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The Music Submissions: Looking Back at 2k9
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Featured Label: Ghostly International
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Music Submissions: The Black Rabbits & Grand Canyon
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Music Submissions: Ashton Nyte & Frank Viele and The Manhattan Project
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Featured Label: Numero Group
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Music Submissions: Saredren Wells & The Antlers
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Featured Label: Warp Records
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Si*Se Interview with SFCritic
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Music Submissions: :Kinema & Fanfarlo
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About Us
In the beginning SFCritic was all about going out and looking for great music. One of the many ways you the readers shared your love with us this year was by sending us music that you think we’d like, or more likely that you’d like us to hype. When it became clear that there was just way too much stuff coming in, and gems were likely being lost in the shuffle, The Music Submissions were born. Each week the emails streamed in, and e…
Ghostly International is a label that prides itself on the juxtaposition of music and art branding. Created by Sam Valenti IV when he was 19 yrs old, the label was realized through Valenti’s experience as a DJ, interest in live performances, and art history background. With the incorporation of art, and expression, the label encouraged exploration. In the beginning, Tadd Mullinix, best known as Dabrye, comprised 50% of the label’s ro…
four other peppy pop-rock tracks to love. Sounds Like: A cheerier Eve 6 or Harvey Danger dragged through the early ’60s Listen To: For Way Too Long Now, Emotion Grand Canyon – The Hits One theme of the many music submissions to SFCritic (yep, there are many! And yes, there are some themes!) is “non-traditional” releases. It seems popular in this day and age to not only forgo the more traditional record label route, but to…
Part of what we do here at SFCritic, for the music submissions at least, is to compare new and/or obscure artists to those you are more likely to have listened to once or twice. This time around, the comparisons were called out so prominently in their submissions that we felt compelled to let you know right off the bat. So, without further adieu, here are this weeks entries. “The South African Bowie” Ashton Nyte – The Valley This c…
Amongst the growth of repackaged soul (Lee Fields & Sharon Jones) and revitalized reissues, is a record label doing its own thing: Numero Group. Numero Group is not a record label signing artists, it’s a crate diggers’ dream occupation of reissuing lost gems. I stumbled upon a write up of the label at Aquarium Drunkard, where they were highlighting a group called 24-Carat Black. At the Numero Group website they have a smattering …
ad trip to Orangeville or San Luis Obispo to catch them. Sounds Like: The next big indie rock thing, maybe. Listen To: Do yourself a favor and buy the whole thing. If you enjoyed this post, check out these: A&R: The Music Submissions ft. Fredericks Brown and The Touques A&R: The Music Submissions ft. The Three Potato and Early & Often …
Warp Records has become a staple of good electronic, artistic, experimental, and new wave music since the early 90s. This is not Arista, or Def Jam with pop hit, one time wonders. While some of their artists have topped charts, most of their music remains known by DJs and music collectors. Like most hustlers in the music industry, the label’s first two releases by LFO (not “Summertime Girls” LFO) and Nightmares on Wax were sold…
Here is my recent interview for SF Station with Si*Se. Si*Se: “The Chain” (Cover) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The first group signed to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, Brooklyn’s Si*Se watched a smooth beginning turn difficult as it navigated the music business and later bounced f…
By Eve Marcellus :kinema: :kinema:is a three piece pop band from England who released their breezy, stylish, and slightly forgettable self-titled album in July. In their own words, they make their music by “combining elements of Yacht Rock, Soul and Contemporary Pop and Dance music into something sounding like Off The Wall-era Micheal Jackson being re-imagined by a 21st Century Indie band.” Despite the fact that nothing about their…
ials. SFCritic covers an array of music from hip hop, to indie rock, to electronic, to whatever genre we feel best represents our interests. SFCritic is not just our voice, it’s our readers’ too. The “Music Submissions” is our attempt and hope to create a music community by providing a voice for lesser-known musicians. We encourage readers to give us feedback on our articles because we’re here to talk about music w…
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