Tecumseh

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.

[please note: this is not an Amber Asylum show -- there was a newspaper misprint]

Awesome Color
"Awesome Color (Ecstatic Peace) is the awesome ace-deuce trio that can channel the ghosts of the Stooges and MC5 without sounding like big-muffed necrophiliacs." - Detroit Metro Times

Kayo Dot
Downer bombast thick. Sustained winds, strings and subdued, serpentine lines of guitar, bass and piano lend a nearly amorphous, ambient backdrop to Driver's progressively desperate vocals before it all crescendos into a series of pounding, atonal non-riffs (in the sense that a "riff" suggests some discernably repeated figure, which this does not). Had Voivod taken their claims of Van Der Graaf Generator's influence far past the hilt, it may have sounded something like this. Leading into the song's interlude and subsequent denouement is one curious surprise that sets Kayo Dot apart from the rest of the orchestral/chamber rock pack: A tranquil, chiming guitar melody, prickly pizzicato strings and grumbling bass vile that recall Olivier Messaien's liturgically influenced compositions." - Dusted

New Thrill Parade
"The group provides a visceral, melodramatic onslaught with an undercurrent of impending disaster. If the decadents of old Berlin have a cabaret in hell, New Thrill Parade could be the house band." - SF Weekly

Litquake presents NIGHTCLUB! Readings by Bob Calhoun, Alan Black, Michael Disend, Beth Lisick, Sylvie Simmons, Michelle Richmond, David Henry Sterry, Jack Boulware
BOB CALHOUN
When he’s not demonstrating chokeholds on hapless librarians or grappling sasquatches, Bob Calhoun is a Bay Area based freelance journalist. His 2008 punk-wrestling memoir, “Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling” is a San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area bestseller.

ALAN BLACK
Alan Black is a man. He wrote Kick the Balls.

MICHAEL DISEND
Michael Disend is the author of PENMAN.

BETH LISICK
Beth Lisick is the co-founder of the monthly Porchlight Storytelling Series and the author of four books. She also teaches, leg wrestles, moms it, hoofs it, and tries to keep it together.

SYLVIE SIMMONS
Sylvie Simmons, one the best-known names in rock writing, was born and raised in London. She moved to L.A to be the correspondent for UK rock mag Sounds and a writer for US rock mag Creem. Her books include Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes, the book JG Ballard declared his favourite of 2001. Her last book was the short story collection Too Weird For Ziggy. She writes for MOJO and the UK Guardian.

MICHELLE RICHMOND
Michelle Richmond's new novel, NO ONE YOU KNOW, is about math, coffee, and San Francisco. Her previous books are the New York Times bestseller THE YEAR OF FOG, the novel DREAM OF THE BLUE ROOM and the award-winning story collection THE GIRL IN THE FALL-AWAY DRESS.

DAVID HENRY STERRY
He has written books on many subjects: from sports, to publishing, to himself, to fictitious 13 year-old boys and girls. His latest is Master of Ceremonies: a True Story of Sex, Drugs, Rollerskates and Chippendale's. His memoir, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent, is being adapted for television.

JACK BOULWARE
Jack Boulware has written a couple of books, started a couple of magazines, and is co-founder of this Litquake thingie. His next book, an oral history of Bay Area punk rock, is due next summer from Penguin. www.jackboulware.com

The Dilettantes
"On the Dilettantes' 101 Tambourines, that sound is reined in close to the bone, though, with mere hints of sitars, harmonies, and the psychedelic like. Fuzzed-out guitars with occasionally wiry, mind-blowing (or at least mind-breezing) solos abound ("Ready to Go," "Marzipan"). But by three songs in, the Dilettantes curve into that early-'80s L.A. take on the flower-power decade, the "paisley underground." The jangly guitars and raw but clear production of True West, Green on Red, et al, return on Byrdsy bits like "The Whole World" and "Everlasting Low." - SF Weekly

Federale
"Federale is like no other Portland band—and perhaps no regional band since the heyday of Eugene's Los Mex Pistols. La Rayar features both over-the-top, horn-heavy anthems ("White Cloud," "El Ray") that beg for gunfights and more thoughtful ambient pieces ("Resurrection") that call for itchy trigger fingers at high noon, but never for a minute does the listener forget that he or she is in the Wild West...Italian style." - Willamette Weekly

Countless Others
"The Countless Others match raw Who riffs with a swift, clever style (à la the Make Up) that underscores frontman Tim Tinderholt's pitch-perfect pop-screams. Since the band's idols also include the legendary Sonics and Billy Childish's Buff Medways, it's no wonder these local kids know how to make even the most lethargic hipster dance like there's hot coals in them floor tiles." - SF Weekly

The Groggs

Bare Wires
"Good things are to come from this Mustachioed Melton fellow, judging from these jagged chunks of proto-punk garage. He already proved himself in the Tanlines-rock and Snakeflower-swirl, but this looks like a great new way for him to let out that aggressive steam. Nestled firmly in a hobo-camp constructed of Jaytard or early GG, and maybe some Childish on the angry side thrown into the 4-track. Catchy hooks thru a shitty amp. Mathew's playing buckets or a drum machine; I can't tell." - Terminal Boredom

Excuses for Skipping
"They'd fit perfectly on a label like 4AD alongside acts such as Lush, the Cocteau Twins or even the more sparse and experimental Throwing Muses, and recall criminally underrated 90s-era bands like New York's Ruby Falls or Portland's The Spinanes." - The Deli Magazine

The Dazzling Strangers
The Dazzling Strangers is a loose affiliation of knob twiddlers, string benders & noise makers.

Leopold & His Fiction
A morbid cohesion of California and a gentle open plains reminiscence.

Bridez

Mythical Beast
Following a couple of great splits on Not Not Fun, Mythical Beast finally have a full length under their belts. As the fates would have it they've landed on Philly's Language of Stone, for their first album Scales. Still steeped in the darkest recesses of psych's heart, the tracks smolder with scorched earth and the black taste of doom. While atop the slow churn of guitars and the death march of drums, Corrine's vocal wail heralds in end times with the passionate force of a call to arms. But there is light at the edges of Mythical Beast's universe and though the themes are dark there's a sad hope that looms present behind the clouds of destruction." - Raven Sings the Blues

Long Legged Woman
"Long Legged Woman (I think) is somehow connected to an outfit named Butt Savage but that's a quandry for another day. On this they certainly run the gamut, the a-side entitled 'Something Is Pressing Against It From The Outside' careen's around like Eat Skull covering 'Sedan Delivery' inside a Robotussin humidor. Side B has a remarkable Xpressway like quality to it's aura. Could be outtakes for either Jefferies brother 7" or a distant demo from an early incarnation of Plagal Grind. Who knew?" -Siltblog

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

Chuck Prophet

Touched by a Janitor

Virgil Shaw