San Francisco’s Girls have returned with a new single to follow up their beloved (and apathetically titled) album, “Album,” and it’s a slow-burning, seven-minute track in which guitars roar instead of toying with the simple melodies that characterized their debut. Although the band’s melancholy had always been endearing, especially with Christopher Owen’s heart-wrenching and forlorn […]
Who: Girls at the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Hipster hype justified. I’ll Remember This Set At Least Until Pitchfork Selects Another Lo-fi Band for Me To Insecurely Adulate Because: At first, it didn’t quite feel like San Francisco’s Girls were going to live up to the sea of blog hype generated by […]
[It ain’t Radiohead – which raised over half a million dollars at its Haiti relief benefit on Sunday night at the Fonda – but here’s tonight abbreviated show menu:] It’ll be their last SoCal appearance before Coachella – San Francisco quartet Girls [pictured in August at the El Rey Theatre], still getting all kinds of […]
[Birthday wishes to Ride’s Mark Gardener, who turns 40 on Sunday. Here’s what’s up for our weekend:] Tonight: Big night for the Airborne Toxic Event – the local quintet, just back from a European tour, is playing Disney Hall. They’ll be joined by the Calder Quartet. TATE also recently released a Midnight Ridazz-inspired video for […]
If any band never needed an exclamation point, it is Los Campesinos!, the seven-piece pop band from Cardiff, Wales, whose songs seem to burst to life like an animated Eschen. Barely three years old and already prepping their third album, the Campesinos make music that is pointed and poignant, observant and obstreperous. You have to […]
