Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers

Nicki Bluhm
"Keep It Loose" (mp3)
from "Toby's Song"
(reapandsow, Inc.)

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if you download this song "keep it loose", i think you will be humming it happily when you least expect it. if you like what you hear, you can purchase the whole album from any of the above links.

pretty nicki will be kickin down the grooves with the gramblers at the Great American Music Hall opening for Hot Buttered Rum on saturday, september 12 here in SF. photo cred to jay blakesberg.

feb recap

i've gotten really behind on this blog. i've seen some amazing music in the last couple months. at the same rate, there were some really mammoth shows that i didn't see, painstakingly enough. i'll do a quickie little recap, if not for my own little self-indulgence that i happen to share on the WWW. some "expected" great shows, some unexpected...

eagles of death metal, fillmore in early feb. didn't realized i would enjoy that one as much as i did. mingled with that camp thru a friend i met during the 2007 ryan adams/cardinals tour who was tour managing the EODM. they were a very sweet bunch of people, who have all known each other for years, and i felt grateful to be included for a night of their mayhem. major family vibe.

michael franti & ALO fox theater in oakland, during its opening weekend. that theater is poised to see some seriously epicly life-altering music, i reckon. believe it or not, i get kinda bored with michael franti lately. i feel ashamed of that, to a certain extent. but hey, i love SO much music that for me, it feels good to know what i like, at least. and its not that i don't like it. i dance, and my friends are there n stuff. it all just starts sounding the same to me at a certain point. whatevz really, i thought the part i caught of ALO was REALLY good. can't say enough about how good i think dan lebowitz (guitar for ALO) is. SICK!

the white thighs, connecticut yankee: valentine's day found me babysitting for my dear friends, then busting a move out to see my big light friends play w their original band the white thighs. it was a super silly fun time.

ALO & big light, the mystic in petaluma: my virgin run of the mystic. local faves both big light AND alo B R O U G H T I T. a stormy massively rainy drive up from the city north to petaluma brought a super fun night of music. GREAT way for me to see my first gig at that neato venue.

jackie greene band + phil lesh, bob weir, great american music hall (night one): i LOVE jackie's music. LOVE. this show was two sets of his original tunes, with an acoustic set by jackie/bobby/phil. um, HELL YES. the middle acoustic set on night one was a little rusty, but who cared? it was still REALLY good.

jackie greene band + phil lesh, bob weir, GAMH (night two): LOVED night 2 much better than night one. third set was KOOKOO! sorry, can't deal w the details right now, but that third set was FUN~ whew! couldn't mingle too much after cuz i had an ER-ER-EARLY flight the next morning to catch my last cardinals shows...

the cardinals plus ryan adams, new haven: LONG day for me, espesh having just ROCKED out at the jackie shows two nights prior, but this new haven show was good. the music was GREAT, but i was pooped from my travel day and ryan was kinda annoying me, prolly cuz i was tyty. nonetheless, GREAT music and i was happy to skip boston so i could be fresh for MONTCLAIR!

the cardinals plus ryan adams, wellmont theater: as it stands, this would turn out to be my "last" cardinals gig. it was a worthy show for me to bid farewell (for now) to my mighty friends who play that heavenly music. this show was just ON. had some of my SERIOUSLY best friends at the gig, and couldn't have asked for a better night of music/fun/mischief. just AWESOME. i can't even deal with putting the link to the show here cuz if i don't keep typing to get thru my recap, it will not happen.

again, this is all more for me than anyone, cuz i'm amused when i actually read some of this stuff back. i could try to put pix up n stuff along w it all but i don't have the energy. sorrs.

Sensations & Big Light in Novato, CA

sensations are another very cool "california soul" type of band, consisting of half of the mother hips (greg loiacono & paul hoaglin) + former drummer of cake, todd roper. i caught a super rad, groovy norcal show of theirs on friday night, along with the SF darling band BIG LIGHT opening (who sound better than ever).

below, you can download a sensations track, thanks to iodapromonet, and also be directed to various places to buy the LP.

we are also VERY excited to see big light opening for the mother hips on saturday night, december 20 at the great american music hall. VERY excited!!!

Sensations
"Slow To Show" (mp3)
from "Listen To My Shapes"
(reapandsow, Inc.)

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goodie goodie gumdrops!!!

courtesy of this really cool local blog Hippies Are Dead, i found out that one of my "new" favorite bands is coming back for a double header in sept: NADA SURF. totally stoked for two dates at one of my favorite venues, the Great American Music Hall, sept 02 and sept 03. weeee!!! don't want to totally copy the cool cats at HAD, but they say tix go on sale this sunday. nada surf myspace page here*

honestly

wow.

saw dso, (DARK STAR ORCHESTRA) a couple times this last week. at the great american music hall (GAMH) in sf. one of my favorite venues. what a sick room. love that place.

i love hearing the music of the grateful dead in san francisco. i dunno. it really works for me. isn't that a lucky thing for me! i feel so grateful for music right now in my life. it is definitely shining some serious light

you guys listening to my morning jacket or what? if you are not, what are you waiting for? thanks to matt and shannon for turning me onto them once upon a time.

so yeah. dso at the gamh. good stuff.

i took that pic the 3rd night. good to see all the cute sweet nice kind faces*

~!Happy New Year OH EIGHT!~

Okeedokee

here we go with a second little writing sesh here in this space of blog, not to be confused with blob, glob, or gob.

its new year's eve. i'm listening to my friend chip on LMR (www.littlemoonradio.com)...he just played the opening 3 songs from the halloween ryan adams and the cardinals show. great great great show.

i've got a very chillaxin scene here at my little earthquake shack. i've declined every invitation that i've received for this eve. this new year's eve. and, so far, so good. i've got some good tunes, good vibes, some time to write some of my thoughts about 2007, and consider what i want to create in OH EIGHT.

one of my favorite parts of 2007, was making some really incredible new friends. wow. whatever i did to get that lucky with all the new faces i mingled with, well, i hope i can stay on that super high frequency track. thanks to you for brightening my year! to the familiar faces in my life, thanks for sticking it out for another lap around the sun together. more to come!

the music front was, as always, pretty serious. i have the amazing privilege of having a band in my life totally worthy of fully flipping out over. its so fun! i feel so grateful to be inspired by it. i've had different favorite bands before, and there is something so different about being into this particular artist/band.

super stoked for more of my friends to be able to see some r.a. & t.c. shows in january, here in the west. FUN.

besides all that, saw jackie greene the other night at the great american music hall (GAMH), which was preceded by the night before with camper van beethoven and cracker at the independent. i had never seen either, camper or cracker. HOLY SHIT!!! the camper guitar player (not the lead guy) was NO JOKE~ wow! and he was totally unassuming~ like, he wasn't all "rockified" in his look/image, but totally rocked. great set of music from camper. i was super luke warm on cracker, and left after 2 songs.

but the jackie greene show. that's another bright spot on my 2007, getting to see jackie greene almost as many times as my favorite-est, the cardinals. that dude brings it. no doubt. as some of you know, i'm "so pro-jackie greene". super so pro...another great artist that i feel lucky to like.

saw some other great music this december: stephen malkmus at the GAMH, the mother hips (w jackie greene on keyboards) also at the GAMH. both of those shows were AWESOME. the stephen malkmus was new to me...dude from pavement. really awesome. his band is tight. the hips, well, that was just your good old fashioned california psychedelic rock~ GREAT SHOW.

so, i just recorded this kinda weird little movie as a NYE message. i still haven't decided if i wanna post it here, i could always re-shoot, but i'm afraid that it will be too calculated. this one was, well, very in the moment. maybe i'll get better at it. oh, well, here's a little face time, a NYE hello, if you will



i dunno. i figured, ya know what? it was 43 seconds of life. when i thought of it like that, i was like, well, if you hate it, its only 43 seconds worth...but if you don't hate, then you had a funny little face on your screen saying dorky stuff to you...or maybe ya skipped it.

well, briefly (seriously), i am putting an intention out there that my professional sitch be a more inspired one. i don't necessarily know what that looks like right this second, and that's okay. i know its brewing. i do. i feel like i am going through a growth spurt or something...like, its not all pain-free but i am growing.

neptune is transiting my mid-heaven. in aquarius. heavy shit. but its NYE. light and fluffy, please.

hope that you are feeling the love tonight and during your OH EIGHT~ i'm sending it from here to there, hope you can feel it!