Posts by: Sean

Sword-of Tragic…But Not Really. Starring The Sword, Big Business and O’ Brother

By On March 29, 2014 · In Metal, Show Reviews, Slim's

The Sword, Big Business, O’ Brother
March 20, 2014
Slim’s
San Francisco, CA

Sword-of Tragic…But Not Really 

            The night was ripe with the fruits of potential. Two of our favorite bands were sharing a bill at the illustrious Slim’s Rock-N-Roll Dance Hall. […]

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Record Store Field Trips Episode 1

By On March 23, 2014 · In Indie Rock, Metal, Punk Rock, Rants, Record Store Field Trips

Here’s a new segment I’m gonna start called Record Store Field Trips. Despite constant jeering from various life cohorts, I still have yet to subscribe to the whole downloading ways of life when it comes to music. Or anything else. Yes, I still get all fluttery when I decide to go to the […]

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Russian To See Some Good Music With Russian Circles, Helms Alee and KEN Mode

By On March 21, 2014 · In Great American Music Hall, Metal, Show Reviews

Russian Circles, Helms Alee, KEN Mode
March 7, 2014
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA

Russian to See Some Good Music

Guess what: you know who’s a bundle of agro crimson fist-stomping in every mosh pit he goes to? Pounding and pounded […]

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Pentagrammatically Correct: Featuring Odd Salon, Pentagram and Radio Moscow

By On March 13, 2014 · In DNA Lounge, Metal, Show Reviews

Pentagrammatically Correct: Featuring Odd Salon, Pentagram and Radio Moscow
February 25,2014
DNA Lounge
San Francisco, Ca

Pentagrammatically Correct

I am a failure at computers. It’s true. I don’t even know what the diarrhea I’m doing right now. Does ignorance necessarily establish failure? Or is it more like, […]

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Folkin Shit Up With Magic Trick, Kevin Morby and Joseph Childress

By On March 4, 2014 · In Folk, The Chapel, Uncategorized

Magic Trick, Kevin Morby, Joseph Childress
February 22,2014
The Chapel
San Francisco, Ca

Folkin Shit Up With Magic Trick, Kevin Morby and Joseph Childress

            We love to headbang, but we also enjoy a little variety from time to time. Candice proposed we mellow […]

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The World’s Longest Joke In the World Is Funny

By On February 9, 2014 · In Folk, Show Reviews, The Lost Church

The World’s Longest Joke In The World, Joe Rut
February 1,2014
The Lost Church
San Francisco, Ca

The World’s Longest Joke In the World Is Funny

Laughter and music are like dragons and bowling: different yet casually awe inspiring. Laughter even kinda sounds like singing. Sometimes. They can […]

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Fangs Running Red! Red Fang, Indian Handcrafts and The Shrine

By On January 15, 2014 · In Metal, Show Reviews, Skateboarding, Slim's, Thee Parkside

Red Fang, The Shrine, Indian Handcrafts
November 30,2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca

Fangs Running Red! There should be metal programs in school. I feel that today, some metal bands are the equivalent of classical piano ticklers from the days when dudes wore crimped wigs. I suspect that the ways in […]

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I See Death, People: Death, Pure Bliss and Disappearing People at The New Parish

By On November 5, 2013 · In Punk Rock, Rock and Roll, Show Reviews, The New Parish, Uncategorized

Death, Pure Bliss, Disappearing People
October 31,2013
The New Parish
Oakland, Ca

I See Death, People

                Saying we were seeing Death on Halloween felt like kind of a Who’s On First sort of situation, but it was true. As a part […]

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Gay As In Happy For The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights

By On November 3, 2013 · In Bottom of the Hill, Punk Rock, Show Reviews, Skateboarding

The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Copyrights
September 28,2013
The Bottom Of The Hill
San Francisco, Ca

Gay As In Happy for The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights

I asked Candice if she wanted to see The Queers. She looked over at me. “Do…? I…?” Her look […]

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More Strict Than Hard, Another Year At Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Part 2)

By On October 11, 2013 · In Bluegrass, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Part 2)
Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Edie Brickell, The Devil Makes Three, Trampled By Turtles, Gogol Bordello 
October 6,2013
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, Ca

More Strict Than Hard

The sun dangled […]

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