I don’t have much time to write, but just wanted to share what I’ve been thinking about all day: the Treasure Island Music Festival for 2009! Now only 5 weeks away, I suggest you make sure you get your tickets before it it too late.
MSTRKRFT, MGMT, Beirut, Flaming Lips, The Walkmen… What a lineup! Do not miss out. Last year was soo amazing: perfect weather, great audience, great shows. Check back soon for more about the Treasure Island Music Festival and news related to the festival, only at Best Indie Rock.
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009,
by indiejack,
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I’m sure you couldn’t tell by my title but I am going to the Best In Dog show this year. My toy poodle Schwartzenegger has been nominated for the bes…….. (What was that Justin? Music Blog?…. oh my,…) Sorry about that.
So much going on right now. Any hoo… The San Francisco Treasure Island Music Festival is back for another paradastical music fest experience. No word for it, so I had to make one up. Decembrists, Flaming Lips, MGMT, MSTRKRFT and other band names relieved of pretentious vowels, Passion Pit, Girl Talk, AND MANY MORE!
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009,
by Amanda,
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Sorry guys, and mostly sorry to myself for not writing for a long effing time. Work has consumed my life, and consumption has owned my brain (from booze that is lame Beverly Hill Billies intro)… Just kidding about the booze, sort of. But I work work work, and if your work is anything like mine, you blog all day long! Back on the chain gang, BOO!
What ever happened to using creative particles for the self? That’s the problem with profiting off of creativity: it used to be a struggle. But now that we can make money, we let go of the tip of thread that wound itself around our entire process and product, the yarn we once generated from the tiny pink pouch in our bellies. Precious it was, and still maybe, but for those of us who piece by piece put out for our big fat headed bosses, tickling our little petals of prolific pride from our minds, hands and mouths, the tread unravels. A lame Weezer visual this may be, but never deny their using us as instruments for petty riddles and puzzles. WE PROFIT NOT. We profit nothing.
UGC use and to be used. It started fun, and now it is fucked. Tainted and probed by the fakers. Like benjamin from Wayne’s World.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009,
by Amanda,
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God I am always so late on writing these damn posts. My apologies. Old news now for some, but I went to Sasquatch Music Festival!!!!!! Before I left for Washington on Memorial Day Weekend, I would read the lineup over and over again because I was in a continual state of disbelief that SO MANY AMAZING MUSICIANS WERE IN THE SAME PLACE AT ONCE!. I thought the sky would turn red, our ears would melt off and everyone at the Gorge Amphitheater would be sucked into the ground due to an overabundance of magical musical energy, looking like a mix between Indiana Jones when the Nazi’s reveal what is in the lost arc and Poltergeist, when the house implodes upon itself.
Raider of the Lost Arc
You get the picture. That didn’t happen though, maybe we were one band short. I’m sure if Broken Social Scene had shown up the whole northeast would have disappeared off the map completely. That’s how I would like to go out.
The Gorge Amphitheater
Enough of theoretical and impossible tangents, lets talk about music!!!!!! I am actually going to release a new post every few day for the next week or two, looking at each band more closely, but here is who I am gonna discuss (in the order I saw them):
- Passion Pit
- M. Ward
- DeVotchKa
- Animal Collective
- Decemberist
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Kings of Leon
- St. Vincent
- Murder City Devils
- M83
There were a ton of others I missed due to intoxication and much needed naptime like Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Doves, of Montreal, Sun Kil Moon, Walkmen, The Wrens and The Dodos, but I am happy with my over all experience, which I will also share more about next post.
Panda and Jutley
Until then hang tight and check out a group called Agent Ribbons from Sacramento. They opened for Camera Obscura last night at the Fillmore (which I will also write about later.. ahhh so much to do)
X ) toodles!
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009,
by Amanda,
Filed under: Indie Rock Bands| devotchka, Gorge Amphitheater, Indie Rock, Passion Pit, Sasquatch Music Festival, St. Vincent, The Decemberists, Yeah Yeah Yeahs|
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Kate Maki opened for Great Lake Swimmers and if you read my last post you know how much I loved GLS. But I must say there is always something delightfully exciting when an opener beats the band you came to see. Simple Kate Maki, with her school teacher outfit (she actually is a grade school teacher), kind hearted sarcasm and unbridled cool confidence projects all of this into her music. If I could compare her to a hybrid of musicians I would say M.Ward, Emily Haines and Neko Case. I guess you’d call it M.ily Weko Caines. She is blues, she is folk, she’s old-timey at moments, pure and makes you smile. Definitely the type of folk the world needs more of.
And I want to say something really quickly… I said I was sick of folk last entry. That was dumb, obtuse, even criminal. I love folk, but folk that is made for the sake of folk, for the sake of emitting a feeling or telling a story. I love folk with a traditional tie, that transcends time. I think that is one of the best things about music, it can put us places we can’t ever physically go, more so than any visual medium. So incredibley profound I know… I am just sort of within a tangental struggle trying to understand what I don’t like about certain styles of folk. I love Bon Iver, and he is lo-fi folk… which initially I thought is what I don’t like about Sufjan Stevens (but not all Sufjan) and Great Lake Swimmers. Maybe it’s the vocals, because I don’t like Elliott Smith either. Girly whispery sad boy voice. I guess that’s it.
Well thanks for sticking through my thought process… I assure you, in real time I would have lost you at the beginning of the second paragraph. Back to Kate Maki… She is brilliant! So awesome I even bought her vinyl and I don’t even have a player. I recommend checking out her myspace and loving her as much as I do 
Kate Maki!
Saturday, May 9th, 2009,
by Amanda,
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