ARts + cuLtuRE: MusIc Himalayan Bear keeps warm in His snowy â€œparadise of darkened woods.â€? happy hour t-f 5-8pm $3 well/draft $5 bloody mary & fry bread w/ rocky tree m/w/f/sat www.doranshelley.com K/(- ,- "/ + K 7 - 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠÂŁÂ™ 7pm 8pm 9pm red hots burlesque $5-10 omG! karaoke no$ arcadio, turtle risinG */%*& 30$, 8pm the struts, the hi-nobles, lydia & the proJects ("3"(& 406- / 1,- 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“Ă¤ , 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“ÂŁ c phi Gra gn i Des tar Gui cts Effe 5pm happy hour t-f 5:30pm '3&& 0:45&34 0/ 5)& )"-' 4)&-6pm dJâ€™s carmen & miranda at the el rio fruit stand '6/, %*4$0 101 5*-- ". /0 7:30pm red hots burlesque every friday 9pm old school JamZ - 0-% 4$)00- '6/, )*1 )01 0-%*&4 3 # /0 - /1, 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“Ă“ 3pm 9pm manGo 9pm -06% %*35: %"/(&3064 406/%4 /0 seXpistolwhip no statik, futur skullZ, huntinG party )"3%$03& 16/, -1 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“ĂŽ 3pm salsa sundays â€“ maZacote! " 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“{ 8pm 9pm Bittersweet Bear 9pm radical vinyl - %+Âľ4 41*/ '6/, )*1)01 0-%*&4 16/, /0 /1 - 9]ĂŠ" /" ,ĂŠĂ“x )JNBMBZBO #FBSÂľT MVTI Â´)BSE 5JNFTÂľ JT UIF GJOBM SFMFBTF GSPN "CTPMVUFMZ ,PTIFS 3FDPSET By frances capell arts@sfbg.com mUsic Over beers one night, a friend of Himalayan Bear (a.k.a Ryan Beattie) described for him a tattoo he wanted: a boat full of sailors being swallowed by a kraken with the inscription â€œHard Timesâ€? beneath it. Thus, the title of Himalayan Bearâ€™s third, and most fully formed album to date, was born. â€œI wanted to make it a bit more LP-centric,â€? Beattie says of the record. â€œI was trying to explore a concept â€” every song is a love song.â€? The Victoria, BC native (and former Frog Eyes guitarist) opted to go electric on Hard Times; abandoning the mainly acoustic sound of his previous albums in favor of heavy reverb. â€œIâ€™ve had an obsession for a few years with Hawaiian lap steel,â€? he confesses. For Beattie, the lap steel guitar embodies a balance between complete despair and total bliss. This dynamic â€” a juxtaposition of soaring highs and agonizing lows â€” serves as a surprisingly fitting description for another instrument: Beattieâ€™s incredible voice. Heâ€™s been making music since his teens, but it wasnâ€™t until his early twenties that Beattie discovered he could sing as mournfully as his heroes. His voice can be low, soothing, and subdued in one EDITORIALS NEWS FOOD + DRINK moment, only to launch into a howling falsetto in the next. Although Hard Times often evokes the leisurely tropical repose of the Hawaiian music Beattie enjoys, it also meanders into the shadowy, foreboding wilderness where he resides. He calls his Victoria home a â€œparadise of darkened woods.â€? Beattieâ€™s artistic environment appears on tracks such as â€œThe Caballoâ€? â€” a sparse forest hymn on which he repeatedly croons, â€œthere is a darkness that quakes in me.â€? For Himalayan Bear, recording has traditionally been a solitary process. This time around, however, Beattie wasnâ€™t alone. He chose to record the eclectic batch of songs at the Last Resort â€” a Victoria house with a basement recording studio that he describes as sort of a drop-in center for touring musicians. â€œYou can run upstairs, and someone will be there that you havenâ€™t seen for maybe a year.â€? For this reason, he was able to enlist the help of friends to contribute a range of instrumentation such as trumpet, double bass, and of course, lap steel. â€œComing out and engaging with people is far more helpful,â€? Beattie says. â€œHaving other peopleâ€™s hands on [a] record makes any record better.â€? It took about a year for the album to come to fruition, yet the accomplishment for Beattie is bitPICKS ARTS + CULTURE $1 pbr/$2 well dollar day, all day brian Joseph plays benefit concert for community boards tersweet. On Sept. 20, Absolutely Kosher founder Cory Brown announced that due to financial hardship, the serendipitously titled Hard Times would be the Bay Area record labelâ€™s final release. â€œIâ€™ve been really fortunate to work with them,â€? Beattie says of Absolutely Kosher, which has also put out several Frog Eyes albums. â€œTheyâ€™ve had some pretty amazing releases; seminal releases. Certainly, to be the closing chapter is quite an honor.â€? Heâ€™s toured extensively with Frog Eyes over the past several years, but playing a Himalayan Bear show is an entirely different animal. â€œTo me, playing live is the greatest thing ever,â€? says Beattie. â€œObviously singing is a bit more intense for me, a bit more emotional. I tend to work myself into this wailing frenzy.â€? When I ask where his inspiration comes from, the amicable, talkative Beattie suddenly goes quiet. It becomes apparent that music is somewhat of an involuntary response; it simply pours out of him. After a moment of silence, he offers, â€œjust beautiful things in your head, you know?â€? 2 HIMALAYAN BEAR With Garrett Pierce and Ready Steady Tues/25, 9 p.m., $7 Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk, SF (415) 923-0923 www.hemlocktavern.com MUSIC LISTINGS STAGE LISTINGS ON THE CHEAP Wed 10/19 9pm no CoVeR! BuRn doWn The diSCo! 80S dAnCe pARTy dj 2Shy-Shy & dj melT W/u 7pm elliot henrikson, matthew welde 9pm 4*/(&3 40/(83*5&3 /0 color humano- dJ aaron lindell -"5*/ 406- "'30 14:$) /0 &@JJ@FE ,KI<9L=D bRyAn RICCI LM=K<9Q )('*- % O=9?K F @9?K OAL@ FA;G K9FLGK L@MJK<9Q )('*/ % K9LMJ<9Q )('*1 â€œ...ObSCEnELy, DISTuRbIngLy bRILLIAnT.â€? LA WEEkLy :J=FL O=AF:9;@ kEvIn CAMIA, RAy MOLInA LM=K<9Q ))') ;G%;J=9LGJ G> ;@9HH=DD= K K@GO%F=9D :J=FF9F SAL CALAnnI, SAMMy ObEID O=9;=:GGC&;GE'HMF;@DAF=K> LOALL=J&;GE'HMF;@DAF=K> ;G::K;GE=,+5,:+(@ *64,+@ :/6>*(:, <7 @6<9: *647,;0;065 ;/<9:+(@ -69 ;/, 7,673, *64,+@ :(;<9+(@ )0. (3Âť: )0. (:: *64,+@ :/6> :<5+(@ 6<;:6<9*,+ *64,+@ mon 10/24 6pm no CoVeR! 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