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 McCabe & Mrs. Miller
"Dressed in a suit and tie and pausing between numbers for a sip of bourbon, Victor Krummenacher was magnetic in the lead role of singer-songwriter/guitarist. Those only familiar with his work as the supremely funky bassist of Camper Van Beethoven may be surprised to see how easily he transcends that part when he steps to the front. His vocals sounded strong throughout, but particularly when he and partner Alison Faith Levy blended in duets that recall many beloved duos of American roots music. Faith Levy was also effective when she took the lead with her sultry alto and added piano, melodica and tambourine and her energy seemed to inspire the men on the stage to kick it up another notch. Their songs, many of which were written in Krummenacher’s living room, vary from ballads of lost love to rave-ups that build to exciting crescendos and collectively conjure a painting by Thomas Hart Benton come to life.
Their set began and ended with Tom Heyman sitting in on lead guitar. The rhythm section of John Haynes and Paul Olguin played taut simmering grooves that bubbled over with the intensity of the classic Stax and Atlantic soul cuts. Jonathan Segel worked his usual magic with violin, an old Gibson A-style mandolin and a hollowbody guitar, prompting the question, “Is there anything you don’t play” to which he replied "oboe" without missing a beat. Every time we see him perform, we walk away with a new appreciation of Segel’s many talents. " - SFIst
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 The Orange Peels
Featuring Alan Clapp on vocals, piano guitar and drums, Oed Ronne (The Ocean Blue) on lead guitars, electric sitar and vibes, Jill Pries on bass guitars, Bob Vickers (The Incredible Vickers Bros.) on drums and guitars, John Moremen (Jad Fair, the Roy Loney Band) on guitars.
"Wonderfully sugar-coated with a melancholy heart, the record glides past on waves of gently strummed guitars, swooning Mellotron strings, and heavenly vocal harmonies." - All Music
"The Orange Peels put a fresh and beguiling spin on the holy pop trinity of the Byrds, the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach." - LA Weekly
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 Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project
For those not aware of Mr. Ralph Carney's voluminous music resume, we turn now to the cyber-pages of Wikipedia:
"Ralph Carney (born January 23, 1956, Akron, Ohio) is an American musician. While his primary instruments are various saxophones and clarinets, Carney collects and plays many instruments, often unusual or obscure ones.
He was a founding member of Tin Huey, and is perhaps best known for his long association with singer Tom Waits. He has also recorded or performed with Dieselhed, Marc Ribot, The B-52's, Elvis Costello, Les Claypool, Stan Ridgway and Bill Laswell. Carney has released several solo albums."
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 Edie Sedgwick
A storm of beats, bleeps, and wizardly lyrics. Each song in Edie's oeuvre is named for a Hollywood celebrity, and cleverly, if sometimes obliquely, ties thematic elements of each actor's work into an incisive reflection on the "real" world beyond celebrity. It's high concept, boys and girls, but for the booty-shaking. (bio)
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9:00pm, $7 |
 The Pleasure Kills
"It's that classic power-pop formula, pioneered by BLONDIE but replicated time and time again: dress four hairy monkeys up in suits and make them jump around behind a cute girl singer. Hey, it works--if it ain't broke don't fix it. This is THE PLEASURE KILLS' second single, and it picks up where the first left off, with more three-chord pop punctuated with chiming guitars and keyboard stabs. "Mission Boy" is a tongue-in-cheek paean to the mustachioed, fixie-riding hipsters that populate SF's most happening zip code. However, it's actually the flipside, "Pictures On The Floor", that gets my toes a-tapping, kicking off like COCKNEY REJECTS with four sugars in their tea before getting even more syrupy when the vox come in. Suitable for listening to on the AM radio hanging off your Schwinn handlebars in 1979 on your way to buy pot from the local metal head." - Maximum RockandRoll
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 Tranzmitors
"They play sinewy, refined pop punk that makes you want to sing along to all the choruses about dancing in the back rows and all sorts of other crap you don’t really care about. They are so dedicated to the whole backwards looking thing that Stiff records has come out of retirement to put their LP out. Groovy." unpublished Vice interview
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9:00pm, $7 |
 Psychedelic Horseshit
"The rickety skeletal pop of Step Forward-era Fall, the lo-fi fuzz of Swell Maps, and static noblesse of Slay Tracks-era Pavement. Is that classical enough for ya? Now where'd I put that joint?"
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 Dadfag
"Yes, dirty dirty grimy thrashy and sexy. Dadfag’s newest record is called 'Scenic Abuse' and was described as a mix of Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, and hardcore punk. Dear god I’m in love." - KZSC
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9:30pm, $7 |
 City Center
Fred Thomas and Ryan Howard keep continually unravelling into an ever-expanding landscape of warmly washed out phychedeilia, where splintered samples and chillingly desolate drones somehow emerge in the form of soft summery pop songs. (bio)
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 Baths
Classic rock if your definition of classic includes Velvets, Gories and The Fall.
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Ben Bracken
Ben is a member of quiet band Flashpapr and improvising ensemble The Remote Viewing Ensemble. He has performed and recorded with His Name Is Alive, Le-Quan Ninh, Brent Guetzeit, Kevin Drumm, Michael Colligan, Ernst Long, Kyle Bruckman, Eric Cook, Warn Defever's 100 Years Band, as well as pop bands Showdown at the Equator and Saturday Looks Good To Me. (bio) |
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Advance tix now on sale! See link below. The Paranoids
"A dance-inspiring blend of mod, post-punk, and pure vintage talent--a David Lynch interpretation of a Bobby Darin concert."
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