Personal & the Pizzas
Having jumped ship from their corporate task-masters at Little Caesars, come celebrate their recent signing to Domino's!!

Coconut Coolouts
Seattle's Coconut Coolouts: "probably the best partyband on the planet today." - DJ Rick, KDVS

Impediments
"'70s-inspired punk 'n' roll like they were the bastard sons of Jabbers-era GG Allin stealing from The Dead Boys' stash of dope. In a musical climate riddled with dudes who still dig Morrissey a little too much, it's refreshing to hear these teenage lobotomies play the kind of songs that make you want to cut class and spark a schwaggy doob under the bleachers." - Thrasher Magazine

Imagine
One-man acapella air band enacting the entire spectacle of a stadium rock show to a soundtrack that only he can hear in his headphones. Last seen on the Hemlock stage opening for Neil Hamburger, Imagine "The" Band must be seen to be believed and will then never be forgotten.

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

High Castle

So Many Dynamos
"St. Louis' So Many Dynamos have their feet firmly planted on the same shaky, unstable ground as Les Savy Fav and Q and Not U. The tracks on their sophomore release, Flashlights, feature upbeat tempos and driving melodies bursting through chaotic arrangements. Most of these songs are brimming with excitement, at times pushing things into post-punk territory. In addition, there are curveballs galore, where the band turns a song on its ear, breaking into something completely different for seconds at a time. Take "Search Party", for example. It begins as a jangly indie rock song with a dance beat and catchy guitar leads. Stovall's shouted vocals carry the verses to a sing-along chorus before the song transforms into a series of blasts of percussion, squawking horns, and group shouts." - Pitchfork

Cast Spells
"Better known as Maps & Atlases’ chief guitar-noodler, David Davison’s Cast Spells project is the sonic antithesis to his math-based day job. More focused on song than polyrhythmic oscillations, debut EP Bright Works and Baton embraces country twanging and a traditionalist take on American storytelling." - Spins and Needles

Never Knows Best
SF post-punk combination.

Pink Mountain
featuring...

Kyle Bruckmann (Lozenge) - analog synth, double reeds

Sam Coomes (Quasi, Blues Goblin) - keyboards, vocals

Gino Robair (Tom Waits, Splatter) - drums, prepared piano, violin

Scott Rosenberg (P.A.F.) - reeds

John Shiurba (Eskimo, Molecules) - guitar, bass

Eyes

Moe! Staiano

Pterodactyl
Brooklyn's Pterodactyl..."their newest release, Worldwild, is the culmination of a long Pterodactyl adventure, an art-rock odyssey through lush pastures of layered vocal harmonies, mountainous rhythms and thick, dark forests of fuzzy, piercing guitars."

Pterodactyl is Joe and Matt, Zach (Ex Models, Knyfe Hyts, The Seconds), and Jesse (Twin Powers, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth).

Bridez
"Bridez front woman, and the cover star of this here 7″ single, is none other then Liza Thorn, who was responsible for unleashing a thrilling and damaging whirlwind of fierce energy here in the Bay Area with her previous band So So Many White White Tigers. While Bridez is a much more song based endeavor, there is still that reckless energy and dirty quality to their songs that makes this such a fun, fiery and righteously sleazy debut. We hear healthy doses of Pussy Galore, early Hole and the early recordings of The Runaways." - Aquarius Records

Gowns
"Red State is Gowns’ full-length debut, the product of two years of working and reworking by Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla, Gowns’ founding duo, and percussionist Corey Fogel. Their music is not without antecedent; Amps for Christ, of which Anderson was once a member, is an obvious precursor, and Gowns certainly have like-minded compatriots working in various American outposts as I type. Red State, though, is an album with a particular sound, like the sun-bleached Polaroids of one’s family, documenting personal exercises in communal cultural contexts. Melodies lie obscured under a matte of cracked electronics, trains of thought dissipate before reaching a resolution, and thick streams of static and noise disturb states of ghostly beauty." - Dusted

Urinals
"While the Urinals never really had the same clout as Black Flag, the Germs or X in the late '70s and early '80s, there's no doubt the three-piece group was a force in the Los Angeles punk rock scene. Feverishly launching one two-chorded dose of thunder after the next, the band enjoyed a bit of success on its own Happy Squid Records banner, before rechristening itself as art rock combo 100 Flowers. The band's presence can be felt today in groups today like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and No Age." - SF Gate

Brilliant Colors
"The SF trio surfs the latest wave of girlish lo-fi pop with sweet, primal punchiness." - SF Bay Guardian

I Love My Label (Stiff Records Tribute!)

Trespassers William
"A few weeks after receiving Trespassers William's third album, I accidentally spilled a glass of Diet Coke on the liner notes. And while at first I muttered the curses of a music obsessive who won't so much as touch a jewel case without first washing his hands, it later occurred to me that my saturated CD booklet was a pretty apt metaphor for Having, a low-key dream-pop record so immersed in atmosphere that it seems almost waterlogged. Like shoegazing forbears Slowdive and Mazzy Star, the members of Trespassers William saturate their beautifully simple songs in pooling guitars, resonating keyboards, and heavy reverb. Chord changes roll through like slow-moving waves, and singer Anna-Lynne Williams stretches out every languid syllable as far as she can, a buoy gently floating out to some distant horizon." - Prefix

The Theatre Fire
"The Theater Fire (Dallas/Ft. Worth) takes me back to a simpler time, or simpler frame of mind, when artists sung about serious things without getting freaked out or dressing in black, or by trying to convey their seriousness by mumbling the lyrics in a tedious monotone. This band is bright, both musically and mentally, and they make a joyful noise — without completely ignoring life’s grim realities. The Theater Fire could be a modern American version of the Kinks with their deadpan humor, fine musicianship, and upbeat, slightly skewed vision of the world. Their all-acoustic sound is timeless, and with arrangements that condense the last 60 years of pop music into tasty, easy-to-swallow nuggets." - Crawdaddy