Le Mutant
Live music w/ Le Mutant (FR) ~ Tank Attack ~ Arms N Legs ~ Black Stool (Metal / Psych)
When: Mon, March 28
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Le Mutant – Discount Surf/Rock from Baiona-France.
http://www.ilovelemutant.com
Tank Attack – 2 piece prog metal.
http://www.myspace.com/tankattack
Arms N Legs – 4 piece afro beat psych
http://www.myspace.com/severancemed
Black Stool – acoustic death metal
http://www.myspace.com/blackstool666
SALSA SUNDAYS with RAY MARTINEZ & SALSA JAZZ PROJECT!
When: Sun, March 27
Time: 4-8pm
Cost: $8
Details:
Guess what you’re doing on this Sunday? You are joining El Rio in welcoming local salsa favorite Ray Martinez and one of his newest co-creations with some of the bay area’s best musicians, welcome RAY MARTINEZ & SALSA JAZZ PROJECT! Showtime is 4:15 so don’t be late!!
Pie Crust Promises
Live music w/ Blue Roan Filly ~ Pie Crust Promises ~ Steel Hotcakes (Rock)
When: Sat, March 26
Time: 9pm
Cost: $7
Details:
Blue Roan Filly – A San Francisco based acoustic rock trio
Pie Crust Promises – A San Francisco based, high energy rock band
http://www.myspace.com/piecrustband
http://www.facebook.com/piecrustband
http://www.piecrustband.com
Pie Crust Promises is a San Francisco-based rock band. Defying simple categories, the band plays music with energy and spirit. The band’s only criteria is for the music to be quality, world class rock
Steel Hotcakes – A Bay Area rock/alt-coutnry trio -
http://www.myspace.com/karenstackpole
http://www.reverbnation.com/audreyhoward
The Bruises
Live music w/ The Bruises ~ Hold Me Luke Allen ~ Eighteen Individual Eyes (Indie / Shoegaze)
When: Fri, March 25
Time: 9pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The Bruises
http://www.myspace.com/thebruises
http://www.thebruises.com
Balancing the tightrope between indie and mainstream rock, THE BRUISES embrace incredibly catchy choruses, dueling female vocal harmonies, and a serrated double guitar attack. Tipping their hats to acts such as Lush, that dog., and Sleater-Kinney, the band has forged a sound that is both unique and timeless. …. “We just make music we like, without trying to be a part of any fad or musical trend,” says guitarist/singer Jen Black. “I’d like to think that someone 10 or 20 years from now could enjoy our songs the same way they do at this moment.”
Eighteen Individual Eyes
Hold Me Luke Allen
http://www.myspace.com/holdmelukeallen
http://www.holdmelukeallen.com/
In late 2009 a bass player, another bass player, and a drummer stepped out of the rhythm section shadows and into the spotlight to realize a vision that combines musical influences ranging from trip-hop and electronica to grunge and punk. With a limited songwriting history, a load of production knowledge, a vision, and a lot of patience, Hold Me Luke Allen has found their rhythm — errr..voice. The trio has not entirely abandoned their respective instruments, but have added guitar, soft synths, vocals, sampling, and sequencers to the mix in what can readily be described as nu gaze (a genre combining elements of shoegaze and new wave/electronica)
Eighteen Individual Eyes
http://www.myspace.com/eighteenindividualeyes
http://www.eighteenindividualeyes.com
Atriarch
Live music w/ Dispirit ~ Atriarch (Portland) ~ Alaric (Metal)
When: Thu, March 24
Time: 8pm
Cost: $8
Details:
Dispirit
http://dispirit.org/
Atriarch (Portland)
http://www.myspace.com/atriarchmetal
Alaric
Alaric
http://www.myspace.com/alaricalaricAlaric began in 2008 when 3 friends with similar interests decided to start a band which would thoroughly investigate the textures, energies and vibrations of dark, guitar-driven electric music influenced by the Post-Punk and Death Rock that they loved so much. These visionaries brought a lot of experience to the table. Drummer Jason Willer had been touring, recording and touring some more with British Punk legends the U.K. Subs from 2001 through 2006. Bassist and songwriter Rick Jacobus, childhood friend of Jason’s and former bassist in the two’s first band The Enemies began writing new material and soon approached their singer and lyricist of choice Shane Baker who spent several years touring the world in the infamous Oakland band Dead and Gone to fill the vocal position and fortunately he agreed. A few months and several unsuccessful guitar auditions later they convinced guitarist and fellow Death Rock freak Russ Kent to come and check it out and from the first chords they struck it was clear that the line up was now complete.
Disasteroid
Live music w/ Disasteroid ~ Jared Mess and the Grown Children ~ Slow Trucks (Indie / Rock)
When: Mon, March 7
Time: 7pm
Cost: $6
Details:
Disastroid
http://myspace.com/disastroid
…Fucking awesome. The perfect mix of Harvey Milk, Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Nomeansno, and Danzig while tuning it to their own unique sound. It was everything good about rock music and what is good about rock music now. I highly recommend these guys and it was nice to be blown away by an opening band I had never heard a note from before.”.. – ..Speed Glue and Music
Jared Mees & The Grown Children
http://jaredmeesandthegrownchildren.com
Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s Jared Mees and the Grown Children examines the give-and-take inherent in struggles for self-fulfillment while walking a tightrope between naive exuberance and cynical skepticism. This balancing act results in a sound that is joyful yet introspective; a rollicking Americana tale of modern life, be it hellish or heavenly. [website]
Slow Trucks
Slow Trucks
http://www.myspace.com/slowtrucksband
Energetic, uncomplicated and infectious, Slow Trucks are musical comfort food, perfect for those of us who still occasionally break out that Treepeople CD or fantasize about an Archers of Loaf reunion. [myspace]
SALSA SUNDAYS Return with LOS RUMBEROS!
When: Sun, March 6
Time: 4-8pm
Cost: $8
Details:
Come one, come all, back to the best and longest-running all-inclusive Salsa Sunday in the Bay Area! That’s right, it’s back so get your dancing shoes on….. Help us welcome back local artist Tom Bertetta and his orquesta LOS RUMBEROS for a swingin’ good time.
Mermaid Bones
LA-NI’S BIRHTDAY BASHUP!!! w/ Girls With Guns ~ The Go Going Gone Girls ~ Mermaid Bones (Rock / Pop)
When: Sat, March 5
Time: 9pm
Cost: $7
Details:
Mermaid Bones
http://mermaidbones.bandcamp.com
Review by SF GATE of The San Francisco Chronicle:Off the Record, the skinny on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. 9/17/10:”One Latina mermaid will shake her sexy hips and knock you out with her sultry voice. The band plays bluesy rock numbers while Sophia Anita Reyes, the lead singer, teases the audience in her sexy underwear and stockings.
Girls With Guns – Hott leather surf punk
http://www.myspace.com/girlswithgunsrock
Go Going Gone Girls
Go Going Gone Girls!
http://www.gogoinggonegirls.com/
Backed by an all-star four-piece lineup, the girls deliver a dexterous and distinctive blend of 60s go-go, soul, bubblegum, girl-group, and garage. Hear them sing, wail, scream, harmonize, plead, beg, and shout from atop their totemic pedestals. See them shimmy, shake, twist, dog, monkey, duck, bird, funky chicken, and pony like their ancestors of yore.
Courtney Trouble
