Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 9/19/13-9/25/13

Coming to The New Parish
Coming to The New Parish

We live in a lovely place…. There is always too much to do.

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Show Review: Marnie Stern with SISU and E V Kain at the Rickshaw Stop, 4/28/2013

All photos by Conan Neutron
All photos by Conan Neutron

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.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 4/25/13-5/1/13

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Looking for a better time than a bath tub full of rubber duckies? Look no further!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 3/28/13-4/3/13

Appearing this April Fool's Day at Bottom Of The Hill!
Appearing this April Fool’s Day at Bottom Of The Hill!

Hello there, Bay Area live music lover. As we reach April, we know that the next 30 days will be quite busy. We haven’t even started with the Coachella bands coming to town, and, well, I’m already exhausted just looking at this thing!

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