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The Adventures of Stickboy
1. "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gay"
2. "Please, Please, Please"
3. "I'm Pretty Sure I Can't Go On Vacation with My Parents Anymore"
4. "Kiss Me on the LRV"
5. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
6. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
7. "Brushes with Greatness"
8. "Exterminate the Brutes!"
9. "Kill Cat Stevens"
10. "Strip Club Strip"
11. "O' Come Again, Terrible Summer"
12. "En El Fondo: Pages from an (Anti) Depression"
13. "The $100K Bowl of Shit"
Shawn Brown
The Trews: Canadian Riff Rock With Indie Sprit and a Pimps' Heart
Quit Sellin' Amos Lee Short
Carousel Roundup
February 2011: Have a Heart (It's So Tasty)
November 2010: I See Dead Things
October 2010: I'm Running Away to Join the Circus
September 2010: Almost Strictly Instrumental
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Composition Breakdown
Brian Vander Ark
Thomas Cooney:
"Another Thing!" (January 2012)
"Another Thing!" (October 2011)
"Another Thing!" (August 2011)
"Another Thing!" (June 2011)
"Another Thing!" (April 2011)
"Another Thing!" (February 2011)
"Another Thing!" (January 2011)
"Another Thing!" (November 2010)
"Another Thing!" (October 2010)
"Another Thing!" (September 2010)
"10 Years of Swing Out Sister's Somewhere Deep In The Night"
"The Twenty-Five Year Seduction: Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls"
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
Katrina Geco:
"Daydreamer's Holiday - The Clarks and the Sounds of Pittsburgh"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
Kelly Haigh:
"Stage Fright at the Railway Club"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
The Roberge Report:
"Just for Openers"
"Jay Walter Bennett"
"Closet Classics"
"Urinal Tour Diary; A Week on the Road with the most Punctual and Polite Band in Punk"
"Room #8, Joshua Tree Inn"
Studio Musician Gossip:
"We Need A Public Option Radio Station"
"Make Out/Make Over"
"Re-Make, Re-Model"
Book Reviews
Got No Secrets by Danila Botha
All You Get Is Me, by Yvonne Prinz
Getting in Tune, by Roger Trott
Hew, Screw + Glue: How Stuff is Made, by James Innes-Smith
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells , by Tommy James
Mingering Mike, by Dori Hadar
New York Dolls, by Bob Gruen
Red Album of Asbury Park, by Alex Austin
Satchmo: The Wonderful World And Art Of Louis Armstrong, by Steven Brower
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Stone Roses, by Alex Green
Three Wishes: An Intimate Look At Jazz Greats, by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
DVD Reviews
Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Live Reviews
2011
2011 - Lost Lander
2011 - Bryan Ferry
2011 - Joana and the Wolf
2011 - Jasmine Minks
2011 - Gardens & Villa
2011 - Mike Watt & the Minutemen
2011 - The Royal Bangs
2011 - Dropkick Murphys
2011 - The Decemberists
2010
2010 - English Beat
2010 - Toadies
2010 - Sick Puppies
2010 - Jennie DeVoe
2009
2009 - Forever Young Dylan Tribute
The Meat Puppets
Bob Mould with Juliana Hatfield
Pet Shop Boys
Pixies
Bonnie Whitmore
2008
2008 - The Kooks
The Subways
2007
Big Star
Coachella
English Beat
Sondre Lerche
Placebo
Sonic Youth
Best Of:
Best of 2010
Best of 2009
Best of 2008
The Kooks
The Warfield, San Francisco
Oct 25, 2008
You could tell by all the high-pitched screams and bras thrown on stage, that the Kooks could do no wrong at their Oct 25th show at the Warfield in San Francisco. In fact, they probably could have just stood there, not doing anything, and it would have produced the same result. However, The Kooks proved themselves worthy of their admiring fans.
The evening started off with the southern rock styling of The Whigs, whose rushing guitars and powerful vocals entertained the crowd while they waited for the main show.
But it was clear from the moment The Kooks stepped on stage, who the audience came to see. They started off with the infectious "Always Where I Need To Be," from their latest album, which set the crowd off.
Lead singer, Luke Prichard relished his role as rock god and seemed to expect nothing less than adoration from his fans. He preened and posed for the cameras, even pausing so they could get that perfect shot. He knew every rock pose in the book, and it looked as if he spent a lot of time practicing them in the mirror. Not that any of that mattered to his fans, who only screamed louder with every song. Songs such "Do You Wanna" only furthered this image, with its chorus of "Do you wanna make love to me?"
The bubblegum pop of "Matchbox" had the crowd bouncing along, as did songs such as the almost unbearably catchy "Naïve" and "Oo La." The setlist was heavy on tracks off their first album, and they mostly stayed away from their critically-demolished second album Konk. However, the upbeat "Mr. Maker" was met with much enthusiastic screeching.
For an encore, Prichard thrilled the crowd by coming out on stage by himself with an acoustic guitar and playing the simple, yet pretty "Seaside" and the oddly-titled "Jackie Big Tits," among others. The rest of the band returned and they ended the show on a high note with the harder edged "Stormy Weather."
While a cynic might call it contrived, the Kooks gave their fans exactly what they wanted and that same cynic left the show unable to get "Naïve" out of her head.
—Jessica Simons
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