See Moir Music: July 2022
Still writing 2021 on things this far into 2022...
I'm continuing my trend of hardly going to shows anymore. Partially because COVID case rates make me nervous, partially because staying up late is tough, and partially because no shows lately have been compelling enough to get me excited about going out.
I ended up skipping the KC Lights set at Halcyon because my all-day outdoor event that same day made me very unenthused about standing at a show late at night. Cold War Kids at Stern Grove was already a stretch, and getting home from a trip the night before meant that I was super primed to stay home and sleep instead of trekking down there. I feel old but okay with it.
Where I’ll Be
I still won't be much of anywhere in the next month or so, so I've bolded the shows that I highly recommend OR the ones that I am going to in the future.
tl;dr I'll see you at the greek, overmono, and some festivals. Good luck deciding which show on August 5th to go to…
Fri 7/22 – Baauer and M. Bootyspoon at 1015 Folsom
Fri 7/22 – Themba at Halcyon
Excellent afro-house DJ, highly recommend this set.
Sat 7/23 – Diplo, Maya Jane Coles, Paul Woolford and more at the Menagerie Block Party at The Midway
Sun 7/24 – Goldroom at the Phoenix Hotel
Poolside vibes for a summer chill electronic vibes king. Look for his boat parties later this summer…
Sun 7/24 – Purity Ring at the Fox Theater
Fri 7/29 – Blond:ish at 1015 Folsom
Sun 7/31 – VNSSA at the Phoenix Hotel
August
Mon 8/1 – New Found Glory at the UC Theatre
Fri 8/5 – OSL: Phoebe Bridgers, Disclosure, Purple Disco Machine, Best Coast, Rostam, Ameme, Sampa the Great, DJ Seinfeld, India Jordan at GG Park
AFTERSHOW: Ameme at Halcyon
AFTERSHOW: Phoebe Bridgers at the Indy
AFTERSHOW: Franc Moody at Bimbos 365
AFTERSHOW: Washed Out (DJ set) at 1015 Folsom
AFTERSHOW: Cassian at Audio
Sat 8/6 – OSL: Green Day, Polo y Pan, Local Natives, Claude VonStroke, Parcels, TOKiMONSTA, Franc Moody, Cassian, J. Worra at GG Park
AFTERSHOW: Best Coast at Rickshaw
Sun 8/7 – OSL: Post Malone, Weezer, Pusha T, Mt Joy, Amber Mark, Avalon Emerson, MPHD b2b Tiffany Tyson at GG Park
AFTERSHOW: TOKiMONSTA at 1015
100% of this show proceeds benefit SF Rec & Park department, plus Toki is guaranteed to play a great set. Recommended!
Fri 8/12 – Rebuke at Halcyon
Fri 8/12 – Poolside at 1015 Folsom
Sat 8/13 – Nora En Pure PURIFIED at Frank Ogawa Plaza
It's a nice spot to see a chill artist, this should be fun.
Sat 8/13 – She Wants Revenge at GAMH
Tue 8/16, Wed 8/17, Thu 8/18, Fri 8/19 – LCD Soundsystem at Fox Theater
Fri 8/19 – Head and the Heart at the Greek Theatre
Sat 8/20 – Carpenter Brut at the UC Theatre
Sun 8/21 – Kid Cudi at Oakland Arena
Wed 8/24 – Shakey Graves at the Fox Theater
Thu 8/25, Fri 8/26 – Circle Jerks and Descendents at the UC Theatre
Fri 8/26 – Capital Cities at Rickshaw
Fri 8/26 – Bag Raiders and Miami Horror at 1015 Folsom
Mon 8/29 – The Get Up Kids at the UC Theatre
Tue 8/30 – Franz Ferdinand at the Fox Theater
September
Wed 9/7 – Less than Jake and Bowling for Soup at the UC Theatre
I really just need to buy tickets to this show and admit to myself that both of these bands are super duper fun and would be so fun live. But also I've seen them both before so maybe I don't need to go. We'll see.
Thu 9/8 & Fri 9/9 – Cold Cave at the Chapel
Fri 9/9 – Placebo at The Warfield
Thu 9/14 – Lauv at the Greek Theatre
Sat 9/17 – Novo Amor at The Fillmore
Remains one of the best crowd vibes I've had at a live show, the Fillmore I expect will be even better. Recommended.
Wed 9/21 – The Avalanches at The Warfield
I think they're growing on me, but gosh this is quite a stretch of Wednesday shows.
Sat 9/24 & Sun 9/25 – Portola Music Festival with a fuckton of people, but my biased list of artists is: Flume, Jamie xx, Jungle, Fred Again.., Fatboy Slim, Caribou, Bicep (Live), The Avalanches, Romy, Ross from Friends, TSHA, George Fitzgerald, Dials, Chemical Brothers, MIA, Four Tet + Floating Points, Yaeji, Channel Tres, Ben Böhmer (Live), Drama, Keinemusik (&ME, Rampa, and Adam Port), Sofia Kourtesis, HAAi, Prospa, and more! at Pier 80. This list is a mix of who I've seen before and who I'll try to see, because obviously I'm going.
My must-see list is: Jamie xx, Caribou, Ross from Friends, TSHA, Keinemusik, Sofia Kourtesis, HAAi, Prospa, aka "in which Sarah attempts to hide from crowds"
Wed 9/28 – Lykke Li at The Warfield
Fri 9/30 – Broken Social Scene at Fox Theater
Fri 9/30 & Sat 10/1 – Odesza with Sylvan Esso and Elderbrook at Shoreline
October
Sat 10/1 – Bomba Estereo at the Greek Theatre
Sat 10/8 – Fisher Block Party
Sat 10/8 – Sonny Fodera at The Midway
Fri 10/14 – Overmono at Monarch
Really psyched and kinda surprised they're playing such a cozy venue.
Fri 10/14 – Sat 10/15 – Breakaway festival featuring Gryffin, Louis the Child, Big Wild, Tycho, Aluna, Snakehips, Whethan, Pluko and more at Oakland Arena parking lot
Sat 10/15 – Noise Pop 20th St Block Party
Now on Valencia. Disappointed that it's moving to a much bougier area of the Mission, but it makes sense given that they moved out of their HQ at 20th. I have low expectations tbh, but with La Cucina doing the food it will be tasty!
Sat 10/15 – Sun 10/16 – Day to Night Festival with Dom Dolla, Booka Shade, Jody Wisternoff, Felix Da Housecat, ARTBAT, Tinlicker, Qrion, Enamour, and more at Treasure Island
Mon 1017, Tue 10/18, Wed 10/19 – Beach Fossils at The Chapel
Tue 10/18 – The Mars Volta at The Warfield
Thu 10/20 – Bonobo (Live) and Tourist at the Greek Theatre
Psyched to see Tourist again, and I've heard excellent things about Bonobo live!
Sun 10/23 – Lil Nas X at Billy G
I would LOVE to see him live but tickets are ~*demand priced*~ so instead of costing $65 + fees they're listed at $220, or more or less at any given time. If it drops below $100 before the show I might go and chill in the balcony.
Sat 10/29 – Stephan Bodzin, Åme, and Laolu at Public Works
Unbelievably psyched to see salute, and hey, it's BARTable!
Later
Fri 11/4 – The Knocks at Regency Ballroom
Sat 11/5 – Santigold at The Masonic
Sun 11/6 – TEED (Live) at the Indy
Mon 11/14 – Two Door Cinema Club at the Fox Theater
I think this is the third time they've played at the Fox since I moved out here.
Wed 11/16 – Tegan and Sara at The Fillmore
Other fun events
If you want to learn something at an event, consider:
Other notes
This article in Billboard covers the difficulty that producers have in getting paid… it's especially tough because based on the mess of different types of music royalties, producers are trying to recoup money from many different places for one work—unlike freelancers who typically need to wait for just one place to respond to an invoice. Definitely the sort of thing that collective action can help with, so I'm glad one producer mentioned a union!
Beyond digital blackface, Resident Advisor covers the exploitative habit of white producers sampling black artists, even using vocal samples that use the N-word.
Recent great releases
tbh the track I've been most obsessed with lately is the new Beyonce, Break My Soul, don't @ me it's a certified banger.
Other tracks I've enjoyed:
Fred Again.. - Jungle, Fred worked with Four Tet and brought out some garage/jungle vibes.
Banksia - It's Been Done, Local producer bringing out some vocal-forward house vibes, I like it.
Super Flu and Viktor Talking Machines - All da Ravers is an excellent track sampling a rave classic, Dune - Hardcore Vibes, which I didn't know until my raver friend told me. Have raver friends, friends.
I. Jordan - Always Been, even if I'm following Fred less closely, he highlights a lot of excellent producers and I. Jordan is one of them!
TSHA - Giving Up, give me everything by TSHA ever thank you
Bicep - Meli (II), I'm all for producers reworking existing tracks to make them even better
Jim-E Stack ft. Empress Of - Turn the Table, I've been waiting for this track since he played it live and I'm glad it's out.
There's a new two shell EP but I'll just be listening to home still.
Monkey Safari has a new Kami EP (is two songs an EP or a single?!?!) and both tracks are great. SoundCloud link (GO+), or Spotify for the rest of us.
MUNA has a new album out, and after I got used to the Carly Rae/HAIM-style vocal forward flat mixing of the tracks, I enjoyed Runner's High and Home By Now.
I rediscovered Finn's track I Know, I Know from 2019 and it's good enough that I had to include it here.
Four Tet put out Looking at Your Pager, which is excellent. If it doesn't hook you the first time, give it another listen or two. Scythe Master is also a good new single of his, put out on a random EP.
Super Flu also put out a (two song) EP with some good tracks, check it out.
O'Flynn put out a new song with Frazer Ray (fka Soundbwoy Killah) and it's a techier vibe than usual but I'm a fan.
I've been listening to SoundCloud Weekly more than Spotify Discover Weekly because it's way better, I highly recommend. Anytime DJ Counselling shows up I realize how much I like his tracks. Do a deep dive.