A solid night of indie pop with Love Is All, Vivian Girls, and Nodzzz
I set out last Sunday to Nectar with a night full of possibility. My show companion wanted to get there early to check out the…
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I set out last Sunday to Nectar with a night full of possibility. My show companion wanted to get there early to check out the…
I've been praising the inspired calypso-trance work of El Guincho for months now. The transcendent, global feel of his album Alegranza! outshines any other album…
Sweden's Love Is All have been one of my indie pop crushes for quite some time, and I've never had the pleasure of seeing them…
Sleepy Eyes of Death had my full attention. The band's chilling yet warm, intoxicating yet detoxifying music is tingly and lush recorded, and pushes past…
If Bruce Springsteen was right when he said that “Bob [Dylan] freed your mind the way that Elvis freed your body”, what do we do…
One of the bands to surprise me the most toward the end of last year was the Kindness Kind. I had gone to one of…
Nectar Lounge in Fremont is hosting a free happy hour listening party for The Cure's new album entitled 4:13 Dream on Thursday evening. The record…
Ponytail is a noisy pop band from Baltimore that makes abrasive, experimental dance-punk. Their setup is two guitars, drums and singer – no bass. They…
I was hooked the first time I heard the Shiny Toy Guns’ song “Le Disko”. I remember driving to work very early one Sunday morning…
A few years ago, I remember going to see James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem fame) and The Juan MacLean DJ at Chop Suey and the…