Reviews of albums, films, concerts, and more from the Bay Area Music and Movie Nerds
Rocktober is already in full swing this year. Early Rocktober is starting with a lot of folk music and a two rare public appearances by groundbreaking 80’s bands. It’s gonna be a good one!
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 10/3/13-10/9/13”
Incendiary guitar goddess Marnie Stern returned to San Francisco on Sunday night in support of her fourth and most accessible LP, the wondrously titled The Chronicles of Marnia. The show, which transpired at the Rickshaw Stop, drew a full house of giddily enthusiastic fans, or at least what passes for “giddily enthusiastic” on a Sunday night in San Francisco. By which I mean we all pretty much stood there stone-faced for three hours. But we were into it! Honest! I think Marnie might actually prefer our notoriously chill style of audience participation; when she noticed that the only overtly expressive dancers in the entire club had positioned themselves directly in front of her, she actually ordered them to go dance in front of her bassist, Nithin Kalvakota. “It’s distracting! And confusing! And it’s making me dizzy!” she protested in that vaguely “It’s Pat” voice of hers. And what the lady wants, the lady gets.
Continue reading “Show Review: Marnie Stern with SISU and E V Kain at the Rickshaw Stop, 4/28/2013”
Looking for a better time than a bath tub full of rubber duckies? Look no further!
Continue reading “Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 4/25/13-5/1/13”