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Noah and the Whale's twee cinematic charm, in SF for the first time

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2008-10-02 18:13:40 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
 
...Music and Popscene today, Oct. 2 Their first album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down (Mercury), was just released in August, but the band has already been a big part of the summer UK festival circuit with gigs at V Festival, Summer Sundae and Glastonbury. Over the phone from the road, frontperson Charlie Fink told me: Festivals have been...
 
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My, my, My Bloody Valentine at the Concourse

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2008-10-02 01:27:20 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...music: multi-colored strobes, pink smeary smudges, B&W splotches that seeped out like tie-dyed star fields Kevin Shields was a little greyer and a little fuzzier - resembling a lost cast member of Dr. Who . But he sang like the lightest, brightest, most easily blown-away angel before a bank of cabinets. The imperturbable Bilinda Butcher was...
 
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Sonic Reducer Overage: Deerhoof, Mos Def, Noah and the Whale

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2008-10-01 08:52:35 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
 
...Music, 1855 Haight, SF. (415) 831-1200. Thurs/2, call for time, $10. Popscene , 330 Ritch, SF. (415) 541-9574 DEERHOOF The SF-Oakland combo is unstoppable with shred-meister Ed Rodriguez on hand. Catch the beloved 'Hoofies as they ply us with Japanese-language numbers from Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars). Sat/4, 9 p.m., $15. Great American...
 
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The subtle ebb of Beach House at Swedish American Hall

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2008-10-01 03:02:10 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...Music Hall. If youve ever felt heartbroken, or any moderate pain at all, you can interpret Beach Houses abstract lyrics filled with mild images - Ill pour some tea for us ("Astronaut") - stuck somewhere in nostalgia (or maybe in the imagined future), and suit them to fit your own emotional state at the time Indulgent, but also comforting,...
 
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ATP Day Three: My Bloody Valentine rips, Dinosaur Jr. rages, Bob Mould sweetens up, Yo La Tengo be jamming

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2008-09-30 18:24:44 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...music fiends twitching with excitement. Luckily enough, we still had some wiggle-room, and a much-appreciated leanin'-wall, thanks to our securing such a primo location behind the soundboard. Looking down into the mingling crowd directly below and in front of us, we quickly realize that the "VIP room" is right there at an arm's length away:...
 
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Krautrock it with White Hills and vintage vids

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2008-09-30 00:57:41 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
Lord, we love ourselves some krautrock here in the Bay, don't we? Well, expect diehards to be out in force tonight, Sept. 29, at the Knockout for the titled-like-ya-see-it Two Hours of Krautrock II screening, presented by Aquarius Records and "Klaus to the Edge" (WAR 93.7 FM). Ja, ja, we're talking videos pulled from German TV, circa 1971 to...
 
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Rediscovering metal's Yngwie Malmsteen

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2008-09-29 16:57:06 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...musically gifted family in Sweden, Malmsteen (ne Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck) got his start as a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, honing his chops by cultivating a bizarrely retrograde obsession with virtuoso 19th-century Italian violinist and purported devil-in-disguise Niccolo Paganini Malmsteen arrived on the American hard rock scene in 1984,...
 
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Getting back to Silver Jews' David Berman: on intelli design, presidential spawn, honky-tonk poses

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2008-09-28 03:47:30 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
 
...music up on a music stand - lyrics, which I couldnt seem to absorb no matter how hard I tried. And I was playing guitar with music to give myself something else to do other than stand there. It turned out to be a fig leaf because then I fell on a very dark pier, in a very dark county in Ireland, and broke my thumb in the middle of the...
 
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Kims-met: Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon talks about 'Phantom Orchard,' good TV, making art, NYC,

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2008-09-27 00:20:35 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...music yet. Were going there for four or five days beforehand to actually just play together and kind of create it. Its kind of like a residency they have there. Well create the music and then do a concert SFBG: You recorded with Ikue in the past, along with DJ Olive KG: I had a quartet for a while and we put one record on SYR that was DJ...
 
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