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9:30pm, $6 |
 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
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9:00pm, $6 |
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 Physics of Meaning
"'Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight' is the second album by Daniel Hart's loose musical collective, Chapel Hill's The Physics of Meaning. Sometime violinist to St. Vincent, John Vanderslice and—more to the point—The Polyphonic Spree, Hart delivers a moody, dynamic epic here, its swooning, fevered, 12-song course often seeming better-suited for the theater than the club. Like the Spree, Hart likes big tapestries and stages and screens. But if the Spree once made Jesus Christ Superstar, Hart's latest is Tristan und Isolde.
Indeed, this richly orchestrated rock-opera focuses on a pair of seemingly star-crossed lovers, who, in a familiar glyph, discover each other only to be pulled apart. Hart employs 20 additional instrumentalists and almost as many vocalists on an album whose scope and dynamics suggest a major motion picture. Its ambition recalls the progressive rockers of the '70s, and Hart is, not coincidentally, also a student of classical music, fashioning several moments of elegant delicacy showcasing such influence." - Indy Week
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10pm, $FREE |
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9:00pm, $5 |
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9:00pm, $6 |
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9:00pm, $7 |
 The Lickets
The collective is described as a "transcendental mini-orchestra", and their work has been called ""luminously beautiful," "haunting, eerie, and altogether unique." It's bizarre classical music that's repetitious and hypnotic in the way that Phillip Glass can sometimes be. Its also occasionally elevating. Their style also fits in the compositional and performance context of both experimental folk and avant garde jazz movements of the late 1960s, particularly those of John and Alice Coltrane, and incorporates elements that are hypnotic and similar to that of Balinese trance music. (bio)
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KUSF deejays from 6-9pm, FREE // Thank You, Mi Ami show - 9:30pm, $8, $8 |
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Thank You, Mi Ami, Jaws show - 10pm, $8 Thank You
Thrill Jockey recording artistes from Baltimore.
"Preferring to mate the squawk of post-punk with the stately intricacy of egg-headed prog, this trio has presided over a great debut and a host of exhilarating live sets that have touched on the patchwork eccentricity of folks like This Heat while speeding up the nagging rhythmic accents of groups like the Ex. At a time when we’ve long since passed the saturation point for all things mining that same dead horse of twitchy post-punk, Thank You’s mastery and invigoration of the form is no small feat." - Dusted
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 Mi Ami
Featuring two key members of Dischord's hyper-percussive Black Eyes (Daniel Martin-McCormick on vocals and guitar, and Jacob Long on bass) as well as Damon Palermo on drums, Mi Ami builds on the promise of Black Eyes' spastic energy and renowned live performances, but steers it into a more focused, volatile, and personal direction. (bio)
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9:30pm, $8 |
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