Shannon & the Clams
"If I'm going to stay up late and go as deep as I can into the night, so far that I'm just about lost and in trouble, I want the sounds of Shannon and the Clams with me. The Oakland group's album I Wanna Go Home (1-2-3-4-Go! Records) is packed with songs that have been there and will shine a light to lead you back into the day, while letting you have a sip or two and an adventure or three along the way. This is rock 'n' roll music, electric-charged by bassist Shannon Shaw's wild wonder of a voice, guitarist Cody Blanchard's flair for classic crooning and crying, and drummer Ian Amberson's fierce reliability. See Shannon and the Clams live. You will believe." - SF Bay Guardian

White Mystery (Miss Alex White, Chicago)
"Having bounced from the four-piece outfit Miss Alex White and the Red Orchestra (In the Red), Ms. White has joined forces with drummer and brother Francis to strip down what little excess was clinging to her soul-inflected garage rock. It's great fun to see the redheaded siblings headbanging like matching "Fraggle Rock" puppets in their ecstatic live show. Austerity is less a choice than a necessity for the duo: The guitar goes from dirty-sounding to dirtier-sounding, the hooks are straightforward and stupidly catchy, and the singing is a belly-deep shout at the top of Alex White's range on almost every track." - Pitchfork

Glitter Wizard
"All you freaks with a Jones for unashamedly glamorous hard rock should search out Glitter Wizard’s debut 7” single. Hailing from Oakland, California and led by the inimitably monikered Wendy Stonehenge, the A-side ‘Black Lotus’ is about as subtle as a flying mallet and thrice as catchy, while B-side ‘Witches Limbo’ deploys so many strutting rock moves you just gots to believe its parody glimpses paradis! Add some Jon Lord organ to ‘Electric Funeral’, structure in mucho gratuitous Sir Lord Baltimore tempo changes, factor in Hawkind’s Dik Mik on synthesizer, then add an early Budgie intro and you’ze catching my drift. Too much of this could cloud your melted plastic mind, but small vinyl party doses squeezed in between ‘Crash Course in Brain Surgery’ and ‘Woman from Tokyo’? Just the job. Score this pronto, Tonto." - Julian Cope

Neil Hamburger (Drag City)
“Despite his appalling comic timing, muddled delivery, and cliched material, stand-up Neil Hamburger nevertheless emerged as one of the most acclaimed and name-checked comedians of his generation; like Lenny Bruce before him, he was a hipster icon whose trailblazing riffs defied conventions at every turn, transcending the confines of hilarity with kamikaze recklessness. Prior to his ascendance, comedians were expected not only to be funny, but insightful as well; Hamburger changed all that forever.” - Answers.com

Chris Thayer
Comedian Chris Thayer lives and kills in San Francisco. Mining new depths of self-objectification with his droll, serrated deadpan, Chris has performed at The Purple Onion, Club Deluxe, and Hemlock Tavern opening for the likes of Reggie Watts, Rick Shapiro, and Tim & Eric and Neil Hamburger’s failed game show pilot, The New Big Ball.

Caitlin Gill
A rising talent in the San Francisco comedy scene, people are talking about Caitlin Gill. Most of those are people stuck in conversations with her father, who is really, really excited about his daughter telling dirty jokes to strangers in clubs. Her style twists her personal experiences into engaging bits and stories, and drops phrases in your ear that will later litter your lexicon. Since beginning her career in 2007, Caitlin has performed at the San Francisco Punchline, the Purple Onion, 12 Galaxies, and a couple of places in the tenderloin that used to be comedy clubs but are now abandoned buildings. She is also the host of the "The Ladies Room" Open Mic at the Brainwash, and "The Ladies Room" Showcase at Club Deluxe.

The Rabbles

The Reaction

The Sweet Bones

Change!

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

The Overnight Lows (Goner)
"Goner Records is proud to release City Of Rotten Eyes, the debut of Jackson, Mississippi's OVERNIGHT LOWS. It's about time. MARSH and DAPHNE NABORS, guitar and bass, have been playing out as Overnight Lows ever since their previous band, THE COMAS, imploded in early 1995. Goner and many other labels have been badgering them for a record for years. Their reluctance to release anything until now reflects both their disdain for musical trends and their quest for a recording worthy of their sound. With City Of Rotten Eyes, they've achieved it. Playing everything "in the Key Of Hep C," the Overnight Lows mix a sick and sickened attitude with a classic Angry Samoans/Queers aesthetic: establish a blazing guitar riff, yell some memorable antisocial blather over it, hit a chorus, and get out. Who has time for anything else these days? Overnight Lows aren't going to waste your time attempting to show you the path to enlightenment, or the way to your lover's heart. They'd rather show you the door. Melodies? Sure, kinda, but more like rhythmic chants to accompany you on your third trip back to the liquor store. The male/female vocal trade-offs add to the band's desperate charm." - Midheaven

Bad Assets

CCR Headcleaner
From the ashes of Long Legged Woman, CCR Headcleaner is "Psychedelic punk shit. Loud and crazy," says Justin Flowers.

Puffy Areolas (Siltbreeze)
"Knuckle-dragging scuzz-punk devastators" (DJ Rick) from Toledo, Ohio, with a new album on the almighty Siltbreeze!!

"This band wails away in the corridor of space rock, hyper-attenuated thrash, and pin-eyed druggie bloat." - Still Single

Mike Donovan (Sic Alps)

Thralls
All forms and colors were dissolved in a pearl-gray haze; there were no contrasts, no shading anymore, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged, and strangely - I remember this well - it was the very evanescence of those visions that gave me, at the time, something like a sense of eternity.

Ghost Animal
Wave, gaze, age, post from LA.

Rangers

White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
"The return of White Hills, and their East Coast Hawkwind worshipping Stooges stomp FX blowouts. Every disc has kicked our asses, each one exploring a different side of WH's spaced out psychedelic sound. From the swirling cosmic krautprog of No Game To Play, to the more straight ahead space rock of Glitter Glamour Atrocity to the recent collaboration with Bay Area noisemakers White Pee, a half hour blast of ambient spacenoize. Where does Abstractions And Mutations fall? It falls smack dab in between all of those, but it falls HARD and HEAVY. Easily the fiercest outing yet from Dave W. and his bearded and robed wizards of druggy sonic overload. Beginning with a seriously metallic riff, and some super effected vocals, the band pounds relentlessly, adding tons of melody and a wicked hook, and then a brief space-y shuffle, before the song explodes into three minutes of amp frying psychguitar destruction." - Aquarius Records

Carlton Melton
"There are bands who defy convention and easy categorisation. Reference points may be offered, but essentially such bands exist in their own little world, utterly unaffected by trends or popularist concerns. Carlton Melton are one such band – a willfully psychedelic beast tinged with blues, doom, drone and feral rock energy that recall the majesty of Earthless and the spontaneity of early Pink Floyd." - Sonic Abuse

Headless
members of Earthless and Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound.