Spinning Platters Contest: The Hives Prize Pack!

The greatest band on earth from The Warfield last year
The greatest band on earth from The Warfield last year

The greatest band on earth, The Hives, will be coming back to the United States on Monday, February 18th to assault the crowd at HP Pavilion before P!nk takes the stage. And, as a special gift to you, they will be dropping off prize packs for us to give out to two lucky Spinning Platters readers. Each winner will get an autographed copy of their latest record, Lex Hives, a custom guitar pick for each member of the band, a poster, a pin pack and stickers! We will be drawing two winners on February 15th, so you have until 6 PM PST to enter. If your Valentine’s Day sucks, at least you’ve got something to look forward to!

Just click here to enter!

And, after the jump, check out their latest video, “Wait A Minute Now,” off Lex Hives

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Spinning Platters Interview: Andrew Holmgren of Sylvan Productions

Andrew Holmgren

Andrew Holmgren is a local comic that hosts a monthly show at Dirty Trix Saloon called Get Yucked Up. He is also a member local comedy crew Sylvan Productions, who put on high quality comedy shows all throughout the bay area. He will be doing Get Yucked Up as part of SF Sketchfest at Cincecave at Lost Weekend Video on Friday, January 25th and as part of the Comedy Happy Hour at Cafe Royale on Monday, January 28th. On New Year’s Day, we got together at a coffee shop in downtown SF to talk about his career and comedy culture in San Francisco in general.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 1/24/13-1/30/13

Playing two nights at the Fillmore!!
Playing two nights at the Fillmore!!

Just go to a show. Any show. Please support live music. Here’s how!

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A Nerd’s Guide To SF Sketchfest 2013

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Spinning Platters loves Sketchfest. San Franciscans are generally really lucky, but for two and a half weeks every year, our lives get even brighter and more chaotic, because the best live comedy programming one could imagine is here, in the greatest place on Earth. Of course, it can be awfully intimidating. Hence this guide, to help you sort out everything that you should go to. For a complete schedule and tickets, please click here!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 1/10/13-1/16/13

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Is this Ox a Cannibal? Doubtful…

Happy New Year from SpinningPlatters.com. Remember, it’s always warmer inside a music venue…

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Spinning Platters Presents The Official List of the Top 20 Albums of 2012

Here to present the top 20 albums of the year as voted on by the SpinningPlatters staff.
Here to present the top 20 albums of the year as voted on by the SpinningPlatters staff.

By The Spinning Platters Staff

Every website has a Top XX albums of the year list. This one is ours, and there is nothing by The xx on it. I mean, I really like The xx’s Coexist. There were just 20 records that came out this year that were better. Maybe you’ll find something that you missed?

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 12/27/12-1/2/13

Royal Teeth at Rickshaw on January 2nd
Royal Teeth at Rickshaw on January 2nd

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Show Review: An Evening With Tony! Toni! Toné! at Yoshi’s – Oakland, 12/23/12

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Dwayne Wiggins. Guitar Hero.

The Bay Area has an amazing history of legendary musicians, although people tend to focus primarily on our 60’s hippy days when it comes to the history books. People often forget about our rich R&B history. Oakland was the birthplace of Sly & The Family Stone, Tower of Power, En Vogue, Sheila E, and many, many more. Tony! Toni! Toné! have been an Bay Area institution for nearly 25 years, and in recent years, they’ve started a tradition of playing the iconic Yoshi’s in Jack London Square right before Christmas. I had the honor of seeing this band for the first time at the last set of that six show residency last night.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 12/20/12-12/26/12

Googled "Christmas In Hell" and this was the picture. Enjoy!
Googled “Christmas In Hell” and this was the picture. Enjoy!

It’s a short list this week so you can enjoy your loved ones this holiday!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 12/13/12-12/19/12

Coming to Brick & Mortar on Tuesday!

Your stare was holding
Ripped jeans, skin was showing
Hot night, wind was blowing
Where you think you’re going, baby?

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy
But here’s my number, so call me maybe
It’s hard to look right, at you baby
But here’s my number, so call me maybe

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