Tag archive for ‘dance’

• Yelle at Mezzanine [Live Review and Photos]

  11/14/11 • (0)

  

    Julie Budet is riveting. After her first few English words, spoken with a delightfully distorted accent, one can quickly hear she’s French. Likely few members of the audience understood her lyrics, yet she draws everyone in with a few on-stage antics and a massive dose of enthusiasm. Always moving, if she wasn’t singing, she was dancing, and [...]

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• [Ticket Giveaway] Junior Boys and Young Galaxy at Popscene

  9/19/11 • (0)

  

  Junior Boys and Young Galaxy will take the stage at Mezzanine next Friday as a part of Popscene. In conjunction with Popscene we have two more pairs (one pair has been won) of tickets to giveaway. Yep. Three. So you want to dance “Like a Child” until the end of the night? We got you. Can’t figure out [...]

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• “Cold Dust Girl” and “Neverest” by Hey Champ

  11/30/10 • (4)

  

  Chicago-based Hey Champ has been justifiably blowing up in the blogosphere over the past several months with super-catchy electro synthpop. Just signed to Seattle indie label Townie Records, Hey Champ is headlining this Friday at Rickshaw Stop here in beautiful San Francisco in a “Chicago vs. San Francisco” battle presented by Popscene and featuring several other hot acts [...]

• “In Love, Not Limbo” by Of Oceans

  11/26/10 • (6)

  

  Thanksgiving always seems to bring out the sentiment and nostalgia and wistful regret. So, what better song to accompany those often conflicting feelings and moments than this whimsical cut from Of Oceans, In Love, Not Limbo. Feel not regret. Whether you’re having orphan celebrations far from home or well ensconced in family activities that are alternately great and [...]

• Lists: Top 5 Political Moments in Music in the 20th Century

  8/07/09 • (0)

  

  There are strangely few lists chronicling the Top 5 political moments in music, and maybe because the task is so daunting and arbitrary. Nonetheless, I have tried to assemble some of the most important political moments, and not songs, which the differentiation should be noted, because it would be nearly impossible to make an argument for songs based [...]