Over the past few years, the Bay Area of San Francisco has been treated to a sleuth of new music festivals, including among them Outside Lands Music Festival, Treasure Island Music Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (the oldest of the bunch at 11 years), and many other festivals, including one-off festivals that are too numerous to list. Stay tuned, we’ll be publishing a guide to the first three festivals in the next few days.
This Saturday, August 6th, SF Weekly‘s All Shook Festival will be hosted at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. Do not let the lack of press for this event let it slip by. With the exception of Crystal Castles, all the artists are based in the Bay Area and are locally known in their respective rock, hip-hop, and electronic genres.
I probably wouldn’t have heard of the event myself if it weren’t for the fact that Crystal Castles is the headliner. I love the band’s gothic style and lyrical delivery that exposes a masochistic pursuit of idealism. Maus Haus displays a variety of textures and abrupt transitions inline with old favorites like Kraftwerk. While Battlehooch have a sound that falls somewhere in between Led Zeppelin and Sublime, they fit best in obscure genres like orchestralectro and rocktronica.
“Baptism” (Baptism-Dark-Sky-Symphony-Megatron-Remix) – Crystal Castles from Crystal Castles II
“We Used Technology” – Maus Haus from Lark Marvels (2008)
“Take The L-Train” – Battlehooch from Piecechow (2009)
There will also be a market place of local vendors serving food which I will happily stuff my face with. SF Weekly aims “to put some of the best local musicians together in one showcase, capped off with a big headliner.” ASD has a 18 and up age requirement. Here’s a link to buy tickets via SF Weekly or get tickets via Ticketmaster.
Stayed tuned, we’ll be putting out our SF Bay Area Music Festival Guide real soon.
