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In Philadelphia tonight?

Posted on by Kristen

I am! If you are too, you’d best be purchasing your tickets to the WCL tonight (Saturday). Jealousy Curve is putting on their last show. Last chance to get your faces melted right off…seriously the combination of sweat and tears will surely make it look like I’m melting. If you see a puddle on the floor, kindly step around.

Also playing: IKE, The Shakers, and Camille Beruto. Starts at 7pm. World Cafe Live. Philadelphia. The place to be tonight! Hope you can join me…

~ Kristen

Alert!

Posted on by Amanda

Just found out that San Diego’s own Gayle Skidmore will be playing this Thursday night at Anthology with Trevor Davis. Apparently this is his label showcase. For more infomation, go here. Tickets are only $5 which is really cheap for Anthology. Go check it out!

Also, Astra Kelly is playing this Friday at the Waterfront Bar and Grill. Free cover and the show starts at 9. Don’t miss it!

~Amanda

Kristen’s Concert Calendar: 5/17-5/23

Posted on by Kristen

Last week was a very emotional week of beginnings and endings…and many goodbyes. On the music front, one of my favorite bands, Jealousy Curve, officially announced that they were going to end their run as a band. Their last show will be their record release next Saturday in Philadelphia at World Cafe Live. (yes I will be there). Carney’s record release show Saturday in Los Angeles at The El Rey signified the exact opposite; the beginning of a successful and (hopefully) very long career. Watching the guys be escorted from the back to the signing table where we all had to wait in line to get our CDs signed and say our hellos really made me realize how far the band has come since I saw them play every week at Molly Malone’s. The entire set was a bit emotional for me. I was at once immensely grateful for having such an amazing band be a part of my life for the last couple of years and incredibly sad that they were leaving Los Angeles and I would not be seeing them play again anytime soon.

But such is life. Really it just gives me more time and energy to discover amazing new bands to enrich and fulfill my life, right? Well, that’s what I’m telling myself anyway.

Here are the bands and musicians I’m looking at this week to potentially take up the mantel of “new favorite band” and help fill the massive void  in both my concert calendar and my heart left by the breaking up of Jealousy Curve and year-long departure of Carney:

Monday: Filthy Souls at 14 Below in Santa Monica (8pm)
ALSO: The Like FREE at The Echo (10pm)
ALSO: Wartapes at Silverlake Lounge (11pm)
ALSO: MusiCares Nashville Flood Relief Fund Benefit at The Hotel Cafe (9pm)…line up TBA
ALSO: Songwriters in the Round at Room 5 (9pm) 

Tuesday: Nina Storey at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)

Weds: Queen Caveat at The Viper Room (10:45)
ALSO: Beachwood Rockers’ Society at Crane’s 

Thursday: Shout Out Louds at The El Rey (8pm)
ALSO: Glee Live at Gibson Amphitheater (8pm)
ALSO: Terra Naomi at The Hotel Cafe (8pm) 

Friday: Glee Live at Gibson Amphitheater (8pm)
ALSO: The National at The Wiltern (8pm)
ALSO: OK GO at The Musicbox (8pm)
ALSO: Far at The Troubadour (10pm)
ALSO: Lelia Broussard at Room 5 (7pm)
ALSO: Shout Out Louds at The El Rey (8pm)
ALSO: Vienna Teng & Alex Wong and Sara Watkins at McCabe’s (8pm) 

Saturday: The National at The Wiltern (8pm)
ALSO: Glee Live at Gibson Amphitheater (8pm)
ALSO: The Real Sunset Strip On the Rox with Terra Incognita (9pm)
***if you happen to be in the Philadelphia area, you’d better join me at World Cafe Live to witness the last performance of Jealousy Curve…also playing IKE, Camille Peruto, and LA’s own The Shakers! 

Sunday: Frightened Rabbit at The Musicbox (8pm)
ALSO: Lelia Broussard at Saint Rocke (7pm) 

To Keep in Mind:
May 28th: The Silent Comedy and Dirty Sweet at North Park Theater (in SD)
June1st: First Aid Kit at Bootleg
June 3rd: Mumford & Sons at The Music Box
June 6th: Mumford & Sons with The Silent Comedy at BellyUp (in SD)
June 10-13th: BONNAROO
June 25th: Warped Tour in LA
July 10th: Lilith Fair

~ Kristen

SD Concert Calendar

Posted on by Amanda

Hey Everyone! I hope you had a fabulous show filled week for me. I spent mine dancing at a dance concert! Oh and I hope you all had a nice Mother’s Day with your respective mothers and grandmothers (hence why this was not posted yesterday. I saw Ironman 2 for my troubles :)).
On to this week’s line up of shows. There isn’t a whole lot I found on the radar…

Monday: Carney @ The Casbah $8 @9 p.m.

Tuesday: Kate Miller Heidke and Ben Folds @ House of Blues SD
AND: Trainwreck feat. Kyle of Tenacious D @ The Casbah $10 adv/$12 day of @9 p.m.

Wednesday: Wendy Bailey @ The Soda Bar $3 @9 p.m.

Thursday: The Ruse @ The Casbah $8 @9 p.m.
AND: Inspired Flight @ The Soda Bar $3 @9 p.m.

Friday: Gregory Page @ Lestats
AND: Halcyonaire @ Tin Can Alehouse

Saturday: Alex Woodard @ The Belly Up $25 adv/$27 day of  @9 p.m.
AND: Gayle Skidmore @ Lestats @9 p.m.

Sunday: (I got nothing. Apparently SD doesn’t do Sunday shows right now…)

Keep in Mind:
 May 22nd- Frightened Rabbit @ The Casbah
May 28th- The Silent Comedy, Dirty Sweet, Transfer and Apes of Wrath @ North Park Theater
May 29th- Get Back Loretta @ The Casbah
July 19th- The Dead Weather @ House of Blues SD
Sept. 25th- The Black Keys @Soma

Happy show going!

~Amanda

Upcoming Shows Amanda

Posted on by Amanda

Hey Everyone! I hope you had a fabulous show filled week for me. I spent mine dancing at a dance concert! Oh and I hope you all had a nice Mother’s Day with your respective mothers and grandmothers (hence why this was not posted yesterday. I saw Ironman 2 for my troubles :)).

On to this week’s line up of shows. There isn’t a whole lot I found on the radar…

Monday: Carney @ The Casbah $8 @9 p.m.

Tuesday: Kate Miller Heidke and Ben Folds @ House of Blues SD
AND: Trainwreck feat. Kyle of Tenacious D @ The Casbah $10 adv/$12 day of @9 p.m.

Wednesday: Wendy Bailey @ The Soda Bar $3 @9 p.m.

Thursday: The Ruse @ The Casbah $8 @9 p.m.
AND: Inspired Flight @ The Soda Bar $3 @9 p.m.

Friday: Gregory Page @ Lestats
AND: Halcyonaire @ Tin Can Alehouse

Saturday: Alex Woodard @ The Belly Up $25 adv/$27 day of  @9 p.m.
AND: Gayle Skidmore @ Lestats @9 p.m.

Sunday: (I got nothing. Apparently SD doesn’t do Sunday shows right now…)

Keep in Mind:
 May 22nd- Frightened Rabbit @ The Casbah
May 28th- The Silent Comedy, Dirty Sweet, Transfer and Apes of Wrath @ North Park Theater
May 29th- Get Back Loretta @ The Casbah
July 19th- The Dead Weather @ House of Blues SD
Sept. 25th- The Black Keys @Soma

Happy show going!

~Amanda

Kristen’s SXSW ’10 Mix – Part 3

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              9. “Snowflake” – Malachai

This is one of those songs that just gets into my head and won’t let go. The beats…it’s definitely the beats…

             10. “Too Late For Lovers” – Gin Wigmore

How can you not love this voice?

             11. “Runaway Now” – Straight Lines

Please tell me this band is playing Warped Tour? No? I feel something was missed here…

              12. “Thanks” – The Right Ons

I kept coming back to this tune undecided, but these Spanish gents eventually wore me down with all the incessant thanking and I just had to put them on the mix…I’m a sucker for politeness

 

…more to come…

~ Kristen

Kristen’s SXSW ’10 Mix- Part 2

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And the mix continues with…

               5. “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” – Frightened Rabbit

Speaking of bands from across the pond, I’m still smarting from the absence of this one at Coachella and the fact that I’m out of town when they will be in LA (May 23).  Even though I discovered Frightened Rabbit well over a year ago, I still feel the need to put them on any list possible…just for an excuse to listen to them more myself!

               6. “I Need” – Maverick Sabre

This is the track I had the difficulty in tracking down as Maverick has yet to release more than a single (at least on ITunes). The fact that it is here is a testament to how much it struck me.

               7. “Gypsy Woman” – Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights

Also struggled to get this track. I went to go see Jonathan et al at The Viper Room with the express purpose of picking up a CD only to discover that there were none available. Fortunately since then, the group’s debut CD Pardon Me has been released. I would highly recommend this addition to your record collection.

              8. “Run Baby Run”- Noush Skaugen

One of the reasons I love SXSW is that it gives me the opportunity to discover artists like Noush Skaugen whom I don’t know if I’d ever happen upon otherwise. You can get this entire track free from her website!

…more to come…

~ Kristen