All through the month of June we’ll be rolling out new tracks in our music player here on the Unzipped blog. First up is LA band Eulogies and their song “You Hide”. Check back later this week for more info on the band and what they’re up to!
Don’t miss this intimate performance by our friends the Seedy Seeds…in the back of their van! A van which, by the way, is big and yellow and affectionately called the “Bavanarama”. Head to the Sleepover Shows page for a few more songs and make sure to look around the site a bit. The page features short sets from artists, performed in the raw in anything from stairwells, dressing rooms, buses, alleys and yes, even vans as they come through Boston. These guys stay busy and there’s content from a wide array of artists at every level of the touring world. The Wye Oak footage is sublime!
The Flaming Lips just posted the entirety of their collaboration with producer Scott Heren (who also happens make some great music of his own under the name Prefuse 73) on Youtube. The 4-track EP is definitely not for the mild Flaming Lips fan; you won’t find any Yoshimi style sing alongs here. This is the Flaming Lips at their most experimental, ala Christmas on Mars or Zaireeka. Check out this airy number, “Heavy Star Moving…”
On this day in 1980, Joe Strummer (of the Clash) was arrested for smashing his guitar over an audience members head in Hamburg, Germany. The Police realeased him after he passed a series of sobriety tests.
We do too and now we’ve got em. We’re revamping our music player here on the Unzipped blog with some great new tracks from up and coming artists all through the month of June. More info to come!
We took an office poll today and decided that if we could go back in time to the 80’s and see one band live in their element, it would be the Talking Heads. Now that’s not to say this was everyone’s first choice (Early 80’s Metallica, Prince, and of course Michael Jackson were towards the top of some peoples lists), but the Talking Heads were the ones that everyone could reach an agreement on.
So with that said, we leave you with this fantastic rendition of “Life During Wartime” from 1984’s Stop Making Sense.
Filter Magazine’s party at Coachella may have only been a month ago, but we’re already itching for next year. Dam Funk and Theophilus London rocked our socks off and with party-goers donations, we raised over $1000 dollars for Big City Mountaineers. Thanks everyone for your support!
Have you seen Beck’s Record Club project? We hadn’t until yesterday, and to be honest we’re a bit ashamed it took us this long to get hip to something this cool. Beck gets together with groups of musicians (groups that happen to include Wilco, MGMT, Feist and an A-list of studio legends, to name a few) and they record off the cuff renditions of entire albums. No rehearsal, nothing pre-arranged, just musicians interpreting music together. Truly one of the best ideas an artist has pulled off in a long time.
Check out this clip of Jamie Lidell, Feist, and the Wilco guys interpreting Skip Spence’s “War in Peace” featuring an absolutely mind-blowing Nels Cline guitar solo. Speechless.
It’s Friday, again, and now you need to figure out something to do with your weekend. How about a show? Here are our San Francisco live music picks for this weekend:
Friday, May 6th:
The 21st Century, Mark David Ashworth Make-Out Room : 7:30pm
Portugal. The Man, Telekinesis, Unknown Mortal Orchestra The Fillmore : 9:00pm
Saturday, May 7th:
Coheed & Cambria Fox Theater – Oakland :8:00pm
Yanni The Warfield : 8:00pm
