Hoptown
Fleeting Trance
Live music w/ The Margins
When: Monday, April 19
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The Margins
http://www.themarginsmusic.com/
Quirky pop delights
[from their website..]
The Margins consist of Alexes Orellana and Wills. We decided to keep it simple for everyone, so we decided to only let people in our band who happen to be named “Alex”. We met at the illustrious University of California, Santa Cruz, and on a whim decided to live in San Francisco. Well, we’ve been here for a couple years now, and find ourselves living in the ever-active Mission District.
I (alexo) grew up listening to Punk here in the Bay Area, and have been in my share of Punk and Ska bands. Then in college, I for some reason became absolutely fascinated by classical music, and decided to get myself a minor in it. Which, I might add, was far more work (and far more rewarding) than my Econ major. I fell in love with people like Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Stravinsky, and the like. While I was there I also found myself writing scores to some of my friend’s short films, which was a pretty incredible experience. So now I have a digital piano+computer keyboard+footpedal going into my computer, which controls hundreds of sampled instruments at my command! I also have a modeling guitar going into an amp modeler going into my computer, to give me a pretty ridiculous arsenal of instruments to play and loop.
Wills has more of a taste for electronic music. He’s always loved tinkering with all kinds of crazy software the same way that you might remember playing with Legos as a kid. Although, that’s not to say that he’s ONLY interested in electronic music, frankly, his tastes are probably a lot broader in a lot of ways compared to mine, possibly because he’s much less of an obsessive douche as I am. One random day a while back, after he realized he had learned to play Rock Band drums to perfection with little to no effort, he decided to take the step to some real drums. On our way to pick up the drums, we saw a truck with about 2 tons of junkyard paraphernalia loaded about 15 feet high with only three wheels, and we knew from that moment on that we should start a fucking sweet ass band. Hopefully he can add more in here so I don’t look like such a self-obsessed douchebag. Currently he’s rocking the whole percussion section, from drums to shaker to the occasional vocal line.
We Are Invisible
Domestic Electrics
Salsa Sundays with ORQUESTA AMERICA!
When: Sunday, April 18
Time: 3pm doors; 4pm show
Cost: $8
Details: Salsa on a Sunday with Eric Rangel & his ORQUESTA AMERICA! Join us for dancing on the patio (weather permitting), margaritas, and good people! Doors open @ 3pm, $8 cover, music starts at 4pm, free BBQ 5-7. Don’t forget
The Smokestacks
Inferno of Joy
Heavy Hindenburg
Sons of Doug
Live music w/ Sons of Doug
When: Tuesday, April 13
Time: 8pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Sons of Doug
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sons-of-Doug/213204580758
http://www.myspace.com/sonsofdoug
The Sons of Doug are a three piece rock and roll band from California inspired by the work of Joy Division, the Drive-By Truckers, and Buddy Holly. Their songs are about heartbreak and drugs and the decline of American civilization. In 2009, they sold everything they owned and set out on the highway to brand their music on the face of this country.
Danilo Y Universal
Salsa Sundays w/ Danilo y Universal!
When: Sun Mar 21
Time: 3pm door; 4pm show
Cost: $5—special March price
Details
Join us in welcoming back Danilo Y Universal to our Salsa Sundays! Doors open at 3pm, showtime is 4:15! We are a 21 & over bar, with kickin’ margaritas and the best live salsa bands in town!!! $5 for March
Danilo Y Universal
http://www.danilo-y-universal.com/
In his extensive musical career, Danilo has played with extraordinary internationally known musicians such as Ray Baretto, Ruben Blades, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Benny Velarde and his Super Combo, Andy Narell, Ray Obiedo, Dave Valentin, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cal Tjader. He demonstrates some of his best work on bongo and vocals on Ruben Blades’ CD, “Ruben Blades and Son del Solar, Live!”
“I feel lucky knowing that I have such a strong foundation in jazz, Caribbean music, and at the same time was exposed to the great soneros such as Cheo Feliciano, Ruben Blades Ruben Blades, Hector La Voe, and Rafael de Jesus. I have taken these roots and have developed my own style of singing, composing and producing my music. I am a person who believes in the future and in the latest innovations (technological and other), and believe that Salsa and Latin Jazz should continue evolving, but we should not forget our roots.”
Live music w/ Dutch Windmill
When: Sat Mar 20
Time: 9pm door; 10pm show
Cost: $7
Details
DUTCH WINDMILL (members of Phantom Limbs / Black Ice)
http://www.myspace.com/dutchwindmill
Featuring 4 individuals with one common goal… DUTCH WINDMILL. Formed in one beer foamed, barmy burp. The female member was force-enlisted, a-la Al Qaeda. DUTCH WINDMILL is dedicated to stamping out Kanye-style vo-coder effects. DUTCH WINDMILL is bringing back the rock. DUTCH WINDMILL encourages you to dress up sharp. DUTCH WINDMILL we are Yes Wave! [myspace]
The Reaction
Inferno of Joy
Inferno of Joy was conceived a few years following the conflagration of San Francisco based Punk/ Rock n’ Roll band Phoenix Thunderstone- comprised of Sean, Neither/Neither World’s infamous Wendy Van Dusen, Hugh, Lemon DeGeorge, and ex- Dwarves Vadge Moore. Following a long search, Sean was able to locate Hugh in Burma. E-mail correspondence followed. Shortly thereafter, Sean, accompanied by millionaire International Playboy, sound engineer, and spiritual adviser Lemon DeGeorge, arrived in Asia to rendezvous with Hugh. In early 2006- a new music vision was realized. Armed with their experience touring extensively throughout the United States and Japan; a decision was made to sever ties with a record industry grown glaringly Jurassic, this new collaboration would have no musical bounds.
Upon returning to the United States, Argentinean bassist Adrian was recruited from a latin burlesque troupe, and percussion powerhouse- Brian, was fortuitously thwarted in his imminent Arizona relocation to a life of meditation and misanthropic solitude. The new campaign has begun… there’s a new VooDoo, determined to assassinate morality and all vestiges of bovine culture- an invitation to gaze unblinkingly into the depths of gods and men; the perfect ecstatic marriage of Heaven and Hell! the Inferno of Joy…[myspace]
The Midway Delta
Mavalour
Small Change Romeos
“SCR is a real rock band. They bring to mind an edgy, dynamic and classic sound that is missing in so much of todays music. Great songwriting and awesome onstage performance and energy”. Working with them both on the stage and in the studio has always been a pleasure and an incredible experience…”
-Phil Bennett, Starship
The Baths • Photo by Madeline Allard
The Baths are a reverb-loving crew, ending and beginning “Be Afraid of Me” with guitar static. On top of its jangly paisley-rock, the Baths sing cryptic, literal lyrics about “death and dying,” as guitarist-vocalist Jeremy Cox explains via e-mail, which follow narratives of the strange and demonic. They also cover idols like the Gories and the Stooges, infusing their music with a raw 21st century power.” -Michelle Broder Van Dyke, SF Gate
Ty Segall
The Fresh & Only's • Photo by Brian Pritchard
The Fresh & Onlys formed just last year in San Francisco, but they already boast more music to their name than most bands manage in twice that time. Over the course of a flurry of 7″s, a limited-edition cassette, and two full-length albums– last spring’s self-titled and now Grey-Eyed Girls– you can hear the sound of a young band busily honing in on what they’re good at. In case you weren’t tipped off by their almost distractingly evocative band name (should we be thinking of the Only Ones, or the Young Fresh Fellows?), the Fresh & Onlys traffic in jangly garage-pop, balancing psych-rock swagger with generous dollops of sweetly cockeyed melody. [Pitchfork]
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