See Moir Music: Bye 2022
I almost typed 2020 sigh
Hello, we have reached the week where we all pretend the year is over, at least at work. I hope that you're not doing too much work for the next couple weeks. Bundle up, stay cozy, get reflective, and let's dance.
Where I’ll Be
I bolded all the shows I'm going to—I’m not going anywhere until the end of January and then it picks up quite a bit! Hoping that’s also long enough for the current and post-holiday COVID waves to die down as well.
I bought all these tickets (except for Channel Tres) while putting together this email so uh, we'll see how I feel next year but for now I'm p excited.
Coming soon
Fri 12/23 – SNBRN at 1015 Folsom
NYE/NYD
Fri 12/30 – Claude Von Stroke at 1015 Folsom (Open to Close)
Fri 12/30 – jackLNDN at Audio
Sat 12/31 – Spencer Brown at Audio
Sat 12/31 – DRAMA at the Independent
Sat 12/31/22 – Polo & Pan at 1015 Folsom
Sun 1/1/23 – It's a New Day + Breakfast of Champions Block Party at Great Northern
featuring: AceMoma, J. Phlip, Atish, Marques Wyatt, and other folks I don't really listen to oops.
Sat 12/31/22 – Sun 1/1/23 – Fresh Start at the Midway
NYE day: Sofi Tukker, Yung Bae, Moore Kismet, Zhu
NYE night: Madeon DJ set
NYD: John Summit, Wax Motif, Justin Martin, Maya Jane Coles, LP Giobbi
January
Fri 1/13 – Durante at Audio
Sun 1/15 – David Harness (open to close) at The Foundry
Fri 1/20 – Jody Wisternoff at Audio
Sat 1/21 – Dry Cleaning at August Hall
Tue 1/24 – Junior Boys at The Fillmore
Oddly tempting, not gonna lie.
Sun 1/29 – Magia and Monkey Safari (Day Party!) at Audio
No idea who/what Magia is but I skipped Monkey Safari last time they were in town (despite having tickets) and regretted it a bit ever since. Hoping the odds for this one will be more in my favor…
February
Fri 2/3 – Channel Tres (DJ set) at 1015 Folsom
Fri 2/3 – Hessle Audio (Ben UFO, Pangaea, Pearson Sound) at the Great Northern
Did I double book myself based on the reputation of these artists? Yes. Will I possibly be selling a ticket later? Maybe.
Sat 2/4 – Nox Vahn at Audio
Sat 2/4 – Rubblebucket at The Fillmore
Sat 2/11 – Danilo Plessow at Public Works
Devastated I'll be out of town for this, his set was an unexpected treat at Portola. Go!
Fri 2/17 – Yotto at The Midway
Sun 2/19 – Cubicolor (DJ set) (Day Party!) at Audio
Mon 2/20 – FIDLAR at Bottom of the Hill
Fri 2/24 – Tourist and Jacques Greene at Public Works (Noise Pop!)
2 of my faves, I even got tickets before Jacques was added to the bill. Looking forward to it.
Sat 2/25 – Sultan + Shepard at Audio
March
Wed 3/1 – BIIG PIIG at Rickshaw Stop
Sat 3/3 – Jerro at Audio
Sun 3/5 – Maggie Rogers at Billy G
Sat 3/11 – Skin on Skin at a ~ secret location ~
The email said RIYL Bicep so I looked up a set of his and it's pretty sick. Bass-heavy, gonna be good. See you there?
Sat 3/11 – Parov Stelar at the Fox Theater
Sat 3/11 – PUP at Regency Ballroom
Mon 3/13, Tue 3/14, Wed 3/15, Thu 3/16, Fri 3/17 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor at The Chapel
Tue 3/14 – Masego at the Warfield
Thu 3/30 – Anna of the North at The Independent
Later
Sat 4/1 – Colony House at August Hall
Fri 4/28 – Nils Frahm at the Fox Theater
Mon 5/1 – Caroline Polachek at the Warfield
Mon 10/9, Tue 10/10, and Wed 10/11 – The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie at the Greek Theatre
Other fun events
Thu 1/12 – Internet for the People book talk with Ben Tarnoff hosted by the Internet Archive
"Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today." See you there?
Fri 1/20 – Public Domain Day hosted by the Internet Archive
Celebrating works from 1927 making it into the public domain, such as:
"books from authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf, silent film classics like the controversial The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson and Fritz Lang’s dystopian Metropolis, and snappy musical compositions like You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream."
Fri 2/17 – Isabel Wilkerson at Sydney Goldstein Theater
The author of the Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origin of our Discontents is giving a talk as part of a series with City Arts and Lectures. Usually authors are interviewed, but unclear if that's happening here!
Now – 1/2/24 – Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors at SF MoMA
Perhaps the most entrancing and engrossing a/v art installation I've ever encountered. Highly, highly, highly recommend.
Other notes
Starline Social Club in Oakland appears to be closing again. I guess they weren't able to make their worker co-op (that was maybe a lie) work out longer term. Here's hoping the venue finds a new owner and continues on!
Recent great releases
Not a whole lot of new albums that I've noticed, but I've been trolling through a lot of new DJ sets on YouTube, namely the following:
Mall Grab for Boiler Room in Melbourne it's pure fire, gotta see him play next time.
salute for Boiler Room in Melbourne… eagerly anticipating any and all 2023 tour dates from salute.
Four Tet at the Lot Radio 12/1/22 peaceful and a jam.
Rewatching Fred Again..'s Boiler Room set and trying not to over-anticipate the time when the guy in the crowd bumps the deck and shuts off the sound
Also this live performance of Frightened Rabbit on KEXP from awhile back.
I'll be publishing my end-of-the-year music blog post next week sometime! I split it apart from my Spotify Wrapped breakdown post this year. What were your top live shows, artists, albums, and tracks of 2022? I want to know!