Which will you choose? Which show is right for you? Are you more east bay or san francisco, gay or… not so gay. There are implicit lifestyle implications in your choice!!! ZOMG don’t get weighed down and stay at home. Be a super fan and go to both, its all on the line!!!!!!!
Tuesdays haven’t been as fun since Aunt Charlies finally cured itself of The Clap. At least, that’s what I thought, but it turns out Tuesdays were taken over by something called THINGNIGHT which I have my suspicions about (suspicions that it will be super fun):
THINGNIGHT
9/30/08
@ Aunt Charlies Lounge, 133 TURK
with Jealousy and DJ LIESA
This week Jealousy is playing and Liza from BRIDEZ is djing and there’s absolutely no reason to be old and not go to a Midnight show on a Tuesday. I am obsessed with this song by Jealousy called “I Would Do That For Him”. Check out this video for it done by the guys who did the BRIDEZ video for Heart and the Girls video for Morning Light
We keep telling you to be scared. Soon we’ll be delivering these nervous jitters straight to your turntable. Here’s the new BRIDEZ video for the song Heart, that pool is filled with bleach:
This dude — he knows how to have a good time and he knows how to include you, on stage and off. On stage he will deliver his pop/rock gems; he will give it his all until he falls off of the stage onto you (I’ve seen it).You should go over to his myspace page right now and check out the music. The song “Leader of the Band” works some kind of Elton John groove that you will not be able to shake, I swear it. I’ve been trying to shake it for a month now and I’ve still got it.
Seen at a party he will impart wisdom on the subject of world music and how awesome it was for Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel and how there would be no Animal Collective without its influence on them while his friends laugh hysterically and you try to work it out. He will stand in the front at a show and scream and beg for one more song until there are beer soaked girls wrestling on the floor because they are so desperate to hear this song he is screaming for.
You will have fun. I’m not familliar with the other bands, but here’s what the Smile email had to say:
At 10pm, you can begin to absorb the subtle and seductive messages of Les Sylphides.
By 11pm, you should be sufficiently primed to succumb to the one-touch hypnosis of White Music.
On Saturday afternoon, I guarantee you should go to Dolores Park and have a beer and check out the Arts Expo instead of blog/catch up on blogs/fret over your investments/watch Tabitha’s Salon Takeover/freebase or do whatever it is you do on a Saturday afternoon.
I went and saw the Aerosols a while back and then didn’t write about it because I couldn’t think of anything to say other than I really liked it. I still can’t but thats stupid, I should just write this: I really liked their brand of psychedelic pop music. You should go see them tomorrow, maybe they’ll do that cover of Lucifer Sam again that got all the kids at SMiLE that night dancing.
BRIDEZ are popular with the gay party kids, who woulda thought? Actually, all the smart gays like to keep dangerous company. BRIDEZ are gonna scare the shit out of you so that you have no option but to use that nervous energy to dance.
My bitter half dragged me kicking and screaming to Cafe du Nord on Wednesday night to see Joan as Police Woman. I’d listened to her tracks on myspace a few times and was naturally very interested in her ballads. She writes these throaty yet lilting and heartbreaking songs that sort of stand at the cliff’s edge, then fall beautifully and bereft. She had this killer sort of Jew-fro thing going on at du Nord with lots of Polyester and Brooklyn sass. I loved it. She was actually genuinely funny and maybe even a little adorable. Okay i have to say this. Maybe I’m full of shit? Whenever she went to her electric piano and started her ballads, she had me completely in her grasp. Her message was loud and clear. Her ballads lie strangely between the cool sexiness of Roberta Flack and 70’s Bonnie Rait. I say strangely because even though I found myself referencing these classic song writers/performers, Joan as Police Woman had her own very special and unique style that was undeniable. But then she picked up the geetar and i fucking hated her! She even covered, “Let me stand next to your fire.” I thought that no one could ever possibly top Lou Barlow singing, “You’re as cold as ice,” but fuck me in the ass…Joan as Police Woman did. I wanted to scream. Every god damned song she did with that geetar was pretty much mid-tempo to up-tempo “rawkers,” and SUCKED CRUSTY HOMELESS ASS! What a bummer I thought. Why doesnt she JUST do ballads. We can handle it. We’re all adults. Why do bands feel the need to pepper their sets with these boring and completely uninteresting up-tempo numbers? I get it. Live show dynamics, blah…blah…blah! I say fuck that! Make me cry girl. Dont make me hate. And now having said this…I have to say…I love Joan as Police Woman.
Ok, its been a while since we’ve done one of these mixes. Since the RIAA done went and shut down Muxtape in my best interests as a label — great, thanks — I’m gonna give this imeem biz a go.
Twin Crystals – Spell On You #2 www.myspace.com/twincrystals
Twin Crystals hail from Vancouver and do a nice update on the sound made by The Units. I’ve been playing this song to death. I’m putting this on here because I want them to play a show here in town and I don’t want to pay sixteen dollars to import their seven inch from Canada (I don’t know why its so expensive what with there being nothing wrong with the American economy).
Late Young – Buzzards www.myspace.com/lateyoung
For a while, my musical diet was almost ninety percent noise based. Then I quit it cold turkey for straight up songs. I feel the calling for some noise coming back. Late Young do a noisy, no wave freak out thing, but with a beat that you can dance to for thirty seconds.
The Floating Corpses – Soap Operas And Knives http://www.myspace.com/thefreakmafia
These guys… these guys! I don’t fully comprehend their goth opera concoction but I rather like it.
Gary War – Obscure Preferences http://www.myspace.com/garywarfunzone
When this guy played at them Hemlock a few months ago it was sparsely attended at best. His album is spaced out and hissy psychedelic pop that sounds best at night. Live it was loud, fuzzy, and reverby. You missed out by being wherever you were. His album, New Raytheonport, is out now on Disaro / SHDWPLY.
Brian Glaze – Killing Time http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom
This song also has that hiss-y bedroom pop recording style that is so popular with the Ariel Pink set, but this comes from a certain (late) seventies rock/pop perspective. Also, unlike a lot of this sort of hiss-y stuff, this is a pretty solid song. I think, in the literature, people refer to this meshing of styles as juxtaposition and it works quite nicely here bringing something new to the table regardless of which side of the equation you’re coming from.
Shannon And The Clams – Jimmy http://www.myspace.com/shannonandtheclams
Retro girl group worship with the levels pushed into the red, delivered with John Waters style camp and histrionics. Don’t be a hater and write it off because you think you’ve heard it before, this band is charming. I buy Shannon as a bad girl and her voice is a little off kilter with a forties kind of flare to it. Also, who doesn’t love a good dead boyfriend song?
