The Evening Episode
Sacto's The Evening Episode are fueled by a desire to mix organic rock with computer-generated electronic music.

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Punk Rock Sideshow w/DJ Tragic & the Duchess of Hazard, every Monday

Real Live Tigers
Let me tell you what it's like. it's like finding money in an old coat. it's like finding a reason to smoke. it was always there, you just didn't know. i want a beard of bees before i die. i would have done the same things, even if there was no death. i didn't write that, but i feel the same. don't wait up for me. - Tony Presley, Real Live Tigers, Austin, TX

Tinyfolk
Tinyfolk is from Bloomington, Indiana, and plays experimental folk-pop songs on baritone ukulele in the vein of Daniel Johnston. This is his
first national tour.

Toromiro
Toromiro (Philadelphia and San Francisco-based songwriter William Johnston) will also be performing his elegantly layered electro-folk compositions.

Japanther
"Anyone who's thumbed through Get in the Van — Henry Rollins's disturbing volume of journal entries penned during his Black Flag days — might be troubled by the thought of cramming their rust-covered hoopty five band members tight before shuttling around the country for a three-month road ramble. Not Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly of Japanther. The duo have made highway life one of their priorities since forming in 2001 and have toted their lo-fi bubblegum noise to some of the most unconventional spaces along the way: bathrooms, boats, street corners, and freeway overpasses (and a planned off-the-grid performance at the Albany Landfill, Buchanan Street at Highway 80, Albany, on May 31). Tearing through raw, energized sets with three-stringed bass thunder, dime-store Casio SK-1s, cheerleaderlike drums, and sing-alongs shouted through phone receivers, the twosome channel the Ramones and Daniel Johnston simultaneously.

Though technically a rock band, Japanther has made quite an impact on the art world as well. In April 2006, Aquadoom — a synchronized swimming troupe — invited the pair to do a live score for the team's Dangerous When Wet performance at New York University. Japanther also helped bring artist Dan Graham and company's punk rock puppet opera Don't Trust Anyone Over 30 to the Whitney Biennial 2006 before going on to create an updated, giant-puppet show version of the duo's 2003 album, Dump the Body in Rikki Lake (Menlo Park). And the Brooklyn bike nuts show no signs of slowing down." - Chris Sabbath, SF Bay Guardian

Intelligence
"Seattle, Washington's Lars Finberg is unstoppable and responsible for some of the best music blasting out of the underground at the moment. Lars structures the A-Frames' post-apocalyptic pop world where he handles drum duties. Then there's the diabolical Dipers, where he throws down that lo-fi noisy rumble of burning trash and car-wreck rock wiping the shit blood all over your blue suede shoes. But his main vehicle, The Intelligence, combines the best of all worlds in a wonderland of sonic horizons, poppy dance field rock, and if ya have time to think, brilliant lyrics. Intelligence utilize melodic acoustic guitars with wire-cutting electric riffs, crushed keyboards, jumping jack fun drums and singalong vocal melodies. The recording sounds like they crawl inside a beat-up trashcan to bang out the hits while tumbling down a granite mountain covered in volcanic ash." - Midheaven.com

Sic Alps
"Man, I don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to Sic Alps & the name & the spellin 'n all that but they sure are one helluva great band! Angular in style, aggregate in sound, they employ all sorts of ramshackle hooks & motifs that resembles somethin to the effect of what 'Chairs Missing' might've sounded like if it'd been recorded by The Strapping Fieldhands ( just after 'Discus'). I'd never, ever thought of nothin like that before & now I can't stop. What an odd pedigree! But it works. On the other hand, sayin it's like Wire doin 'Wattle & Daub'....that makes no sense at all. It's like Sik Alps; THAT JUST DON"T CUT IT. Sic Alps.....that's right. Just Sic Alps." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog

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Chris Garneau
"Over spare piano, cello, and drums, the singer's haunting, androgynous voice sounds like a choirboy crooning a lullaby, albeit a vengeful one. His debut, 'Music for Tourists,' produced by Duncan Sheik, has all of the requisite hallmarks of the sensitive singer-songwriter genre––introspective lyrics, wistful arrangements, and a mournful tone—but it's the 24-year-old's voice that distinguishes him. Like Jeff Hanson and Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, Garneau has a high, feathery falsetto. It's the male flip side to gravelly-voiced women such as Thalia Zedek and Marianne Faithfull. While whiskey-and-cigarette-scarred voices communicate rough experience and survival, Garneau uses his fey, whispery delivery to convey confusion and alienation. With cotton-mouthed enunciation and swallowed lines, he lends the simplicity of his words an obliqueness that places the emphasis on what he isn't saying. Brooklynite Garneau is autobiographical in the vein of Pink Moon–era Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell's Blue period. He's a selective exhibitionist." - Seattle Weekly

Laura Weinbach

The High Strung
"Detroit-by-way-of-Brooklyn underground sound dealers the HIGH STRUNG come out blazing with a brand of potent rock sounds that run the line from 1960s-inspired psych pop to punk-infused garage rock smash-up." - Midheaven.com

Apache
Birdman recording artistes APACHE play debaucherous psych-soaked rock n' roll. With members of Genghis Khan and The Cuts.

Brimstone Howl
From Nebraska comes BRIMSTONE HOWL (Alive Records) with a furious mix of 60's influenced garage and old school punk that has been alternately described as "scuzzy blues-ish punk gone Killed by Death, like a lo-fi, art damaged early Gun Club," and "'60s blues-based rock 'n' roll played Billy Childish style-super loose, raw, and f*d-up." Cranking out several 45s in one year, including one engineered by Jay Reatard, they've toured and played with bands such as the Black Lips, Radio Moscow, Boston Chinks, Gris Gris, and the Black Keys. Delivering in-your-face live performances, they describe themselves as "Guitar sluts and hook thieves with hearts of chrome. (bio)

Dragon Boy Suede
DRAGON BOY SUEDE (Howard Kremer) has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Comedy Central’s Premium Blend as well as at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, the Montreal Comedy Festival, as part of the Comedians of Comedy and at top comedy clubs around the world. He just performed at the Coachella Festival in April, 2007, and his half-hour comedy special aired on Comedy Central on April 6th. As Dragon Boy Suede, he performs and records filthy, funny, infectious rap. They say the average man thinks about sex once every six seconds...these rhymes will hold them over for the other five. (bio)

Schaffer the Darklord
Schaffer the Darklord (or STD) is an entertainer from New York with an act comprised of rap songs and stand-up comedy. From his many years as a drummer in groups like SF-based noise metal behemoths Burmese, STD harvests material dealing with sex, drugs, and rock bands. Imagine a Frankenstein-esque monster assembled from equal parts Prince, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Hicks, Eminem and Darth Vader...all rolled into a jaded rock and roll ex-patriot, covering topics from Jesus zombies to post-apocalyptic clone sex. (bio)

(DBS vs. STD silk-screened poster giveaway!!)
The first 25 people paid to each show will receive a FREE copy of this silk-screened poster (approx. 30" x 20") designed by renowned SF graphic artiste Lil' Tuffy. For the rest of you, the poster will be on sale for $10 a pop.

Sergio Iglesias & the Latin Love Machine
"An energetic but altogether sloppy act. The stage could hardly contain the rambunctious group of seven, outfitted in tight blue jeans and black nipple-less muscle tees as they danced around, constantly rotating their instruments while each member played to his own beat." - Performer Magazine

Evil Hippie (Mexico City)
Mexico's evil hippie is the work of a lunatic locked in a cage with only yello and the residents to listen to. The flipside is harsher and harks back to the day of throbbing gristle and bands of that era. (bio)