Wednesday, December 4th
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 12/4/13-12/10/13
Author: Dakin Hardwick
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 11/27/13-12/3/13
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 11/20/13-11/26/13
Part of this fantastic week of music includes show presented by yours truly… Come join us for Social Studies, Ash Reiter, and The She’s at Brick & Mortar Music Hall on the 25th! You can win tickets, too, if you enter here by November 22nd at 6 PM!
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Win Tickets to Social Studies with The She’s and Ash Reiter at Brick & Mortar Music Hall, 11/25/13
Spinning Platters are proud to present Social Studies at Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Monday, November 25th at 9:00 PM. This is the final night of their month long residency at Brick & Mortar, and features opening sets from The She’s and Ash Reiter. We are really excited about this show. So excited that we want you to join us! We’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away. Simply enter to win by taking this short Social Studies Quiz!
Of course, if you don’t like to leave things up to chance, or you don’t remember much from school, you can always buy a ticket. After all, they are only six bucks! Just click here to buy tickets!
See you on the 25th!
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 11/13/13-11/19/13
Here’s another wonderful 7 days of rock!
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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/31/13-11/6/13
Do you like classic underground rock? Because this list has The Flaming Lips, Death, The Dwarves, The Sonics, Television, Mazzy Star, The Avengers, The Urinals, and Deerhoof on it. So, if you like classic underground rock, this is a great seven days worth of shows for you.
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RIP Lou Reed: A Tale Of Unrequited Love
Lou Reed passed away on Sunday, October 27th. I found out over a lovely birthday breakfast with four of my closest friends. The message came as a text based alert from a popular music news site. My initial thought was “That’s a bummer, but not unexpected.” Then I started really thinking about Mr Reed. His music, and more specifically, the music of The Velvet Underground has had a huge influence in my life. I still listen to “Sister Ray” in it’s entirety at least once a month. I once had a dream where I met Lou backstage at a Nine Inch Nails concert, and he told me that he was a big fan of mine, and how excited he was to meet me. He was also shaving his own head at the time. I thought that my perfect mate would be a woman that thought that our perfect first dance at our wedding would be “Pale Blue Eyes.”
Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/24/13-10/30/13
You are probably wondering what the above video has to do with our weekly show preview… Well, the adorable red head on the piano is playing several shows this week, including a high profile gig opening up Bridge School each day.
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Treasure Island Festival 2013, Day 2
I learned from my mistake of yesterday and left my downtown Oakland apartment at 10:30 am. Instead of making my way to the shuttles at The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, I took the transbay bus and transferred to the 108 Muni line at the Transbay Terminal and used that to get to the island. It took my exactly one hour from leaving my place to my arrival to the Bridge stage. Which also meant that I got there early enough to walk right up to the barrier, and I got to enjoy some time with the group of hardcore Animal Collective fans that were determined to stay put all day. And a trio of hard core Deep Sea Diver fans.
Treasure Island Festival 2013 Journal, Day 1
There were quite a few hurdles over this year’s Treasure Island Music Festival. Not only were they up against a the BART strike, essentially crippling transportation into San Francisco, but it may have been the coldest October weekend I’ve ever experienced in San Francisco. However, those things didn’t stop the people from coming out in full force to this year’s event. In fact, it was a sell out year for the event! Proof that us San Francisco residents don’t let little logistical nuisances spoil our fun.
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