Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/13/14-2/19/14

What's better than 2 Chainz? How about 4?
What’s better than 2 Chainz? How about 4?

Thursday, February 13th

Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/13/14-2/19/14”

Show Review: Fall Out Boy with Panic! at the Disco and Twenty-One Pilots at America’s Cup Pavilion, 9/21/2013

Frontman Andrew's vocals are unbelievable live - better than on record.
Frontman Andrew’s vocals are unbelievable live – better than on record.

After a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, Fall Out Boy is back. More importantly, they’re on a mission: they’ve come to Save Rock and Roll, and I for one am grateful. While I’m admittedly not intimately familiar with this band’s discography, singles like “Dance, Dance,” “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” and especially this year’s smash “My Songs Know What You Did in The Dark (Light ‘Em Up)” are too fantastic to resist. As soon as I got word that they had scheduled a show at San Francisco’s temporary America’s Cup Pavilion, I requested to cover them. How could I not? I knew it promised to be an amazing Saturday night on the waterfront!  Better yet, it wasn’t even until the night of the show that I found out that Panic! at the Disco were set to open, alongside a band I’d not heard of, Twenty One Pilots. Continue reading “Show Review: Fall Out Boy with Panic! at the Disco and Twenty-One Pilots at America’s Cup Pavilion, 9/21/2013”

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

Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 6/16/11-6/22/11”

Spinning Platters Picks Six: Former Teen Idols Playing SXSW

Nope, Teen Idles aren't getting back together this year...

SXSW is a great place for a band to go to generate buzz at the beginning of their career. It’s also a great place for a band that was once on the top of the universe, but isn’t anymore, and is looking for a career resurgence. Many of these bands at one point in time were “icons,” some may have even qualified as teen idols. This is a guide to some of my favorite former rock stars gracing the SXSW stages:

Continue reading “Spinning Platters Picks Six: Former Teen Idols Playing SXSW”

Dakin Hardwick’s SXSW Journal Day 3

What the devil is happening here? I have no idea...

Tired. So very tired. It’s raining today. That sucks. I’m tired… Want to know why I’m so tired? Read on…

Continue reading “Dakin Hardwick’s SXSW Journal Day 3”