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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/14/15-5/21/15
Author: Dakin Hardwick
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/7/15-5/14/15
Because nobody WANTS to be a responsible adult…
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Show Review: Two Nights with Sleater-Kinney at The Masonic, 5/2/15-5/3/15
The last time Sleater-Kinney played a show in San Francisco, it was a two-night stand at the Great American Music Hall that ran May 2nd and 3rd, 2006. Exactly nine years to the day, they returned to San Francisco, only instead of returning to that intimate, 600-seat club, they played nine blocks away at the newly-restored Masonic Theater. The fact that they put so much care and thought into the tour routing meant that this was going to be a special event; the fact that these shows both sold out in milliseconds proved that San Francisco cared just as much about their return as the band does.
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 4/30/15-5/6/15
Yup. Two Sleater-Kinney shows this week. You’ve waited almost a decade for this. Other stuff is happening, too, but none of that actually matters. Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 4/30/15-5/6/15”
10 Quick Questions with Polaris
Polaris was a fake band that comprised of real musicians in the 90’s kids show, The Adventures Of Pete & Pete. Now, 19 years after the show’s cancellation, we have the first vinyl pressing of the shows’ soundtrack, and they are also doing their first full scale US tour! They will be coming to The Chapel on April 24th. Tickets are available here!
We had a chance to ask 10 questions to Muggy Polaris (Mark Mulcahy), Harris Polaris (Scott Boutier), and Jersey Polaris (Dave McCaffrey). Here’s what these guys had to say!
Show Review: TV On The Radio, Nostalghia at The Fox Theater – Oakland, 3/31/15
TV On The Radio are at an interesting point in their career. The band’s age is such that they are no longer actively buzzed about, yet they don’t stay far enough removed from the music scene to ever be experiencing a “comeback.” A lot of bands can become a little lazy at this point, opting to simply release likable records that don’t really push any boundaries, and serve just as an excuse to tour; TV On The Radio, however, simply have too deep of an imagination to go that direction. As 2014’s Seeds will go down as one of the finest records of their career, the set they played at Oakland’s Fox Theater (their first proper headlining show around here since its release) may go down in history as their finest performance in the Bay Area.
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/19/15-3/25/15
Seven days of pure rock n roll…. That’s all I gotta say, man!
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/12/15-3/18/15
Although many of our friends will be hanging out at SXSW this week, we’ve still got plenty of good times in store. Time to enjoy our deserted city and enjoy a few shows without crazy crowds.
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Sketchfest Review: Bring The Rock at Cobb’s, 2/7/15
There are a few things that you can depend on with Sketchfest every year. We always get w0otstock. We always get a Nerdist Podcast. There is always something featuring a former member of The State. All of those things sell out. One show that they invite back every year that somehow never sells out is Bring The Rock. The premise is super simple- a comedian talks about music. Then Greg Behrendt’s surf rock band The Reigning Monarchs covers a song with the comic singing lead. On paper, this sounds amusing. In reality, it’s the perfect love letter to both humor and rock n roll.
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Sketchfest Review: The Hotwives Of Orlando at Verdi Club, 2/7/15
Panels for TV shows are an interesting thing. They can go in one of two ways: they can either be something educational, where you learn about how certain things work. Or it can a silly display of actors and writers getting together to have fun on stage outside the restrictions of the medium of television. Or, in the case of The Hotwives Of Orlando panel, it was a perfectly balanced version of the two.
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