Photo Gallery: The Bruises, New Diplomat, Beta State and Seeking Empire
The Bruises, New Diplomat, Beta State and Seeking Empire play the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on May 19, 2012.
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Diverse set of SF bands rock Rickshaw Stop
If there was one thing all four bands had in common at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco last Saturday night, it was that they were loud. Regardless of each of their distinctive sounds, the Rickshaw Stop’s blaring PA had the crowd dancing and swaying to DJ Aaron Axelsen in-between
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This Week in Arts
Film Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover” (1989) is not a movie that calls for popcorn, not only because of its twisted antics — running the gamut of blood, shit and piss — but because it is a bold, serious film. Michael Gambon plays Albert
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This Week in Arts
Film This Friday, The Castro Theatre shows Andrzej Zulawski’s newly unearthed “Possession.” This 1981 film has been traveling the repertory circuit, at the BAMcinematek in New York and The Cinefamily in Los Angeles. The film is half body horror nightmare, half poem to broken East Berlin, and a wholly anxiety-filled
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New Moon: Bay Area musicians collaborate in Nick Drake tribute
Nick Drake’s ability to find a simplistic beauty that eminated a true sense of purity is what sets him apart from other folk artists. His last album Pink Moon is the unexpected and melancholically beautiful offspring of Nick Drake’s final years of depression and self-imposed isolation. His musical work acts
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Portugal. The Man exhilirates at Rickshaw
The walls of San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop throbbed last Thursday night, stretching like a membranous cell wall to accommodate the radiating energy of the pulsating nucleus within. West coasters White Arrows and Portugal. The Man played to an airtight crowd in the shoebox venue, (enticing) polarized bodies to bump ‘n
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The Postelles exude playfulness and raw charm at Rickshaw Stop
It’s not difficult to imagine the cheerful smiles of the Postelles adorning the walls of a fourteen-year-old girl. Not in the way that Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers festoon a tween’s binder. But they are the type of band whose lighthearted rock and happy-go-lucky image recall a more innocent
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Sleigh Bells lighted up Rickshaw Stop with their visually and aurally explosive set
When describing music, we tend to rely on a stash of generic stock phrases. Beach House? Dream pop. MGMT? Psychedelic. Sleigh Bells? Hip hop…uh, I mean…low-fi — with a dash of punk and a hint of electronica thrown into the mix. The Brooklyn-based trio, fresh from the success of their
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