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The Otherside

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"Live Shows: the Otherside"

I had not seen The Otherside in some time and had forgotten how good they are -- imagine if the Stone Roses had remained in their dark, Jesus And Mary Chain early mode when they recorded songs like "I Wanna Be Adored" and "Made Of Stone." Their debut album, DEAD TREES is very good but doesn't quite to the band justice. Looking forward to hearing more from these guys and seeing them again. - Bagelradio.com


"Live Shows: the Otherside"

I had not seen The Otherside in some time and had forgotten how good they are -- imagine if the Stone Roses had remained in their dark, Jesus And Mary Chain early mode when they recorded songs like "I Wanna Be Adored" and "Made Of Stone." Their debut album, DEAD TREES is very good but doesn't quite to the band justice. Looking forward to hearing more from these guys and seeing them again. - Bagelradio.com


"The Otherside (The Rickshaw Stop)"

The Otherside is a local band from San Francisco. As their bio says, they love darkness and fuzz, guitars with pedals and anthems with huge obvious endings. And in between all that are the words "red wine" somewhat inserted in every other sentence it seems like. Well, the description is pretty accurate. The guitars dominate much of their songs and that is a good thing.

The Otherside consists of Steve on vocals, another Steve on drums, Marc on bass and guitarist extraordinaire Daniel. Their sound takes a bit from the shoegaze era bands such as Ride and a little bit of rock n roll swagger from the likes of Oasis. Granted, that might not be the best description of them, but in my ears that's how they sound like. And I love both bands a lot! So, a band, a local one at that, that sounds like Ride and Oasis combined is a-ok in my book.

I don't know any of their songs. The last time I checked them out, they were called Smiler and they had a different lead singer. Now, the instruments remain the same, but the vocals are very, very different. Unlike Smiler's lead singer, Michael, who graced the stage as if he was Liam Gallagher's long lost sibling, Steve takes a much more low key approach. The vocals are minimal, but strong and the instruments predominate. Especially the guitars.

I picked up their EP to get a sense of the song titles before writing this review. As a preliminary matter, the sound at Rickshaw was absolutely amazing. Better than Bottom of the Hill for sure. Thus, this band sounded terrific.

They played, among others, "Hey You" which sounds very Ride and Steve's vocals sound a bit like Ian Curtis. Yes, again, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but that's my opinion. This was the stand out track for the evening. Very catchy guitar riffs, excellent vocals.

All the other songs, I have no clue what the titles were. Like "Hey You," the other songs follow the same formula: very catchy guitar riffs, excellent vocals.

You know you went to a good show when you are tapping your feet in a 3/4 rhythm despite not knowing the song. So, with that in mind, this was one of those shows. Definitely a must see - Mesh Magazine


"The Otherside (The Rickshaw Stop)"

The Otherside is a local band from San Francisco. As their bio says, they love darkness and fuzz, guitars with pedals and anthems with huge obvious endings. And in between all that are the words "red wine" somewhat inserted in every other sentence it seems like. Well, the description is pretty accurate. The guitars dominate much of their songs and that is a good thing.

The Otherside consists of Steve on vocals, another Steve on drums, Marc on bass and guitarist extraordinaire Daniel. Their sound takes a bit from the shoegaze era bands such as Ride and a little bit of rock n roll swagger from the likes of Oasis. Granted, that might not be the best description of them, but in my ears that's how they sound like. And I love both bands a lot! So, a band, a local one at that, that sounds like Ride and Oasis combined is a-ok in my book.

I don't know any of their songs. The last time I checked them out, they were called Smiler and they had a different lead singer. Now, the instruments remain the same, but the vocals are very, very different. Unlike Smiler's lead singer, Michael, who graced the stage as if he was Liam Gallagher's long lost sibling, Steve takes a much more low key approach. The vocals are minimal, but strong and the instruments predominate. Especially the guitars.

I picked up their EP to get a sense of the song titles before writing this review. As a preliminary matter, the sound at Rickshaw was absolutely amazing. Better than Bottom of the Hill for sure. Thus, this band sounded terrific.

They played, among others, "Hey You" which sounds very Ride and Steve's vocals sound a bit like Ian Curtis. Yes, again, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but that's my opinion. This was the stand out track for the evening. Very catchy guitar riffs, excellent vocals.

All the other songs, I have no clue what the titles were. Like "Hey You," the other songs follow the same formula: very catchy guitar riffs, excellent vocals.

You know you went to a good show when you are tapping your feet in a 3/4 rhythm despite not knowing the song. So, with that in mind, this was one of those shows. Definitely a must see - Mesh Magazine


Discography

Dead Trees -- full length cd (2006)
lovely -- double a-side cd (2006)

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we love... darkness and fuzz, and red wine, and beautiful people, and the word filthy, and hot dogs with shrimp salad, and lambretta rides, and guitars with pedals, and more red wine, and anthems with huge obvious endings, and people that care, but bands that don’t, and dogs, and champagne cocktails, and books with the last page ripped out, and dylan’s pub (rip), and long words that make you sound smart, and short words that make you sound smarter...
...and cooking food, and drummers, lots of drummers, and stella artois, and spain, and dancing, with all of your body moving at once, and late nights, and early mornings, and cheese, which reminds you of more red wine, and vintage cars with leaks, and forgetting names but remembering faces, and old furniture, and fashion, especially shoes, and cold foggy weather, and moving forward, and spray painted t-shirts, and islands in the south pacific, and bleedin heart tree huggin liberals, and irish whiskey, and curry fries, mmm that sounds good, and delay pedals, and making videos, and cold pint glasses, working hard at hardly working, and never ending lists… of things…