Rocktober, like the Georgia autumn, has been a little slow in coming this year, but starting this week, it begins in earnest and looks like it will last well into November.
We last saw Louisiana's Givers way back in the misty, far reaches of time during MFNW (RIP) 2011, and thought at the time that it was one of the most fun shows ever. Maybe it was having Ages and Ages and Pickwick opening or maybe it was meeting Damien Jurado in the audience, but we had a great time and Givers were every bit as energetic and joyful and ebullient and sincere that night as the video above suggests (possibly more so). Unfortunately, we've heard absolutely nothing from them since that night, but next week (Wednesday, October 22) they play the Vinyl lounge at Center Stage.
That same year, we also Seattle's Motopony at Bumbershoot and were equally but differently impressed. But like Givers, we saw and heard nothing from them since then, except a solo show by frontman Daniel Blue at the awesome Marmoset day party during MFNW (RIP) 2013. However, Motopony have a new EP out and will perform at The Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, October 29.
Even better news might be that San Francisco's Family Crest will be opening for Motopony. We also saw Family Crest at the Marmoset party and were blown away by their chamber-pop folk-rock.
There's more shows this week than I can even shake a stick at, but I'll try to keep things posted up here.
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