El Guincho (aka Spain’s Pablo Diaz-Reixa) is readying the follow up to his sensational 2008 album Alegranza! and in support, he recently decided to travel over to the states to host a brief tour at a couple of choice cities. I caught his show at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco this past Friday, [...]

Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock has brought back his one time solo project Ugly Casanova (see 2002′s excellent Sharpen Your Teeth) with some nine songs he recently contributed to the upcoming soundtrack to the film 180 South, set to be released June 22 on Brushfire Records (see tracklist below).
A recent Pitchfork interview with the man [...]

This past Sunday May 23, 2010 Dan Snaith and his Caribou ensemble came to San Francisco to play a show to a sold out crowd at The Independent, opened by Chaz Bundick’s Toro Y Moi.
Unfortunately I only caught the last few songs of Toro Y Moi’s set (which were solid) before Dan and the rest [...]

I recently stumbled across a pretty interesting short video series called “Deadmau5: Behind The Mask” detailing the man (aka Mr. Joel Zimmerman)’s large mouse head and some of the visual aspects of his current Deadmau5 live show, including his brand new (and pretty damn cool) light cheese head stage screen device (or whatever you call it). All I [...]