After six long years since the release of the The Notwist’s minimal-pop album Neon Golden, the band announced another full-length to hit the streets called The Devil, You + Me. The German-based band been busy working on side project after side project—13...
Let me start this review by saying I went to this show strictly to see Saviours. I have been listening to their new album, Into Abaddon, pretty much non stop since it was released earlier this year, and after missing them live more than a few times lately, there was no...
Colin Meloy has taken any number of jaunts sans his fellow Decemberists, and for those unwilling to believe, Colin Meloy Sings Live! will provide audio documentation of how wrong they can be. The album, out April 8th, captures the wayward Decemberists frontman on the...
It seems as if Dan Bejar has put some of his many other projects (The New Pornographers, Swan Lake and Hello, Blue Roses) on the temporary back burner in order to take his flagship, the HMCS Destroyer (not actually a ship in the Canadian Navy's fleet, just go with...
The middle of this decade marked yet another significant shift in heavy music. Bands such as Saviours, Torche and Early Man were dropping debut albums; at the same time, more established indie-metal bands like Mastodon, Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall were signing...
When Beck first released Odelay in 1996, it was to both a very eager and excited audience and to critics just waiting to sharpen their claws. The success of “Loser” earned the singer an advance critical chorus of “probable one-hit wonder” or,...
The first sign of dedication to the music of Adrian Belew I witnessed was seeing about 30 people standing in the rain outside of Slim's waiting for the box office to open. The next was to hear how far some people travelled to see this show—one man I stood...
Ground Control's continuing live coverage of Noise Pop makes a stop at Mezzanine to catch The Rosebuds and SF locals Foxtail Somersault, who won the chance to play at Noise Pop along with eleven other bands by being voted on by visitors to www.ourstage.com . Be...
Standing on the floor inside of The Fillmore waiting for the show to start, I was feeling like a bit of a badass. Here I was with my shaved head, goatee and Motörhead shirt, standing in a sea of mullets, receding hairlines, 40-something-year-old women in spandex,...
The biggest problem with huge festivals like Noise Pop is the fact that there are almost too many shows to count. It's hard to keep track of everyone who is playing and where. Luckily, our contributors are all over San Francisco, making sure that we get amazing...