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.

Disastroid

Big Blue Whale

The Solid

Nadja
"Toronto duo Nadja-- drone explorer Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff-- may be the best band in the world doing something exciting right now with Jesu/Godflesh/Napalm Death/etc. man Justin Broadrick's doom metal past. Grand entrances, indelible weight, multi-part slow motion, a fierce musical restlessness. Nadja somehow churns out "doom metal" for the post-rock and noise sets." - Pitchfork

Date Palms
new duo excursion from Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle.

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

Kid Congo & the Pink Monkeybirds
The legendary Kid Congo Powers returns to the psychedelic jungle with a stripped-down, no-frills set of volcanic songs. The premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy, swampy bands like Gun Club, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and The Cramps, Powers is a restless aesthete whose earlier solo efforts explored and mixed genres. With Dracula Boots, he comes back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him--the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. The original songs on Dracula Boots go from loud, fuzzy biker rock ("Hitchhiking") to a greasy rump-shaker groove ("Bobo Boogie"); from a scary movie soundtrack ("La Llarona") to The Meters having an acid flashback ("Black Santa"). (bio)

Bridez
"Their lo-fi gospel is true blue, rough-hewn and rife with cool angst, fronted by a singer who could be the testtube lovechild of Karen O., Lou Reed and Courtney Love. Chanteuse Liza Thorn, formerly of So So Many White White Tigers, has impressively mastered a white-hot on-stage swagger most girls only have the courage to do in front of a bedroom mirror, and is quickly blooming into the blazing frontwoman San Francisco needs.

Tight-knit walls of impenetrable fuzz and grimy, stoned jams drove their set Tuesday night at the Knockout. On the frontline of their arsenal was their newest single “Rolling Stoned”, an agile number in which Thorn traded in her usual talk-rock howls for a luscious garage purr that splendidly devolved into a ripping, venomous siren wail as the song unfolded." - SF Bay Guardian

The Baths
Killer new post-Tea Elles combination.

The Lickets
The Lickets are an American experimental folk music group based in San Francisco. The group centers around multi-instrumentalists; Lena Buell, Mitch Greer and Rachel Smith. The collective is described as a "transcendental mini-orchestra", and their work has been called "empyrean, luminously beautiful" and "haunting, eerie, and altogether unique."

Marianne Dissard
"'L'Entredeux' may be Dissard's 'Rumors' or 'Shoot Out the Lights,' but the album sounds idiosyncratic: a coming-together of European musical traditions and American sounds. This is chanson adapted to the American southwest; of course Joey Burns produced the album. Dissard may be best known for dueting with him on "The Ballad of Cable Hogue", from the Calexico's Hot Rail, and he returns the favor by giving L'Entredeux an arid luster, full of soundtrack strings, curious accordion, and John Convertino's rumbling, shuffling drums. At its best, L'Entredeux sounds lively and expansive, an idiosyncratic view of French and southwestern musics." - Pitchfork

Jail
Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the supremely rocking JAIL mix 60's Brit rock, 50's diner pop and raw glam rock.

The Mojomatics (Italy)
"If the Flamin’ Groovies (circa ‘73) had been placed in a pressure cooker, put on simmer and reduced to a duo, Italy’s the Mojomatics could very well have been the end result. MojoMatt Bordin (vocals/guitar/harmonica) and DavMatic (drums/percussion) play melodic garage rock that’s informed, in near equal measure, by the wilder side of mid-‘60s British rhythm and blues, some stonking rockabilly and blistering proto-punk glam that never sounds derivative."

Neighbors

Sonic Chicken 4 (France)
In the Red recording artists from France! The band plays a fuzzy, ultra primitive brand of garage stomp that owes equally to 60’s pop, VU, Back From The Grave comps, girl groups and Jaques DuTronc.

Sky Larkin
Hailing from Leeds, U.K., Sky Larkin play what NME has described as "great, fizzy, uplifting pop-punk" and what The Guardian UK rhapsodized as "high-energy drumming and juicy layers of bouncy guitars and keys provide exciting ear candy."

Peggy Sue & the Pirates
From Leeds, U.K., via London, Peggy Sue & the Pirates "consists of just two guitars, two stools, a tambourine, melodica and a percussive instrument that looks like a wooden pear. Their music combines a folky sweetness with a punky undercurrent and all sorts of abrasive and rockabilly edges - the missing link between Mary Hopkin, Buddy Holly and Siouxsie and the Banshees. They are Oxfam-glamourous young girls in coloured tights, scarves and spangly outfits.
A Peggy Sue and the Pirates gig is not the place to have a dark night of the soul." - The Guardian UK

EFFT
Really melancholy, kinda psychedelic and lush balladry that feels like lying down stoned in a tranquil garden while little miniature fairies come and attack you on little miniature unicorns.

MC Trachiotomy
From New Orleans' 9th Ward! The one-and-only MC Trachiotomy "took both the underground rock and hip-hop worlds by surprise with his shocking 1999 debut, Robot Alien or Ghost. Not as out of the ordinary in today’s increasingly experimental world of underground hiphop, Robot Alien or Ghost, with its murky moonscape of atonal lo-fi alien beats and cryptic, often indecipherable rhymes, confounded critics and listeners when it arrived. Though no one could decide whether or not it was a work of ultimate genius or sonic terrorism, all agreed that it was bizarre.

2002’s w/ Love From Tahiti, on Bulb Records, unveiled a more listenable, and even more diverse and ambitious Trachiotomy with all of the creative aspects of his debut. Italian philosopher Pierre Scaruffi, in his History of Rock Music, best describes the album as defining “a territory straddling rap, spoken-word, psychedelic rambling, Captain Beefheart-ian wackiness, lo-fi pop and the Residents' new-wave… The album is the musical equivalent of a hurricane, sweeping away swamp blues, freeform jamming, reggae balladry, hip hop, etc. The comedian indulges in spoofs of spy-thriller cocktail muzak, 1940s' big-band swing, Broadway show tunes, and soft-night-jazz.” Summing up the first two records: “The creative intensity of these albums is simply frightening.” - New York Night Train

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