In the Crate: Family Not a Group, Only Now, Rainbow City Park, and more great local artists featured in our monthly playlist
See our weekly show recommendations + new review of Bill Orcutt's latest punk-infused, Reich-inspired minimal music masterpiece "The Four Louies"
We’re still glowing from Total Accord, our epic weekend-long takeover to celebrate the best in Bay Area music. Thank you to Total Accord Agency for partnering with us, and thank you to everyone that showed up!
Keep the love flowing by listening to the latest edition of “In the Crate,” our monthly playlist of Bay Area music:
Every month, our “In the Crate” playlist features songs culled from recent reviews, exciting single releases, and our own musical discovery from past to present.
It’s your soundtrack to the Bay.
Check it out on Buy Music Club and Spotify.
— White Crate
PUNK MINIMALISM
The Four Louies is a mind-boggling piece of maximalist minimalism by Bill Orcutt, mashing together the droning Four Organs by minimal music pioneer Steve Reich with the Kingsmen’s proto-punk hit single “Louie Louie.” Just like the original Reich piece, it’s a lavish feast of sound, slowly sizzling over the course of its two 10-minute sections, but fattened here with the raucously electric and distorted sounds of early rock & roll. The album’s first pressing sold out quickly and started selling for triple the original price online, so we’re happy to see a repress now available from Orcutt’s Fake Estates / Palilalia.
In a rare treat for local weird music lovers, Bill Orcutt has assembled a large ensemble—including, on maracas, William Winant, a Bay Area legend who has worked closely with John Zorn, Sonic Youth, and Steve Reich himself—to perform the piece live this Saturday, May 31 at the Lab. Rounding out the billing is opening support by Oakland’s math punk goofball virtuosos Gumby’s Junk.
— Ronny Kerr
SHOW RECS
Our top show recommendations for the coming week:
[country] Josiah Flores (album release), Meredith Edgar Trio, Andrés Miguel Cervantes — May 29 at Makeout Room
[indie] Cindy, Scout Gillett, Parallel, Black Thumb — May 29 at El Rio
[indie] Mac Gross Project (album release), Persephone, Tabby's Dream, Perhapsy (solo) — May 30 at Neck of the Woods
[house] MELODIES OF LOVE ft. Rodchenko, Jaage, Trevern, Charles Hawthorne — May 30 at Thee Stork Club
[techno] PERFECT DARK ft. JR2K, Miagma, Brick b2b @@, Carmine — May 30 at Underground SF
[bass] HYPER K ft. Only Now (album release), DJ Plead, DJ Lycox, Travieza, ariB, llloyd — May 30 at F8
[alternative] Left Tracks, Sucker Crush, Lizzy Dutton — May 31 at the Tree House
[punk] Surprise Privilege (last show), P.O.S, 9/11, Stimulant, The Losers — May 31 at Golden Kitchen
[jungle] FLUX AETERNA x FAT CAP SOUND ft. NIGELTHREETIMES, YungerAdrian, M27, Miya Lowe, 40split, SOBA, Keishaboy, Patrick Talesfore Jr (live drumming) — May 31 at F8
[experimental] LAHORKA, Blood Rave, Mars Kumari, Mind Mirage, Blaq Hammer, Field of Fear (solo), DJ Hot Goth GF — May 31 at Neck of the Woods
[indie] Poppy Patica, Lampland, Sally Decker — May 31 at Eli’s Mile High Club
[experimental] Bill Orcutt, Gumby's Junk — May 31 at the Lab
[metal] Sleepbomb, The Atomic Bomb Audition, Oxide — May 31 at Thee Parkside
[indie] Black Thumb, 11111angels — June 4 at Yesterday’s Numbers
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