Tag archive for ‘electronic’

• Best Albums (Shows and Songs) of 2011: Patrick Kelly’s Picks

  12/15/11 • (5)

  

  For the best albums in 2011, SF Critic will highlight each of our staff’s picks, rather than an accumulative 25, 50, 1,000 best album list. About: Patrick Kelly has been photographing and writing since almost the beginning of SF Critic. If you ever meet Patrick, which if you’re ever at a show in San Francisco you likely will, [...]

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• Best Albums of 2011: Darryl Kirchner’s Picks

  12/13/11 • (4)

  

  For the best albums in 2011, SF Critic will highlight each of our staff’s picks, rather than an accumulative 25, 50, 1,000 best album list. About: For the last year Darryl has been photographing and filming SF Critic’s experiences with an uncanny eye. From electronic, to hip hop, to indie, Darryl shoots everything. When I asked him to [...]

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• Best Albums of 2011: Will’s Picks

  12/12/11 • (0)

  

  For the best albums in 2011, SF Critic will highlight each of our staff’s picks, rather than an accumulative 25, 50, 1,000 best album list. About William Clarke: Will  has written for SF Critic for just over a year now. We met at college. Will and I have always shared our tastes in music. Well, actually, I always [...]

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• Plaid at Mezzanine [Photographs]

  11/30/11 • (2)

  

  Plaid is a sweet chime from the past. The UK duo Ed Handley and Andy Turner played to a devoted crowd at Mezzanine in San Francisco on Friday night. They started in with a long drawn out experimental weave of darkly twisted undertones crisscrossed with a foreplay of very deep bass lines before the official dropping in of [...]

• Featured Artist: Polica

  11/17/11 • (0)

  

  POLIÇA began as a collaboration between fellow Gayngs’ members Channy Casselle and Ryan Olson in June of 2011.  By July they had completed 11 songs, made the key additions of drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson, bass player Chris Bierdan, and headed into the studio. After Mike Noyce (Bon Iver) lent his voice on Lay Your Cards Out and Wandering Star, the record was [...]

• 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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• Playlist [New Mp3s] Tycho, Dirty Projectors, Major Lazer

  11/08/11 • (3)

  

  In effort to keep up with the times, but not having the time to keep up, I’ve created a playlist backlogging some song I’ve neglected to share with you. Several albums including the new Dirty Projector & Björk, Real Estate and Tycho, have caught my ear, in addition to singles from Major Lazer, The Moor, and Saint Motel. [...]

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• Deadmau5 Meowingtons Hax Tour at Bill Grahman Civic Center [Photos]

  10/31/11 • (3)

  

  This Saturday there was a marathon at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Instead of running shoes and athletic apparel, the Civic was a swarm of glow sticks and massive mouse head masks. Deadmau5 assembled quite the crew of DJs for his Meowingtons Hex show including DJ A-Track, Fatboy Slim and Mötley Crüe’s, Tommy Lee. As one might expect, the San [...]

• Justice [Interview]: So Justice..

  10/24/11 • (0)

  

  For the French production duo, Justice, four years have passed since their last album and c’est la vie. As Xavier de Rosnay explained to SF Critic writer, Collier Meyerson, backstage before their performance at this year’s The Creators Project in New York, “when you make a record the time doesn’t matter if it took four years or four [...]

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• Creators Project – Justice, Karen O, Florence and The Machines, and More

  10/19/11 • (0)

  

  Situated next to the East River down under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) normally boasts a European atmosphere with lingering patrons in cafes, coffee shops and bars speckled with affianced couples getting their photos snapped on its cobble stoned streets. However, this past weekend at The Creators Project those streets were sectioned off for the elite hipster crowd [...]

  

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