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 We Be The Echo
"We Be the Echo is an American instrumental rock band from San Francisco. They play a blend of math rock, brutal prog, punk, jazz and heavy metal with dub influenced bass lines. The band's sound is based on melodic and rhythmically challenging short songs that often incorporate shred guitar." - Wikipedia
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 Martin Bisi
Martin Bisi, has been an influential NY rocker since the 80s, not only with his own songs and performances, but also recording classic albums by Sonic Youth, Material, Herbie Hancock (Rockit), Africa Bambaata, The Dresden Dolls, Swans, John Zorn, Helmet, White Zombie, Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus, Serena Maneesh, Ex-Models and others. In his own band, Martin Bisi [band], he plays guitar and sings. His new album veers between moody, psychedelic, poppy and harder rock. The sound is mostly dense and rich in instruments and multiple vocals, but then also edgy and quirky. Bisi's persona can be raw and confrontational, as well as funny and self effacing. The songs are mostly entertaining vignettes of love and obsession in NYC.
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The Great Dictator
with Anne Eickelberg from Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and Miles Stegall of Neung Phak. |
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9:30pm, $6 |
 Lucky Jesus
Featuring some Ex-Boyfriends personnel, "this queercore foursome has a deep love of punky hooks that stretch back from the Undertones all the way through to their San Francisco brethren/sistren Imperial Teen." - Frontiers
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A Night of Short Sets with Pillows and friends
featuring performances by Pillows, Suki Okane (Junior Showmanship), Sue Hutchison (Shemob), Darryl Pretto (Porch Flies), Dashing Suns, Tight Stool (Richard Marshall of Turks) and Christopher Wu (Old Fashioned Way)
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early show w/Penny Dreadfuls and The Fixt -- 6:00pm, $5 Penny Dreadfuls
The Penny Dreadfuls are a punk band from Reno, NV.
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 The Fixt
The Fixt instrumentation includes one electric guitar, an electric bass, and a drum kit, along with vocals. In the early days of Fixt rock, musical virtuosity was often looked on with suspicion. The Fixt is rock and roll by people who don't have very much skills as musicians but still feel they need to express themselves through music. Fixt vocals sometimes sound nasal, and are often shouted instead of sung in a conventional sense. Complicated guitar solos are considered self-indulgent and unnecessary, although basic guitar breaks are common. Guitar parts tend to include highly distorted power chords. A wild, "gonzo" attack is sometimes employed. Bass guitar lines are often basic and used to carry the song's melody. Drums typically sound heavy and dry, and often have a minimal set-up.
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 Baaddd (Australia)
Cyndii Valentine shares the stage with Emily Hasselhoof making (mostly) instrumental electro pop, that’s coated in whipped cream and dripping with chocolate sauce. Their songs are a force field of electronic pickups, screeches and messy beats worked up into a frenzy of dizzy pop. Live the girls shout and scream over the tracks, gyrating and dancing like sexy creatures from outaspace.
Without vocals, most music like this can sound plain, but Baaddd somehow constantly keep things moving, placing layer upon layer of samples and super slick electronics together to form a kaleidoscopic beast. - Einstein Music Journal
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 VC4
The Vice Cooler 4!!!
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9:00pm, $6 |
 Schande
"Where have all the indie rock princesses gone? Jen Schande is cut from the same cloth as Liz Phair and Tanya Donelly." - Spin.com
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9:30pm, $8 |
 The Hunches
The farewell tour!!
The Hunches are Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering ragged-edged rock 'n' roll with such devastating hidden melody, one is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades. Having released two previous full-lengths, The Hunches are back with Exit Dreams, their third (and possibly final) album that captures their fiery live form on wax once more.
It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery and lo-fi freak-out fugginess, the perfect follow-up to Hobo Sunrise--a raging riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, and shot-to-shit synapses sizzling with amplified excess.
Not that Exit Dreams is a one-dimensional thrill. There's much more to The Hunches than simple shock bombast. Over the course of twelve tracks, the outfit navigates styles known to explorers of under-the-radar rock, each time twisting the tried-and-true into forms best-fitting their singular focus. This is Birthday Party hijacking Big Star's 3rd and juicing adrenaline into their eyeballs; it's the give-a-fuck Velvets getting loose and pissing off the neighbors while The Wipers chuck stones at their windows; it's the top-up for the tinnitus that only just wore off some four years after the last time The Hunches rode through this town.
The Hunches might be departing us, but the four-piece are leaving with a bang sure to raze these walls to the ground. It's time to set fire to everything and dance inside the encircling flames, facing fate with a wicked grin.
"[The Hunches] blast extremely hard, post-core, thrash-noise chunklets into The Cramps' platonic framework, add vocal weirdness, strange raunch-ballad action, and really knuckle the whole mess into a bloody pulp. They even cover the Electric Eels' "Accident." And the result are one helluva beautiful wreck." --Mojo
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