April 2011
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Live Shows // Nick Waterhouse
Last Saturday, Pedro and I went to Guerrero Gallery and saw Nick Waterhouse with his band the Tarots and his back-up singers the Naturelles. It was a nitty-gritty performance, in all the right ways. Last week, I also got to interview Waterhouse for the Chronicle, and found out how rhythm and Rooky Ricardo’s records inspire him. Read more here. Waterhouse seems to be on a roll. Check him...
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Music Bloggers Become Music Moguls
For my first piece for the Bay Citizen’s Culture Feed, I wrote about City Limits Records, a new label started by SF bloggers Peter Arko (Ears of the Beholder) and Robert Khoruy (See the Leaves). You’ll have to wait till June, but the first release from the label is a Bay Area-based compilation with tracks from so many rad bands:
Melted Toys
Young Prisms
Exray’s
The Soft Moon
Tim Cohen
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Video: Young Prisms // Breathless. Andrew Creighton who has filmed live shows of Woodsman, Weekend, and Young Prisms, brought material of YP to Denver where director Trevor Peterson, of Woodsman, added more footage and embedded extra imagery. This video reveals shadowy figures of the band members behind kaleidoscopic VHS fuzz. “Breathless” off Friends For Now is available via Kanine...
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Video: Tim Cohen // I Come Alive. For my SF Chronicle column Bandwidth, I interviewed Tim Cohen of the Fresh & Onlys to talk about his side-project Magic Trick. He keeps himself busy writing music non-stop, and has recently released Magic Trick’s “Bad Blood” EP and “Magic Trick” LP via Captured Tracks. He notes not sleeping as an element that goes into his...