SF RECOMMENDED SHOWS 2014: NOVEMBER 1

RECCO SHOWS:

1: Scissors For Lefty, Happy Fangs and Dangermaker play a 9-30pm show at BOTH listed as all age tonight.

2: Outlier, Castaway, Vitaform, Humboldt and Still Living are listed in an all age show playing from 6pm at 924 Gilman Street, costing $7.

4: THE MATCHES 10th Anniversary is being celebrated tonight at Leo's in Oakland. Details HERE.

5: Finch, Maps & Atlases, Wounds and Helen Earth can be caught playing Slim's from 8pm, doors at 7, if you are 6+ nd have $21 spare.

6: United Nations, Silver Snakes, Sick Feeling and Everybody Row play a 5pm show at 924 Gilman Street costing $12 and listed as all age.

6: Bart Davenport, Bye Bye Blackbirds, Blue Skies For Black Hearts and American Professionals have a 21+ peeps show on at The Hemlock costing $10 tonight from 8-30pm.

7: The Avengers, Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children MacNuggits, Love Songs and The Younger Lovers play an all age show at 924 Gilman Street from 8pm for $12.

7: One Man Canyon and The Peach Kings have a 9pm show on for 21+ peeps at The Hotel Utah for a max of $10.

INTERVIEW 2014: DAVE HAN

Q Dave, just as I get used to the idea that you perform predominantly with Venus Beltran, up pops a mid-October Astral concert. Does this mean Astral is resurfacing and VB is disappearing, or that you are currently involved with 2 bands? 

A Venus Beltran has been my solo side project outlet for trying material that doesn't necessarily fit into the Astral repertoire since around 2006. I have been doing VB shows sporadically since then and only in the past year have I opened up the project to explore a more collaborative avenue. VB will be less active now that I will be bringing it back to a solo creative outlet. Meanwhile, I have been actively recording a new full length album for Astral and I am really thrilled about that. I hope to have it ready sometime in the first half of 2015.

Q Which former bands - other than the temporarily disappearing Astral - would you like to see make a comeback? 

A Foreign Cinema has always had a special appeal to me. It really challenged my natural creative tendencies and forced me to push myself in a different creative direction. There is actually quite a few studio outtakes that may eventually be released in the future. 

Q As a long-term SF performer, perhaps you could tell me what the latest trends are in SF? 

A Honestly, I'm not hearing much groundbreaking new music as of late in SF. The SF music climate seems to be in a holding pattern for "dark wave"/indie pop. Pockets of 60's influenced psych rock are abound as well.

Q Are there any fairly new - as in 2012-thru-today - bands surfacing that you would recommend music fans check out? 

A 2012 is pretty recent! Not many bands can make a splash in less than 2 years. Personally, I've been appreciating electronic/down tempo bands, one being Tycho, who I am looking forward to seeing perform live at the end of the month.

Q What lies ahead for you, as a member of 2-3-? bands looking through to the end of 2014 and early 2015? 

A I will be focusing on recording the forthcoming Astral album in the near term. 

Q Are you still into that Newcastle Brown Ale? (my son likes it too, btw) 

A Ah! yes, I still do enjoy Newcastle. As of late, I have also been enjoying Belgian wheat beer.

SF RECOMMENDED SHOWS 2014: OCTOBER 4

 

RECCO SHOWS:

17: Astral plays The DNA Lounge with Tracing Figures, Catharsis for Cathedral, and WARS! See above flyer...

23:

Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, The T Sisters, American Nomad and The Beauty Operators String Band play a $15 show at Slim's tonight from 8pm.

23:

The Blank Tapes, The Soft Bombs, Exquisite Corps, Cellar Doors, Mad Alchemy and Liquid Light Show share an 8-30pm show at The Brick and Mortar for $7.

24:

Our Brother The Native, Talk Of Shamans, Balms, Emotional, Clumsy Concentration, Expired Logic and DJ Rick Moranis play a 7-30pm show at 924 Gilman Street for $10 tonight, listed as all age.

24:

Public Safety, M.F.B., The Soundwaves and Precambrian play an all age show costing $10 at Honey Hive Gallery - 4117 Judah Street - from 7pm.

25:

Potential Threat, Star Destroyer, Mystic Rage, Flesh Assembly and Gurschach play an all age show from 7pm, with doors at 6, at 924 Gilman Street for $8.

27:

Corners, Drinking Flowers and The Videos share the stage for a $7 show at The Milk Bar starting 8pm.

28:

It is goth night at The Elbo Room tonight, and you can catch Black Widows giving a burlesque revue, along with Roadside Memorial and DJ Fact.50 giving you the music for $10 from 9pm.

30:

City Of Women, Warren Teagarden And The Good Grief and Ssleeping Desiress play a 9pm show at The Brick and Mortar for 18+ peeps.

HALLOWEEN:

* Vaniish play a show with Iceage and Helm at The Elbo Room from 9pm tonight. You also get to hear from DJ's Justin and Rachel Aiello in this 21+ entertainment. See below flyer...

SF RECOMMENDED SHOWS + 2014: OCTOBER 3

REPORT ON HSB:

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_26667432/review-hardly-strictly-bluegrass-delivers-diverse-treasures

OF INTEREST TO MUSICIANS/MUSIC LOVERS/TECHUNG FANS:

Artists, musicians, and bloggers who support Tibetan nationalism face high risks. Music can be pulled from distribution, and musicians can face years in prison. Tibetan singers Lolo, Tenzin, and Gebey have all been sent to prison for making music that celebrates Tibetan culture. Music made by exile musicians such as Techung is frequently censored once it reaches Tibet.

Read more HERE: http://freemuse.org/archives/8250

RECCO SHOWS:

17: Revenge, The Haunting Presence, Antebellum, Invocation War and Actualli play black metal in a $20 show from 8pm at the Elbo Room.

18: Sweet Blossom String Band, Totally Dead, Wake Of the Dead and Reckoning play for free from 10am in an all age show at Civic Center Park in Berkeley.

18: Megan Slankard, Quinn Deveaux and The Blue Beat Review play a 9pm show listed as 6+ at The GAMH tonight.

18 & 19: The Treasure Island Festival is on! It is an all age 2-day event - but costs a minimum of $85. On Saturday, you can catch Outkast, Zedd, Janelle Monae, St. Lucia, Jungle, M0, Classixx, Ryan Hemsworth, Ana Tijoux, Xxyyxx, Ratking, Tobacco and Painted Palms, while Sunday's line up gives you Massive Attack, Alt-J, TV On The Radio, The New Pornographers, Washed Out, Banks, White Denim, Polica, The Growlers, Chet Faker, Asgeir, Bleached and Cathedrals.

19: Aussie band The Bennies play with Skank Bank, Sweet Hayah, Ridgway Space Station and Saane & Delight at 924 Gilman Street in an all age show costing $8 from 5pm.

20: Stoneburner, Caroline Blind and DJ Crackwhore play goth/industrial for $7 from 9pm at The Elbo Room.

22: Happy Diving have a record release tonight, and will be playing along with Fishbreath and Walter TV at 1-2-3-4 Go! in Oakland in an all age show from 7pm.

22: Turn Me On Dead Man, Twin Trilogy and Older Sun play from 9pm in an $8 show at The El Rio.

SF RECOMMENDED SHOWS 2014: OCTOBER 2

Firstly - here are a couple of videos to listen to:

VANIISH video - Kaleidoscoped

Scissors For Lefty video - Bangs & Lashes.

HERE

This weekend: http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2014/

& looking ahead at some shows worth catching:

10: Frankie Rose, Cold Beat and Ephrata play an 18+ show at The New Parish, from 8pm.

10: Clumsy Concentration, Twitches and Parhelion have an 8pm show listed as all age and costing $5 at Sub-Mission Gallery, tonight.

11: Connoisseur, Folivore, Cold Blue Mountain, Venkman and Backstabber can be caught playing an all age $7 show from 8pm at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley.

12: Smooth Hound Smith and Thirteen Button Trousers share an all age free show at Thee Parkside from 4pm - doors from 2.

16: Wildcat! Wildcat!, White Hinterland and Rio Rio play from 9pm at BOTH in a $12 show for 21+ peeps.

16: Twin Steps, Homebody, Cross and Never Young are playing from 8-30pm at The Hemlock for $7.