Posts Tagged ‘experimental’
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Zoo
Live music w/ ZOO ~ Swanifant ~ CLOUDS (Experimental Indie)
When: Wed Sep 15
Time: 8pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:
ZOO
http://zooisaband.com
http://myspace.com/zooisaband
http://facebook.com/zooisaband
“ZOO is a crazed two piece coming out of the Bay Area, [who] somehow channels devils from both the Balkans and the proto-industrial wastelands of Throbbing Gristle.” – Echo Curio (LA, CA)

Swanifant
Swanifant
http://myspace.com/swaniphant
blissed out rhythmic jams

Clouds
CLOUDS
http://myspace.com/cloudssf
2 piece dymaxion-style band, experimenting with new sounds and processes to get them. Once described by a fan who “didn’t know whether to be hypnotized or dance”
Tags: Clouds, experimental, Swanifant, Zoo
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Friday, March 19th, 2010

The Reaction
Live music w/ The Reaction
When: Sat Mar 20
Time: 9pm door; 10pm show
Cost: $7
Details
THE REACTION (ex-members of Hickoids / 50 Million / Kirby Grips)
http://www.myspace.com/thereactionsf
http://starcleaner.com/rightnow.htm
The conditions of the Reaction’s activity explain both its discipline and the forms of hostility it encounters. they are interested not in finding a niche in the present artistic edifice, but in undermining it. The Reaction is in the catacombs of visible culture. Our times thus compel us, once again, to write in a new way. Some elements will be intentionally omitted; and the plan will have to remain unclear. Listeners will encounter certain decoys, like the very hallmark of the era. As long as certain notes are interpolated here and there, the overall meaning may appear: just as secret clauses have very often been added to whatever treaties may openly stipulate; just as some chemical agents only reveal their hidden properties when they are combined with others. However, there will be only too many things which are, alas, easy to understand. The Reaction seeks to convey the tenuous balance between object and action by which they maintain the tentative relations with the forces they organize, and how they are inherently subject to change, capable of resisting closure and objectification by acknowledging and engaging NOISE . [myspace]
Tags: experimental, garage, punk, The Reaction
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Shovelman
Live music w/ Shovelman
When: Sat Feb 20
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Shovelman
http://www.myspace.com/isaacfrankle
“Shovelman’s music would be playing on the radio if Tom Waits and Les Claypool ever went on a road trip together… and were lost.” – Chip, ‘So Wat TV
Tags: electronic, experimental, folk, Shovelman
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Deeper
Live music w/ Deeper
When: Wed Feb 17
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Deeper
http://www.myspace.com/deepermusic
Bay Area Band. Hard, Heavy, Experimental Rock.
Tags: Deeper, experimental, rock
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

The Aimless Never Miss
Live music w/ The Aimless Never Miss
When: Sun Feb 14
Time: 6pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The Aimless Never Miss
http://www.myspace.com/theaimlessnevermiss
http://www.theaimlessnevermiss.com
The Aimless began as a recording project for singer/songwriter Jon Latimer. The project attracted the interest of several close friends, and the band started gigging around Sonoma County in 2005. In 2006, the band relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, and subsequently released two EPs on Tricycle Records in 2007 (”Oh, if they could fly”, “The Bright Side”). In 2008, they released their first full-length, self-titled album on Devil In The Woods Records. Rearranging themselves as a three piece in 2009, Latimer and bassist Andrew Macy tapped friend and veteran percussionist Eric Kuhn of Silian Rail to play on their latest ‘Tran EP’, now available on 500 Records.
Tags: experimental, indie, rock, The Aimless Never Miss
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Champions of Melancholy
Live music w/ Champions of Melancholy
When: Sun Feb 14
Time: 6pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Champions of Melancholy
http://myspace.com/championsofmelancholy
We are the champions of melancholy..We are three girls, and together we are an ocean of emotion….We write songs, sad songs about life, love, and reckless behaviors… We are recording soon with the other instruments.. stay tuned!
Tags: Champions of Melancholy, experimental, indie, pop
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Friday, February 12th, 2010

Cody Giannotti
Live music w/ Cody Giannotti
When: Sat Feb 13
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Cody Giannotti
http://www.myspace.com/photonsmind
“Musicality serves as the driving force behind the work of Cody Giannotti. For Giannotti music simultaneously acts as a release from the pressures of modern society, as well as a scientific method through which to examine them. It is through the sheer harmonious joy of his lush vocal landscapes that we are able to access the deeper philosophical meaning of his work.”
Tags: a'cappella, Cody Giannotti, experimental, fusion
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

3 Leafs
Live music w/ 3 Leafs
When: Sat Feb 6
Time: 9pm
Cost: $7
Details:
3 LEAFS
http://www.myspace.com/3leafs
“This stuff is awesome. Blissed out, effects flecked krauty space rock, heavy on the drift and shimmer and meander. Strings buzz, sounds swoop and stutter backwards, the drums are simple and motorik, synths whir, flutes flutter, the group slips from full on heart of the sun space jam, to Circle-esque hypnorock, to ethereal almost ambient groove, to Eastern style ur-drone to Santana sounding Latin tinged psychedelic rock to heavy tripped out metallic sounding stoner rock freakouts to full on trippy dubbiness, all woven into one extended and nearly seamless druggy outrock sprawl.”–Aquarius Records, San Francisco, CA
Tags: 3 Leafs, experimental, psychedelic, rock
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Oblio
Live music w/ Oblio
When: Mon Jan 18
Time: 7pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:
Oblio
http://www.myspace.com/oblioindreamland
Expanding experimental pop/electronic band combining aspects of folk, R&B, & hip hop with the aforementioned genres.
Tags: electronic, experimental, folk, hip hop, Oblio, R&B
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Samuelroy
Live music w/ Samuelroy
When: Mon Jan 18
Time: 7pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:
Samuelroy
http://www.myspace.com/samuelroymusic
Catchy experimental dance pop.
Laptops killed the DJs of the nineties, but we brought ourselves back to life with alchemy. Occasionally we forget about proving a point long enough to actually enjoy ourselves. Dancing in our beds, the party has left us; we like to think we know everything when we are by ourselves. ***
Tags: dance, experimental, pop, Samuelroy
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Finn Riggins
Live music w/ Finn Riggins
When: Sat Jan 16
Time: 9pm
Cost: $7
Details:
Finn Riggins
http://www.myspace.com/finnriggins
From Idaho!!!! The BEST band from potato land!
It’s rare for a band to tour for 245 days in the span of a year. It’s even less common for said band to a) hail from Hailey, Idaho (population 7,844) and b) decide to relocate to a small, shared cabin in the Pioneer Mountain Range for those 120 days per year that they are home. Fortunately for us, Idaho three-piece Finn Riggins embraces and exemplifies the glory inherent in approaching one’s creative life from an anomalous perspective. [myspace]
Tags: experimental, Finn Riggins, indie, post punk
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Tartufi
Live music w/ TARTUFI
When: Sat Jan 16
Time: 9pm
Cost: $7
Details:
Tartufi
http://www.myspace.com/tartufi
From UNDER YOUR BED!!! The BEST BAND from SCARY LAND!!
TARTUFI is Brian Gorman and Lynne Angel. They are friends. They are Koko and kitten. They are tar and feather. They are thunder and lightning. They are Salt N Pepa (sans Spinderella).
Tags: experimental, indie, progressive, Tartufi
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Monday, December 28th, 2009

Jack O' The Clock • photo by Carly Hoopes
Live music w/ Jack O’ The Clock
When: Sat Jan 9
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Jack O’ The Clock bio:
http://www.jackotheclock.com
http://myspace.com/jackotheclock
Jack O’The Clock brings a quietly giddy sort of energy to the possibilities that spring up where American folk songwriting meets experimental music. The group’s sound, a jangly mix of concert-hall agility, acoustic rock drive, and junk shop scouring, is characterized by innovative arrangements for combinations of instruments you are not likely to have heard elsewhere made possible by the vastly varied musical experience and multi-instrumentalism of its five members, who have played everything from new music to art metal to fingerstyle folk to free improvisation, sometimes in the same concert. Jack O’ The Clock’s recordings go beyond the group’s live sound to incorporate bits of on-location percussion, found sounds, clandestinely recorded monologues, citynoise, and all manner of insects and birds, as well as a number of guest musicians and singers.
Tags: americana, experimental, folk, Jack O' The Clock
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Live music w/ Grex
When: Sat Jan 9
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Grex (greks) n. 1. a multicellular aggregate of the groups Acrasiomycota or Dictyosteliida, formed for the purposes of travel and food collection. 2. a Bay Area creative music partnership composed of Karl A.D. Evangelista and Margaret Rei Scampavia.
Grex (the band) was formed in and around the Mills College music axis, late night inside jokes, and intense dissections of South African music, emphasizing genre bending, cross-idiomatic conceits and melding elements of mostly everything (Evangelista has a background in free jazz and Scampavia is a biologist) into something stark and eldritch.
Remarks HurdAudio, “The striking thing about this music was its stubborn refusal to eschew any element in favor of another… offered with a headlong creative urge that made the unexpected turns and sequences into a joyful expression.”
Tags: experimental, folk
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