Sonny & the Sunsets
Sunkissed psychedelic pop.

Wounded Lion
"The LA-based quintet slams down the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction with heavily contagious songs that break down the sophisticated strut of rock 'n' roll's simplest parts. It's hard to dissect their exact frame of influence, but with severely effective songwriting such as this, it really comes secondary, and you'll soon see how a bleak environment can pull the best creativity out of a sterile gutter and come out with a handful of winners." --Victim of Time

John Wesley Coleman
JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN (GOLDEN BOYS) explains his Summer Jam 2009 as "...10 hours, eleven songs, 2 bottles of Bullet Burbon, 100 beers, a carton of smokes, marijuana & stuff, Chinese food and good friends altogether to make this live shit...". These booze soaked anthems will rot away at your brain like an $ 8.00 fifth of store brand swill! Includes great covers of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns And Money" and Lester Bangs' "Life Is Not Worth Living And Suicide Is A Waste Of Time." - Midheaven

The Prids
"If you make an indie-rock album and Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch shows up, the battle is half-won right there. Martsch sings and plays guitar on “In the Fall” from the Prids’ new album, Chronosynclastic, and his BTS bandmate Brett Nelson lends keyboards to “When I Look.” That’s no fluke: The cult Portland, Ore., band has made fans of A Place to Bury Strangers, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and even Henry Rollins. When a disastrous 2008 tour-van crash injured members of the Prids and others traveling with them, fellow musicians came out of the woodwork to appear on a benefit tribute album. Such is the respect the band has accrued since forming in 1995. Led by now-divorced couple David Frederickson and Mistina La Fave, the Prids have survived to see members, home cities, and labels come and go. But Chronosynclastic succeeds without the survivor backstory: It’s noisy, dreamy, guitar-led indie rock that’s distinctly ’90s in the best sense. Another Portland act, Soft Tags, is touring with the Prids behind a new double album, Mathematical Monsters. It’s a lo-fi, folk-damaged analogue to Chronosynclastic, relishing the classics while contributing something new to the canon." - SF Weekly

Soft Tags
Portland's Soft Tags "alternate between extended, hallucinatory chants and folk-pop nuggets."

Rademacher

My Education
"For the past ten years, Austin, TX instrumentalists My Education have splashed their cinematic sound all over the great silver screen of the Central Texas sky, painting their stories using feedback-laden guitars, swirling melodic viola, rhythm section storm clouds, and flourishes of vibraphone, bells, strings and horns. Comprised of pieces from the band's original score for F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, My Education has discovered the perfect forum for which to flex their compositional muscles, achieving ever-transcendent musical heights in the process." (bio)

Spectre Folk
with Pete Nolan of Magik Markers and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. Hot off their appearance at the Woodsist Fest at Big Sur.

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

Foreign Cinema

Golden Retriever
Psychedelic, electroacoustic, ambient from Portland.

Moholy-Nagy
Blackholes for breakfast courtesy of Jefre Cantu (Root Strata) and known associates.

Thrones
Joe Preston of Melvins and Earth.

Hot Victory
Buckets, rooftops, freeway underpasses, intonated trash, the botTripleAwt, snare duets, The Last Regiment, Legion of Glory, laser lights, neon, sequenced strobes.

LSD & the Search for God
"Apparently, the ’90s was one awesome guitar-driven, hazy dream, and the influx of bands reminiscing hard on shoegaze is more prominent than ever. San Francisco’s LSD And The Search For God is no exception, the band pinning itself as a group of trippers by name alone. Living up to the moniker, the dual vocals of Andy Liszt and Sophia Campbell ride perfectly over sheets of reverb and feedback like a poppier version of Sonic Youth, and the five-piece carries some substantial weight through drummer Kevin Crouse’s unabashed arena-rock style." - The Onion AV Club

Fuxa
"Perfect for ecstatic excavations, or a bed room chill out. A highly atmospheric sounds of lo-fi synth, Moogs, and slow steady drums."