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Spinning Platters Guide to Noise Pop 2016

Korla Pandit, Godfather of Exotica Music (whom you can see on February 20th during this year's Noise Pop Festival!) — *Korla Pandit, Godfather of Exotica Music* (which you can see on February 20th during this year’s Noise Pop Festival!)

This is a really big year for Noise Pop, one of the most long-standing and widely-genred music festivals in the Bay Area. For the first time ever, the festival is running 10 days — double its usual duration. They’ve expanded the film portion of the event, featuring 22 films in addition to the usual assortment of bands covering the entire gamut of “noise pop,” including hardcore punk, bubblegum pop, hip-hop, jazz, garage, twee — everything, basically! Of course, with such a huge variety of entertainment taking over the town for nearly two weeks, you’ll need some help deciding on what to go to. That’s what we’re here for — letting you know our picks for the best things to see and hear at this year’s Noise Pop Festival! Continue reading “Spinning Platters Guide to Noise Pop 2016”

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 10/3/14-10/8/14

Yes, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is this week. It’s an amazing line up as usual. It’s free, so everyone is there. However, there is more than enough great music happening this week. Enjoy the shows!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 9/12/13-9/18/13

Remember when Adam Ant was a guest star on Northern Exposure? Remember Northern Exposure? Am I the only one that watched this show as a kid?

It’s another good week for rocking… We have a known recluse doing a rare tour, a bunch of holograms of rappers, an R&B singer that cannot allow more than two e’s in one word, a bay area classic rock double header, and half of Bikini Kill. Not bad, if I say so myself!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 9/27/12-10/04/12

I think we can all agree that this is a weird week. Heavy on legends, but plenty of places where you can experiment, sonically. Please, have fun with it!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 8/30/12 – 9/5/12

RosettaStone — Playing for free on the streets of Oakland this Sunday.

With FYF going on down in LA this weekend, we’re getting a decent spillover of excellent shows up here in the Bay Area. Though not quite at Fauxchella levels, it’s nice to have a Faux Your Festival going on right now. And since your regular host for this column, Dakin Hardwick, will be enjoying himself at the real thing, I’ll be guiding you through your options for our fake version. Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 8/30/12 – 9/5/12”

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Spinning Platters Guide to Noise Pop 2016

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 10/3/14-10/8/14

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 9/27/12-10/04/12

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 8/30/12 – 9/5/12

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 8/25/11-8/31/11

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 7/21/11-7/27/11

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/10/10-6/16/10

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide To Bay Area Concerts: October 6th-October 12th