Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
Seems like slimmer pickings this week. What did we miss?
In the meantime, some video goodness from Bay Area locals Girls, plus Starlight Mints, Memory Cassette, Amanda Blank, Yo La Tengo, Pterodactyl, Antony and [...]

If you haven’t already picked up a copy of the Dark Was the Night compilation yet, stop reading this and go down to the nearest record store and pick it up (or head over to InSound if you wanna be all modern about it). The compilation is the latest by the Red Hot Organization, an [...]

Today is the start of the granddaddy of San Francisco festivals, Noise Pop. Now in it’s 17th year, the festival is back with an impressive lineup after a lukewarm cast last year.
Since there are so many shows (32 by my count) this week, we’ll provide a daily preview of the bands playing that day/night. Most [...]

We gave a full rundown of 2009 upcoming album releases a few weeks ago, but there are so many great albums coming out today that we thought it deserved a special reminder.
We’ve gushed about A.C. Newman, Andrew Bird and Bon Iver plenty of times before, and Or, the Whale are on a very short list [...]

As 2008 comes to a close, we at Stranger Dance are starting to look forward to what 2009 holds. A number of our favorite artists (Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Jason Isbell, M. Ward, Wilco, etc.) have confirmed upcoming albums and even more are flirting with the idea.
A few things stuck out to us while compiling [...]