Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/16/11-6/22/11

Can’t think of anything funny or witty to say… So here’s some Breeders lyrics:

Saints alive you’re saying
Walk in … squares
The hid are out, out for the year
It’s a lot of face
A lot of crank air
Eroding around here

Summer’s ready
Summer is ready when you are

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Show Review: Azure Ray with Tim Fite and Whispertown (solo) at The Independent, 10/24/10

Maria Taylor and Orinda Fink shine in darkness

When we arrived at The Independent I was surprised by the lack of people.  Maybe I live in a bizarre universe in which Saddle Creek in the early 2000’s was the epitome of music, but I thought Azure Ray coming back would be big.  Apparently I was wrong.  It could have been the rainy Sunday night, or maybe it’s that slow, haunting pop songs are out of style.  Nevertheless, it turned out to be a lovely, and surprisingly varied, evening of music. Continue reading “Show Review: Azure Ray with Tim Fite and Whispertown (solo) at The Independent, 10/24/10”

Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 7/15/10-7/21/10

In honor of their stint opening for The New Pornographers, here are naked pictures of The Dodos.

Today is too hot for me to come up with something witty to say… Go see some shows!

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Maria Taylor at Cafe Du Nord, 5/1/09

Maria Taylor showing off her one eye hypnosis skills
Maria Taylor showing off her one eye hypnosis skills

Admitedly, I was a bit apprehensive about this show.  I love Maria Taylor’s albums and singing along to her songs in the car.  But her songs are slow and moody, so I was a worried the show would be boring.   But Maria Taylor was hypnotic.  She has that special charisma or ‘it factor’ where you really can’t take your eyes off her.  Or really, it’s that you can’t look away from her eye: big, shining and soulful.  It reminds me of love story where a man sees a woman sing and instantly falls in love.  The voice, the eye, the giant left handed guitar, she is an indie dream woman.

Though Maria’s sultry left eye was the star of the show, there was a lot of good music too… Continue reading “Maria Taylor at Cafe Du Nord, 5/1/09”