Northstar Session Live at Boo Boo Records
Saturday, September 23rd @ 5:30pm
We are honored to welcome back LA’s own Northstar Session. If you missed them on Record Store Day, here is your chance to catch this fantastic band… for free even!
The show will start at 5:30pm, so get down here a little early if you want a good spot!
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Gwyneth & Monko will be stopping by for an in-store performance this Wednesday at 5pm.
With a voice that invokes Jenny Lewis’ solo work crossed with the intimate folk of Gillian Welch; Gwyneth Moreland strums her guitar in subtle chords while Michael Monko accompanies her lyrical stories with trickling mandolin, steady acoustic guitar and folk accents. Gwyneth & Monko sound as if they come from classic country roots, perhaps off a farm in Tennessee, but it’s northern California they call home.
Monko and Gwyneth formed as band after the 2009 release of Gwyneth’s solo album Wishbone. When she was getting ready to tour for Wishbone, she searched for a backup band and fortune gave her multi-instrumentalist Monko. Almost immediately upon touring, the pair began writing music together. “The first time I heard Gwyneth sing, I knew she was special,” beams Monko. “I could only dream of playing with such talent.” Monko’s musical past consisted of playing both heavy rock songs and bluegrass, which when blended together turned out to be the perfect complement to Moreland’s earthy and classic country vocals.
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Rad Cloud live in-store this Friday (08/20) @ 5:30pm.
Price: FREE!
A live show review at Cafe Du Nord by sfweekly:
…the upbeat, San Francisco surf rock of Rad Cloud. The raddest part about Rad Cloud is that the members appeared consistently blissed-out. Even drummer Sarah Ashton smiled brightly while simultaneously sweating out the group’s peppy beats and occasionally chiming in with backup vocals. Their obvious enthusiasm for performing added a lot to what felt at times like a rushed set…
“Existing comfortably somewhere between Silver Jews, Yo La Tengo, and The Violent Femmes, the band manages to be at once accessible, mellow, rocking, and innovative. The record itself also sounds fantastic…
You don’t have to take their word, but check out the clip below and see a taste of what you don’t want to miss.
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BUDOS BAND
[HORN-DRIVEN AFRO FUNK] After two well-received full-lengths and an EP, Staten Island’s Budos Band return with III in 2010. The group’s first two recordings walked a loose tightrope line between the modern jazzed-up Afro-beat sound of Antibalas and the soulful good-time funk groove of Sugarman 3. It’s also true that while they fit the Daptone label’s groove-centric aesthetic, III reveals a new direction, offering the view that they are also something other. This 11-song set, recorded in 48 hours, offers a darker, more spacious tinge. Elements of psychedelic, Far Eastern, and even Latin sounds have entered their mix, without giving up their dance party cachet. The opening “Rite of the Ancients,” “Black Venom,” “Unbroken, Unshaven,” and “Mark of the Unnamed” all feel like they could have been instrumental interludes in a ’70s blaxploitation flick, but are fully developed harmonic ideas instead of simple vamps. The horn chart on the latter track is a monster, with popping three-way dialogue between baritone saxophonist Jared Tankel, Farfisa organist Mike Deller, and all four percussionists. [click to continue…]
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Mimicking Birds
[SOFT PSYCH POP] I don’t envy the task of transforming Nate Lacy’s spiraling, naturalist and homemade acoustic pop songs into fully produced album form. So strange and singular are those songs (which he’s been recording on his own for the past four years as Mimicking Birds) that it’s almost a shame to take them out of their natural environment at all. Mimicking Birds’ self-titled debut retains Lacy’s distinct vision, from his squeaky finger-picking to his biologist’s take on humanity. In melding Lacy’s vision with their own, Brock and Jones focused largely on giving the recordings weight: “New Doomsdays” is powerfully oceanic, echoing and rolling as if a great tide is pushing and pulling on Lacy’s lungs. They also broke up Lacy’s tendency to play his listeners into a trance: “Cabin Fever” peppers in synthesized strings and abstract percussion.
Listen:
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OMG! Not only does Tusk stand as one of my favorite albums, but my Stevie Nicks crush ranks right up there with my Patti Smith/Blondie devotion. If you suffer from Mac Attack, you’ll share our enthusiasm for this show. Not only that, but we’re thrilled to be able to offer you, a lucky customer, a chance to win a pair of tickets! Whether you win or not, a mere 90 minute drive will get you to Santa Barbara Bowl to witness Stevie Nicks on Wednesday, August 4th @ 7:00pm, in all her glory. Ticket purchasing info below, and consider eating here (http://restaurantjulienne.com/). So tasty! This is a super fast giveaway. A winner plucked by tomorrow. Hit more & scroll down to enter to win.
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Rounder recording artist Nathaniel Rateliff will be paying the central coast a visit and performing on Friday July 30th, at the Steynberg Gallery 8pm and here at Boo Boo Records at 5:30pm. Come see the resonant Johnny-Cash-like-baritone perform a collection of world-weary songs chronicling the life of the Denver-by-way-of-Missouri songwriter. Tickets for the Steynberg Gallery are $9.50 and the warm up in-store is once again FREE.
Rateliff’s stunning and heartbreaking debut album In Memory Of Loss was released on April 27th and here is what a few had to say about it and him. [click to continue…]
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The Shants live at Boo Boo Records – Thursday August 26th @ 5:30pm
The Shants’ slow-burning sound originates from the rural backgrounds of its members: from South Louisiana delta pines, to the brusk plains of Minnesota to the rolling hills of the Central California Coast.
“Undiscovered Band of the Month: The Shants. Hailing from Oakland, California, The Shants specialize in a blend of Southern folk and country, embossed with the sad sounds of the pedal steel guitar” – FILTER Magazine
“Rustic and subdued, like the scant, heavily muted light that finds its way to the floor of a redwood grove” – No Depression / Hyperbolium [click to continue…]
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