this time, we are hyping up an event that needs no hype. if you're not down with live music and air shows, let alone an event that combines the two, you should probably move to some remote cave in afghanistan because you need to re-evaluate life.
summersalt is a brand new music festival at fort mason taking place this saturday as the planes fly over the bay just feet away. the lineup includes zion i, the cataracts, butterfly bones and an act we caught a couple months ago at cafe du norde - k.flay - who opened for those norweigan electro-poppers casiokids and was a huge, pleasant surprise. check out her flow here:
and being as fresh as we are, the good people behind summersalt (check out all the details here) have given us ten (yes, 10) tickets to give away to our hip friends. so if you want to get down at summersalt, send us an email to marinahipsters[at]gmail[dot]com and suggest a band we should check out. any band, except for kings of leon, of course. we'll choose 10 entries out of a hat on thursday.
i'm still all geeked up about j.monae's performance in san francisco this weekend. if you get a chance to see her live you must not miss out. chick is talented.
take a spin with fol chen. the mysterious california six-some has a new album and 'in ruins' is a catchy little single. just don't let the first five seconds scare you...its much more poppy and a lot less marilyn manson then they first suggest. i've also added the song 'cable tv' which was a standout from their debut album in 2009, for those of you just meeting fol chen, you might want to start here - a super sugary pop song about blowing one's paycheck on a one night love affair at a motel...with a hot tub and a...well, a cable tv. baller.
lady and gentleman, we are back in business. and not only are we back, we are packing some serious heat. our friends at eye heart sf and SFweekly have put together a pretty nice little music festival set for this sunday in north beach, and threw us four tickets to give away to thank us for our...well...we're not sure. but our luck is your gain, as we already bought tickets when the festival was announced. sooooo, who wants some free shit?
the festival is killer and features some of the bay area's best local talent as well as two HUGE up and comers in janelle monae and neon indian. it takes place at various venues in north beach all within about two blocks of grant & green, the bar and the intersection. beers, pizza, music, sunshine (hopefully) and live music. just don't call it a 'sunday funday.' that's lame.
what's not lame is j.monae's impressive soul pop tunes/dance move combo and neon indian's chillwave electronic jams. trust us and spend your sunday in north beach. while you're there we also reccomend ghosts on tape, a, b & the sea (if only because their poppy band reminded us of zack morris and the zack attack when we saw them at bimbos earlier this year) and a local up and coming band we recently heard on npr, sonny and the sunsets.
here's the deal: we'll give out 2 sets of 2 tickets. that way when you win you can finally ask out that preppy triage consultant you've been checking out on the 30x every day, but are afraid to talk to. wuss.
check out janelle monae and neon indian below and practice your dance moves. seriously, j.monae can move. female michael jackson? it's been said...
to enter our little giveaway, send us an email at marinahipsters@gmail.com by 5pm on friday july 23 with your name and a picture. ok, just kidding, just your name. or a picture. or a funny joke. whatever, we don't care as long as you make the subject of the email 'ticket giveaway' so we can seperate your entry from the fan mail we write ourselves.
we'll draw 2 email addresses out of a hat and if you win, we'll email you back at 5:01pm friday afternoon. and if you don't score the tix, buy one less strawberry fields at the tipsy pig on friday night so you can afford the $14 ticket available here. its an incredible deal. and even better, if you enter the discount code 'EyeHeartSF' you will receive $5 off! (offer good until midnight friday). so this, right thurr, practically makes the tickets free in any event...see you sunday.
From Darkness's false promise's of Sunday playlists, I thought I should start pulling my weight. Bringing you some groovy Duck Sauce, my new obsession -- Dragonette, The new Ratatat, and to finish it off a little R.E.M. with the greatest breakdown i've heard in awhile.
i want a re-up of coachlla 2010, stringer bell style. it was easily one of the best weekends of recent memory. perfect desert weather (high 80's - low 90's) set the stage for a great weekend of live music with friends and 75,000 new festival goer friends. and i really say that seriously. despite a few minor incidents of rude spectators pushing their way through crowds, i couldn't have asked for a more pleasant experience with so many people i have never met. when your biggest complaint about the festival itself (aside from missing yeasayer and sleigh bells friday afternoon due to traffic issues) is missing one show because you were getting down at another...you know you had a blast.
so i have a few comments about the festival like how big of a mistake it was scheduling passion pit, mgmt, miike snow, and phoenix among others on the smaller outdoor stage was severely underestimating the new music scene...but alas, i just wanted to share a few of my highlights.
friday: fever ray, deadmau5, vampire weekend. friday night proved to be the toughest decision making night for me, in terms of who to watch. But it all worked out pretty well. After a solid performance from la roux I arrived early and got a prime spot for a surprisingly strong vampire weekend show. Although VW is one of my favorite bands i wasn't expecting much from the east coast preppy kids. but ezra koenig is a fucking superstar and delivered what my buddy Mike refereed to as a "flawless performance." the stage was bad ass - with a half dozen chandeliers hanging from the rafters and neon strobe's flashing in the background and ezra really brought the energy. he's one of the best front men in today's current rock and roll scene, in my opinion, with his combination of both musical and vocal talent, even if he is a little poppy and boring for some. for the nightcap i started by worshiping (literally, it was a spiritual experience) fever ray for 45-minutes and after i had enough of the cult-like lasers, fog, costumes and antique lamp filled stage, i went over to get loose with deadmau5 in the sahara tent. deadmau5 put on a show from a led lit platform high above the crowd with led screens and lights all around him, including on his mau5 head. his show is still giving me goosebumps as i watch the video below over and over - be sure to watch in hd. from there we made a quick pit stop for a couple whitest boy alive songs (their second ever performance in the states), then showing up at jay-z just in time to catch a few of his classics (big pimpin, hard knock life) and a beyonce sighting to end the night. fever ray was a must see for me, given my love for the knife and i felt that this was a chance i'd likely never get again. while jay-z and deadmau5 tour the u.s. seemingly non stop, catching fever ray was crucial.
saturday: hot chip, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, the xx.
saturday was probably the anti-friday night. for i had already caught the xx and ed sharpe at small venues (and much like passion pit, knew they couldn't live up to it in a festival setting) but both acts came strong (as opposed to passion pit's stinker friday night). i spent a nice evening with david guetta in the sahara tent and decided to skip tiesto and muse on the main stage in favor of another unique act - south africa's die antwoord, before finishing the night with 2manydj's in the sahara tent. a late addition to the festival, d.a. brought the heat in an emotional performance which clearly meant so much to the duo who literally came out of nowhere thanks to a viral youtube video. but the standout of the day for me was hot chip. alexis taylor busted out the burnt orange pants and rocked the crowd at the outdoor stage with a nice mix of old and new. my personal highlight was 'over and over' as seen below:
sunday: club 75, florence and the machine the five parisians in all white on the 'wheels of steels' (as explained in european accented broken english by 'busy mothafuckin p') stole the day for me sunday. florence and the machine kicked off the day pefectly with her powerfully soothing voice and quirky perfonality. and after club 75 i was treated to an stellar miike snow performance from which i curled out of early (before they littered the crowd with beach balls and their jam 'animal') to catch phoenix, along with 95% of the festival patrons. but club 75 was the highlight, and what a perfect way to end my festival than with another 'unique' experience which may seemingly only happen at coachella. and if you were at the festival and had a memorable experience, please share it in the comments section.
two guys with good taste who paid attention in kindergarten...so we like to share.
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