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COLORING and UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS releases @ Amnesia, SF Zine Fest Thurs Aug 26

nathan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:20:53 +0000

Gazebo Music has a double release party tomorrow night @ Amnesia as part of the SF Zine Fest. Shoegazing, country indie-poppers Upstairs Downstairs will be releasing their debut album, Inland And Out, as a beautiful handmade physical copy on this night. Coloring, harmony-drove psychedelic country duo will also be releasing a handmade version of their debut EP, Start Coloring at the show. Both albums are available directly from Gazebo Music as pay as you wish digital downloads. It is bound to be a beautiful show in all aspects so please come out and support!

SF Zine Fest Benefit Show & Albums Release!
Thursday August 26 @ 9pm
Amnesia (853 Valencia St, San Francisco)
Upstairs Downstairs
Sleeptalks
Coloring
Uni & Her Ukulele w/ Miguel Zelaya of Harbours
w/ DJ Neil Martinson (SMiLE)
$5-$10 (sliding scale)

Also, this Saturday I’ll be playing with a special incarnation of Gravid Wives, including Casey Wright, Nathan Moomaw and of course, Hans Dobbratz. The show is at the Speakeasy in Oakland and it’s piano themed.

Speakeasy Piano Show (56th @ Shattuck, Oakland)
Saturday August 28, 8pm - 2am
Loose Dress
Channing
John Brothers Piano Company
Dakota Slim
Antonette
Wallace LaFont
Grand Wives
DJ Platterpuss spinning 78s
+ candle light dancing!

Back of the Yard, Wonder sighs tonight!

nathan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:37:16 +0000

Tonight, those in the Oakland area, please come out to a lovely show, hosted in a backyard. Bring a picnic, enjoy the fire to be, mingle and listen to beautiful music. The Legendary River Drifters are in town from Denver and will play you lovely music, as well as a handful of Bay Area artists. It is free, so stop on by!

Early Show in a Backyard on a Monday!
Monday Aug 9, 5:30 - 11:30p
828 54th St (@MLK) in Oakland, CA

The Legendary River Drifters (Denver)
Matt Baldwin
Gravid Wives
Moomaw
Antonette
Sam Flax & The Higher Color

PICNICKING ENCOURAGED!

Trunk Sale Show in Oakland

nathan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:01:00 +0000

Friday July 30, a lovely boutique in Oakland called Pretty Penny will be having a trunk sale featuring the handmade clothes of h.frances as well as the musical entertainment of MOOMAW and THAT BLASTED HOUND, performing Pangealogical songs together with a height to take your out of sight.

Friday July 30th, EARLY 6-9pm
Pretty Penny ~ 5488 College Ave, Oakland, CA
That Blasted Hound & Moomaw
Refreshments will be served and DRESS in your BEST!

Thunder bolted a whisker for faulty lovers

nathan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:13:27 +0000

This FRIDAY, July 16, Moomaw (including the tabla and electronic drummings of Dale Means) will be playing a wild show full of magnificencies, disco beats, spacey melodies and not to mention sonic bees. Opening for the crazy live electronic duo, NOZE, from France at Mighty (119 Utah St) in San Francisco.

FRI JUL 16
blasthaus presents
NOZE (Live!), Get Physical
w/Worthy & Moomaw
Mighty / 119 Utah St / SF / 21+ / $12 Ltd Advance
http://www.blasthaus.com/

And if you want to go camping with us afterwards you should. We’re playing a show in beautiful Big Sur on SATURDAY July 17 at the Maiden Pub in the Big Sur village center. 5 bands will show you around the woods:

Saturday, July 17 @ 5:00pm
The Maiden Publick House
Highway 1, Village Center Shops
Big Sur, CA
West Of Utopia http://www.myspace.com/recordsfromheaven
Gravid Wives http://www.myspace.com/roycehaventhefirst
The Blank Tapes http://www.myspace.com/theblanktapes
Moomaw http://www.myspace.com/nathanmoomaw
That Blasted Hound http://www.myspace.com/thatblastedhound

The first installation of San Francisco based live video series, Backseat Beat, is now up on The Bay Bridged and features Moomaw and That Blasted Hound. Please check us out as we’re toted to and fro in an ‘84 Volvo!

And now you can find the Phoning It In show that Moomaw did awhile ago on WFMU. Get a blast of some tunes played in my old living room over a land-line: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nathan_Moomaw/Phoning_It_In_041708/

Shows Tonight and Onward in America!

nathan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:02:04 +0000

Moomaw, to be found onstage with some various lovelies, will be playing tonight, Wed July 7, at Penny Arcade, The Makeout Room (3225 22nd St, between MissionandValencia), FIRST at 8:00pm, SHARP! Also, playing will be PLANTAIN, BROKEN TREASURE, MATTHEW EDWARDS.

Did you guys see fireworks the other night? Super.

Thursday, July 8, to be known to ya’ll now as “tomorrow night”, I will be accompanying Davyd, That Blasted Hound, at a lovely show he’s playing in Berkeley:
5:30-7pm: Redwood Grove @ the Berkeley Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA
w/ Ed Masuga and Chloe Makes Music (w/ Jen Grady on cello)

Friday, July 9, That Blasted Hound and West Of Utopia will be traveling out to Sacramento and convening with Moomaw’s Dale Means, to put some rock love into The Hub with Treesus from Placerville as well. Bound to be a beautiful show show show:
Friday, July 9 ~ 9pm ~ $5
The Hub (1819 23rd st)
Sacramento, CA
w/ That Blasted Hound, West of Utopia, Moomaw, Treesus

Saturday, July 10 all the aforementioned bands will be making our way up to Placerville for a house show, so stay tuned on that.

Also, next week, Moomaw has a fantastically cool show opening for NOZE, an insane live electronic duo from France, at Mighty in San Francisco. Mark your calendars for a special, really loud (techno-stage loud!) and crazy Moomaw set!
Friday July 16
blasthaus presents
NOZE (Live!), Get Physical
w/Worthy & Moomaw
Mighty / 119 Utah St / SF / 21+ / $12 Ltd Advance
http://www.blasthaus.com/

Coloring & Upstairs Downstairs ~ Two Gazebo Music albums for your summer love!

nathan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:21:05 +0000

Today births a psychedelic country EP as well as a boot-gazing indie-pop album, both set to soundtrack your summer flings and other sunny things. So before you lay yourself into your favorite park, a backwards sensation tumbling into the grass, or chasing waves underneath the rays, please take a listen and get some lovely tunes stuck in your head.

Coloring : Start Coloring ~ The anticipated and debut album from San Francisco’s psych-country duo, Coloring. Layers and layers of many-a folk instrument iced with close harmonies and unison to a point where the singers themselves can’t distinguish their own voices in the mix. Only four, but long and involved songs of philosophical non-importance or simply unison itself.

Upstairs Downstairs : Inland And Out ~ Introducing Upstairs Downstairs, the new indie-pop / shoegaze with their boots in folk, country and classic rock and roll. This record is certainly one to strike you first and then grow on you later.

Both albums now appear on Gazebo Music, where you can stream the entire record for free or get your own digital copy as Pay What You Want (accepting simple payments through PayPal or regular credit card).

Love away, here to stay!

Oh what a lovely road and some more and more

nathan — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:40:44 +0000

The Urban Bedouin tour schedule has been updated and will continue to be updated as you may view it below:

May 21 ~ 9:30p @ Fantastico ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 22 ~ 9:00p @ Scruffy Murphy’s ~ Madrid, Spain
May 23 ~ 8:00p @ Le Bukowsky ~ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
May 26 ~ 8:00p @ Sala Mariscal ~ Girona, Spain
May 27 ~ 10:00p @ Cafè El Cercle ~ Girona, Spain
May 28 ~ 9:00p @ Bar Ese Efe ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 30 ~ 8:00p @ Officine Pigneto ~ Roma, Italy
May 31 ~ 9:00p @ Pavillons Sauvages ~ Toulouse, France
Jun 3 ~ 8:00p @ The Rock’n’Rhum ~ Cran-Gevrier, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ Party in Montreuil [Moomaw & Gravid Wives] ~ Paris, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ La Pension du Content [AntonetteG] ~ Gap Rhône-Alpe, France
Jun 5 ~ 8:00p @ L’alibi ~ Hery-sur-Alby, France
Jun 7 ~ 8:00p @ Artika Festival ~ Recanati Italy
Jun 9 ~ 8:00p @ Mobile Blues Club ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 10 ~ 8:00p @ Sweet Home Cafe ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 11 ~ 8:00p @ Café Hilde ~ Berlin, Germany
Jun 12 ~ 8:00p @ Des Geigers Rätsel ~ Leipzig, Germany
Jun 15 ~ 10:00 @ Davant ~ Girona, Spain
Jun 16 ~ 10:00 @ Oxígeno Líquido ~ Madrid, Spain

Urban Bedouin European Tour

nathan — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:01:29 +0000

My American tour-mates have landed and are en route to meet me here in Spain. I believe they are traveling via camel. At the same time, That Blasted Hound has made another departure from Europe, having already stayed, left, and returned again. And so we embark upon a slew of shows across Spain, Italy, France and Germany. Giddieyup!

May 21 ~ 9:30p @ Fantastico ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 22 ~ 9:00p @ Scruffy Murphy’s ~ Madrid, Spain
May 23 ~ 8:00p @ Le Bukowsky ~ Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
May 26 ~ 8:00p @ Sala Mariscal ~ Girona, Spain
May 27 ~ 10:00p @ Cafè El Cercle ~ Girona, Spain
May 28 ~ 9:00p @ Bar Ese Efe ~ Barcelona, Spain
May 30 ~ 8:00p @ Officine Pigneto ~ Roma, Italy
May 31 ~ 9:00p @ Pavillons Sauvages ~ Toulouse, France
Jun 3 ~ 8:00p @ The Rock’n’Rhum ~ Cran-Gevrier, France
Jun 4 ~ 9:00p @ Party in Montreuil ~ Paris, France
Jun 5 ~ 8:00p @ L’alibi ~ Hery-sur-Alby, France
Jun 7 ~ 8:00p @ Artika Festival ~ Recanati Italy
Jun 9 ~ 8:00p @ Mobile Blues Club ~ Hamburg, Germany
Jun 11 ~ 8:00p @ Café Hilde ~ Berlin, Germany
Jun 12 ~ 8:00p @ Des Geigers Rätsel ~ Leipzig, Germany

I’ve still yet to recap the Pangealogical tour with That Blasted Hound, but worry not your pretty little head. Here are some snippets from it:

That Blasted Hound and Moomaw (Pangealogical) play Forever Lion @ Fantastico (A Viva Veu):

Casey Wright - “Technicolor White Lies” out on Gazebo Music today!

nathan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:27:11 +0000

“I like to spend time finding myself. Well, how about you?”

Psychedelic folk songs so jammed with emotion that they literally distort as they flashlight a trail through paranoia and genius.

Today Gazebo Music is more than proud to present Casey Wright’s (myspace / Gazebo Music artist page) debut album. It is now available for digital purchase (pay what you want!) on the Gazebo Music site or from any of your favorite digital distributors (iTunes, Amazon, etc). You can buy from any of these places or stream the whole record from here:

LISTEN/BUY Technicolor White Lies

A Lion Roars a Tour and Cracks the Shell of More

nathan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:47:00 +0000

Davyd and I are here in Madrid, lounging off travels and the ceiling of the lovely place we’re staying just fell in. It must be part of the super-continental shift. Let your friends in Europe know we’re coming because this is only the beginning.

Mar 19, 8p - Eisbär w/ THE SINGER NOT THE SONG ~ Madrid, Spain
Mar 20, 9p - La Cova de Les Cultures w/ THE NOT KNOWING ~ Barcelona, Spain
Mar 21, 10p - Cafè El Cercle ~ Girona, Spain
Mar 22, 8p - Les Pavillons Sauvages ~ Toulouse, France
Mar 23, 8p - la Pharmacie de Garde ~ Bordeaux, France
Mar 24, 9p - Bar du Cirque ~ Paris, France
Mar 26, 8:30 - Secret Show TBA ~ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mar 27, 9p - Wärmehalle Süd w/ LONG VOYAGE, A HUMMING FROM THE WOOD ~ Leipzig, Germany
Mar 29, 9p - Café Hilde ~ Berlin, Germany
Mar 30, 8p - Madame Claude ~ Berlin, Germany
Apr 1, 9p - The Black Hawk ~ Tours, France
Apr 5, 10p - Monroe27 w/ ANNA MORLEY ~ Barcelona, Spain
Apr 8, 9p - Fantastico ~ Barcelona, Spain