the exciters - remember biff rose - molly john coltrane - like someone in love emaboy tsegue-maryan guebron - evening breeze half handed cloud - we don't know how it grows edan - key bored cleoma falcon - blues negres miles davis - i loves you porgy
sun city girls - the shining path barbara lewis - puppy love cryptacise - blue tears harry partch - isobel ghana ancient ceremonies - dzil duet (accra) nina simone - i get along without you very well shirley collins & davy graham -
Guests Sleepy Sun with DJ Harmony http://www.sleepysun.net/ Sleepy Sun is a California band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, The San Francisco Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together—young and garage strutting in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz. And there they birthed the Sleepy sound—dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging…California music of beautiful contrasts for conflicted times.
Bio: Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the fireside song and supposed goo-rock, you will find the latest incarnation of Thee Oh Sees, now a quartet composed of John Dwyer (OCS, Coachwhips, Pink & Brown), Brigid Dawson, Petey Dammit!, and Mike Shoun. The prolific John Dwyer contends again for best album of his career with The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In, out April 8, 2008 on Tomlab/Castle-Face. Following 2007's understated and unjustly ignored Sucks Blood, The Master's Bedroom weaves Dwyer's signature AM radio howl with the catchiest of driving tunes, Dawson's gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums (at times in pairs), and an undeniable pull.
http://www.myspace.com/pillarsofsilence Pillars of Silence are a San Francisco band featuring members of Conspiracy of Beards and Brilliant Colors with an ensemble of talented friends who add nice touches throughout including Sean Smith, Jeffrey Luck Lucas and engineer Jesse Parsons, who worked the boards on other great San Francisco debuts by folks like Tussle, Pale Hoarse and Vetiver. But truth be told none of that matters so much, as it's the songs and music that Pillars of Silence have crafted on this debut that stand out so dramatically. These songs melt with such a satisfying and lasting warmth. Lush reverb, textured but never too busy instrumentation and such gorgeous vocals that come together to create songs that have that rare ability to feel both familiar and so totally new and refreshing. There are lots of comparisons to throw around, we hear the smoke and haziness of Mazzy Star and Opal, the crisp and truthful delivery of Smog and the lush and melancholic delivery of Moon Pix-era Cat Power. There are so many songs from this record that we already know will become staples of mixes we make for friends, crushes and true loves. Pillars Of Silence have earned themselves a place near Citay and Vetiver as another of San Francisco's finest songsmiths. Highly recommended!"
oscar the grouch - mud ruben and the jets - anyway the wind blows
jimmy forrest - mr good beat jimmy reed - honest i do memphis slim - mother earth black lips - vendi vendi vendi
sean smith - topinanbour
sand witches - back to the sea barrence whitfield - big mamou king khan and bbq show - i'll never belong wavves - vermin tindersticks - yesterday's tomorrows
beach boys - mona nina simone - suzanne west coast pop art experimental band - i won't hurt you turtles - so goes love
Babak Falsafi is a classical guitarist with unique sound and repertoire. He was born in Iran where the Persian, Armenian, Turkish, Moorish and Kurdish cultures meet. This resulted an outstanding trait of his scholarship personality "cosmopolitan and culturally diverse". He began to play the guitar at the age of nine and since then has been pioneering new boundaries in classical guitar. Upon immigration of his mentor and teacher master Iranian guitarist Bagher Moazen to Canada, Babak just at the age of 14 dedicated his life to teaching and performing classical guitar by popular demand in his native Iran. The sound of his guitar was always heard on the national TV and radio where he occasionally performed An Attempt, in the Prison and The Good Children of the South as some of the main compositions of Bagher Moazen. As a youngster Babak always dreamed of becoming a guitarist or a scientist. Years later he dropped his pursuit of an engineering degree when he realized that his stronger passion was for music. Babak was the first Iranian Guitarist to perform a solo recital in public after long abandonment of public music performance in Iran which occurred from 1978 to 1992. This performance was organized by the newly reformed at the time Iranian Music Society in Roodaki Hall of Tehran in 1992. He was also invited to collaborate with the Iran-Austria Cultural Center of Tehran to organize a guitar talent show and masterclass which was taught by Leo Witoszynsky in 1996. As a young pedagogue Babak not only successfully bridged between the famous Tehran House of Guitar and the younger generation of Iranian guitarists but also pioneered new methods and trained several guitarists who were the first group of young artists to enter the guitar departments of universities in Iran in early 90s. After his breathtaking performance in the embassy of the Czech Republic in Tehran he received an official invitation and scholarship to study in the Prague Conservatory of Music from 1997 to 1999. During his stay in Prague he both enjoyed student and professional life when besides studying at the conservatory he was assigned the artistic director of Prague International School of Music and fine Arts. Despite his fruitful and enjoyable life in the Czech Republic he immigrated to the United States to join his family in 1999. Babak is a graduate of San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied with Marc Teicholz and worked from 2001 to 2006. During the recent years he dedicated his summers to teaching and performing in Iran and served as a founding member, president and conductor of Iranian Guitar Orchestra which was established in Iran in 2004. He managed to take the orchestra to Ordu Guitar Festival in Turkey to perform in 2005 and in the same year founded the Tehran Guitar Competition in Iran. Currently Babak and his wife reside together in San Jose, CA. Babak is on the board of San Jose School of Guitar which makes its home at Le Petit Trianon Theater in down town San Jose. He continues to work at SJSG on different projects as a scholar, pedagogue, composer and producer.
http://www.disposablefilmfest.com/ Selected by MovieMaker Magazine as one America’s “coolest film festivals,” the Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 by Eric Slatkin and Carlton Evans to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as cell phones, still cameras, webcams, and other readily available video capture devices. The Disposable Film Festival offers a forum dedicated to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking through screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre. Based in San Francisco, the festival travels across North America and internationally. Check out our events page to find out when we'll be in a city near you. maggi payne - motor rhythms matt ingalls - scherzo luc ferrari - tautologos 1
cliff caruthers - the house on a hill thom bluhm - j-wake (excerpt) max v matthews - bicycle built for two edgard varese - desert:interpolation
paul lansky - her song (6 fantasies on a poem by thomas campion) felipe otondo - ciguri (excerpt) maximilian marcoll - folgesatze
Jen Baker : trombone and voice http://www.myspace.com/jenbaker7
Trombonist Jen Baker is a new music specialist and has performed internationally in ensembles spanning from orchestra to free improvisation. Baker has performed and collaborated with Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Fred Frith, Yoko Ono, Cecil Taylor, Leo Wadada Smith, Joelle Leandre, Alvin Curran, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and choreographers Susan Marshall and Mark Dechiazzi. She has performed in the International and Eastern Trombone Workshops, London's Barbican Center, Lincoln Center Outdoors, No’west Improvised Music Festival, Kennedy Center's Women in Jazz Festival, International Society of Improvised Music (ISIM) Conference, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Santa Cruz Symphony, and Vermont Symphony. An active commissioner of new solo works for trombone, she has performed new solo works on the east and west coasts. Baker’s solo multiphonic project, Lyrical Vibrations, has been performed around the country and can also be heard on her solo album, Blue Dreams. She is currently performing transcriptions of her own improvisations and collaborating with other composers in her ongoing attempt to improve the repertoire for solo trombone. Baker can also be heard on Werner Herzog’s soundtrack Encounters at the End of the World, Bang on A Can's Asphalt Orchestra, and the Mountain Goats Get Lonely album. Her solo and improvisation works can be heard on Music + One on Rastascan Records, Untitled 1959 on Kadima, and Blue Dreams on her own label, Dilapidated Barns. Jen freelances in New York City and has taught music extensively in composition, improvisation, classical brass and piano, and homemade instruments. Aside from teaching and performing, she has a sound healing practice using the didgeridoo and other instruments. She received music degrees from Oberlin Conservatory (BM) and Mills College (MFA).
Oxbow is a long-lived Avant-Garde band out of San Francisco, California notable for a unique sound. Oxbow plays a blend of Noise rock, Avant-garde jazz, Musique concrète (AMG), and Blues, creating soundscapes caustic, or plangent, with overtones of paranoia, revulsion, exaltation.
guido & maurizio - driving all around oxbow - the valley johnnie ray - tell the lady i said goodbye conifer - crown fire karin krog - maiden voyage/lazy afternoon scott walker - it's raining today oxbow - gal caetano veloso - acrilirico barry adamson - the man with the golden arm easy action - what's the deal johnny mathis - i concentrate on you
interview/guest dj set with MI AMI: http://thrilljockey.com/splash.html Mi Ami is committed to their own particular joyful noise, to the intersection of vicious high-energy playing with ebullient communal experience. To this end, the live shows are about creating a vibrant emotional space in which waves of music/sound guide the band and audience through a psychic space marred with claustrophobia, paranoia and dread, yet emerging into the light of ecstatic being.
MI AMI, echonoecho STEVE REICH, tehillim KRISMA, miami WILD OATS, i heart dr. girlfriend MICHELE, disco dance (patrick cowley mix) INITIALS, message in the music
os mutantes - ando meio desligado dr dog - easy beat antibalas - che che cole marnie stern - put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket califone - stepdaughter
zabrahams - boxers are secretless lovers sholi - hejrat annette poindexter - mama dame satan - suffering daughter
dungen - panda p:ano - failure riley duckett - ragged but right the blue sky boys - alabama
http://www.coldbluemusic.com/ One reason so many Cold Blue recordings are so good is that they feature production far better than classical music listeners are accustomed to hearing. Most recordings of chamber music, no matter how good they sound, are just documents of music written for the stage rather than the studio. Chamber music composers almost never adjust their scores to adapt to studio environments, so what musicians play in a piece in its onstage premiere is exactly what they play in the studio. Recordings of classical music are typically treated as documents rather than creative works in themselves. There are some notable exceptions, such as the ECM label . . . and, now, the Cold Blue label . . . that feature beautiful and direct production." —Charlie Wilmoth, Dusted Magazine
New Thrill Parade formed in August 2004 in Santa Cruz. then we began to flounder. we began to flounder. now we continue to flounder. gothsploitation in its purest form and with that; a new era begins. http://www.newthrillparade.com/
wildildlife - things will grow late young - suez canal daddy crimbo - out the bottom prize hog - rain song new thrill parade - wine tasting residual echoes - fresh eyes the judy experience - judy is rising zdrasvootie - from time immemorial ghost ship - untitled swanifant - steps countless others - better son
Like a great chef going to the farmer's market in the early morning to find the freshest, tastiest ingreidents for that evening's menu; so Jared Blüm aka Blanketship, picks his way through the dusty vinyl at his local Goodwill outlet. He chops them up and whips them into a heady brew he has dubbed "Thrift Store Rock."
Unlike more typical sound collage outfits, Blanketship's tunes work as songs. By keeping true to a melodic sensibility and composition, Blanketship keeps your ears on their toes, creating a work that is both amusing and erie.
Think of Blankethsip as a band rather than a single artist. A group made up of dozens of trained and untrained musicians tied together by an eccentric composer/arranger challenging your aural standards. http://www.myspace.com/blanketship101 http://www.gigantesound.com/artist_blanketship.html
blanketship - royal ear blanketship - viva butterfy ferrante & teicher - yesterdays jan boerman - dezee jet harris and tony meehan - besame mucho people like us & ergo phizmiz - social dance song people like us - music of your own les baxter - devils witchsong christian marclay - nightmusic dymaxion - intonuamori
lambingan - relly coloma
the beach boys - she's goin bald the mamas and papas - got a feeling the focus group - look hear now vytear - leonard sharpnel pink floyd - summer 68 turkish star wars theme delia derbyshire - nightwalker faust - dr schwitter wendy carlos and rachel elkind - the shining main theme borful tang - magnificent unknown child / temptations - silent night ralph jones - valerie does battle oval - szenariodisk miles davis - rated x beaks plinth - kassette 3 stockhausen - strucktur xiii e
marty manning - spellbound concert
dan weiss - 36 & 37 beaks plinth - tdk 2 curtis mayfield - we've only just begun the rolling stones - she's a rainbow blanketship - blanketown
Shaggy Manatee has worked with countless artists recording and producing an ecclectic collection of sound, from Electro-fried Gangsta Rap to Melancholy Breakbeat to Hybrid Bay Hop to Experimental Pop. As a founding member of Pancake Circus he pushed the envelope of what is allowed in music and continues to strive for new sound through his work at Quake Trap. His first official solo release, In Between, brings all of the elements together, past, present, and future to create a masterwork as varied as everything that came before it. Alternately heavy, fun, dark, bouncy, hard, strange, deep, and absurd, In Between is like most things you might find here at Quake Trap: Like nothing that you have ever heard before...and instantly familiar.
ravi shankar - maru bihag quake break - save yourself (no one else cares) black sabbath - into the void otis redding - fa-fa -fa-fa fa-fa (sad song) bob marley - one love shaggy manatee - get it straight nina simone - house of the rising sun ella fitzgerald - the first noel minutemen - bob dylan wrote propaganda songs/one chapter in the book david bowie - she shook me cold can - vitamin c run dmc - hard times neil diamond - red red wine
Jonas Reinhardt is a four-piece American electronic music group from San Francisco, California, signed to Kranky Records. The band's sound is influenced by electronic music of the 1970s, particularly in the use of analog synthesizers and keyboards. A debut full-length was released in 2008, with a follow-up issued in 2010. http://www.jonasreinhardt.com/
JONAS RENHARDT, modern by nature MICHAEL ROTHER, klangkorper VISITORS, joyo can you hear METHUSALEM, robotism BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB, JONAS REINHARDT, tandem suns LA DUSSELDORF, time
San Francisco's oldest and grandest nightclub, the Great American Music Hall carries guests back to an earlier, more elegant era, with its ornate balconies, soaring marble columns and elaborate ceiling frescoes. Long-time customers and newcomers alike feel at home in the 5,000-square-foot concert hall that symbolized renewal and optimism when it opened in 1907. Today, a professional sound and lighting system, two full bars, a modern kitchen and a spacious oak dance floor help to blend contemporary quality with turn-of-the-century graciousness. http://www.gamh.com/
arcade fire - my body is a cage otis redding - pain in my heart bruce springsteen - hungry heart john lennon - gimme some truth built to spill - else pure prairie league - fallling out of love townes van zandt - be here to love me elliott smith - tomorrow tomorrow taj mahal - corinna iron and wine - upward over the mountain rolling stones - you got the silver mama cass - dream a little dream of me radiohead - reckoner the velvet underground - oh sweet nothin'
The Harbours are a band from the Mission District of San Francisco. Beginning in the wake of another band's hiatus, the Harbours were formed to play & record the songs of M. Zelaya. The songs are lyrical rock music that leans towards 60's psych rock as well as modern indie rock.
guest dj hour: harbours the idle race - morning sunshine harry nillsson - she sang hymns out of tune alice cooper - beautiful flyaway the byrds - wasn't born to follow sir douglas quintet - mendocino two sheds - no place lo borges - o trem azul the artesians - trick bag bee gees - every christian lion hearted man will show you gram parsons - strong boy buffalo springfield - burned gordon lightfoot - early morning rain harbours - let me back in they come in threes - electric eel electric vibe guided by voices - a salty salute paul mccartney & wings - mumbo
Oakland-based rock band Man/Miracle releases their debut record, "The Shape of Things," February 24th on Third Culture Records.
Man/Miracle is a group formed by childhood friends Tyler Corelitz and Dylan Travis in the winter of 2006 with Ian Benedetti and Brian Kennedy in Santa Cruz, California. The guitar-based four piece treads the fine line between pop and noise, gorgeous melody and abrasive, aggressive walls of sound, all tempered by Corelitz's innate and eclectic rhythmic ear.
These tendencies are evidenced on their debut album, "The Shape of Things," to be released on Third Culture Records. Produced, recorded, and mixed primarily by Eli Crews (WHY?, Deerhoof, Beulah), "The Shape of Things" is the perfect entry point for new listeners to the band. At turns raw, catchy, literate, and bizarre, these songs are testament to the group's refusal to be pigeonholed.
In addition to their new full-length, Man/Miracle has thus far released a (now sold out) EP and a 7" single, "Pushing and Shoving." Much attention has also been focused on their live shows, which are renowned in the Bay Area for their unhinged energy and cathartic chaos. With the release of their debut album and string of tour dates, Man/Miracle is poised to deliver their unique sound to the world outside of the Bay.
guest dj: man/miracle they might be giants - no one knows my plan man/miracle - pushing and shoving dinosaur jr - they always come animal collective - peacebone jawbreaker - condition oakland pizza - at the disco fugazi - birthday pony tim buckley - monterey xiu xiu - clowne towne king sunny ade - iro polvo - lantern man/miracle - you've got a hold on me
guest dj hour: budget rock http://www.myspace.com/budgetrock http://www.themummies.com/ http://www.kqed.org/arts/music/article.jsp?essid=25804
Budget Rock Showcase has grown to be the West Coast's longest running festival for trashy, out of tune (formerly known as "garage") Rock'N'Roll and other wacked out music otherwise ignored by the Indie Rock Establishment.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/budgetrock#ixzz11tC3bDWL the mummies - high heel sneakers the pets - can't keep myself straight head - i've made my peace with the hippies roy loney - 100 miles an hour nothing people - suspicious clone defects - shapes of venus nodzzz - we are the only animals lamps - rototiller rip offs - now i know it's yon mayyors - metro hank iv - oyster the cuts - do the sleeper bobbyteens - i wanna go round supercharger - ice pick mayyors - fatigure the clean - oddity gories - smashed fm knives - summer holiday teengenerate - 1979 hank iv - diamond cutter/hole in my eye
Box Elder (2008) is an American independent film. It was written and directed by Todd Sklar, his first feature film. The film stars Alex Rennie, Nick Renkoski, Chad Haas, as well as Sklar. http://toddsklar.extendr.com/ http://www.fightyourdentist.com/
Stereolab's music combines a droning rock sound with lounge instrumentals, and overlays it with singsong female vocals and pop melodies. Their records are heavily influenced by the motorik technique of 1970s krautrock groups such as Neu! and Faust.[42] Tim Gane has supported the comparison: "Neu! did minimalism and drones, but in a very pop way."[43] Stereolab's style also incorporates easy-listening music of the 1950s and '60s. Said Joshua Klein in The Washington Post, "Years before everyone else caught on, Stereolab was referencing the 1970s German bands Can and Neu!, the Mexican lounge music master Esquivel and the decidedly unhip Burt Bacharach
The Moondoggies are a four-piece band from Seattle that plays timeless American music. Warm three-part harmonies, gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country; whip-smart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. Led by 22-year-old singer/guitarist Kevin Murphy, the Moondoggies are intent on artistic balance. They're a serious band with a silly name. They play music that speaks of travel but is strongly connected to its place of origin. They're young musicians continuing a legacy that goes back generations. Songs that unravel over seven sinuous minutes are somehow catchy and compact. http://www.myspace.com/themoondoggies http://www.hardlyart.com/artists.html
King Khan and the Shrines, sometimes referred to as King Khan and (His) Sensational Shrines or The Supreme Genius of King Khan and His Sensational Shrines are a Berlin-based garage rock and psychedelic soul band. Founded in 1999 by the twenty-two year old King Khan, formerly of Canadian garage rock outfits The Spaceshits (where he operated under the pseudonym Blacksnake) and Kukamongas. The band is noted for its impressive stage antics. Typically King Khan is scantily clad, and the overwhelming frontman. His performances feature a cheerleader, and a mixture of instrumentation including, but not limited to: keyboard, baritone saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums. He played an energetic concert at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival. Khan also currently plays with fellow former Spaceshit member, Mark Sultan, in the King Khan & BBQ Show, a doo-wop and punk inspired two-man band. http://www.myspace.com/kingkhantheshrines http://www.hazelwood.de/kingkhan/index.php
