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Early show w/Leslie & the Lys, Fierce Perm - 7pm, $10 Leslie & the Lys
Take a plump, 24-year-old girl from the Midwest who raps about her affinity for gaudy, adorned sweaters only the mother of a Solid Gold dancer would love, and, voilà, another Internet star is born. By now you’ve probably received the Web links directing you to Leslie Hall’s video for her “Gem Sweater” song on YouTube.com or ifilm.com, which is poised to be this year’s “Numa Numa.” Sporting gold pants, oversize glasses, blue eye shadow and a blond bouffant that’s ’80s-mall-rat-meets-Mormon-schoolteacher (think the gentile version of Saturday Night Live’s “Coffee Talk” hostess, Linda Richman), Hall spits out rhymes about her shoulder pads having the “power to destroy villages, homes and crops” while fronting two backup girls playing mock turntable and Keytar. Her Web site features a collection of 150 sweaters, each given names such as “Fireworks Freedom Dance,” “Present Me Desire” and “Incrusted Intrusted.” Our personal favorite is the fuchsia, Native American–themed “Navaho Brave.” And just as any white, female rapper from Ames, Iowa, worth her stock in corn would, Hall’s band, Leslie & the LY’s, have already released two albums, Gold Pants and Door Man’s Daughter, both DIY throwbacks to Debbie Deb, Zapp-style beats, slow jams and verbal assaults." - LA Weekly
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 Fierce Perm
"This is like the type of music I want to shake around and make babies to while listening on full blast. Totally unapologetic, Fierce Perm has that signature Olympia, Washington sound: like, the vocals and guitar are fighting over your heart. They will cut your soul. Not for the weak of heart, this band reminds me of a cross between Ssion, Hott Beat and The Gossip before they went disco." - Big Stereo
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9:30pm, $8 |
 Noxagt (Norway)
"Norway's mammoth noise-rock trio Noxagt — originally bass, drums, and viola — changed gears for its third, self-titled album (on Load Records), replacing Nils Erga's screaming viola with Anders Hana's equally zonked baritone guitar. Drummer Kjetil Brandsdal and bassist Jan Christian Lauritzen still hammer away with Viking ruthlessness on the bracing, Sonny Sharrock-like "Wall's End," and conjure Motörhead on the appropriately titled math-rock meltdown "Coefficient Ascender." The inscrutable 12-minute closer, "The Impious One," is a real sonic conundrum, at once lurching, spastic, and utterly hypnotizing." - SF Weekly
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 Ettrick
"Ettrick are indeed a black metal duo, and their music harbors the telltale signs: ferocious blast-beats, gargantuan expanses of pitch-black noise, and drums like a self-propelled howitzer gone berserk. They also happen to be a free-jazz pairing as well, in which Heule and partner Jay Korber, both drummers and saxophonists, rotate between the two instruments to create a grueling improvisational skronk." - SF Bay Guardian
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Scout's Honor
No Idea recording artists Scout's Honor are a post-hardcore band that draw influence from country, latin, folk, blues, and other acoustic music idioms.
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9:00pm, $7 |
 Residual Echoes
Holy Mountain Records scuzz-psych mayhem artistes Residual Echoes’ music "sounds as if it was made by a band of mangy misfits let loose inside a warehouse filled with broken instruments. Sick solos are played on guitars that sound like they haven’t had their strings plucked in years. Amps buzz and rattle as if being torn apart by the sound pulsing through them. It’s a heavy, if oddly beautiful, madness." - Dusted
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 Wooden Shjips
"...tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch with spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev-like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood. It's a nice one." -Byron Coley, Wire
"...Wooden Shjips seem to have their wagon hitched to a post psychedelic/punk damaged Krautrock environ that just not enough people are astute enough to homestead." -Tom Lax, Siltblog
"Intense, layered, guitar acid-wash motorbike rock from a San Francisco act who, with one record, are now one of my favorite bands on the planet circa 2006. Imagine an ear-blowing cross between Suicide, “White Light/White Heat” Velvet Underground, the guy that did that "Get Stoned Ezy with the Afflicted Man" record and some nut with a tape loop machine, and you’ve got Wooden Shjips on this wide-grooved psychedelic head trip." -Agony Shorthand
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 Nothing People
"From the sleepy little Central Valley town of Orland, California (population: 6,281; main export: olives) comes the Nothing People, three nameless freaks with a farm full of great tunes. On their debut, the People come up with four songs that mix protopunk with and a Frisco 79 sound. What’s that mean? Well, a Crime drenched guitar cuts through layers of Debris, soaked by Twinkeyz - esque sun scorch. The sonic surprise that a place like Orland could breed rock & roll this good is much like discovering the friendly farmer around the way uses hitchhikers for mulch." - S-S Records catalog
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early show 6pm, free // late show, 10pm, $7 |
EARLY SHOW - Magick Daggers (LA), 6pm, free Magick Daggers
Portland, Oregon's Magick Daggers feature Jessy Montaigne, (the Former Singer and Bass player of Subtonix and Dearly Departed from San Francisco), Maxamillion (from Get Hustle, Holy Molar, etc), and Xtine Sorensen, with a rotating cast of degenerates. (bio)
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LATE SHOW - The Music Lovers, Michael Zapruder, Chris Robley - 10pm The Music Lovers
"Chamber-pop perfectionists." - Magnet
"When it comes to purveyors of fop pop in the vein of Scott Walker or Felt, they’re probably our country’s finest example." - The Big Takeover
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 Michael Zapruder
"Collaborating with some 20 musicians, including Jonathan Siegel of Camper Van Beethoven and Nate Query of the Decemberists, Michael Zapruder makes beautiful folk-pop ballads resonant of the voice of Rufus Wainwright and wordplay of Andrew Bird" - Pitchfork
"In the New Chamber Folk, arrangements are key, separating poet-composers from lonesome coffeehouse troubadours. Zapruder understands this and has built a house of many colors...he explores themes of isolation and eros but without the customary whine." - L.A. Times
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Chris Robley
"Chris Robley deserves a place among your Elliot Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, John Lennon, and -- yes, even your Guns 'N Roses albums." -Splendid e-zine
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EARLY SHOW! Best Pals, Hella Fitzgerald, Top Critter - 6pm Best Pals
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LATE SHOW w/Plants, The Dry Spells, Hecuba - 10pm, $7 Plants
"The Plants' debut, The Mind Is a Bird in the Hand, sprouted from an odd soil, empty of influence from Portland's folk scene, and more in concert with the brooding essence of Blanchard's former dance-noise outfit Point Line Plane, a distinctly chaotic and urban project. On the album, Blanchard's spirituality is most present in his vocals, a chilling plainsong flecked with liturgical intonations, particularly on "The Cage." That voice is tied to haunting music—irregular guitar reverberations, simple melodies and Griffith's deep blue cello. The music is all so drowsily paced that it feels as though every measure could contain its own song." - Willamette Week
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Hecuba
Recording with pianos, lap tops, taxi cabs and tympanies, Hecuba draws on influences from the all over the world. Slot machines, love ballads, club beats, war songs and deconstructed Shaker hymns all coexist. (bio)
"HECUBA is an unsigned band from L.A. and they use Casio beats to make their folk into bling. "I love peace and money," sings Isabelle Albuquerque, trading in hippie values for synthetic beats on "Get It." Psychedelic R&B is the new sound, haven't you heard?" - XLR8R Magazine
Hecuba are also performing at SFMOMA on Friday, March 30th. |
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9:30pm, $6 |
Bastard Noise
MAN IS THE BASTARD'S GRADUAL AND INCREASING ABSORPTION OF NOISE ELECTRONICS MADE EACH RECORD INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING TO THE EARS, THE EMOTIONS AND THE INTELLECT. BUT MITB WAS MERELY THE CATERPILLAR THAT SPAWNED A MUCH GREATER BUTTERFLY IN BASTARD NOISE. ERIC WOOD WAS ALWAYS THE FORCE BEHIND MITB AND, I GUESS, THEIR DEMISE. BUT BASTARD NOISE IS THE MORE AFFECTING WORK, BECAUSE IT PURIFIED FEELING OF ANGER INTO PURE SOUND. LIKE AN ABSTRACT PAINTING THAT LETS COLOUR AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FORMS INSPIRE YOUR OWN RESPONSE, NOISE AND ITS TEXTURES AND THE SPACE INBETWEEN FORCE OUT OF THE LISTENER A RESPONSE THAT DEMANDS QUESTIONS BEING ASKED: WHAT IS THE SOUND SOURCE, WHY IS THAT SOUND SOURCE PROCESSED LIKE THAT, WHAT ARE THE POINTS OF REFERENCE, WHAT PLANET ARE THEY ON? (bio) |
 Frozen in Amber
Frozen in Amber is a side project of Kris Force of Amber Asylum and Leila Abdul-Rauf of Saros. Frozen in Amber is an inquiry into psych folk with an ancient-modern tension employing elements of both early music and post modern art forms. Signature sounds include Kriss soprano vocals and string work not dissimilar to her contributions to Amber Asylum coupled with Leilas copious and eloquent guitar work. (bio)
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Alien Anomaly
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10pm, $FREE |
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