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Nose Pop 2010: Magnetic Fields & Mark Eitzel

Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt couldn't ask for a more fitting venue than The Fox Oakland Theater. A renovation of a 1920s Orientalist fantasy replete with stylized Hindu gods and gold leaf everything, The Fox is a vision of a world that's either gone forever, vanishing as we speak, or never even existed in the first place. It's the architectural equivalent of a Stephin Merritt love song, and the space contributed mightily to the night's quiet and supremely literary mood.
Noise Pop 2010: Man/Miracle at The Bottom of Hill

Man/Miracle, the three piece band lead by singer Dylan Travis, have enough talent to be a man miracle (in the least biblical sense) but I'm just prophesying. Opening at The Bottom of The Hill for Rogue Wave, the band was true to their debut album, The Shape of Things: great at times, but not throughout. Tracks like "Hot Sprawl," create a hot mess for critics. It's lush. It's new. The guitar riff is folksy with bluesy undertones, but the drum patterns and vocals make for a rock raga that make you just wanna get up and say "Hell yeah!"
Noise Pop 2010: Har Mar Superstar

Though Har Mar Superstar looks like a combination of John Belushi and Ron Jeremy (in his older years), as an entertainer he's more of a Justin Timberlake. Standing a mere 5'5", Har Mar Superstar has a stage presence of a giant that warrants the attention of all drunken spectators. Whether doing handstands, stripping, necking or singing within the crowd--as one man, he brings more show than a gang of 80s hair band rockers. With Diesel buying out the bar, the booze-friendly crowd was primed for the sex-flare-drenched-pop-rock-n-roll so uniquely Har Mar Superstar (Peaches excluded).
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A compelling mid-tempo rocker that's equal parts unresolved chords and resolving melodies. It's also equal parts playful bass line and insistently bashing cymbals, and as I listen I'm thinking these two things are related, somehow, as both oppositions--the harmonic one and the one within the rhythm section--foster a really chewy sort of dynamic, half unsettled and half really comfortable.
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