Reviews of albums, films, concerts, and more from the Bay Area Music and Movie Nerds
The week is the first official week of Fauxchella. There is plenty to look forward to, including a healthy dose of Coachella bands that you can see without the threat of sunburn, and only limited threat of somebody on Ecstasy deciding that you have the prettiest hair in the world and they need to pet it for 45 minutes while you watch The Cult.
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 4/3/14-4/9/14”
Thursday, March 27th Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/27/14-4/2/14”
I didn’t go to SXSW last year. And I, literally, spent all of 2013 being sad about it. SXSW is like live music Disneyland. Sadly, complete with the lines and the getting frustrated about all of the people with Fast Passes cutting ahead of you. However, if you play your cards right, you can see an obscene amount of live music. In four days, I got to enjoy 34 bands. And I didn’t even try that hard this year.
Continue reading “Spinning Platters SXSW 2014 Report: 34 Instant Band Reviews”
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/20/14-3/26/14”
Thursday, March 6th Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/6/14-3/12/14”
The rise of Courtney Barnett was certainly unexpected. Her lyrically dense, country tinged song “Avant Gardener” and it’s accompanying video became a viral video sensation in the last few months of 2013. With the strength of this song, she managed to sell out every show on her visit to North America. All without a distribution deal in the United States. She closed out her tour by opening up Noise Pop 2014 in a most triumphant manner.
OMG! This week is NUTS!!!
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/27/14-3/5/14”
Noise Pop can be intimidating. It’s the best week of live music programming in the Bay Area, and sometimes it’s hard to decide what to go to, because you can’t always be in two places at once. (However, I will be going to two shows on Friday night. I’m a bit insane.) So, if I were deciding what shows you were going to, this is what this shows would be. Disagree? Well, you can decide for yourself by checking the schedule out here. Continue reading “Spinning Platters Tells You What Noise Pop 2014 Shows To Go To”
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/20/14-2/26/14”
Thursday, February 13th
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 2/13/14-2/19/14”