Foxtail Brigade

Picture by Riki Feldman 

I saw Laura Weinbach & Anton Patzner playing a couple months back. They were on 4th street in Berkeley which is a cesspool of rich home furnishing stores and yuppies, so I fit right in. Laura was enchanting. She is one of those street performers that makes you stop and watch. Such a pretty voice, with Anton's accompaniment on violin it's really great stuff to pause and observe. They are both in a band called, The Foxtail brigade and can be found playing all over the bay area. Check out their bandcamp here or their website here. They have a show coming up on December 2nd at the Regency Lodge. I believe they are opening for Jane Birkin. More info can be found here. Nice, more in-depth article on them by Rasputin's located here.  Check them out in action below.

A song off of the album, "Reverie."

Eye Candy

Action Bronson and Statik Selectah. That beat is smoove. "You get slapped upside the mouth by this Zangief look a like." Ha!


Damn, Police Academy dude represent. This video is crazy. How is Michael Winslow not more popular over here? I don't think I could even come close to beginning to make an electric guitar noise.

Jay-Z & Adele - Won't Go (Wishing) [Urban Noize Remix] by UrbanNoize
Here is a pretty nice mashup of Adele and Jay-z by Urban Noize. It's a mix of “He Won’t Go” from Adele and “Wishing on a star" by Jay. Well done.

Here is another mashup, actually I think it may be an official remix. Either way it's from two things I would have never expected to see together. The Cults and Freddie (Gangsta) Gibbs get down on the, "Bad Things remix." I enjoy both of these things separately it's strange to see them together, but it works, Check it out below.
Hypetrak Premiere: Cults featuring Freddie Gibbs - Bad Things (Remix) by Hypetrak


Sophie Madeleine "Oil & Gold" - Live at the Loft from Indaba Music on Vimeo.
Sophie Madeleine performing, "Oil & Gold." Her voice always soothes me.


I have no idea where this was shot but the settings are beautiful. The last Zelda game I played was on snes, I remember you could throw chickens. So I am not up on the current state of the franchise, I do remember this music though. Well done prancing elf girl, I think you just earned your nerd badge.


Untitled from Sophia Mcinerney on Vimeo.
Great video from the Sandwitches. Not sure if we have featured them before or if they are somewhere lost in the queue. Great badn though, if they haven't shown up yet they will.


Creepy animated instrumental video from Timber Timbre. They are featured on Indie Mix 11. They are the last track, "Creep On Creepin On." That's like the motto for my life man!!!

Indie Mix 11

One amazing piece from Doyle's current show. 

Thomas Doyle has been doing amazing sculptures for a while now.  His current show at LeBasse Projects is no exception.   Check out the rest of the show here.

Get your grubby paws on the new indie mix here or hit the jump for some samples and the track list.

Eye Candy

The Shrine / An Argument from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.

This is a really well done video from one of my favorite bands, Fleet Foxes.


This will be on the next hip hop mix, which is just waiting to get zipped up and posted. STS who we have been featuring a lot lately, once again kills his verse on this. Shaun Boothe rips it as well, love the ending to his verse. If you have two emcees tearing shit up over an Otis Redding sample, then you have my attention.


This is totally not music related. It also may not be as awesome to those of you who venture outside every once in awhile and do not know every meme in existence but I thought this was pretty well done. Do you ever watch those internet clip shows and find out that you have seen all of them already? Just me? Yeah I think I have a problem...and a Doctorate in useless internet content.


Awesome video of the Muppet singers at Jim Henson's memorial in 1990. Touching, funny, amazing. I love me some Muppets. Bonus Fraggles appearance at the end, damn I loved that show too.

'Drive' to Shitty Music Trailer - watch more funny videos

I really enjoyed, "Drive." The music had an integral part of the feeling that the movie was going for. Here is how you ruin that tone, I give you, "Drive" set to shitty music.


Great video of, My Morning Jacket, at the Fox theater. Directed by, Scott Compton via. My Morning Jacket will be in town again on Friday, December 2nd. The craziest part? Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are opening for them. Tickets are $45 plus service charge and you can get them here.


The blog I saw this on called this the worst music ever made. I am inclined to agree. This is the video by SuperHeavy, which is a supergroup consisting of Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart, Damian Marley, and Allah Rakha Rahman. Joss sounds and looks good, Damian does that R. Kelly talk sing thing that while amusing was never the way I enjoyed music. The part that literally made me start laughing out loud was Mick Jagger. Seriously try and watch his parts with a straight face. Que Ridiculo.

That's what the She's said

I know, I know, it's been awhile, does that mean that we can't just immediately get back to business? In the words of my life coach, can we not just go, "straight to third?" When he says it isn't even a question but more of a proclamation of intent that you really have no choice in, he says those words and his hand is already...sorry that's not what this post is about. Or is it? *Keith Morrison voice*

While I have been away I have not been without music. We have hippy drum circles at occupy. Tear gas canisters make a terrible percussion sound when bounced off of a peaceful protester's head. The tinkling of urine in our hobo encampment is like softly raking a cymbal. We chant, we sing, we unify!!! Shattered glass and shaking spray cans are the music of my revolution!!!...I totally wasn't at occupy, I did get some new video games though so you can draw your own conclusions as to where I have been. Arkham city!!! *Flourishes cape and spills coffee mug*

Now this is where the post could have began. We went to see Thao and the Get Down Stay Down at the Great American Music Hall.  This was at the tail end of a crazy weekend.  Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffro!!  The opening band for Thao was, The She's. They were awesome and adorable. Check out their myspace here.

 The group consists of Sami Perez, Hannah Valente, Eva Treadway, and Sinclair Riley. The crazy thing is that all of them are about sixteen years old. Apparently they have been playing together since mid-elementary school. They site influences like, the Morning Benders, the Donnas, Beach Boys, and Girls, which proves they are way cooler than you when you were a sixteen year old. I think when I was sixteen despite all my rage I was still just a rat in a cage or I was waking up in the morning and stepping outside taking a big breath and getting real high, or was that middle school?

What's going on?  My name is Mystery, I'm here to talk about kino-escalation and bouncing.  Everyone creepy as shit?  Good.  Everyone have their goggles?  Good.  Let's do this, you like magic, guuurl?

It doesn't really matter, what does matter is how great these girls were.  Thanks to Sami’s years of experience in the SF Girls Chorus they have awesome vocal harmonies. They are like a more alive Mountain man on surfboards with more instrumentation. They kind of remind me of Tennis, Best Coast, or The Ronettes and that's not a bad thing.  60's influenced girl pop, which is a pretty close approximation of the most perfect word combination for my musical leanings and interests. Their stage banter was so great too, they were seriously adorable, and I don't use that word a lot, I stopped after that incident at that Biker bar, what? It was an adorable lazy eye.

The She's at The Great American Music Hall

They were just so happy to be there on stage and they made you instantly happy to be there with them. Thao said she saw them at the Noe Valley farmer's market which in itself is fucking adorable. *Thao smells the kale, music drifts above the arugula and past the artisan falafel maker, her ears perk up* "You there!! Awesome band full of bad assery and happiness inducing musical skills, you are coming with me!!" *They all ride off on an extra long horse* I am pretty sure that's how it went.

At the end of their set I bought a copy of their ep from one of their mothers, literally, no joke, how great is that?  Check out their Myspace for samples of their music. They are really talented musicians and a solid band. They have a great knack for song arrangement and structure. Here is there video for, "Running."

If you would like to see them in person, SK and I will be going to their record release party at the Bottom of the Hill on Saturday Dec. 3rd. They are playing with Tijuana Panthers and Melted Toys. Grab your tickets for $10 here

Holiday Road Mix

Like many of you, my wife and I will be hitting the roads quite a bit in the coming months, so I threw together a mostly upbeat mix to provide a soundtrack to our travels. Hope you enjoy it. Btw, it's called 11/11/11 only because I finalized the track order on that day. Happy holidays! And yes, there will be a Christmas Mix coming soon...

Holiday Road Mix (aka 11/11/11)