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 The Bugs
"The Bugs leave nothing to nuance, but then, they don’t need it. Each song is its own idea, brief but stripped of the extraneous to leave behind only the purest essence of the rock ’n’ roll." - Willamette Weekly
"The Bugs are really more of a thing that happens, not so given to documentation or reproduction. In a decade, they’ve eked out one seven-inch, one digital-only EP, and two long-players. Released by a tiny Portland indie with little or no U.S. distribution (though that could someday change), only 900 copies of The Bugs (their second LP) exist, and each is nothing short of 180 grams of pure local garage-party punk rock ‘n’ roll. It’s not complicated stuff; simple, often funny, pop-oriented Buzzcocks-style punk with a good measure of swingin’ U.S. garage and occasional Devo-esque quirk." - Crawdaddy
ex-Truman's Water dudes for those keeping score at home.
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 Dadfag
as heard on Carolyn Keddy's weekly radio show, Dadfag are "a blistering young San Francisco three-piece that has been kicking the West Coast's ass for a couple of years at house parties, warehouses, and clubs. The band members--two girls on vocals, a boy on drums--fled from the South, sweaty, bored, and sick of explaining themselves. The Broken Rekids promotional department would like to mention that the music and vocals are reminiscent of Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch mixed with hardcore punk."
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 Sad Horse
Portland two-piece with Geoff of the late, lamented Fuck. However, "Sad Horse isn't Fuck at all...it's stripped down reverb guitar, a little messy two piece of singing/yelling girl guy duo. 'Rain' is sounding like a Yips and Coathangers mashup."
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North Fork
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early show 6pm, $5 // followed by PRS at 10pm, free |
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Ms. Cloud
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9:00pm, $6 |
 Elm
"Elm is the solo project of Jon Porras who is half of duo Barn Owl (Not Not Fun). Porras uses guitars, vocals, harmonium, harmonica, drum and flute combined with a huge amount of talent and imagination to create his own mysterious world. 'Rising Smoke Woods' is very cinematic and dramatic sounding with it's epic drones and deeply haunting guitar.'Fog Water Shroud' is a very moving piece of music. There's a kind of underlying menace and bleakness but there's light shining through with gorgeous tones that I find very uplifting." - Norman Records
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Higuma
"Higuma is Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) & Lisa McGee. Cast in a dark space in SF, Haze Valley holds rather true to its name, filling the edges with smoked out vocals, guitar delays and any number of drone layered acoustics. Very much a distant sound, with distortions burnished down to smooth horizontal planes that lift the music to higher summits. Not at all dissimilar from some of Barn Owl's recent excursions, but with the addition of Lisa's vocals, this goes somewhere else completely." - Root Strata |
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9:00pm, $7 |
 Mumlers
"Perhaps the Mumlers were channeling the spirit of William Mumler, a mid-19th-century man famous for claiming he could photograph ghosts, but once all [six] band members touched their fingers to a Ouija board's planchette, the board, they claim, spelled out their group's name. Regardless, it's clear their swaggered ruckus pop channels dead folk musicians galore. Despite the ghostly origins of their handle, the Mumlers' live appearances tend to turn into lively celebrations, with the outfit dancing about the stage. Their repertoire of instruments rivals any philharmonic's and includes guitars, drums, upright bass, various keyboards, euphonium, French horn, trumpet, clarinet, tambourine, pedal steel, and recently, eagle whistles from Mexico." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
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 Emily Jane White
A hushed, dusky style of storytelling recalling the subdued side of PJ Harvey, with lyrical roots stemming from a common pool of reconstituted American gothic. She's saved from bargain-bin neo-folk by her voice, its intimate, entrancing quality, and the overall subtlety of presentation." - Slant Magazine
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Osage Orange
"New World tree or large shrub with hard, yellow wood, found mainly in Eastern and Southern US states. Osage orange doesn’t have any direct European relatives but often used as a yellow dye substitute for English barberry, fustic, or weld. Native Americans made bows and other weapons from the hard, bright yellow wood and used the tree for medicine and insect killer. American pioneers called it Hedge Apple or Osage orange for its warty, inedible green orange-like fruit and used the hard wood for wagon axles, fence posts, and tool handles. They also planted Osage orange as wind-brakes and fed leaves to silkworms. During WWI dye chemical shortages, uniforms were dyed with this plant. Bark is a rich source of tannin. Easy dye to work with, good on all fibers; best on wool and silk; lighter colors on cotton and other cellulose fibers. Light-fast and wash-fast. See the PIGMENT department for more information." - Griffin Dye Works |
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9:00pm, $6 |
 The Atomic Bomb Audition
"Oakland's The Atomic Bomb Audition makes the kind of mind-numbingly loud, classically informed music that shakes the inside of your skin, and makes you check your pulse and your receiver to prevent either of these from blowing out. Formed in 2004 by Oakland Mills students Alee Karim and Brian Gleeson, their entitled "Eleven Theatres" debut on Seattle's independent label Hector Stentor toes the line between math-rock, proggy metal, Italian soundtracks, surf, waltz, and pop. But don't let the genre bending deter you; their approach to rock although owes part of its sound to the avant-rock leanings of NorCal bands like Mr. Bungle and Fantomas, this is a decided attempt to make avant-rock with a pop structure sensibility." - SF Weekly
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 Diminshed Men
"If current instrumental music was always as majestic and compelling as this, I'd hang up my retro-Italian soundtrack collector's boots for good. From the explosive drums rolls on the opening track, the only cover on the record, "L'Appel du Vere," from Roman Polanski's The Tenant (music by Philippe Sarde), to the darkly exotic finale, "A Housewife's Dram," this album is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speak-easy hallucinations and haunted geography. Besides the Italian-Western overtones, the carnival-esque freakshow backdrops, Korshid-Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space-psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks I've heard in years. It's spine-chilling how producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Eyvind Kang, Sun City Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Six Organs Of Admittance, Wayne Horvitz, Matt Chamberlain, Grails, Wolves In The Throne Room, etc.) managed to make this record the ultimate mid-'60s surf-vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meek's best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamenti murder blues-drama, setting the stage for Steve Schmitt's cobra-twilight guitar work and the outlaw drums of Dave Abramson to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey." -- Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)
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 Blanketship
60’s-70’s pop, warped free jazz, easy listening, taped conversations, instructional records, microtonal synthesis, music of the non - western world, fluttered Califone turntable playbacks, disturbing melodies, quiet passages, soundtracks, broken tape squeals and straight ahead rock.
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 OvO
Load Records recording artists from Milan & Berlin: "OvO's guitars scrape & drums pound but the organic crunch & high fidelity of this release will convince you that this is music taken further & harder. An avant masterpiece, it takes cues from the tar covered hordes wearing jean jackets & introduces a very natural middle finger of wigginess. Stefania Pendretti's vocals soar for the sky & rest like a golden piece of corn in the steaming morass of dunt. Guitar undulates like a wriggling eel, with Bruno Dorella's drums providing crunching headburn." - Load Records
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 SubArachnoid Space
Exploring the infinite variations of instrumental mind-expanding heavy rock and drone.
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 Worm Orouboros
Worm Ouroboros is Lorraine Rath (Amber Asylum on bass and vocals, Jessica Way (World Eater) on guitar and vocals, and Justin Green on drums. They draw inspiration from metal, doom, folk, progressive, and dark ambient genres.
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Litquake - 5:30pm, $5 // Disastroid show - 9:30pm, $6 |
early 5:30-8pm Litquake presents Chaos is a Friend of Mine!! Chaos is a Friend of Mine with Richie Unterberger, Jon Ginoli, Alan Black, Denise Sullivan, Sam Barry, Linda Robertson and more!
CHAOS IS A FRIEND OF MINE
Authors and musicians spew forth on the topic of music
Sam Barry is the author of How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons (Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2009). He is also a musician who plays with the San Francisco band Los Train Wreck, and tours with the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders.
www.redroom.com/author/sam-barry
Alan Black
OK, these are hard to write these bios, let me see, eh...nah, that one won't work, what about this...eh...too late, out of words already. Drat!
www.alanblack.info
David Comfort is the author of three popular titles from Simon & Schuster. His newest is The Rock and Roll Book of the Dead: The Fatal Journeys of Rock’s Seven Immortals (Citadel/Kensington). The exposé explores the tragic ends of Elvis, Lennon, Hendrix, Janis, Morrison, Garcia, and Cobain. www.rockandrollbookofthedead.com
Jon Ginoli: born in Peoria, Illinois. Goes to college, comes out. Moves to San Francisco, forms unapologetic openly gay rock band Pansy Division early ‘90s. Big break: opening for Green Day on their breakthrough tour. Writes Deflowered, memoir of queer punk band experiences, released 2009. Band just put out new CD & still tours.
www.pansydivision.com
Linda Robertson was born in Scotland but spent 23 years honing her English accent before moving to San Francisco. She was named “Ms. Accordion San Francisco” in 2004 and performs throughout the city with the Mini-Trifles. Her latest book is What Rhymes with Bastard?
www.myspace.com/thetrifles
Counterculture/Technoculture writer and editor RU Sirius is currently editor-in-chief of h+, a science faction magazine that has much in common with his earlier effort, Mondo 2000. When not shilling for technotopians, he writes corrosive and sometimes enjoyably trashy books, like his latest: Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs.
www.hplusmagazine.com
Denise Sullivan writes on rock, folk, and other things for print and web sources. She is the author of The White Stripes: Sweethearts of the Blues, R.E.M.: Talk About the Passion, Rip It Up! Rock ‘n’ Roll Rulebreakers, and her newest, Fight the Power: The Soundtrack to Revolution.
www.denisesullivan.com
Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock history books, the most recent of which is White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Record Sound Collections Award for Excellence in the "Best Research in Recorded Rock Music" category.
www.richieunterberger.com.
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later - Disastroid and Big Blue Whale -- 9:30pm, $6 Disastroid
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