Los Angeles’ Wand has been at it for north of a decade, where over five records and lots have touring have established themselves as lords of a certain perfect sound, almost impossible give justice to by means of explanation, but I’ll give it a try in the same way Carl Sagan famously showed a generation […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, Sept. 4
Do you love Beyoncé? Then run, don’t walk to the Miniplex at 8 p.m., where this week’s iteration of Big Mood, the weekly hump day queer-dance-a-thon is celebrating all things regarding the true queen of pop. No cover tonight, and you can catch $2 PBR drafts all night long to refill your juices.
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Music Tonight: Monday, Sept. 2
Everyone is Dirty is an Oakland collective of musicians who throw a new banana in the juggling act of dance and depression that defines the group’s chosen genre of post-punk. Those hooks and melodic lines are often created by violin, which seems novel enough to me for a gander, but the pot has really been […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 23
Joshua Tree seems to produce more than a few musicians whose main thing involves creating vistas of sound to fill the great and beautiful hot nothing out there in the desert country. This Lonesome Paradise is one such sonic narrative act, run by a fellow named E. Ray Béchard, whose voice rolls over stretches of […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 17
Indie pop band with local connections and roots The Ian Fays have been making music since the early ’00s, putting the group well-situated to claim a mantle of authenticity in the genre. Lending further credence claims of uniqueness are the duo leading the act, identical twin sisters Lizzie and Sara Fay, whose sound is accompanied […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 10
If you like day-glo and oil-slicked psychedelia from a better time, when San Francisco had more soul than capital, you’re in for a treat tonight at the Miniplex at 8:30 p.m. Magic Fig plays its own shimmering pop dewdrops of lysergic dee-lite channeled by a host of musicians from various Bay Area garage bands. Also […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Aug. 5
Mohama Saz is a psyche-rock act from Madrid, Spain, that jams in modal keyed RIS that draw out a sonic etch-a-sketch vision of pathways, minarets and half-step Arabic curves reminiscent of a cultural landscape built by Trajan and the Umayyad. Touches of the muezzin meeting the Monkees tick the needle’s dense geography over these melting […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 2
Speaking of returning friends from Portland, The Shivas are being hosted at the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m., celebrating the release of an album appropriately titled Can’t Stop Coming Around. Expect more of the same glorious, fuzzed out and harmonious true rock and roll that has made this act a hip household name for the […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 27
There’s a rock show brewing at the Miniplex tonight. Color Green is a Los Angeles quartet that specializes in nifty, riffy and soulful pulls off the amp’s fuzzy peaches. The band’s steady and rollin’ Yin will make a fine complement to the very loud Yang of local heavies Sugar Boys. It’s all about balance in […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 24
Speaking of the Miniplex, it’s a good time to remind everyone of Big Mood, the weekly queer dance party curated by DJ Pandemonium Jones. The fun starts at 8 p.m., it’s free to get in and this boy knows his stuff when it comes to grooving on wax tracks made to melt your candle and […]
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 23
Matchess is the nom de stage of Whitney Johnson, and also the name of a trio she leads to play her compositions, which are fairly abstract soundwaves of musical glossolalia and deep-brain somnambulant exploration. I listened to the Drag City artist’s latest offering and found myself wondering if I had somehow slid a cold fusion […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, July 12
Fans of unusually structured pop with glowing variances of sonic fidelity, thematic purity and earnestness — another way of saying “DIY,” “indie” or “lo-fi,” along with many other genre descriptions that get tossed around a lot — should check out the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. because there is a stacked lineup. Samples, bedroom compositions, […]