday!
The North by North Park Music Conference is a one day music event, which will debut on August 2, 2008. Starting at 10am, all conference registrants will learn about the music business during panel discussions, workshops and demo review sessions. NXNP will feature speakers who have been involved in local, regional, and national music. Following the workshops, NXNP will showcase over 100 musical acts from Southern California, in 14 venues in San Diego, California.
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Harpoon Fever (Queequeg’s Playhouse) - Man Man
House That Used to Be - old 97s
Carry Home - Mark Lanegan
I Was Young When I Left Home - Bob Dylan
Spider’s House - The Sea and Cake
Our Pasts, Like Lighthouses - Rock Plaza Central
Cold Days From The Birdhouse - The Twilight Sad
The Ghost Inside Our House - Cloud Cult
I Feel Like Going Home - Yo La Tengo
Quiet Houses - Fleet Foxes
Homeless - Paul Simon
Life In A Glasshouse - Radiohead
Steal My Body Home - Beck
Gin House Blues - Nina Simone
Please Come Back Home - Don Thomas
Tegan & Sara
December 13, 2007
Soundboard (FM)
Continue reading ‘Download: Tegan & Sara; December 13, 2007′
It was Sunday night at Canes and indie rock heroes Wolf Parade were about to perform, yet the crowd didn’t seem excited at all. The stripped down guitar and tribal trashcan percussion of opening duo Listening Party had been received with polite but moderate enthusiasm by an audience where those wearing backwards hats and polo shirts vastly outnumbered the people with the tight jeans and flat-ironed hair. As the crowd quietly milled about the venue between sets, it seemed as though Wolf Parade could expect a similarly tepid reaction. But when the Montreal quintet finally took the stage and the first notes rang out from the amps, they were met with a fanatical and frenzied reception that was anything but lukewarm.
Beginning their set with “You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son” and “Soldier’s Grin”, the opening tracks off 2005’s Apologies To The Queen Mary and 2008’s At Mount Zoomer, respectively, Wolf Parade were a well-oiled machine, nimbly maneuvering their songs’ wild mood swings and ever-changing time signatures without missing a beat.
Continue reading ‘Review: Wolf Parade; July 20, 2008 at Canes; San Diego’
The Dark Knight is 150 minutes of intensity—a well-done action film that, unlike Batman Begins, focuses less on character and more on the ca-razee Joker (played by a nearly scenery-chewing Heath Ledger) and Batman’s quest to stop him.
Since Calexico recently unveiled “Two Silver Trees,” a track from their upcoming LP, we thought we’d post this 2003 show.
Soundboard
Continue reading ‘Hosted Live Download: Calexico; March 13, 2003′
Saturday’s “Hipsters Revisited” at Bar Pink Elephant was a ‘60s themed event that promised music of the garage, psychedelic, and freakbeat varieties, all while making assurances that there would be “no weird shit or flutes”. They made good on these promises with some trippy mood-lighting and an assortment of DJs spinning appropriately obscure tracks from the period, but the real draw was a live performance by local retro-rock band The Loons.
Long blond hair hanging in his face, Loons lead singer Mike Stax commanded the stage with all the raw power of an anachronistic Iggy Pop as the band blazed through a set that recalled garage acts Love, The Sonics, and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators. After grabbing everyone’s attention with “Red Dissolving Rays”, Stax joked that, in honor of Gay Pride week, he was dedicating the song “My Time” to Texas, “the gayest state of all”.
Continue reading ‘Review: The Loons; July 19, 2008 at Bar Pink; San Diego’
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Lakewater/Parachutes - Califone
River Blues Pt.2 - Lowell Fulson
Jockey Full Of Bourbon - Tom Waits
Drops In The River (Live) - Fleet Foxes
Keep Your Water - School Of Language
Filthy Water - Fruit Bats
River Guard (Live) - Smog
Like the River - Sun Kil Moon
Black Saltwater - Peter and the Wolf
Expecting Rain - The Dreadful Yawns
Muddy Hymnal - Iron & Wine
Moses Smote The Water - John Lee Hooker
River Man - Nick Drake
The River Rise - Mark Lanegan
Grey Ice Water - Modest Mouse
This River Deep - The Album Leaf
