Beats Antique

Today is June 8^th and although summer doesn’t officially start till the solstice on the 21^st, we have officially plunged into summer festival season.  Whether you plan on road-tripping across the country to catch the festival stops of your favorite band or just wandering to a nearby stage in the woods to vibe on some heady jams, you will be seeing a lot of great bands (and others not so great) that you haven’t heard of yet.  One band that you should know about in advance, because there is a good chance you will encounter them in your summer festival plans (and a great chance you will love them), is Beats Antique.

The NorCal group is becoming a great festival mainstay, if there is such a thing.  They will be hitting a lot of festivals this summer as they tour the country, including Bonnaroo, Camp Bisco, and Lollapalooza.  I was able to catch Beats Antique for the first time last summer at the Wanderlust Festival in Squaw Valley, CA.  I was immediately hooked.

Photo provided by Beats Antique.

Céu – 5/6/2011 – Herbst Theatre [Review]

Like any world-wandering lover of live music, I try to take advantage of my global co-ordinates in order to catch shows I usually wouldn’t be able to at home.  So every time I find myself in South America, at the top of my must-see list is Brazilian singer Céu.  Unfortunately, whenever I’m there, she has been elsewhere. I recently returned from Brazil, again wondering how long I would have to wait.  It would be sooner than I thought as she was set to play Herbst Theatre on May 6^th in my hometown of San Francisco.

Céu. Photo courtesy of Six Degrees Records.