TV Girl
Blackbird Blackbird
So Many Wizards
Sat, December 15, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:30 pm
Bootleg Bar
$10.00
Tickets
This event is 21 and over
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/event/169721/
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Blackbird Blackbird - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
Blackbird Blackbird (formerly Bye Bye Blackbird) is the moniker/musical outlet of San Francisco, California wunderkind Mikey Maramag. His reverb-laden musical collages tend to lean towards anthemic, inspirational, and dream-driven themes. Maramag's influences range from various ends of the musical spectrum. Blackbird Blackbird often tweaks nature-samples and mixes electronic textures with organic instrumentation (guitar, drums, synths, vocal-harmonies). Ghostly female vocals are chopped and screwed, spun around a paint-splattered collage of sound.
Maramag's deep, textured, and hypnotic pop songs pay homage to the psychedelic pop that the Beatles could have imagined but cannot make today. Blackbird Blackbird's music is made with the warmth of analogue instrumentation spliced with digital bells and twinkles.
Blackbird Blackbird's debut album "Summer Heart" was self-released by Maramag in July 2010, and is really just a collection of his past EPs: "Happy High" and "Let's Move on Together". His standout singles "Pure" and "Hawaii" received the most attention, and his single "Ups and Downs" helped Mikey capture the ears of Pitchfork, Transparent, Prefix Magazine, The Fader, Brooklyn Vegan, and other musical tastemakers.
Maramag's deep, textured, and hypnotic pop songs pay homage to the psychedelic pop that the Beatles could have imagined but cannot make today. Blackbird Blackbird's music is made with the warmth of analogue instrumentation spliced with digital bells and twinkles.
Blackbird Blackbird's debut album "Summer Heart" was self-released by Maramag in July 2010, and is really just a collection of his past EPs: "Happy High" and "Let's Move on Together". His standout singles "Pure" and "Hawaii" received the most attention, and his single "Ups and Downs" helped Mikey capture the ears of Pitchfork, Transparent, Prefix Magazine, The Fader, Brooklyn Vegan, and other musical tastemakers.
So Many Wizards - (Set time: 9:30 PM)
What makes So Many Wizards a band to watch is its off-kilter sense of melody and song structure. Lead single “Inner City” has a caffeinated, pogo-stick verse melody catchier than most bands’ sharpest choruses; the trippy, inward gem “Best Friends” unwinds deceptively sophisticated chord changes while Kazerouni demonstrates his sweetest falsetto—it’s a heartfelt plea for an idyllic romance, as innocently sweet as a second grader’s Crayola-penned birthday card (“I don’t care what we do / Don’t care, as long as there’s a park and then a bench for two / I don’t care what we do / And as long as we can sit”).
