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9/21/2010 – Live music w/ Lion Riding Horses ~ Greenflash (Indie/Folk)

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Live music w/ Lion Riding Horses ~ Greenflash (Indie/Folk)
When: Tue Sep 21
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details:

Lion Riding Horses

Lion Riding Horses

Lion Riding Horses
http://myspace.com/lionridinghorses
Andrew plays some drums. Greg plays guitar. Young tries to sing and play guitar at the same time but has trouble doing it well sometimes. Alex is good at the bass. Young and Andrew like music and burritos so they formed a band. Greg likes music too so he came along for the ride. We found Alex on craigslist. We thought he was going to be crazy but he turned out alright. Young saw a picture of a lion riding a horse and he chose that for our name. He writes the songs and then the rest of us make them better. We like what we do and we hope you enjoy our music or at least not want to throw things at us. If you do, please throw sandwiches. Thank you.

Greenflash

Greenflash

Greenflash
http://www.myspace.com/greenflashsounds
“The solo project of Jonathan Baskins, Greenflash is a convergence of both natural and synthetic acoustics to create a blended balance of harmony and dischord.”

3/10/2010 Live music w/ Ty Segall

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Ty Segall

Ty Segall

Live music w/ Ty Segall
When: Wed Mar 10
Time: 8pm
Cost: $7
Details
Ty Segull
http://www.myspace.com/tysegall
Burying ’60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, Ty Segall carved out his own shelf in the neo-psych garage alongside SF compatriots and collaborators Sic Alps and Thee Oh Sees. As an exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz and atmospheric acoustic psych, Ty Segall continues to crank out the best new garage rock from San Francisco. -Darling Darling

2/28/2010 Live music w/ Chantelle Tibbs

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Chantelle Tibbs

Chantelle Tibbs

Live music w/ Chantelle Tibbs
When: Sun Feb 28
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Chantelle Tibbs
http://chantelletibbsmusic.com
Ambient singer songwritery folk. “She’s Got Pipes.”-SF Bay Guardian

Chantelle has played with Chris Pureka, and Andrea Gibson, . She has also gotten the chance to work with Chuck Prophet on her album “No One’s Believer.” She has been featured in CRAFT Magazine, Fluffy Co, Commonwealth Commercial, and on NBC’s “Trauma.”

When Chantelle was 12 she bought her first folk cd. It was Joan Baez Greatest Hits and she got it for “Diamonds and Rust.” She has had music in her ever since then. “I can remember my mom walking home and the package was addressed to her. I opened it knowing I would get in trouble, but when she saw me singing she just kind of let it be.”

Chantelle began to sing and started writing music. At the age of 20 she picked up the guitar. “The guitar was really the missing piece for me.” She has been playing in San Francisco, the Northwest, Los Angeles and around the country since then.

2/27/2010 Live music w/ Bitter Mystics

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Bitter Mystics

Bitter Mystics

Live music w/ Bitter Mystics
When: Sat Feb 27
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
The Bitter Mystics
http://www.bittermystics.com
The Bitter Mystics (formerly D’Tension) grew from a partnership to produce a single song. That seed has sprouted almost 30 original tunes that this talented ensemble shares at venues in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.

Bitter Mystics are smooth and sultry vocals backed by masterful acoustic rhythm and lead guitars, and violin energizing original songs spanning genres from bluegrass to folk, pop to swing.

2/23/2010 Live music w/ Nicole Reynolds

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Nicole Reynolds

Nicole Reynolds

Live music w/ Nicole Reynolds
When: Tue, Feb 23
Time: 8pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Nicole Reynolds
http://www.myspace.com/nicolereynoldsmusic
Nicole has toured throughout the United States, Germany, and Holland. She has performed shows with Jean Ritchie, Dan Bern, Chris Pureka, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, Melissa Ferrick, Ellis Paul, Erin McKeown, Peter Mulvey, Edie Carey, Sarsaparilla, Jake Shimabukuro, Eleni Mandell, The Waybacks, among many others. If you combine all of their music, you’d probably end up with something that sounds kind of like Nicole.

2/16/2010 Live music w/ Fleeting Trance

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Fleeting Trance

Fleeting Trance

Live music w/ Fleeting Trance
When: Tue Feb 16
Time: 8pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Fleeting Trance
http://www.myspace.com/fleetingtrance

http://fleetingtrance.com/
Fleeting Trance is the songwriting & recording project of Manasseh Bernal. Fleeting Trance is currently based in Oakland, California and can be seen fairly often in bay area clubs and occasionally on tour. The current line-up consists of drums, bass, guitar, keyboard, pedal & lap steel guitar. Manasseh began playing guitar & writing songs in 1996 and started playing out in 1998. Fleeting Trance released it’s debut CD entitled “17″ in May of 2009 and is due to release it’s second C.D. in January 2010.

“Named for the number of tracks, 17 is classic folksy, bluesy americana. What listeners might not expect is the occasional reggae influences that show up on some songs. The addition of reggae is a nice touch, and fits well with the band’s overall sound. Lyrics are entertainly messed up.”
Kirsty Evans East Bay Express 1/20/2010

2/13/2010 Live music w/ Filthy Thieving Bastards

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Filthy Thieving Bastards

Filthy Thieving Bastards

Live music w/ Filthy Thieving Bastards
When: Sat Feb 13
Time: 9pm
Cost: $8
Details:
FILTHY THIEVING BASTARDS (Headliner)
http://www.myspace.com/filtythievingbastards
In the last century or so, technology has greatly altered how history was passed along, through radio, television, the internet, and movies. There once was a time where storytelling came by word of mouth; from parents and grandparents, to bards that played through the villages and towns. In the era of electronic media and communication, it seems as if the art of storytelling has fallen by the wayside. Luckily, strewn through out this modern landscape are a few remaining bards who are still willing to share with us their superbly executed, original songs.

The Filthy Thieving Bastards’ songwriting duo of Johnny Bonnel and Darius Koski are two of these aforementioned bards…[myspace]

2/4/2010 Live music w/ The Fancy Dan Band

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The Fancy Dan Band

The Fancy Dan Band

Live music w/ The Fancy Dan Band
When: Thu Feb 4
Time: 8pm
Cost: $7
Details:
The Fancy Dan Band
http://www.fancydanband.com

The Fancy Dan Band plays music for singing and dancing to. One minute they’ll be tearing through barn burners guaranteed to get your feet stomping and your hips shaking and the next minute they’ll be playing whisper soft lonesome songs that will have you teary-eyed and looking for a partner to grab hold of. Ranging in style from rock & roll to country to blues to folk to gospel, the Fancy Dan Band combines American music forms to make a unique sound that is both traditional and modern at the same time.

2/2/2010 Live music w/ The Eli Wise Band

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The Eli Wise Band

The Eli Wise Band

Live music w/ The Eli Wise Band
When: Tue, February 2
Time: 9pm
Cost: Free
Details:
Eli Wise
http://www.myspace.com/eliwise
The Eli Wise band is a project whose roots are in European – American Folk Music and that reaches for the space age. As Americans, we are stradle multiple worlds and cultures, and seek to understand ourselves in a country whose history can seem harder to grasp than its future.

1/23/2010 Sonbird Winter Festival

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Sonbird Winter Festival

When: Sat Jan 23
Time: 9pm
Cost: $6 (w/ costume); $8 (no costume)
Details: Sonbird Winter Festival Presents – An evening of Bay Area Music and The Annual Cheshire Rock Opera. Costumes strongly encouraged….Think Alice and wonderland….

Fuzzpod

Fuzzpod

Fuzzpod – Electronica / Ambient / Down-tempo
http://www.myspace.com/fuzzpodmusic

Fuzzpod is an eletronic music group based out of San Francisco and features the talents of Captain Electric, Ms. Maki and Ms. Momo. Right now they are finishing the next album entitled: The Garden of Fuzzy Delights, Due out in February 2010.

Barbary Ghosts

Barbary Ghosts

Barbary Ghosts – Folk / Roots Music / Acoustic
http://www.myspace.com/thebarbaryghosts

Three castaways washed up on the shores of San Francisco telling tales of whiskey, women, and mutiny on the high sea. Having no boat and no money, they took to playing the dives, dance halls, and street corners of the Barbary Coast. The rest is history…

the Triffles

the Triffles

The Triffles – Rock Comedy Punk
http://www.myspace.com/thetrifles

How unexpectedly taxing it is to locate adequate images of trifles. I have been trolling the virtual galaxy for what seem like endless hours, my mind clogged with dense, creamy images of suffocated strawberries and pieces of dessicated cake, cast adrift in the cold lava of custard. These forlorn fossils of British dessertery sling me back to dark summer afternoons where the clouds hung low, and I sought comfort in the brilliant depths of the fridge, as the moon prepared for its evening chores… As for the band, it’s a multilayered melange of odd-shaped bits that stick in your throat and make you want to sing for joy! Trifles! And now, the all-new MINI TRIFLES!!! It’s the Trifles gone all cute and acoustic, with accordion, vibraphone, tinkly-tackity percussion, and even a bit of violin. Same people, same songs – VERY DIFFERENT!!!

Cheshire Rock Opera

Cheshire Rock Opera

Manbanjo Presents:
Cheshire Rock Opera – Psychedelic / Classical Opera and Vocal / Melodramatic Popular Song
http://www.myspace.com/cheshirerockopera
The Annual Cheshire Rock Opera

Culminated from an early love of the writings of Lewis Carroll (who was also a favorite literature of my household), into a rock opera which features his effect on popular music & some of the poetry from the book set to music of my own device. it’s first performance, first show was january 27, 2004 @ Van Kleef’s in Oakland. It was quite a production including the queen’s concert, tea party trio, suitcase puppet show of walrus & carpenter and the jabberwock monstermasks. Twas a mad evening of fun… [myspace]

1/9/2010 Live music w/ Jack O’ The Clock

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Jack O The Clock • photo by Carly Hoopes

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.

1/9/2010 Live music w/ Grex

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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.”