Upcoming Shows

Some of the shows from this post are still valid.  A small amount of new ones are listed below.

December

Sunday December 5th, the entire Hiero crew will be at the Oakland Metro Opera House. Tickets are $20 presale, and doors open at 8. I have never heard of the Oakland Metro Opera House, but I have heard of Hiero, might be worth checking out if you are in the East Bay.

January

The Budos Band is playing the Independent on Saturday, January 15th.  Tickets are $20, grab them here.  Doors open at 8:30.  This should be a great show.  These guys are solid and if you are a fan of the Dap Kings, that throwback, soul, retro awesomeness and horns, then I recommend that you go to this.

February

The Decemberists and Mountain Man will be at the Fox theater on Valentine's day.  That date would be Monday, February 14th.  Tickets are $37.50 and can be found here.  I have yammered on about Mountain Man before, so I feel comfortable saying this will be a good show.

Beach House will be at the Fillmore on Friday, February 18th.  Tickets are $32.25 including service charges and can be purchased here.  The show starts at 9:00.  Maybe this time I won't be as freaked out when I see that the singer is a female, I seriously thought it was an indie dude with a beard on lead vocals until I saw them the last time they came to town.  I still don't really believe it.
 
March

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Tapes N' Tapes are coming to the Bottom of The Hill on Friday March 11th.  Tickets are $16 and available here.  It's a later show with doors opening at 10:00 pm.  I am really into these guys at the moment.  Their Horsepower EP is four songs of greatness that I keep talking about, and I was actually just looking to see if they were coming to town the other day.  My search came up with only a couple of stops in NY and DC, so it was a nice surprise to find this posting in my general venue search.

Indie Mix 5

I don't know if you know this but I am quite an arty fucker, I think that's the technical term.  I spend my weekends strolling into galleries, sometimes people's personal properties and simply say, "I'll take it, wrap it up"  Then I usually clap twice and continue to inspect things in your house.  So with that being said I will try and meld my love of art and my love of music by pelvic thrusting a piece of art at you before exposing you to the nicely packaged morsel of musical goodies I have hidden at the end of this entry.  The piece to the left is titled, "Put Another One On," and it's by Pam Wishbow.  Peruse her Etsy here. 

A new indie mix can be located behind the jump if you are so inclined

Soul Mix 8

Does anyone needs some new soul music?  Sorry for the long absence, cliche, cliche, blahbiddy blah.  You know the deal.  Before we get to official business I would like to highlight the awesomness of the picture to the left.  It's called, "The Find" and it's by Christopher David Ryan a graphic designer with an incredible style.  I have been drooling over his stuff for the last couple of weeks.  Go check out his blog here, he kind of rules.

Ok let's get into it.  One highlight from this mix is a pretty blatant rip off of the, Temptaion's, "My Girl."  This re-worked tune is called, "It's My Baby," and it's sung by Paul Kelly who was on this mix.

Compare the lyrics:

The Temptations- My Girl 

I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May.
 

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)  

Paul Kelly- It's My Baby

when the sun don't shine to me it don't mean a thing 

what is it that I have that makes me feel no pain 

I hear my friends whisper when I walk by 

what is it that makes me keep my head up high, 

it's my baby that keeps me satisfied, it's my baby. Talkin bout my baby.

Also just listen to the music.  It's a total swagger jack, but personally I am not that upset.  I rip off people's entire discographies as my own.  I don't even bother to re-interpret the lyrics or the music, so Paul has more effort than me.

Sample and Download link behind the jump.