Did anyone notice that the last week of July was, like, the greatest week of music…ever? Good. We did too.
I mean, do you realize how luck you are? And you also realize that things like this don’t happen by chance, right?
After all, this marathon week of incredible-ness, which spanned from the urban glow of the Bay Area down to the dusty plains of Joshua Tree, was first and foremost brought to all of us by a single dude, Britt Govea, aka the promoter-mastermind behind (((folkYEAH!)))
It was a feat of super-human proportions.
Britt is responsible for bringing the following bands to your neighborhood across the past week: Red Hot Chili Peppers (show review in Rolling Stone!), Thurston Moore (b-day party), Kurt Vile, Sleepy Sun, Howlin’ Rain, the two-day multi-band Woodsist Fest that Pitchfork dug, Cass McCombs, and A LOT more (see the full list below.)
Again: all of the music, this awesomeness – all in a mere seven day span.
Which leads us to inevitably ask: what’s the difference between God and (((folkYEAH!)))?
Answer: on the seventh day, Britt had a show.
THANK YOU BRITT!!
So here’s a list of last week’s Folk Yeah shows (with more awesomeness in store at folkyeah.com):
monday, july 25- oakland new parish
- Thurston moore b-day party
- kurt vile
- hush arbors
wednesday, july 26- big sur – hmml
- red hot chili peppers
wednesday, july 26- big sur – fernwood
- kurt vile & the violators
wednesday, july 26- santa cruz – don quixotes
- sleepy sun
- howlin rain
- assemble head in sunburst sound
friday, july 28, sf- independent
- fresh & onlys
- woods
- the mantles
satuday, july 30, big sur – fernwood
- ducktails
- nodzzz
- mantles
- fresh & onlys / woods big band set
sunday, july 31 big sur -hmml
- sun araw
- white fence
- sic alps
- woods
- fresh & onlys
- real estate
- thee oh sees
sunday, july 31, pioneertown – pappy & harriets
- thurston moore
- cass mcCcombs
- white magic
