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Noise Pop 21 Roundup
Listen to tracks from much-anticipated artists of the 21st annual Noise Pop festival, including Toro y Moi, YACHT, Rogue Wave, Damian Jurado, and The Thermals.
It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating Noise Pop's 20th birthday, but somehow another year has flown by and it's time for Noise Pop 2013! To get you excited as we are for this year's incredible line up (Toro Y Moi, YACHT, Amon Tobin to name a few), we're playing tracks from the artists we're most excited to see. This year's festival takes place February 26-March 3, 2013 all around San Francisco.
Tracklist:
1. "While I'm Alive" -- Starfucker, Miracle Mile
2. "Never Listen to Me" -- The Thermals, Personal Life
3. "Shout it In" -- Dirty Ghosts, Metal Moon
4. "Party Kids" -- Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Untamed Beast
5. "Say That" -- Toro y Moi, Anything in Return
6. "Psychic City" -- YACHT, See Mystery Lights
7. "Doused" -- DIIV, Oshin
8. "Lake Michigan" -- Rogue Wave, Asleep at Heaven's Gate
9. "Museum of Flight" -- Damian Jurado, Maraqopa
10. "Electric Fever" -- Free Energy, Love Sign
11. "Hysteria" -- Ceremony, Zoo
12. "Tied2U" -- XXYYXX, XXYYXX
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Noise Pop : May 2013
Multimedia | May 25, 2013
YouTube's Comedy Week a Mixed Bag
YouTube celebrate its 8th birthday with a week full of new comedy videos and a "Big Live Comedy Show". By Emily Eifler
Noise Pop | May 24, 2013
Indie Songs to Set the Mood
Listen to the newest Noise Pop picks for you and your partner's listening pleasure, featuring Liars, Future Islands, Beach House, Jessie Ware, and The Weeknd. Note: this episode contains adult language and situations.
NPR Film | May 24, 2013
Greta Gerwig, Blithely Spirited As 'Frances Ha'
The indie darling returns in a winning collaboration with Noah Baumbach that tracks her developmentally arrested dancer heroine through the transition from protracted adolescence to reluctant adulthood. (Recommended) By Ella Taylor
NPR Film | May 24, 2013
'Fast 6': Silly, Speedy, And Certain To Cash In
Fast 6 pits Dominic's crew against a wily terrorist in a high-tech battle royale -- but it has a devil of a time explaining why everyone should hop into their cars. By Scott Tobias
The Do List | May 23, 2013
The One About Dear Elizabeth And Radiation City
Suzie Racho and David Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this coming weekend and turn up Puerto Rican flavor, a pair of poets, and much more!
Music
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Clairy Browne's Rock 'N' Soul Bus Rolls To The U.S.
Browne and her band, The Bangin' Rackettes, are a flamboyant retro ensemble from Australia. The group's new album is called Baby Caught the Bus.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Leonard Bernstein's 'Rite of Spring' Thrill Ride
Watch the energetic conductor take flight conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's iconic score. A recently released DVD of a 1966 performance includes an interview with Bernstein, in which he says the famously brutal music "makes a marvelous kind of savage sound."
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First Listen Live: Queens Of The Stone Age, '...Like Clockwork'
Josh Homme presides over a dense, textured, unpredictable sound that's equal parts mystery, intensity, beauty and bluster. QOTSA performed ...Like Clockwork in its entirety, plus an assortment of older material, in a sold-out show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Also on KQED.org this week ...
KQED Art Event Picks
- Sat, May 25, 2013 - China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy
- Sat, May 25, 2013 - Reverse Rehearsals at Southern Exposure
- Sat, May 25, 2013 - Auerbach World Premiere
- Sat, May 25, 2013 - San Jose Repertory Theatre presents The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- Sat, May 25, 2013 - The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Marin Theatre Company
- Thu, May 30, 2013 - SFMOMA Future Countdown Live
- Thu, May 30, 2013 - Behind-the-Scenes of Joe Goode Performance Group's Hush
- Sat, June 1, 2013 - CityCamp Palo Alto: National Day of Civic Hacking
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