Buffalo Brown moving from Blogspot to Wordpress

After using both Wordpress and Blogspot, I have decided to move hosting of Buffalo Brown over to Wordpress. I am hoping to update more frequently and add more contributors, not to mention more interactive widgets. Visit the new home of Buffalo Brown at:

www.buffalobrown.wordpress.com

Dillinger Four interview coming soon!
Check out the new upadtes!

Thank you for the support.
-Andrew

Beach House Signs to Sub Pop

Coming to existence in 2005 out of Baltimore, Maryland, Beach House's somewhat comatose indie-pop ballads have allured many in the music blogosphere. Within their four year existence, their album Devotion has made many 'Best of 2008' lists, and with such success has come their decision to shift labels from Washington, D.C., label Carpark, to fecund Washington, Seattle, record label Sub Pop. Beach House has plans to release a new LP in early 2010 that was recorded out in Woodstock, NY, with well known producer Chris Coady (!!!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The duo will be playing Bottom of the Hill in S.F. on October 19th, right before they kick off their tour with Grizzly Bear the next day in Hollywood, Ca. Check out their video for the mesmerizing song "Master of None," from their 2006 self titled album:

Julian Casablanca's first Interview in 3 Years

From Julian's own juliancasablancas.com, comes a short interview after three years of anticipation. He discuses Phrazes for the Young (his upcoming solo album), the Strokes fourth LP, new music he digs, and some recent movies.

News in Brief: Radiohead, Built to Spill

Radiohead has recently made the decision to avert from their accustomed realese format of LPs, for the more unconventional EP medium. Well, no complete EP as of yet, but we do get a new Radiohead song "These Are My Twisted Words" that was offically self released by the band yesterday. Johnny Greenwood affirmed this on the band's blog by saying, "We've been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We're pretty proud of it. There's other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we've been practicing, and which we'll probably play at this summer's concerts. Hope you like it." Download the song on the band's W.A.S.T.E. shop, or check it out here via youtube:



Built to Spill has a new LP titled There is No Enemy, to be released on Warner Bros. October 6th. When Doug Martsch talked to Pitchfork a few months back he had this to say about the new album:"There might be some things that were influenced by soul music, but it all just sounds like Built to Spill guitar music. We play the music that we can naturally play." I'm sure it won't disappoint if you are a BTS fan. Here is the track list:

There Is No Enemy:

01 Aisle 13
02 Hindsight
03 Nowhere Lullaby
04 Good Ol' Boredom
05 Life's a Dream
06 Oh Yeah
07 Pat
08 Done
09 Planting Seeds
10 Things Fall Apart
11 Tomorrow

Kool Keith @ Mezzanine SF 02.26.09

Kool Keith, a.k.a. Dr. Octagon, a.k.a. Black Elvis, a.k.a. Mr. Nagatco will be forever “armed with seven rounds of space doo doo pistols.” Composing fat old school beats with nuevo school revelation, “Kool” Keith Thorton has more monikers than T.I. got kids; rapping since 1988 when he rocked decks and mics with the Ultramagnetic MC’s. I shot a few pictures at the Mezzanine SF where he brought his peculiar supernatural flows and his surprisingly non-anomalous stage presence. In a 10 minute show interlude he proceeded in inviting all the fine ladies on stage to put on dollar tree underwear, followed by the dispersing of black porno magazine pages. He busted out with the favorites like “Halfsharkalligatorhalfman,” and “Blue Flowers,” but with so many monikers and albums it was somewhat foreseen he would play a twenty minute mash up of his copious songs. Ahhh well; an entertainingly boisterous show none the less. And now I leave you with my favorite Kool Keith lyric: “Your panties’ are wet. Take it easy, don’t sweat. You want some birth control? You can smoke a cigarette,” from the song “Girl Let Me Touch You.” Raps' most diabolical!
-Andrew

Deerhunter "Microcastle" Review & live pictures @ Mezzanine and Rickshaw Stop SF

Rating: 3.5 / 5

Soft drones push through the speakers as Deerhunter’s Microcastle spins its' vibrations out. The atmospheric sounds swift through the air in the form of spacey vocals; sounding off heavily with reverb and delay, creating a beautiful shoegaze melody. The albums’ most note worthy songs, “Agoraphobia” and “Never Stops,” are minimal yet driving as they play in succesion. The songs that follow hinder in to whispered vocals that seemingly slow down time as ambient instruments create simple tones that are eerily euphoric. The ninth track on Microcastle is another enterprising track with a weighty bass line that ends with a nearly three minute abstract jam out. This album is for those who appreciate stone-e shoegaze with psychedelic undertones; good music to get high or space out in a dream to.

Recommended listening: Atlas Sound, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective

@ Rickshaw SF 02.25.2009






























@ Mezzanine SF 02.24.2009

Pictures from Coachella 2007: New Pornographers, The Black Keys, Against Me!

Here a few more Coachella pictures, this time from 2007. I saw the New Pornographers after there album Challengers came out. They played a lot of jams off their previous album Twin Cinema which is a great album, unquestionably quality Canadian indie-pop music. Against Me! was disappointing to see in a festival setting as they are definitely a small venue band. To add insult to injury, they mostly played songs from their latest album New Wave, their major label debut on Sire records which has a very over-produced sound that was quite the departure from their older lo-fi, unpolished folk and punk inspired sound. I was thoroughly blown away by the Black Keys. They are the epitome of what crunchy blues rock & roll should be. They have unparalleled guitar tones and bracing drum blows that give this two piece the sum of a whole band. They are seemingly a band that almost anyone can rock out to, old timers and youngsters alike. Enjoy the pictures.

Currently on tour: New Pornographers, The Black Keys