Learning that Rogue Wave is to play The Independent with Hey Marseilles this weekend (Friday, 7/12/13, and Saturday, 7/13/13) triggered a wave of nostalgia. A current of flashbacks from my post-college years flickered by, all of them centered around the couch of my buddy’s tragic apartment where a group of us watched Arrested Development with Rogue Wave streaming on low in the background. At that time I was running the Music Department for an upstart online magazine that will remain nameless. In this capacity I was introduced to Patrick Abernathy, then bassist for Rogue Wave, and his solo project by the name of Pancho-san. I took to his album Oh, Mellow Melody immediately, and he was kind enough to spend some time with me after his show at Cafe Du Nord. Abernathy is a genuinely nice man who makes inexplicably underrated music. For this reason, I share it with you now: this current obsession that was once an old obsession.
Tag: indie music
Nostos Nic’s Picks: Week of 6/3/2013
Playing Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday, June 4th.
Playing Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Tuesday, June 4th.
Playing Bottom of the Hill on Friday, June 7th.
Playing Rickshaw Stop on Friday, June 7th.
Playing Elbo Room on Friday, June 7th.
Playing Bottom of the Hill on Saturday, June 8th.
Playing Hemlock Tavern on Saturday, June 8th.
Playing Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Sunday, June 9th.
Playing with Desert Noises at Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Sunday, June 9th.
Nostos Nic’s Picks: Week of 5/27/2013
Playing Bottom of the Hill, Tuesday, 5/28/2013.
Playing Bottom of the Hill with Suuns, Tuesday, 5/28/2013.
Playing Rickshaw Stop, Tuesday, 5/28/2013.
Playing The Fox Theater in Oakland, Wednesday, 5/29/2013.
Playing Great American Music Hall, Wednesday, 5/29/2013.
Playing The Independent, Wednesday, 5/29/2013.
Playing The Independent, Friday, 5/31/2013.
Playing The Independent with The Sam Chase, Friday, 5/31/2013.
Playing Hemlock Tavern, Saturday, 6/1/2013.
Nostos Nic’s Picks: Week of 5/20/2013
Playing Cafe du Nord, Monday, 5/20/2013.
Playing Cafe du Nord with Jeremy Messersmith, Monday, 5/20/2013.
Playing Great American Music Hall, Tuesday, 5/21/2013.
Playing the Elbo Room, Wednesday, 5/22/2013.
Brick & Mortar Music Hall, Thursday, 5/23/2013.
Playing Great American Music Hall, Thursday, 5/23/2013.
Playing Slim’s, Thursday, 5/23/2013.
Playing Slim’s with The Detroit Cobras, Thursday, 5/23/2013.
Playing Cafe du Nord, Friday, 5/24/2013.
Nostos Nic’s Picks: Week of 5/13/2013
Playing Great American Music Hall, Monday, 5/13/2013.
Playing Bottom of the Hill, Wednesday, 5/15/2013.
Playing Brick & Mortar Music Hall with The Orange Revival, Monday, 5/13/2013.
Playing the Elbo Room, Monday, 5/13/2013.
Playing Hemlock Tavern, Thursday, 5/16/2013.
Playing Hemlock Tavern, Friday, 5/17/2013.
Playing Brick & Mortar Music Hall, Monday, 5/13/2013.
Playing Hemlock Tavern, Tuesday, 5/14/2013.
Nostos Nic’s Mix: Week of 3/25/13
Benjamin Francis Leftwich, “Atlas Hands”
Mr. Leftwich plays the always cordial Bottom of the Hill tonight, and is worth a trip out to Portrero. Don’t miss the man.
Nostos Nic’s Mix: Week of 1/28/2013
Bowerbirds, “Tuck The Darkness In”
Bowerbirds have this supple grey thing going on with their music. Warm like a cashmere sweater, but crisp like a fog that falls around you in askance of stillness. Not a fearful fog that wipes you clear of memory, but rather one that prompts introspection. A friendly, finding fog.
What Fun.
Adam Arcuragi and The Lupine Choral Society, “Presidents’ Song”
Adam Arcuragi strikes me as the modern equivalent to an 18th-century itinerate preacher. When those floorboards creak under his climb to the stage, women swoon and swearing men grow tame. The way he writhes around a microphone with an imploring Bayou passion is at once soothing and exhilarating. His rhythms rhyme and roll, and he deftly uses volume and tempo to allure, reeling you in, bringing you close before the crescendo where he leaves an everlasting mark. And there, where the scarlet double AA is burned onto your eardrum, is where he’ll stay. An aural memory that finds you in the finer of moments, a call to recollect the places you have been and the things that you have seen. Simply put, Adam Arcuragi harkens; he is a harkener. And what more is a Preacherman supposed to do?
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