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 The Greatest Hits
"Fans of Red Invasion, Exploding Hearts, Star Spangles, Astro Vamps, Slash City Daggers, Napalm Stars, and Soda Pop Kids, take note. They might strike some jaded, fading Dad-Rock types as summer squatters with lavish allowances having fun while tramping 'round St. Mark's Place in their brand new the Damned t-shirts, eager to recycle all your old bubble gum and glam-trash faves-like, say, Jesse Camp and the Eighth Street Kids, or Star Star, but they've already achieved what has proven nigh-impossible to yours, these last two decades:maintaining an all for one and one for all comaraderie and deftly surfing the synergistic gestalt of five image-savvy, rockin' weirdoes, who sail under no flag, uniting for the common purpose of sailing under no flag together!" - Pure Rawk
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10pm, $FREE |
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9:30pm, $6 |
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9:30pm, $5 |
 Axton Kincaid (acoustic)
With songs about the loss of a good bartender ("Who's Gonna Pour My Whiskey When You're Gone?") or a favorite relative ("Irene, Goodnight")and the satisfying descent into bad habits ("The Things That I Do"), Songs from the Pine Room exudes country, folk, and bluegrass sounds. This album tells the stories of people who spent their childhoods crawling on barroom floors and running through wide-open spaces, who learned to ride before they could walk, and learned to drink before they could talk. (bio)
"The lovely harmonies, Howser's catchy tunes, and the overall sense of summery languor make 'Songs from the Pine Room' a most entertaining listen." - All Music Guide
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 Serious Sam Barrett (U.K.)
Serious Sam Barrett is a solo acoustic artist drawing on a vast range of traditional idioms to create his own unique sound. His songwriting contains echoes of the great blues masters such as Bukka White and Blind Willie Mctell but also of American folk and country artists such as the Carter Family. Raised in the English folk tradition, Sam also draws heavily on English, Irish and Scottish folk music and arranges his own unique versions of traditional songs taking influence from such luminaries as Ewan Mcoll, Tim Hart and the Watersons. (bio)
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Cult of Sue Todd
"The San Francisco country-punk quintet rattles off six songs that include Southern-fried banjo ditties, foot-stomping sing-a-longs, and filthy lo-fi noise. If that sounds completely ridiculous, well, it is - and that's half the fun. These guys and gal have a wry sense of humor that keeps you cracking through the husk of these jagged tunes to the sugary, pop-heavy center." - The Owl Magazine
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9:30pm, $7 |
 Colossal Yes
Widely known as the ‘drummer dude’ in Comets on Fire, Utrillo Kushner’s musical talents range far beyond the drunken-master-style wailing he unleashes on any given night with the Comets. Having tickled the ivories for close to a decade, Kushner assumes command of the keys in Colossal Yes and steps it up as a full-fledged piano man. If you haven’t guessed yet, this is the ‘70s. The idealized, mythological ‘70s, where you’re not sick of great songs because play-it-to-death AOR stations haven’t been invented yet. Think Badfinger, Harry Nilsson, Procol Harum, The Band. The true essence of rock, stripped to its essentials by virtue of its vainglorious indulgences, existing forever as the absolute articulation of the form. Colossal Yes is the greatest affirmation of them all, bigger than big, and there’s no joke behind the smiling.
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Snakeflower 2
"With slight nuances of Memphis heavy hitters like the subtle twang of the Reigning Sound loosely tied into their pop rockets, they intertwine melodic T.Rex-isms and obscure Electric Prune-ings with post-garage songwriting so well, it's almost creating it's own sub-genre as we speak. Just like the original wave of 60s primitives who blew their minds wide open with actual instrumentation and developed clever angles of the original rock'n roll formula, the lineage from Snake Flower's humble beginnings to their current blossoming force of annihilation is short but effectively succinct." - Victim of Time
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 Static Static
"Electric paranoid punk crunch & buzzsaw drone-throb done just right by one of the only saving graces of Los Angeles, Static Static. Now with Leslie of the Red Aunts on drums, these two SUICIDE bomb-style tracks deliver surprisingly sparse and demonically danceable hits for the soundtrack to that gothic slaughterhouse you were always afraid to peek into, but now are left without option."
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 Tea Elles
Great new SF rock quartet sporting dual guitar attack and triple vocal swankness.
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Pwrfl Power
The result is PWRFL POWER: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique. (bio)
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 Bachelorette (NZ)
New Zealand's BACHELORETTE mainly uses keyboards and punctuates her songs with guitar, bass and drums. The result is sparse and entracing soundscapes, multi-layered vocals and explosive choruses. (bio)
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