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]
Thee Oh Sees
Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/3345/thee-oh-sees#ixzz0hQYgMV8R
Boat Club
Buxter Hoot'n
Live music w/ Buxter Hoot’n
When: Tue Feb 23
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Buxter Hoot’n
http://www.myspace.com/buxterhootn
“A glimpse into the future of San Francisco’s slightly psychedelic songwriting scene,” (SF GUARDIAN) Buxter Hoot’n is an experience not be missed. Their music is a gritty and eclectic form of rock ‘n’ roll that draws from a deep reverence for tradition and psychedelia. RELIX magazine calls them “one of the great American bands of today.”
Weapons of the Future
Live music w/ Weapons of the Future
When: Sat Feb 20
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Weapons of the Future
http://www.myspace.com/weaponsofthefuturemusic
Weapons of the Future are instruments of creation. An innovative and powerful indie rock band with a touch of sci-fi, psychedelic, and garage rock. Take Interpol, mix it with the Cramps, Sonic Youth, and Morphine and you might get an idea of the Weapons Of the Future sound. Nevertheless, playing live is where they shine the most. The moodiness of the keyboard sounds and the mysticism of the front man’s lyrics are complimented by the solid dance grooves created by the rhythm section. They go through the set captivating the audience through multiple mediums, both visual and sonic.
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
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 – 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 – 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 – 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
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]
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