Gabe’s Top 20 Shows of 2012
1. The 24-Hour Band Contest at the Arlene Francis Center
2. The-Dream at the New Parish
4. Nicki Minaj at the Paramount Theater
5. Miguel at the Oakland Arena
6. Bruce Springsteen at the HP Pavilion
7. Frank Ocean at the Regency Ballroom
8. Los Tigres del Norte at the Wells Fargo Center
9. Aretha Franklin at the Nokia Theater
10. Vijay Iyer at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival
11. Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands
12. Santa Rosa Symphony at the Green Music Center
13. Branford Marsalis at the Napa Valley Opera House
14. Yo La Tengo at the Mystic Theatre
15. Jack DeJohnette at the Napa Valley Opera House
16. Jeff Mangum at the Fox Theater
17. Killer Mike at the Regency Ballroom
18. The Weeknd at the Fillmore
19. Snoop Dogg at the Phoenix Theater
Click through for reviews.
Gabe’s Top 25 Albums of 2012
1.1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange (Def Jam)
1.2. Nicki Minaj – Roman Reloaded (Young Money / Universal)
1.3. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (Williams Street)
1.4. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream (RCA)
1.5. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city (Interscope / Geffen)
6. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (Columbia)
7. Vijay Iyer – Accelerando (ACT)
8. Demdike Stare – Elemental (Modern Love)
9. MNDR – Feed Me Diamonds (Green Label Sound)
10. Pujol – United States of Being (Saddle Creek)
11. Raime – Quarter Turns Over a Living Line (Blackest Ever Black)
12. Neneh Cherry & the Thing – The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound)
13. Sky Ferreira – Ghost (Capitol)
14. Purity Ring – Shrines (4AD)
15. Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio (Blue Note)
16. Jessie Ware – Devotion (PMR)
17. Branford Marsalis – Four MFs Playin’ Tunes (Marsalis Music)
18. Trebuchet – S/T (Side With Us)
19. Jeremiah Jae – Raw Money Raps (Brainfeeder)
20. Ceremony – Zoo (Matador)
21. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
22. Chuck Prophet – Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc)
23. Forgetters – S/T (Too Small to Fail)
24. Quakers – Quakers (Stones Throw)
25. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems (Modern Love)
Live Review: Frank Ocean at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco
First question: Did he talk about “it“? No.
Second question: Were Tyler the Creator and Hodgy Beats in the house? Yes. Third question: Channel Orange is amazing, but could he pull it off live? Oh, man, a million times yes.
Frank Ocean’s brilliant show tonight at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco capped a wild week for Ocean; he spent it making public his love for another man, delivering late-night TV’s finest performance of the year, self-leaking his own album a week early and watching the plate tectonics of culture shift beneath his feet. To say the show was anticipated would be like saying the Super Bowl is a sporting event of some note. (When we arrived at 8pm, the line was two and a half blocks long. No one was selling any tickets, but desperate fans sure were asking, with offers of up to $150.)
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