Fri 10 Nov – Adrian Belew, Saul Zonana

Concert Review - Adrian Belew Power Trio
The Brother, Sister & Holy Ghost Show
Slim's - 2.23.2008

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The first sign of dedication to the music of Adrian Belew I witnessed this night was seeing about 30 people standing in the rain outside of Slim's waiting for the box office to open. The next sign of dedication I witnessed was to hear how far some people travelled to see this show. One man I stood next to in line flew in from Kansas City. I overheard another say he came from Houston.…

Ground Control Magazine

If the devil sang love songs, he'd sing with a voice similar to Mikael Akerfeldt's, the lead singer of Swedish death-metal band Opeth. Their songs are laden with a mixture of wrath and ire that flash back to emotional elements of despair and hopelessness, yet also burgeon with yearnings for love, forgiveness and respect. Progressive death metal masters, Opeth, produce some of the most emotional sounding melodic songs of doom out there.

I've been listening to Opeth for a few years now and always feel that my soul is nourished better by their melodies than any other…

Tue 27 Nov – As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Haste The Day, Through the Eyes of the Dead

Concert Review

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD
HASTEN THE DAY
ALL THAT REMAINS
AS I LAY DYING

Slim's - San Francisco
November 28, 2007

The writing on a t-shirt that a youth waiting in line for tickets to this nights show said it all; "EXHUME THE WRETCHED BODY FROM IT'S TIMELESS SLUMBER". The death-roars that singers of metal core and death metal bands use is the voice needed to awaken the dead. Tonight I was going to witness a…

Tue 6 Nov – Minus the Bear, The Helio Sequence, Grand Archives

First there was Jimi Hendrix. Then Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl followed suit proving that the wild and cold winds that blow into Seattle off the northern Pacific Ocean foster the growth of intense and intelligent musicians. So tonight I anticipated greatness in hearing the much hyped, loved and praised band Minus The Bear at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

Oh, and The Fillmore is the quintessential music venue in San Francisco. If you haven't been there before, you owe it to yourself to attend a…

Fri 9 Nov – Coheed and Cambria, The Fall of Troy, Clutch

There is only one thing to say about the concert that I saw tonight. Claudio Sanchez. CLAUDIO SANCHEZ. CLAUDIO (EFFING HOLY OF HOLIES) SANCHEZ! I don't care about anything that has ever happened in my life before now that I have seen a live performance by the living, breathing freaking master of all minions of this world and the underworld, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed & Cambria. Is he a magical troll, or an omniscient ogre, or a giant of mythological legend come to life in the 21st century?…

Wed 30 May – The Black Angels, Vietnam, Spindrift, Greg Ashley

I really enjoyed this show, although I heard people say afterwards that none of the bands were fully spot on that night. This was my second time to see Spindrift, a band whose music I really enjoy. Their image is something that I feel a sort of identity with. It was not the complete band that I had seen previously perform at Slim's last year though. They played a short set because the opening performer started his set late. This was a bummer. Also, the lead singer did not…

Anyway, I would have paid to get into this show last night just from the description of the headliner’s sound (I had won free tickets); a blend of Hendrix and Black Sabbath. And boy were they ever! Anyway, let’s start from the beginning.

The opening band was an 8 member mélange of performers called CITAY, from San Francisco. (Four guitarists, a drummer, a flutist/keyboardist, and two females that sang backup and performed with various percussion instruments – tambourines, small xylophones.) The leader of the band was a man that sang and everyone looked to for cues. I totally got a…

i went to the Gilman Street Project on Friday night with my music buddy Steve. there were supposed to be 5 local bands playing but only 3 showed up, maybe because it was the night after Thanksgiving Day. there were not that many fans either, maybe 30 people in the whole place. still, the performers got into it - the charged energy of the building's history still excites even the most juvenile and inexperienced bands. not to say that the bands this night were either extremely, but the sense of honor and respect for "the place" was clearly expressed.

anyway,…

14 Nov – The Damned, The Epoxies, The Adoredhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=Q7US7TLQjn4
makes me wish i had spent more time paying attention to who they were over the years.