As promised, I am here today to discuss the greatest party music ever, Bootie’s annual “best-of” mashup collection. Bootie, an enormous quasi-underground dance party, was started in San Francisco in 2003 by DJ Adrian & DJ Mysterious (aka: A Plus D), in an attempt to create a nightclub based exclusively on bootleg mashups. Nine years later […]
Tag: San Francisco
Plume Giant: Callithump
The snow fell the duration of the weekend. We hid ourselves away Friday, peering through smeared window panes, as inches upon inches of crystalized oblivion piled upon the landscape. With the snowfall came statewide directorials: NO DRIVING… until Sunday morning. No problem. Our plans were few; Saunter to Harvard Square’s newest nickelodeon, The Sinclair, and […]
Husky: Forever So
Of the many bands with un-google-able names, Husky is one of the few where the offense is forgivable. For, you see, Husky is named after frontman Husky Gawenda. Who, or what, Gawenda is named after we may never know. The Melbourne based band became the first Australian act signed to mighty Sub Pop Records last […]
Bill Tapia: 1908-2011
I just heard the sad news that ukulele legend, Bill Tapia, passed away in December of 2011. Tapia played ukulele from the age of 7 until his death, in Westminster, CA, at 103 years old. As described by the San Francisco Chronicle: “Born in Hawaii to Portuguese parents, Tapia could recall playing “Stars and Stripes […]
California Cajun Orchestra: Nonc Adam Two-Step
14 tracks of Franco-Cajun Zydeco & Folk never explain what ‘Nonc’ means beyond, “Let me listen to it all again.” In true two-step form, it’s difficult to sit still through just one song on this album and perhaps more difficult to resist pulling the Horner off the shelf to play along. While I could presume […]