Tag archive for ‘surf rock’

• [Noise Pop 2011] Video: Wavves @ Regency Ballroom

  3/01/11 • (0)

  

  Wavves played The Regency Ballroom last Saturday night, and SFCritic photographer, and now film maker, Big Vic, took this video from the show. For a full length review about the show click here.

• [Noise Pop 2011] Wavves & Best Coast @ The Regency

  2/28/11 • (3)

  

  Photographs by Victoria Smith Written by Erik Thybony Wavves and Best Coast are headlining Noise Pop 2011, and the show is sold out. This is bad news for me because it means I have to show up on time to get in. And by on time, I mean inappropriately early. Believe me, 7:45 is far too early to [...]

• [Live Review] The Soft Pack @ The Rickshaw Stop

  11/15/10 • (0)

  

  When the Soft Pack began playing last Tuesday evening at the Rickshaw Stop, it was clear they weren’t there to chat. They played a great show, barely taking a break between songs, except to name them. Rickshaw Stop feels like your friend’s parents let him set up a stage in their garage and have all his favorite bands [...]

• Pure Ecstasy: Featured Artist

  7/20/10 • (2)

  

  The wonderful thing about being a music enthusiast/blogger/collector is stumbling upon an unknown (by you or by most people) band and having to double take your player, “Who’s this!?” I have three tracks on my Ipod by Pure Ecstasy, the Austin lo-fi, surf rock group that only has 77k page views on MySpace. Each time one of their [...]

• #FF Mp3 Downloads: Nada Surf, J Cole, !!!, Violens…

  7/13/10 • (0)

  !!!: “AM/FM” Late summer dance parties, beware. !!! (bka Chk Chk Chk) is unleashing a new album just before Labor Day. “AM/FM” is the first taste of the Brooklyn partystarters’ so-called Berlin club record, but to us, it feels more like rocking out, falling down, and scraping both knees on a diamond-encrusted dance floor. Equal parts blood and [...]