Wildildlife
"Thunderous psychedelic pop disappears into a vortex of phaser noise before returning to completely flatten you with double-bass chaos and splattery sludge. From there, WILDILDLIFE move through vast realms of skull-expanding beauty and heaviness, glacial tempos and alien soundscapes, mesmerizing dark folk pop and churning psych metal." - Stabbed in the Face

Gunslingers (France)
"This Julian Cope approved (Record Of The Month for August '08 on his Head Heritage website) band has come up with a doozy of debut here, a real humdinger from these Gallic guitarslingers. Featuring Matthieu Canaguier on "thunderbass", Antoine Hadhoannou on "prophetic drums", and most importantly, badass-in-chief Gregory Raimo on "guitar & guitar lighter, yaya preach, feedback", this trio's No More Invention sounds something like the French answer to The Heads, or White Hills, or even Mainliner. Utter aggro over the top distortodelic geetar excess. Frickin' savage. SAVAGE." - Aquarius Records

White Pee

KUSF 90.3FM

My Disco (Australia)
"Simple but dancey drums, simple, throbbing basslines and guitar used to add colour through dissonant squeals and strange rhythms. Drummer Rohan Rebeiro plays some of his most angular and danceable beats to date while Liam Andrews continues in his dry, almost spoken approach to vocals and manages to make his basslines significantly more minimalist than on their previous album, Cancer.

"Paradise" was recorded with Steve Albini and his influence is very heavily felt to the extent that My Disco are now using metal necks in their guitars (Albini uses aluminium Travis Bean guitars in his band Shellac). The production is very stripped down with few overdubs and the amount of space between instruments is quite incredible." - Sputnik Music

Hawnay Troof
The irrepressible, inimitable, Mr. Vice Cooler!

Jonesin'
with Matt from Master/Slave!

These Are Powers
"Having dubbed themselves “ghost punks,” These Are Powers pepper their Taro Tarot EP with whooshings, whishings, and “woos” aplenty. The record, however, seems haunted primarily by the specters of its members’ erstwhile bands. A creepy, throbbing Krautrock influence, characteristic of Pat Noecker’s former mates Liars, intersects with distorted post-hardcore guitars that evoke guitarist/vocalist Anna Barie’s demised Knife Skills. The record’s general “dark” ambiance brings to mind recent efforts by Magik Markers and Clockcleaner, while its thumping tribal drums seem culled from Excepter. It’s unclear, at first listen, why These Are Powers deem themselves more ghoulish than their noisy peers." - Dusted

Death Sentence: PANDA!
"Death Sentence: Panda! have a playful and unique sound. Their music draws heavily on traditional Chinese and Korean folk music, ragtime, New Orleans-style marching bands and hardcore punk. Cropped and impulsive pop songs bubble over with exuberance, forever underpinned by the group's unusual instrumentation of pitch-shifted clarinet, flute, xylophone and drums. Add to this mix Kim West's impassioned and oft-spooked vocal and Death Sentence: Panda! come into their own. - Upset the Rhythm

Work
members of 16 Bitch Pile Up and High Castle!!

Moggs

Ferocious Eagle

Shimomitsu

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

Cast of Thousands
Post-hardcore/indie rock trio that uses dynamic rhythms and boy-girl vocal harmonies to accentuate their hard melodic style. (bio)

The Paper Sons

Pink Canoes
Pink Canoes = loud. improvised. and then quiet. and still improvised. everyone plays instruments. sometimes they don't play their instruments and then play them later on. other times their instruments are knob-oriented and feed back a lot. we've been told that in rare cases, these knob-instruments ARE their instruments... some of them like cartoons. others like horror movies. one of them has a kitty named godzilla. (bio)

NVH
Noel from Comets on Fire with a Felix the Cat bag of tricks.

Cenk Ergun
A native of Turkey, Cenk Ergün is a San Francisco based composer and laptop performer.

Cenk’s chamber music has been performed by various artists such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith, Abbie Conant, Ossia, Musica Nova, and Alarm Will Sound, at venues including the Merkin Hall (John Schaefer’s “New Sounds Live”), Symphony Space (2003 Bang on a Can Marathon), and SomArts Gallery.

As a laptop performer, Cenk has collaborated with various artists including Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, William Winant.

Matty Charles
Formerly of San Francisco, now of Brooklyn, NY, Matty Charles makes a long-awaited return to town.

"Instead of songs about sadness that leave listeners feeling alone, his lyrics and smooth guitar riffs wrap their arms around his listeners and holds them tight. Charles’ latest album, Ring the Dark Atlantic, follows three previous explorations of the dark side of life. Because Charles plays a classic style of country with such precision and heart, his songs could easily be mistaken for lost gems of the 1950s." - Santa Fe Reporter

Gamble House
"Full of haunting melodies, and magical surrealism, Gamble House incorporates meticulous instrumentation and complex arrangements, creating large, dynamic shifts, with intricate vocal harmonies, and a mixture of electronics, woodwinds, and acoustic and electric elements." - Beat Crave