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9:00pm, $7 |
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 No One and the Nobodies
"It should come as no surprise that San Francisco's No One & the Nobodies is working with Greg Ashley on its debut record. The band has touches of the artistically ramshackle, folksy psych that Ashley's released under various guises (most notably with Gris Gris and his solo records). I really like what I've heard from this group of Nobodies (Thomas Hall, Mario Diaz, Stryker Matthews, and Owen Watson), whose soft-focus rock also carries in it hints of Vetiver. Remarkably, every song on the group's MySpace page is worth a listen, but I particularly like the scattershot sentiments on "Old Nick's Getting Lonely," a ballad comprising a wistful croon, perky whistling, and excellent guitar and organ grooves. It's the kind of tune that sounds like it was made before the writer could fully shake out all the cobwebs, making for a dusty, melancholy ditty that's fuzzy (and warm) in all the right places." - Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Pontiak
Thrill Jockey recording artistes trafficking in burned-up blues, drone folk, and heavy metal applesauce.
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 Da Bears
San Diego pop experimentalists with the added distinction of being selected as one of The Onion's "Worst Band Names" of 2007!!!
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9:30pm, $8 |
 Cloud Archive
"Floating through dreamy ambient passages and heavy crashing passages alike, Cloud Archive’s music can definitely bear the title of post-rock. Simply calling it beautiful is much simpler and more apt. Which isn’t to say that every single song is composed entirely of beautiful melodies or textures. It’s the type of beautiful music that hurts you." - Wiretap Music
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 Woven
LA band (and CSI: Miami soundtrack contributors) reconciling Aphex Twin and Pink Floyd by way of soft, glitchy static and melodic rock harmony.
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9:00pm, $6 |
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 Joel Murach & the Low Rollers
"Murach's songs tend to expand out from a particular moment of longing into broad vistas of emotion. His songs bend toward beautiful sing-along harmonies, then trickle down to quiet conclusions." - SF Weekly
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early show 7pm, $5 // PRS at 10pm, free |
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 The Points
"Seattle" "thick-ass" "fuzzed-out guitars" "driving beat" "punk-chanted vocals."
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9:00pm, $6 |
 I See Hawks in LA
"Their songs are rife with mournful social commentary, environmental tragedy, wily humor, outsider guile, and political undercurrent. Seldom has there been an album with such joyous music-making, such corrosive, acid-etched lyrics." - No Depression
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9:00pm, $7 |
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9:00pm, $10 |
 Thrones
"Thrones is a phenomenon, a one-man programmed Heavy Metal phenomenon in which a former member of heavy icons The Melvins and Earth has chosen to lead his audience to Endarkenment by the most circuitous and hazardous road imaginable. Not for Thrones the obvious Sabbath, Kiss and Alice Cooperisms of so many of his contemporaries. Instead, armed mainly with a hugely overdriven (and be-horned) BC Rich bass, a variety of Vocoders and multitudinous other vocal FX from deep within ancestral sepulchres." - Julian Cope
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 Common Eider King Eider
"With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) has created an exquisite album that sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn."
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