Outside Lands Adds Night Shows – Tickets on Sale 10AM Today!

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The weekend of August 28-30 is shaping up to be a veritable music bonanza.  Organizers of San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival have announced a series of night shows for those who just can’t get enough live music that weekend (or who don’t take well to crowds.) The night show series will take place at three fine San Francisco venues: The Independent, Mezzanine, and Rickshaw Stop and will feature a tasty line up of artists such as Calexico, Conor Oberst, The Dodos, The Dirtbombs, Ty Segall, Gang Gang Dance and more.

For the full line up and schedule, click here. Tickets go on sale at 10AM today! Calexico at The Independent? I’m on it.

Boat Beam – “The Rain Pauly” [MP3]

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Boat Beam – “The Rain Pauly”

I’ve had this track on repeat for the past week from Boat Beam – an all girl Spanish indie pop trio. While they hail from Spain, the ladies are actually all from different nationalities (Australian, American and Spanish). Right now they are promoting their first album “Puzzle Shapes” available now on iTunes.

Karen O Scores ‘Where The Wild Things Are’

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Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are is due in the theaters on October 18 and will be scored by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Karen O and composer Carter Burwell. Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” appears in this trailer, but MTV News reported that no Arcade Fire music will be used in the actual movie.

SF: Check Out Regional Bias This Friday 7/31

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French Miami, “Science Fiction”

Leopold & His Fiction, “Come Back (Now That I’m Here)”:

Friends over at The Bay Bridged are hosting a fantastic line up of local music this Friday at The Verdi Club in San Francisco featuring French Miami, Adam Stephens and The Finite Plan, Or The Whale, and (my favorite) Leopold & His Fiction.  Be sure to check it out.  Support your local bands!

Living Things To Portray The Ramones in Upcoming Film ‘The Runaway’

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Living Things – “Oxygen”

And in other movie music news…St. Louis garage rockers Living Things are about to appear as one of their hero bands, The Ramones in the upcoming film, The Runaway – the biopic about the groundbreaking 70’s all-girl hard rock group led by Joan Jett. Kristen Stewart plays Jett, with Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon as the band’s “Svengali” Kim Fowley.

Meet Supergroup du Jour: Monsters of Folk

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Monsters of Folk, “Say Please”

Monsters of Folk – comprised of Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and singer/songwriter M.Ward – will be releasing their first collaborative album on September 22nd.  Although these critically acclaimed artists have shared the stage before, this album marks their first recorded output as a band.

Tickets are on sale for the supergroup’s Bay Area performance on October 17 at The Fox Theater in Oakland.  Though I’m not sure how smart it was to schedule a performance during The Treasure Island Festival.

Yo La Tengo – “Here To Fall”

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The first in a series of five clips from the upcoming Yo La Tengo album, Popular Songs, “Here to Fall” kicks off director John McSwain’s visual accompaniment to the diverse and arresting sounds of YLT’s new album which is set to drop September 8th. Pre-order the album here.

Yo La Tengo will be playing San Francisco’s Treasure Island Festival on October 18.
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the OCMD Mixtape: SF Surf Punk

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I’ve been long overdue for a mixtape.  This is one I’ve been collecting for a while – pulling tracks here and there from the greater garage rock movement that’s exploding right now in San Francisco. This playlist is a subset of that sound that I’m really digging right now….lo-fi, fuzzed out rock with a distinct punk edge and surf riff. Or Surf Punk for short.  Yeah, I’m sure I’m going to get a lot of flack for that label but what the hell. There’s a nice south swell in town, and if I’m packing up my long board and wetsuit to go surfing, you can bet this is the mix I’ll be listening to.

Enjoy a taste of San Francisco.

the OCMD Mixtape: SF Surf Punk

  1. Ty Segall, “It #1”
  2. The Fresh & Onlys, “Fog Machine”
  3. Snake Flower 2, “No Way Home”
  4. Nobunny, “Boneyard”
  5. Thee Oh Sees, “Can You See”
  6. Sic Alps, “Gelly Roll Gum Drop”
  7. The Okmoniks, “What I Want”
  8. Bare Wires, “Teen Witch”
  9. The Mantles, “Trouble in the Streets”
  10. The Touch-Me-Nots, “Cool Enough for California”

Sonos Launches New Controller

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Had a great time tonight mingling with like-minded music geeks at the launch party for the new Sonos Controller 200.  What is Sonos, you ask?  Simply it’s the best digital music management system out there.  It gives you the power to access all of your music in your house anywhere, anytime. And I’m not just talking about your digital music library.  The system comes with a host of embedded services like Rhapsody, Last.fm, Pandora, Internet Radio, Sirius/XM…it’s the perfect music tool for those afflicted with OCMD.

The original Sonos Controller was a bit of a beast.  So the Sonos Controller 200 (CR200) is a definite form factor improvement, and who doesn’t like that?  It’s palm sized and touch screen operated, just like an iPhone or iTouch. The company also has a free app for those devices that gives you essentially the same functionality, but that’s a little personal for everyday public consumption.  So the controller still serves as a necessary component to the system and I will be happily swapping out the 100 for the 200 in my home.