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3/5/2011 La-ni’s Birthday Bashup w/ Girls With Guns ~ The Go Going Gone Girls ~ Mermaid Bones (Rock / Pop)

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Mermaid Bones

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

Girls With Guns

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.

2/7/2011 – Live music w/ The Whitney Myer Band ~ Aaron Blyth ~ The Ps and Qs (Pop / Rock)

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Live music w/ The Whitney Myer Band ~ Aaron Blyth ~ The Ps and Qs (Pop / Rock)
When: Mon, February 7
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:

The Whitney Myer Band

The Whitney Myer Band

The Whitney Myer Band
http://www.myspace.com/thewhitneymyerband
http://whitneymyerband.com/
The Whitney Myer Band is a family affair, with vocalist Whitney Myer backed by father Scott Myer on guitar and uncle Fred Myer on drums. And Bassist Gia Torcaso from Nevada’s, fertile music scene — rounds out the ambitious quartet.The music bug first bit hard in the Myer clan when Scott and Fred started jamming with neighborhood kids in the East San Francisco Bay. The twins ended up with full-fledged careers, backing nationally touring acts such as Dave Mason and Commander Cody. The 1990s found Scott and Fred in The Mudsharks, a Reno-based ska band that shared bills with acts such as No Doubt and Sublime…. [http://www.reverbnation.com/show/3696650#!/thewhitneymyerband]

Aaron Blyth

Aaron Blyth

Aaron Blyth
Raised on the beaches of Hawaii and in the Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, Aaron Blyth’s music is as diverse and eclectic as his background. Pulling from strong influences of Folk, Rock, Blues and Funk, this singer/songwriter blends his favorite flavors into a uniquely energetic sound. From his days of playing Tom Petty covers at bonfire parties in high school, to playing with his band Soul Plain in college, Aaron is now spreading his music around California to any ears that wanna listen…. [http://www.reverbnation.com/show/3696650#!/aaronblyth]

Ps & Qs

P's & Q's

The Ps and Qs
http://www.myspace.com/psqsimonit
“I was raised different”. Getting babysit in penthouses, Cartoons on Big screens, Driving home in stretch limos. “Jewelry and Jordan’s”, “the life huh”… before funerals and prison visits. Food stamps and section 8’s, “nothing to brag about just something to laugh about”. It’s always two sides to a story. Born and raised in “Motown, Motor City, Hitsville”, “I got my game from Michigan. Growing up in the neighborhoods with corner stores and hooping on milk crates.”It made me want more”. Spent summers in Atlanta, gotta chance to actually see what a studio looks like and what it takes to create music. Moved to Columbus, Ohio; a opportunity to go to the next level. I linked up with a entertainment companying 2003 learned the business and been in the game ever since. [myspace]

12/2/2010 Live music w/ Kemo Sabe ~ Laura Jean ~ Cheetahs on the Moon (Punk/Pop)

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Live music w/ Kemo Sabe ~ Laura Jean ~ Cheetahs on the Moon (Punk/Pop)
When: Thu, December 2
Time: 8pm
Cost: $5
Details:

Kemo Sabe

Kemo Sabe

Kemo Sabe
http://www.myspace.com/kemosabeband
Kemo Sabe is a wild acoustic trio that play what they call “modern-day campfire songs” with the bare-wire energy of punk rock.

If you cut Richard Simmons in half and kept his left side and you cut Glenn Danzig in half and kept his right side and sewed the two together down the middle, you would file us between the sweaty (halves) of Richard Danzig Simmons. Meaning: We’re very energetic and we rock with evil intensity. We cite Split Lip Rayfield and Djano Reinhardt as our biggest influences and, at our best, remind people of the Bad Livers, Cheap Suit Serenaders, Violent Femmes and Tenacious D, among others. [from: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/22/NSE8TF28C.DTL]

Laura Jean

Laura Jean

Laura Jean
http://www.myspace.com/laurajeanband
Laura Jean is the new project from Oakland duo Laura and Danny Allen (High Diving Horses). They are unruly pop that sometimes detours down the Mississippi River late at night on a bender. Catchy melodies and scrappy guitars tones seamlessly mix with jangle punk, drunken banjo and junkyard percussion. The band are a bunch of people who love to play music and are really good at it, including John Would, Amy Wood, Julian Anderle and Luther Monday on harmonica. They like Mexican restaurants, people who do stuff, and music that you want to turn up really loud while driving.

Cheetahs on the Moon

Cheetahs on the Moon

Cheetahs on the Moon
http://www.myspace.com/ohmycheetahs
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cotm
COTM have descended to Earth to rock wickedly. Lay down your cynicism and join the post-ironic new sincerity movement currently sweeping across this great land. All you need is love. And tight pants.

Hailing from the regolith region of the Earth’s lone satellite, CHEETAHS ON THE MOON have arrived on the terrestrial musical scene to do nothing less than revolutionize rock-n-roll with power ballads as hot-cool as a lunar magma ocean. Go ahead…tug our whiskers…you’ll see when we scratch.

“Solid southern classic rock with top notch musicianship and a dash of humor. This group is a must see at least because of their country bluegrass cover of ‘Pour Some Sugar on Me.’ If you haven’t heard Def Leppard on banjo, you haven’t lived.” -Erikka Innes, SF Indie Music Examiner, examiner.com

9/8/2010 – Live music w/ Deep Teens ~ Sleepwalkers ~ Quiet Coyote ~ The Homewreckers

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The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

Live music w/ Deep Teens ~ Sleepwalkers ~ Quiet Coyote ~ The Homewreckers (Psych / Pop)
When: Wed Sep 8
Time: 8pm
Cost: $3-5
Details:

Sleepwalkers
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/Sleepwalkers/104239436292940?ref=ts
dark dance, psych post punk

Quiet Coyote
it’s dancy, mathy, thick, a pack of coyotes whose call can be mistaken for a lonely banshee looking for a party on a cold desert night.

The Homewreckers
http://myspace.com/wewreckhomes
The Homewreckers are a pop-punk band who sing about lost love, the faults in human communication, being queer, latin america, getting your period, and fucking shit up. Featuring Cristy C. Road singing, gargling, thinking too much and playing guitar; Crystal Bradley (Partyline) playing drums; Jackie O. (Girlcrush) playing bass; and Turtle Garaufis (Rude Mechanical Orchestra) playing guitar. Frank Leone (The Unlovables) also plays guitar and is on our 7″, but does not come on tour. The Homewreckers live (and occasionally die) in Brooklyn New York.

6/10/2010 Live music w/ Slippery People

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Slippery People • Photo by Thea Kynthia

Slippery People • Photo by Thea Kynthia

Live music w/ Slippery People
When: Thu Jun 10
Time: 8pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Slippery People

http://www.slipperypeople.com/

Formed in San Francisco in the summer of 2001, Slippery People has grown into a musical force that continues to surprise club dwellers around the City. While the band tips its hat to the New Wave, Ska, and Rock movements of the early 80s, the sound has synthesized into a unique cacophony of pop creativity that constantly catches folks off guard.

“We really admire bands like the Talking Heads, Prince, and the English Beat for their approach to song craft,” explains Slippery alumnus Phil Aaronson. “Those artists came along during a time period when music was created either to conform to universally accepted standards of what Pop Radio sounded like, or to throw those conventions to the wind. While those bands broke the mold, so to speak, they also redefined what popular music could be—and those echoes are still felt to this day.”

Slippery People has taken the best elements of their influences—analog synths, electronic percussion, and round acoustic drums, as well as horns, jangly guitars and monstrously percussive bass—to creative the sonic stew they have entitled, “CAUTION: SLIPPERY PEOPLE.” The album serves as both a Red Level alert, as well as a clean shot across the bow of San Francisco’s rutted alternative scene.

“At the end of the day, we are a pop band, and we give the people what they want,” continues Phil. “When you see the Slippery People perform, there is an element of, ‘What is this all about?’ We’re not shoe gazers. In fact, we are quite the opposite—dramatic and ecstatic. We’ve seen the most jaded scenesters start to dance at our shows, only to catch themselves as if to say, ‘Is this real or ironic?’”

6/10/2010 Live music w/ Instrumental Dynamic Duo Mental 99

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Joe Gore

Joe Gore

Live music w/ Instrumental Dynamic Duo Mental 99
When: Fri, June 11
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details: Mental 99 is an explosive instrumental duo featuring guitarist Joe Gore (PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman) and drummer Dawn Richardson (Dolorata,Tracy Chapman,4 Non Blondes).

Dawn Richardson

Dawn Richardson

The pair spins wild sonic tapestries ranging from eerie spacerock to pithy pop covers. It’s realtime sound design from two master musicians.

No cover – contributions for the continuance and support of Mental 99 will be accepted gratefully.

http://www.joegore.com

http://www.dawnrichardson.com

4/20/2010 Live music w/ The Hoptown Elders

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The Hoptown Elders

Hoptown

Live music w/ The Hoptown Elders
When: Tuesday, April 20
Time: 8pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
The Hoptown Elders
http://www.myspace.com/hoptownmusic
Hoptown are from San Francisco Bay Area. It is the brain child of bassist/songwriter Roy Elder. The band began in 2006 as a musical collective of musicians who share a common interest in roots music. Through the course of a year the musicians collaborated with Roy in the studio to forge a sound using both electric and acoustic instrumentation.

4/19/2010 Live music w/ We Are Invisible

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We Are Invisible

We Are Invisible

Live music w/ We Are Invisible
When: Monday, April 19
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
We Are Invisible
http://www.myspace.com/weareinvisible
We Are Invisible is a three-piece rock band from San Francisco with multiple music personalities. Call it classic Heart meets tough girl Concrete Blond meets the hammer-fisted drums of Clutch. Formed in 2004 after drummer Dom moved to San Francisco by way of Germany, sisters Jennifer and Rebecca immediately began writing the beginnings of their first album (We Are Invisible) and recording at SF’s own Tiny Telephone. After international radio play and several gigs and beers later, the group returned to Tiny to record the shockingly epic and raw GIANT, WAI’s first EU export, released in 2005 on Poison Free Records (PFX). Repeat radio, gigs and beers. In 2007, WAI returned to the studio to record Three, possibly the band’s most cohesive, balanced mix of polyrhythm, drive, and melody. For We Are Invisible, they’d prefer to just call it rock. [myspace]

3/20/2010 Live music w/ Midway Delta

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The Midway Delta

The Midway Delta

Live music w/ Midway Delta
When: Sat Mar 20
Time: 3pm
Cost: $8
Details
Midway Delta
http://www.myspace.com/martinschneider
THE MIDWAY DELTA’S Martin Schneider and John Kontogianis have known each other casually for nearly 15 years, often running into each other at Bay Area local independent music venues hosting the best bands. They talked about playing music together many times and came awfully close in 1998 when Martin tried out for an open bass slot in John’s band JOLLY. Martin chose to stay with his band at the time THE LIVING ROOMS only to see them fall apart several months later and after JOLLY were on the move with a new bassist. They made contact again when John sent an e-mail to Martin’s Myspace band page for LIGHT SLEEPERS to catch up. His timing was good, LIGHT SLEEPERS was about to lose a member to the state of North Carolina and two others to another band. THE MIDWAY DELTA rehearses in the basement of a music store in Antioch, CA drawing inspiration from both the room full of lonely pianos above their heads and the rising and falling waters of the nearby Delta. [myspace]

3/2/2010 Live music w/ Fiction Like Candy

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Live music w/ Fiction Like Candy
When: Tue Mar 2
Time: 8pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Fiction Like Candy

Fiction Like Candy

Fiction Like Candy


Her flair for the dramatic swirls through the music ambitiously, yet the drama now seems more honest, the sentiment sweeter and more vulnerable. The most recent incarnation of Fiction Like Candy is a little less fiction, a little more candy. And it will still leave you craving more…

2/23/2010 Live music w/ Red Abbey

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Red Abbey

Red Abbey

Live music w/ Red Abbey
When: Tue Feb 23
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Red Abbey
A New York based rock outfit with its roots in San Francisco. Comprised of two multi-cultural and multi-instrumental songwriters, these two fuse their influences into a sound that’s all their own. For lead vocalist, Thien-nga Palmer, this will be a homecoming show as well as Red Abbey’s West Coast album release.

2/22/2010 Live music w/ Daikon

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Daikon

Daikon

Live music w/ Daikon
When: Mon Feb 22
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Daikon
http://www.myspace.com/daikonradish
2008 – San Francisco, California. A young, married rhythm section from Half Moon Bay hears an old friend from San Jose’s songs he has recorded on his own. Phone calls and emails are exchanged. There are no first impressions to make anymore, everyone gets along fine. Amps are plugged in; an initial recording session is made. They practice for a long time. A year later, they finish recording an album and start playing shows. A terse biography is drawn up to help get more shows. So the story goes once more.

2/22/2010 Live music w/ The Sprains

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The Sprains

The Sprains

Live music w/ The Sprains
When: Mon Feb 22
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The Sprains
http://www.myspace.com/thesprains
Sprains are Dan, Dustin, and Jesse – three dudes who love to rock! We all have a special place in our hearts for 90′s pop punk, and when the stars aligned over San Francisco one summer night back in ’08 we decided to make it official. Less than a year later, we’ve got over a dozen tunes that we’re itchin’ to play live.

2/17/2010 Live music w/ American Professionals

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The American Professional

The American Professional

Live music w/ American Professionals
When: Wed Feb 17
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The American Professionals
http://www.myspace.com/theamericanprofessionals
San Francisco-based The American Professionals dole out comfortably familiar powerpop in this four-track EP. You know the deal – loud, crunchy guitars and catchy melodies. So if you’re a diehard powerpop fan, you do get the heavy guitarwork (classic 70s styled) and the Beatlesque tunes, which suggests that the likes of Cheap Trick and the Raspberries might be strong influences. It’s straightforward really. Personally, I like the subtle contrasts in the title track which does suggest that the band has more in its locker than loud and heavy. Always a good sign. That said, the adrenaline-pumping, bittersweet confections of Jump This Train, Down Low and Yet Another One More Time will keep the powerpop fans smiling. In addition, check out bonus track Love is Only Sleeping, which is a gorgeous evocation of mid-60s psychedelic-garage rock.
Kevin Mathews, www.powerofpop.com

2/14/2010 Live music w/ Champions of Melancholy

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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!

2/5/2010 Live music w/ Orchid and Hound

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Orchid and Hound • Photo by Droo Baxter

Orchid and Hound • Photo by Droo Baxter

Live music w/ Orchid and Hound
When: Fri Feb 5
Time: 9pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Orchid and Hound

http://orchidandhound.com

Pop duo Orchid and Hound is John Constantine and Lawrence Alarcon. They sing songs about love, sex, men, and sabotage.

Lawrence Alarcon and John Constantine are Orchid and Hound. The two 23-year-olds formed the band last summer, but have been making music together since high school (they met at LA County High School for the Arts).

Alarcon and Constantine were classically trained in opera (by Stephanie Vlahos) but their own music has a pop bent. Orchid and Hound songs pair soaring vocals and bouncy piano melodies over somber lyrics that focus mainly on relationships. One barely notices that the lyrical content expresses a dour mood, as the music does just the opposite. [Shamelessly grabbed from the SFWeekly]