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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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9:30pm, $7 |
 Mist & Mast
"A sweet spell of country-tinged and harmony-heavy rock." - SF Bay Guardian
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 Harbours
"Reflective, rambling Americana along the lines of Neil Young and Wilco, headed by singer-guitarist Miguel Zelaya, whose compositions range from measured and meandering to roots rockin’ and buoyant, the kind of stuff you can shake a leg to." - Crawdaddy
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 We Is Shore Dedicated
Like in some Earth Science Pulp novel, 2 or 3 huge rocks metamorphized into a whole other specie. Sam Tsitrin, of the SF art-prog trio the Ebb and Flow, and Dmitry Ishenko, the famed NYC and Boston jazz bass player, working with engineer and drummer Chris Cline of Scrabbel made WE IS SHORE DEDICATED.
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early show w/Enablers and Shotwell Jr. - 6:30pm, $5 Enablers
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later show w/Girls, So Cow, Nodzzz - 9:30pm, $8 Girls
"Beach houses and broken hearts share equal time with hazy drug escapades up and down the golden state, all amidst a wash of heavy guitar reverb and blinding lyrical optimism."- Dazed Digital
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 So Cow
Brian Kelly was born too late. Going by the musical handle So Cow, he has the record-it-today, release-it-on-a-cheap-cassette-tomorrow aesthetic of 1983 running through his veins. Kelly is from Tuam, Ireland, and has a mess of songs that recall the spindly, propulsive electric-guitar pop of the Television Personalities, Wreckless Eric and Billy Bragg (if Bragg wasn't all serious). One of the new So Cow releases is a charming self-titled compilation that helpfully collects Kelly's best recorded moments. The other is "So Cow in a Shed," a covers EP (that can be downloaded for free) in which he tackles the Who's "Boris the Spider," 1970s Korean psychedelic folk queen Kim Jung Mi and Tracey Ullman's "They Don't Know." Go see which of them he plays at the Velvet. Just look for the guy with the guitar who looks like Corey Feldman in "Stand by Me." - Washington Post
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 Nodzzz
"Nodzzz is fun. Fun in the way that the second incarnation of the Modern Lovers and the first Weezer album are fun. Nick Lowe, Billy Childish, Feelies – you name it. The best moments on the album approach that classic garage-pop abandon, only shot through with a present tense ragged aesthetic." - Dusted
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