beatsthatsetmypulse

Finding those BEATS THAT SET MY PULSE.

Max Frost

https://beatsthatsetmypulse.com/2016/01/26/max-frost-life-is-a-game-just-stay-strong-one-day-your-moment-will-come-youve-got-to-shine-till-then-review-bottom-of-the-hill-jan-23-2016/

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  • Playlists
    • Rebound (Playlist: May 18, 2018)
    • Love Somebody (Playlist: March 13, 2018)
    • Make it out Alive (Playlist: Jan 15, 2018)
    • Up All Night (Playlist: Oct 29, 2017)
    • Capsized (Playlist: Sept 24, 2017)
    • Creature Comfort (Playlist: Aug 15, 2017)
    • I Know You Know (Playlist: July 9, 2017)
    • Feeling Electric (Playlist: June 5, 2017)
    • Wake Up (Playlist: May 3, 2017)
    • I Want It All (Playlist: Feb 12, 2017)
    • Rising Water (Playlist: Dec 17, 2016)
    • Standing Rock (Playlist: Oct 31, 2016)
    • Jungle (Playlist: Oct 1, 2016)
    • When Things Fall Apart (Playlist: July 5, 2016)
    • I Need Your Light (Playlist: April 10, 2016)
    • Are We Alive (playlist: March 6, 2016)
    • Show Me the Way (Playlist: Feb 16, 2016)
    • Glow Long (Playlist: Feb 11, 2016)
    • West Coast
    • Coming Home
    • The World is Crowded
    • Too Much
    • All This Wandering Around
    • Little Whiskey
    • Monarch
    • Time Is Dancing
    • Mess in Mine
    • Dead or Alive
    • Ballad of a Patient Man
    • A Good Reason to Grow Old
    • Elysium
    • What Have We Done
    • All My Days
    • Afraid of Nothing
    • Play It Right
    • Wakin’ On a Pretty Day
    • Himalayan
    • Celebrate Nothing
    • Now You Are Free
    • Colour
    • Torrent
    • Shaking
    • Sahara
    • Let’s Be Still
    • Take Me Back
    • Hearts Like Ours
    • Rango
    • Spitfire
    • Floodgates
    • Pompeii
    • Give Up
    • Fireproof
    • Line of Fire
    • All Hail Bright Futures
    • Shallows
    • Silver Self
    • Bad Blood
    • Holy
    • We Will All Be Changed
    • Imperfect Time
    • These Barren Years
    • Delivered
    • Finally Moving
    • Hopeless Wanderer
    • I’m Wrong
    • You’re Going Back
    • I Won’t Be Found
    • Orange Sky
    • Youth
    • Heartbeats
    • Hello My Old Heart
    • Lost in My Mind
    • Behold the Hurricane
    • Atmosphere
    • Your Only Doll
    • Unloveable
    • Built to Break
    • Holocene
    • U.R.A. Fever
    • You Yes You
    • Road to Joy
    • Always Like This
    • How It Ends
    • All at Once
    • Flow
    • Bizness
    • Changing
    • Sigh No More
    • Do You Want It All?
    • Starring
    • This is Your Life
  • Past Shows
  • Music Reviews
    • 65daysofstatic
    • Admiral Fallow
    • Aero Flynn
      • Aero Flynn: “I Can Feel the Moonbeams”
    • Alabama Shakes
    • Alex Vargas
    • Alexi Murdoch
    • Allan Rayman
      • Allan Rayman: “God is a Woman, Can she hear me now” – The Rickshaw Stop (March 29, 2017)
    • Alt-J
    • Amber Run
    • Andrew Bird
    • Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness
      • Andrew McMahon – “You’ve gotta swim, swim for your life, swim for the music that saves you when you’re not so sure you’ll survive”: The UC Theatre in Berkeley (May 6, 2017)
    • And So I Watch You From Afar
    • Angus Stone
    • Annie Eve
    • A Place To Bury Strangers
    • Apparat
    • Asgeir
      • Asgeir: “Oh, how I long for light.. A light that won’t leave me.. Never to go away”: The Fillmore in SF (Sept 1, 2017)
      • Asgeir: “I lift my mind to the sky, and I let it take flight…The wind carries to my ears, precious sounds of life”
    • Atlas Genius
      • Atlas Genius – “You spin me right round baby right round, like a record baby”: The UC Theatre in Berkeley (May 6, 2017)
    • Augustines
      • Augustines: “To RISE UP from some dirty ashes…”
      • Augustines’ Birthday Cheer at Green Man!
        • Augustines’ Birthday Cheer at Green Man!
      • AUGUSTINES- The Empire, Belfast (Nov 26, 2014)
    • Axel Flovent
      • Axel Flovent: “You are the reason why I got what I really wanted…Now I can see the sun When I look at where we started” – Iceland Airwaves (Nov 3, 2017)
    • Band of Skulls
    • Bastille
    • Bear’s Den
      • Bear’s Den: “I didn’t know when I started runnin’…I’d be runnin’ my whole life.”
    • Beck
    • Beirut
    • Ben Abraham
      • Ben Abraham – “You’re hiding like a memory… Calling to the weakness in my soul”: The Independent (May 19, 2016)
    • Ben Howard
      • Ben Howard: “So happy hearted in the warmth…Free as a bird that flies.”
    • Ben Sollee
      • Ben Sollee and the Kentucky Natives: “I thought I could change the world If I just held you high enough, Truth is, I couldn’t hold you up at all… And I sure ain’t gonna hold you down” – Live at the Swedish American Music Hall in SF (12-10-17)
    • Benjamin Francis Leftwich
    • Black Pistol Fire
      • Black Pistol Fire: “Now you pick apart my love, When a push comes to shove, Say you had about enough, But you still call my bluff” – Ace of Spades in Sacramento (March 6, 2017)
    • Bombay Bicycle Club
    • Boats
    • Bon Iver
    • Boy & Bear
      • Boy & Bear: “Cause the love that keeps me sane, Is killing me all the same”
    • Brian Jonestown Massacre
    • Broken Hands
    • Broken Social Scene
      • Broken Social Scene: “I get world sick every time I take a stand… Well, I get world sick, my love is for my man” – Fox Theater in Oakland (Oct 26, 2017)
    • Brother & Bones
    • Bush
    • Bwani Junction
    • Caroline Smith
      • Caroline Smith: “If you gotta guy like mine then read the signs don’t lose your mind make the drive to Jefferson”” – Live at the Independent in SF (Dec 9, 2017)
    • Catfish and the Bottlemen
      • Catfish and the Bottlemen- “I want to endorse you…I want you to EXHAUST ME.”
    • Cattle & Cane
    • City of the Sun
      • City of the Sun: “If you can here for a chill acoustic show, this ain’t it” – The Cornerstone in Berkeley (Nov 7, 2017)
    • Charlie Cunningham
      • Charlie Cunningham: “What you got to live for, Now you got the whole of the world at your feet, And how much more can you pass yourself round?… Go, take a load off, Letting your wings unfold, And keeping everything down to a minimum” – The Swedish American Hall (March 7, 2018)
    • CHVRCHES
    • Cloud Control
    • Courtney Barnett
      • Courtney Barnett (REVIEW): “In my brain I re-arrange the letters on the page to spell your name…” – Islington Assembly Hall and The Great Escape in London/Brighton (2014)
      • Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: “You can’t save the unsavably untogether” – Fox Theater in Oakland (Oct 18, 2017)
    • Damien Jurado
      • Damien Jurado – “My name is Damien Jurado, not Damien “Jutebox”: The Independent in SF (May 19, 2016)
      • Damien Jurado: “I have questions that lead to more questions…”
    • Daniel Champagne
      • Daniel Champagne: “When I told you I, was afraid to fall…really I, was afraid to fly…at all”
    • Daughter
    • Dawes
      • Dawes: “Oh you can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks…Well you can stare into the abyss but it’s staring right back.”
    • Day Wave
      • Day Wave- “So just close your eyes and I’ll close mine Let me close your heart, it just takes time And we’ll be alright”: Rickshaw Stop (Feb 25, 2016)
    • Deap Vally
    • Del Barber
    • Dirty Projectors
      • Dirty Projectors- “I Haven’t Found it Yet…But I’ll Keep on Dancing Until I Do”
    • Drenge
    • Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
    • Elephant Revival
    • Embers
    • Emilie and Ogden
      • Emilie & Ogden (amazing harpist!) had us “never going out of style” at The Independent (Jan 16, 2016)
    • Emily Scott Robinson
      • Emily Scott Robinson: “So raise a glass to my good long life, don’t dress in black, don’t let me see you cry, I’m not afraid, I’m just headed home. It’s time to let me go’ – Swedish American Hall (Dec 8, 2017)
    • Etches
    • Ewert and the Two Dragons
    • Explosions in the Sky
    • Fatherson
      • Fatherson- “So go home, sober up, Take the weight off your feet and just chill.”
    • Feist
    • Findlay
    • Florence and the Machine
    • Foals
    • Foster the People
    • Frightened Rabbit
    • GDJYB
      • GDJYB: “Tick tick tock tock the minute goes, the history flows, nothing’s gonna change the lies u told, the scam we know” – Iceland Airwaves (Nov 3, 2017)
    • Geographer
      • Geographer – “You’ve been staring at the ocean, Like it’s a language you could learn”: The Catalyst Club in Santa Cruz (April 16, 2017)
      • Geographer – “I want it all, I want it all, right now right now”: The Rickshaw Stop in SF (Jan 20, 2017)
      • Geographer- “Said this life was made for the LIVING…if this is life AT ALL.”
    • George Ezra
      • George Ezra- “Give Me One Good Reason Why I Should Never Make a Change”
    • GIVERS
      • GIVERS- “Don’t Get Stuck in the Meantime, No Such Thing as the Meantime”
    • Glass Animals
    • Good Old War
    • Green Day
    • Gracie and Rachel
      • Gracie and Rachel: “I am getting so very comfortable, and I don’t want to get that way, no, I don’t want to get that way… Oh no… Comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, uncomfortable” – Cafe Du Nord (Sept 15, 2017)
    • Gregory Alan Isakov
      • Gregory Alan Isakov – “And your heart’s a thousand colors but they’re all shades of blue”: The Mystic Theater in Petaluma (April 28, 2017)
    • Haiku Salut
    • Haim
      • HAIM: “I’ll never give up and I’ll never look back, just hold your head up… And if it gets rough, it’s time to get rough” – The Fox Theater in Oakland (Sept 7, 2017)
    • Half Moon Run
      • Half Moon Run surely had us “Turn our love way up inside”at the Independent (Jan 16, 2016)
      • Half Moon Run- “She wants to know just who I am…She can make you work for the worth that she has”
    • Harriet
      • Harriet- “I could take you higher, But I can’t take you home… You’re a tough desire… You may be all I needed but it’s not like we’re alone”: The Rickshaw Stop (Feb 25, 2016)
    • Heartwatch
      • Heartwatch- “Meet me in the middle of the golden gate and feel my heart beat”: The Independent (Feb 24, 2016)
    • Henry Jamison
      • Henry Jamison: “Well if all is fair in love and war then I don’t know what we are fighting for; So if we don’t care to fight no more let’s go upstairs and let’s shut the door” – Live at Cafe Du Nord (Sept 15, 2017)
    • Horse Feathers
    • Hot Feet
    • Hozier
      • Hozier- “The only heaven I’ll be sent to, Is when I’m alone with you.”
    • Jack Garratt
      • Jack Garratt: “Let me be something you use up for one night…Burn the remnants of my youth.”
    • Jake Morely
      • Jake Morley: “Headstrong…Always used to be so headstrong…Now all I seem to do is falter…”
    • James Vincent McMorrow
      • James Vincent McMorrow- “Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own, I need someone to love, I need someone to hold”
    • Jaws of Love
      • Jaws of Love: “You just smile cause you know that things can break but we stay alive” – Live at Cafe Du Nord (Nov 11, 2017)
    • Joe Purdy
      • Joe Purdy – “playing with the tragedies, singing good time harmonies”: Slims in SF (April 15, 2017)
      • Joe Purdy- “Treat me like a human, treat you like the same, maybe we’ll all get along some day”: The Independent (Feb 20, 2016)
    • Josh Jacobson
      • Josh Jacobson: “My heart is still on the fence I’m sorry, I have no defense I’m drowning in your confidence” – Cafe Du Nord (Feb 9, 2018)
    • Joshua Radin
      • Joshua Radin Heals Hearts Broken by Bowie’s Death (Jan 11, 2016)
    • Judah & The Lion
      • Judah & The Lion: “Hey, my life is real great, feel I’m well on my way to my dreams coming true and I’m getting to do with you” – (April 21, 2016)
      • Judah & The Lion: “Hey, my life is real great, feel I’m well on my way to my dreams coming true and I’m getting to do with you” – (April 21, 2016)
    • Julia Holter
      • Julia Holter- Her distinct drift towards pop reels us all in: The Chapel (Jan 31, 2016)
    • Junip
      • Junip- “Let these moments last…Could be gone so fast…Walking Lightly”
    • Kings of Convenience
      • Kings of Convenience- “Love is just a game we’re both playing and we can’t get enough of…”
    • Kodaline
      • Kodaline- “I hope that I can say…When all my days are done…We were just having fun”
    • Kowalski
    • Kurt Vile
      • Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile: “You can’t save the unsavably untogether” – Fox Theater in Oakland (Oct 18, 2017)
      • Kurt Vile (REVIEW): “I wanna change, but I don’t wanna stay the same…I wanna go, but I’m running” – Live at St. James Church and Green Man in London/Wales (2015)
    • Langhorne Slim
      • Langhorne Slim: “Now tell me where do the good ones go, when they’re gone.” – Swedish American Hall (February 20, 2018)
    • Laura Marling
      • Laura Marling – “A woman alone is not a woman undone”: The Fillmore in SF (April 30, 2017)
    • Little May
      • Little May: “The Shine is Brighter at Night”
    • Little Green Cars
      • Little Green Cars: “It’s easy to give it to, When there’s more people out there to love…Than people who love you”
    • Low Roar
      • Low Roar – “I wanna feel something again… memorable”: The Independent in SF (April 24 & 25, 2017)
    • Lucy Rose
      • Lucy Rose: “And if we could back time, could we learn to live right?…”
    • Luke Sital-Singh
      • Luke Sital-Singh: “I’ve got a 21st century heartbeat. It’s a dying voice, it still haunts me. 21st century heartbeat, holding on” – The Fillmore (12-3-17)
    • Magic Bronson
      • Magic Bronson – “Good to know just won’t make it, kid you got take it, into your own hands”: SXSW in Austin (April 17 & 18, 2017)
    • Mani Orrason
      • Mani Orrason: “But freedom haunts me like it should haunt no one… And when I run through the trees I will run for everyone” – Iceland Airwaves (Nov 3, 2017)
    • Max Frost
      • Max Frost: “Life is a game just stay strong, One day your moment will come, You’ve got to shine till then” – Bottom of the Hill (Jan 23, 2016)
    • Milo Greene
      • Milo Greene- “Even if your heart stops, I’ll be there to hold you up”-Brick & Mortar (Feb 17, 2016)
    • Minus the Bear
      • Minus the Bear: “Hey, let’s cross the sea, and get some culture… Red wine with every meal, and absinthe after dinner” – The Fox Theater in Oakland (Oct 22, 2017)
      • Minus the Bear: “I hope the weather holds, But you don’t need the sun to make you shine”
    • Mogwai
      • Mogwai: “Music is so powerful that it’s quite beyond my control…and when I’m in the grips of it I don’t feel pleasure and I don’t feel pain.”
    • Nathaniel Rateliff
      • Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats- “Don’t You Weep, Don’t You Worry”: The Filmore (Jan 27, 2016)
    • Nick Mulvey
      • Nick Mulvey: “Cause you got lost in comparison Always pretending you knew When everything you were looking for Was already looking at you… Wake up now” – Swedish American Hall (Nov 17, 2017)
    • Night Riots
      • Night Riots – “They will try but they will never break who you are. There is us, we are one, as the whole world falls apart”: The UC Theatre in Berkeley (May 6, 2017)
    • One Week Wonder
      • One Week Wonder: “Even the Gods will know my own name” – Iceland Airwaves (Nov 3, 2017)
    • Overcoats
      • Overcoats: “He makes me smaller with every embrace that I ask for… Smaller than my mother, he looks down on me” – The Independent (Dec 9, 2017)
    • Owl John
      • Owl John: “With my head in my hands I resolve to die alone, Now I’ve finally found a good reason to grow old.”
    • Owl Paws
      • Owl Paws: “I know there’s a reason wild and true…why I had to hurt you” – Bottom of the Hill (March 25, 2016)
    • Passport to Stockholm
      • Passport to Stockholm: “Don’t tell me that we can’t try, Our imperfections define us.”
    • Penguin Prison
      • Penguin Prison- “Just a little more, cause it never gets old”: Mezzanine (Feb 10, 2016)
    • Pierce Brothers
      • Pierce Brothers: “Just keep in mind, I’ll be there for you, You’ll be next to my heart” – The Fillmore in SF (Oct 21, 2017)
    • Public Service Broadcasting
      • Public Service Broadcasting: “It’s tiring, always stretching for something just out of reach… But I’ll get it. After all, what I want isn’t as easy as all that” – Swedish American Hall in SF (Sept 24, 2017)
    • Radical Face
      • Radical Face: “So, collect your scars and wear ’em well, Your blood’s a good an ink as any” – The Chapel (May 12, 2016)
    • Samantha Crain
      • Samantha Crain- “When you come back, can you bring my heart” [review] Amnesia in SF (Jan 19, 2016)
    • San Fermin
      • San Fermin – “Oh I wish I kept myself a little better company… oh I try ot put a good face on … someone better come for me”: The Independent in SF (April 24 & 25, 2017)
    • Sharon Van Etten
      • Sharon Van Etten- “We’ve been through better days, And you’ve tasted all my pain…Break my legs so I can’t walk to you…”
    • Silversun Pickups
      • Silversun Pickups: “You’re not the type to stand aside… Let’s stay and fight for the wild kind” – The Fox Theater in Oakland (Oct 22, 2017)
    • She Keeps Bees
      • She Keeps Bees: “Basic right we must defend, To choose whether and when… Our bodies are our home” – the Independent in SF (Sept 25, 2017)
    • tUnE-yArDs
      • tUnE-yArDs: “Giving me a heart attack don’t let me lose my soul” – Live at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma (Dec 1, 2017)
    • Sun Kill Moon
      • Sun Kil Moon- “She wanted love like anyone else…She had dreams like anyone else.”
    • Sylvan Esso
      • Sylvan Esso: “I was Gonna Die Young, But now I Gotta Wait for You”: Fox Theater in Oakland (Aug 23, 2017)
    • Tash Sultana
      • Tash Sultana: “But you keep on rolling, Like a rolling stone… And you fight until the finish line, Carries you home” – Live at the Fillmore in SF (Oct 21, 2017)
    • The Head and The Heart
      • The Head and the Heart: “If you think that you’re lost, you can follow the bridges you’ve crossed… You can turn it around, there’s nobody blocking your way” – The Greek Theater in Berkeley (Oct 7, 2016)
    • The Oh Hellos
      • The Oh Hellos: “Nothing lasts forever, Some things aren’t meant to be, But you’ll never find the answer, Until you set your old heart free” – The Fillmore in SF (March 29, 2018)
    • The Staves
      • The Staves: “You cut my roots and now my leaves are dead. They tumble down in pools of all the blood I bled” – The Great American Music Hall in in SF (Feb 20, 2017)
    • The Twilight Sad
      • The Twilight Sad (REVIEW): “We Danced to Save Them All…” – Live at the Lexington in London (July 26, 2014)
    • The War on Drugs
      • The War on Drugs: “I resist what I cannot change, But I wanna find what can’t be found” – Greek Theater in Berkeley (October 6, 2017)
    • The XX
      • The XX – “A rush of blood is not enough – I need my feelings set on fire”: Bill Graham in SF (April 16, 2017)
    • Tow’rs
      • Tow’rs- “Just Because We’re Breathing Doesn’t Mean We’re Alive”: Neck of the Woods (Feb 12, 2016)
    • Trevor Hall
      • Trevor Hall – “Open up and live, let that sweet love come in”: Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley (Oct 13, 2016)
      • Trevor Hall – “Open up and live, let that sweet love come in”: Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley (Oct 13, 2016)
    • Typhoon
      • Typhoon: “But if there’s nothing, then what’s that song that keeps hounding me? .. this is not your loss, this is your offering” – The Independent (Feb 13, 2018)
    • Vancouver Sleep Clinic
      • Vancouver Sleep Clinic – “All of the sinners, all of the saints, All of the beauty, all of the pain, In the loss, in the gain, I’m not afraid”: Bottom of the Hill in SF (April 17, 2017
    • Youth Lagoon
      • Youth Lagoon: ‘When I was seventeen, my mother said to me…Don’t stop imagining…The day that you do is the day that you die.”
  • Pictures
    • Snapshots (2011): I
      • Snapshots (2011): II
      • Snapshots (2012): 2
      • Snapshots (2012): II
      • Snapshots (2012): III
  • Music Festivals
    • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017
    • Outside Lands (Aug 11-13, 2017)
    • BottleRock Napa (May 26-28, 2017)
    • SXSW 2017
    • BottleRock Napa (May 27-29, 2016)
    • Green Man (Aug 15-18, 2014)
    • The Great Escape (May 8-10, 2014)
    • Green Man (Aug 16-18, 2013)
    • T in the Park (July 12-14, 2013)
    • Summer Stampede (July 6, 2013)
      • The Summer Stampede (July 6, 2013): Mumford and Sons, Ben Howard, Vampire Weekend, Haim, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Bear’s Den
    • Great Escape (May 16-18, 2013)
    • Not So Silent Night (Dec 9, 2011): Mumford and Sons, Green Day, Florence and the Machine, Bush, Young the Giant
    • Outside Lands (Aug 12-14, 2011)
    • Sasquatch Music Festival (May 25-28, 2012)
  • Reflections
  • Music & Love

Newest Reviews/Playlists (all can be found above)

  • Lauren Ruth Ward: “‘Love is not loving’ mama, that’s what Bowie said… Think I’m aggressive? I’m just obsessive. Maybe I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Live at The Chapel in SF (May 25, 2018)
  • Rebound (Playlist: May 18, 2018)
  • The Oh Hellos: “Nothing lasts forever, Some things aren’t meant to be, But you’ll never find the answer, Until you set your old heart free” – The Fillmore in SF (March 29, 2018)
  • Magic Bronson- “Say something, say it real quick, I’ll throw it at the wall and see if it sticks… I’m erratic, I need a fix, I’m brushing off the dirt of my fresh white kicks” – Empire Control Room at SXSW (March 16, 2018)
  • Langhorne Slim: “Now tell me where do the good ones go, when they’re gone.” – Swedish American Hall (February 20, 2018)
  • Love Somebody (Playlist: March 13, 2018)
  • Charlie Cunningham: “What you got to live for, Now you got the whole of the world at your feet, And how much more can you pass yourself round?… Go, take a load off, Letting your wings unfold, And keeping everything down to a minimum” – The Swedish American Hall (March 7, 2018)
  • Black Pistol Fire: “Now you pick apart my love, When a push comes to shove, Say you had about enough, But you still call my bluff” – Ace of Spades in Sacramento (March 6, 2017)
  • Typhoon: “But if there’s nothing, then what’s that song that keeps hounding me? .. this is not your loss, this is your offering” – The Independent (Feb 13, 2018)
  • Josh Jacobson: “My heart is still on the fence I’m sorry, I have no defense I’m drowning in your confidence” – Cafe Du Nord (Feb 9, 2018)
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