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 Generalissimo
High concept, high modernist broken rock invoking Melvins and Queens of the Stone Age. This is Generalissimo's album release show!
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 Ovipositor
"Loud, dissonant, and yet surprisingly groove-focused, Ovipositor bears a distinct family resemblance to drone/noise monsters like Boris. There’s no attempt to be trendy or commercially appealing here. With an excellent rhythm section, a skilled guitarist, and snarling, nasty vocals, the band is impressive. Solid from start to finish, dark and compelling, Oakland Minor is a nearly perfect rock album." - East Bay Express
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Cartographer
Cartographer was two-thirds to one-half of Replicator, depending on lineup. |
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9:30pm, $7 |
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early show 5:00pm, $6 // later show 9:30pm, $6 |
5:00pm early show w/Kenseth Thibideau et al 5:00pm, $6 Kenseth Thibideau
"Kenseth Thibideau’s debut as a solo artist has a late-night feel to it, restrained and textured, precise with a vein of sentimentality allowed to trickle in. Its tone and points of reference are widespread, and some of the rewards of hearing this album stem from how Thibideau is able to unite seemingly disparate musical styles across these eight compelling songs.
Given that Thibideau’s resume includes stints in groups generally filed in the post-rock and experimental camps, including Howard Hello and Tarantel, Repetition is a surprisingly accessible album. Thibideau has also been a touring member of Three Mile Pilot and Pinback, and Repetition shares with both bands a tendency towards minimalist, slightly off-key pop songwriting. The poppier numbers here — essentially, the four songs that lack “Moon” in the title — feature subdued keyboards, steady basslines, and Thibideau’s hushed vocal delivery, surrounded by a gentle halo of reverb. The stately bassline of “Black Hole” recalls early Air, and it’s easy to imagine a lo-fi take on this song appealing to the bedroom-pop/summertime-song set." - Dusted
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 Danny Paul Grody
"First proper solo record from this core member of SF post rockers Tarentel, as well as the mastermind behind another post rock combo we dig, the even dreamier The Drift. Fountain is simply fantastic, a subtle and varied affair, that dips into various sounds and moods, with acoustic and electric guitars as the main instrumentation, although the guitars are augmented by melodica, keyboard, bow, voice, and of course, rain. The sounds here are delicate and crystalline, lush and warm, dreamy and sun dappled, deftly fingerpicked abstract Appalachia, gives way to melancholic folk, chamber music drifts into thick layered dronemusic, hushed one second, exuberant and joyful the next, a gorgeous, ever shifting songsuite, that definitely harkens back to classic seventies folk music, but is infused with the more abstract home brewed abstract bedroom dronemusic of today, as well as nods to the post rock that informs so much of the music Grody plays. Totally blissful and dreamy." - Aquarius Records
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 Radius
From the apartment rooms of San Francisco and a musty studio in The Marin Headlands emerge Radius (Jeff Ray and Mark Edwards) and their take on experimental electronica meets folk and pop.
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 The Saucy Jacks
"Ex-Mothballs, Harold Ray Live in Concert and other Bay Area garage goofsters here making with the maximum R'N'B type of early Who/Stones pretty boy beat-rocking." - Terminal Boredom
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 Dirty Cupcakes
"Unless its baker has decided to go the Voodoo route and inject his or her delectables with cough syrup, there’s really nothing dirty about a cupcake. That is, until you hear the spiky, sweet punk-pop tunes of Oakland’s Dirty Cupcakes, an all-female trio that covers the Stones’ “Get Off of My Cloud” and sounds like Shonen Knife and the Vivian Girls." - Willamette Weekly
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10pm, $FREE |
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 Aunt Dracula
Philadelphia's Aunt Dracula: "their sound is influenced by Animal Collective, horror, shoegazing bands like My Bloody Valentine… pretty much everything whimsical and swirly, they push their sound and lyrics into odd wastelands that only an ageless vampire that has grown tired of devouring humans could create." - Minor Progression.com
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Melted Toys
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 White Mystery (Miss Alex White, Chicago)
"Having bounced from the four-piece outfit Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra (In the Red), Ms. White has joined forces with drummer and brother Francis to strip down what little excess was clinging to her soul-inflected garage rock. It's great fun to see the redheaded siblings headbanging like matching "Fraggle Rock" puppets in their ecstatic live show. Austerity is less a choice than a necessity for the duo: The guitar goes from dirty-sounding to dirtier-sounding, the hooks are straightforward and stupidly catchy, and the singing is a belly-deep shout at the top of Alex White's range on almost every track." - Pitchfork
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Glitter Wizard
"All you freaks with a Jones for unashamedly glamorous hard rock should search out Glitter Wizard’s debut 7” single. Hailing from Oakland, California and led by the inimitably monikered Wendy Stonehenge, the A-side ‘Black Lotus’ is about as subtle as a flying mallet and thrice as catchy, while B-side ‘Witches Limbo’ deploys so many strutting rock moves you just gots to believe its parody glimpses paradis! Add some Jon Lord organ to ‘Electric Funeral’, structure in mucho gratuitous Sir Lord Baltimore tempo changes, factor in Hawkind’s Dik Mik on synthesizer, then add an early Budgie intro and you’ze catching my drift. Too much of this could cloud your melted plastic mind, but small vinyl party doses squeezed in between ‘Crash Course in Brain Surgery’ and ‘Woman from Tokyo’? Just the job. Score this pronto, Tonto." - Julian Cope |
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