Hunx & His Punx
Trash pop maestro extraordinaire!!

Dreamdate
They make Tiger Trap sound like Total Shutdown!!!

"As the unaffected and uneffected electric guitars strum away happily and the drums keep things simple with an uncluttered beat, you might find yourself hummin' along with these gals' warm, smooth female vocals. Nice." - Aquarius Records

Shannon & the Clams
"In the "fart for fart's sake" subset of the garage-rock scene, Bay Area bands are leading the charge. Like Nobunny and Personal & the Pizzas, Shannon & the Clams are all about the fun of playing in a band, not about "making it" or "rehearsing"—they'll never harsh your buzz by reaching for the brass ring of indie crossover appeal. What separates Shannon & the Clams from their beach-party buddies is the fuzzed-out soul they bring to the trash-prom aesthetic." - The Chicago Fucking Reader

Amazing Embarrasonic Human Karaoke Machine
The Amazing Embarrassonic Human Karaoke Machine is an interactive rockstar fantasy experience that allows you to front a real, live, 3 piece rock band. They've got guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, a stage and a repertoire of over 500 songs, but without you they are nothing but a crappy jazz/fusion instrumental headache.

Hot Fog
At the dawn of the '70s, hard rock and early heavy metal were almost completely dominated by British innovators. Hot Fog was one of the few American bands to try picking up the gauntlet, playing a new and more bad-ass brand of proto-metal that was explicitly indebted to their British contemporaries. Hot Fog gained minor notoriety, and later major cult status, as both early practitioners of heavy metal and hard rock. There are touches of progressive and blues rock in their work, especially on the early tracks. But there's little here that a head-banger couldn't immediately relate to, which may serve as a recommendation or a warning, depending upon your taste. The band fused the gothic doom of Black Sabbath with the riffs and speed of Led Zeppelin, as well as adding a vicious and unheard of three-lead guitar attack; in doing so, they set the pace for much popular heavy metal from 1975 until 1985 Hot Fog was first formed in 1976 by bassist Allan Moon, who would soon join up with rhythm guitarist Mike Drake, drummer Donny Newenhouse, and vocalist/guitarists Tommi Kazi (real name: Tim Mitchell) and Bob Reed (real name: Bob).

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

World Record Appreciation Society
Want to set your own world record? The Universal Record Database (URDB.org) is bringing its monthly World Record Appreciation Society from NYC for a special one-off at the Hemlock Tavern. A lineup of performers will be invited onstage to set  any world record they want. Records established at previous events include "Largest Group Of People Involved In Shaving Off One Man's Beard", "Fastest Time To Open A Bag Of Skittles And Sort Them By Color" and the legendary "Most Images Of Fish Sandwiches Looked At In One Minute". 

Date Nite

Edmund Welles
The world’s only composing group of four bass clarinetists, Edmund Welles are purveyors of Heavy Chamber Music. Combining equal parts from jazz, classical, and rock, guided by the deep sonority and expressive range of the bass clarinet. Muzak for conspiracy theorists, songs of Lunacy & Purpose. Neo-gothic subterranean pseudo-new music and de-jazzed riff rock. This kind of "style" list can be challenging (i.e annoying) to read, I know, but the sound of this group is, as objectively as possible, very hard to describe using conventional terms and genres.

It’s a lot of bass clarinet, it’s heavy and driving, dense yet accessible.

Ambassador of Trouts
The Ambassador of Trouts is a one man band. It is Adrian Gormley playing sax, bass clarinet and clarinet along with a laptop.

Nehemiah St. Danger

Golden Bolts of Tone
"A skewed blend of folk, jazz, and free music There’s the slowly modulating progressions of 'Song of Solomon', all breathtaking tension and no release, the free jazz of 'Solar Flare', the avant-garde meets chamber music excursion of 'Unforgiven', the smooth vocal harmonies of 'Sundowning' and the sunny, straightforward pop with vague hints of Bacharach." - Crawdaddy

Beth Lisick
The girl for whom the phrase "It Girl" was invented, Beth Lisick has published poems, essays, a short fiction collection, and also wrote a weekly nightlife column for SF Gate for eight years. Her stage and screen collaborations with writer/performer Tara Jepsen have yielded some uncomfortable moments, the most recent being a short film called Diving for Pearls which played the international film festival circuit. She also co-organizes the Porchlight Storytelling Series, a monthly show for amateur storytellers in San Francisco. Her book Everybody Into the Pool, was a New York Times bestseller and made Entertainment Weekly's list of Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2005. Her latest book about her adventures in the self-help biz is called Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, 10 Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone.

Asa Ransom
New York City's ASA RANSOM: "dance-inspired, dramatic style of instrumentation is upbeat and delivered with vibrant intensity. Vocals drift through an epic of phantom sounds. Melodic bass and feral drums rumble under chiming guitar and percussive keyboard, conjuring at once memories of the east and textures of the future." (bio)

The Old-Fashioned Way
Crowded around their sage leader, the OFW give off the ease of a family band, though no member remotely resembles another. They’re Dickensian orphans, then, who’ve gathered to put on a minstrel show — and who’ve had to find a sound to fit their strange batch of instruments. The two red-blooded guitars and the drum kit give the songs a sturdy rock core when the band wishes it. But there are also, at points, a Paul McCartney–style toy bass, an accordion, a triangle, a wailing keyboard, and a melodica, which pile into a haunted and seductive sort of antipop, mournful and klezmerish on a track like "Robot on Fire" but boppy, harmonic, and needing a restroom on "Take Your Fluids."
--SF Bay Guardian

The Parents
a four-piece twee rock band formed by Chicago-expats.

Si, Claro
"Brian Girgus is less concerned with the noise and dynamics and snark of that side of indie rock, and instead focuses on simple solid
songcraft. The two track are both straight ahead, verse chorus verse, acoustic they sounded a bit folky, but fleshed out with an actual band, they sound surprisingly lush, multiple guitars, strummed acoustic and sharper electric, some piano here and there, the drumming solid and swinging, and Girgus' vocals sweet and earnest, the lyrics are simple, sincere, the delivery plaintive, perfectly suited to the strum and jangle and shuffle that backs it up. A sweetly solid chunk of modern indie jangle pop." - Aquarius Records

The Pets
"The only reason to get out of bed is for fun. The Pets hit the nail on the head with their song "I Want Fun," a virtual anthem for any slacker who spends daytime hungover, only to repeat the process because nightlife is everything. Sound all too familiar? Enjoy the resurgence of San Fran punk psychedelia by way of the Pets and two other Oakland bands. Buzzer and Bare Wires will take you through a bit of a time warp to the 1970s." - SF Bay Guardian

Buzzer

Bare Wires