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)

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

Telehorse Uma
Drone/noise/punk influnced from Baltimore. Influenced by FLIPPER, Albert Ayler, Upsidedown Cross, and Boredoms.

Hot IQ's
Denver trio Hot IQs boast witty lyrics, shake-your-knee hooks, a hot female drummer and songs that make you want to dance through an avalanche.” – Spin

"The IQs’ strongest asset, however, might be vocalist Eli Mishkin. His theatrical, baritone swagger carries every song to unexpected melodic heights..." - CMJ

Rocknroll Adventure Kids
"These boys preach the good word of cockabilly music — or hillbilly country punk made by city kids and punctuated by lots of hootin', hollerin', and cockadoodledoos. RRAK are a strong-as-liquor, love-it-or-hate-it proposition. That bargain includes whiplash-fast tracks with lyrics you'll have memorized by the second chorus and a frontman who hurtles into the crowd until he's stirred up a primal frenzy." - Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly

Bob Burns & the Breakups
Hotshit blistering garage punker Wisconsinites! Fast and furious and with the requisite hooks and energy found in the genre's best. - Plastic Idol

Young & Natural

Brothers & Sisters
"Austin-based eight-peice who sound like Big Star jamming with Neil young (New Life) and The Jayhawks (Without You), The Mamas and the Papas, Byrds, even Ray Davies in a swamp. Country rock ballads and pop perfection, with imperfections in the home-made, one take sound to make it all the more engaging." - Mojo, June 2007

Jeffrey Luck Lucas
"Jeffrey Luck Lucas's brand of folk is spooked and sorrowful, treading slowly forward but often looking back. On his new album, the Bay Area musician sings of heartbreak and loss through a thin layer of metaphor, his age-burnished voice buoyed by strings, piano, and tasteful brushstrokes of pedal steel." - SF Bay Guardian

Chrome w/Helios Creed
"Lauded by critics and fans as one of the pioneers of industrial rock, the San Francisco outfit coupled psych-punk and electrodub with lyrical themes of alienation, paranoia, and '50s sci-fi cinema." - SF Bay Guardian

"In the late 1970's, under the innocuous name of Chrome, two San Franciscans — Damon Edge (vocals, synths, etc.) and Helios Creed (vocals, guitar, etc.), with part-time rhythm-section assistance by the Stench brothers of Pearl Harbor's band — created an often awesome series of pre-industrial LPs that explore a dark state of mind only hinted at by '60s psychedelia. Taking cues from Suicide, Can, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Residents and anyone who ever made home tapes in their bedroom, the pair's dense, chaotic science-fiction epics are vivid vinyl nightmares — a thick blend of mechanical noises, filtered, twisted voices and fantastic, bizarre lyrics — that flesh out a frightening world both absorbing and repellent." - Trouser Press

"A mighty industrial metal scraping noize devolves into a 1973 Stooges riff that sounds like it was recorded in a tin shack in 1957, cheapo drums start crashing away like The Trashmen. The only lyric you can make out is the sneered "I dunno whyyy!" at the end of every line. After 90 seconds a Faust-like dissolve through grinding, chattering zounds, creepy moog organ, analog tapes running backwards and flipping off the spindles . . . . the noise slowly fades as a chugging metal riff builds and BUILDS -- with acid lead guitar flourishes and a tambourine accompaniment! The jam that follows exists somewhere between NEU! and Judas Priest. Another abrubt edit, bells & scraping, then a new trashcan beat with hyper-distorted barely audible vocals buzzing like a bee and whining like a dog. An occasional spiral circus guitar riff, miscellaneous clanking and feedback. The beat changes again into yet another funky robot trashcan groove, with new squelchy guitar interjections, still many miscellaneous strands of noise burbling in & out of the brew whenever it feels right. So the vibe created is definitely very Sci-Fi, but no gleaming clean surfaces from Beyond The Year 2000 here. It's a bit like in the original "Alien" movie (also from 1979 coincidentally), where the technology is "advanced" but the space ships are dank & dirty and all the equipment keeps breaking down. Science will not only bring forth smiling nuclear families with robot maids flying around in hover cars, but also ever-more-crowded metropolitan slums and squalor and new designer chemicals to help stave off (or feed?) dread and paranoia. One of my personal Top 25 albums of all time." - Julian Cope

Battleship
"Soak in the harsh guitar squalls, pulverizing drums, and scum-coated garage-rock trash production." - East Bay Express

"Some people wait endlessly for bands like Oakland, CA quartet Battleship to come along and wield the past like a hammer on present rockaroll staleness. They lift the snot outta 90s punk pricks like Le Shok and Skull Kontrol and shake the coffin jitters outta JAKS and Gravity-style spazzcore like Antioch Arrow, making caustic, rickety, huge noise that threatens to derail at any moment. Excitement for those of us unafraid to live in the moment. Really fucking tremendous panic rock." - Dusted

SoCalled
SoCalled (Montreal, Quebec) is experimental hip hop mixed with klezmer and traditional Jewish song influence.

"SoCalled, AKA Josh Dolgin, is again showing why he is one of the most acclaimed producers around. His second album, GhettoBlaster, is the reinterpretation of Jewish music through hip-hop. Digging deep into the crates to find samples that would accurately reflect him, SoCalled has assembled a unique collection of breaks from Yiddish theatre, cantorial music and a variety of other Jewish songs. The contrast of the deeply powerful traditional singing on (Rock the) Belz with the breezy rhymes of the MCs pulls at you from so many more directions than your average hip-hop song. It is SoCalled’s ability to highlight the commonalties in the tones of various languages that make this project a universal, cross national, linguistic success." - Jive Magazine

"One of the most deliciously demented minds in beat science." - Village Voice

Zoyres
Zoyres performs original and Eastern European traditional music (klezmer, Balkan, etc.), often in quite untraditional ways, with new arrangements and an improvising/experimental bent. (bio)

Charming Hostess
Charming Hostess is three women in a whirl of eerie harmony, hot rhythm and radical braininess. Our music is intensely physical, rooted in the body--voices and vocal percussion, handclaps and heartbeats, sex-breath and silence. We live where Jewish and African diasporas collide, incorporating doo-wop, Pygmy counterpoint, Balkan harmony and Andalusian melody. Our music is deeply engaged with text and with questions of authenticity, montage, and the effect of music on non-verbal languages. (bio)