Wave Well

When: Wed, November 23
Time: 9pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Wave Well
http://www.myspace.com/wavewell http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wave-Well/280727641967968?sk=wall
I produced this album with the intention to create an atmosphere of thought and contemplation but also with the dynamic tension of rhythmic beats keeping the listener in check. In Metacog there is no sampling or pre-made loops. All material was carefully crafted and designed from scratch down to the smallest measure and orchestrated with only my vision and ability to compose. This Album was built on a combination of soft synths and hard synths and a variety of studio recorded tracks. [website: on latest album]

La Fin Absolute du Monde

La Fin Absolute du Monde
http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Fin-Absolute-du-Monde/128749230475094?sk=info
http://soundcloud.com/la-fin-absolute-du-monde
We aim to utilize dark, lovely and ambient timbres and ignore conventional structures and boundaries to provide an intense and adventureful musical-listening experience. We are two people who come from entirely different worlds, both enamored by smart people who love smart music.[facebook]

Drunk Horse

Live music w/ DRUNK HORSE ~ HOT LUNCH ~ CARLTON MELTON (ROCK)
When: Sat, February 12
Time: 9pm
Cost: $8
Details:
Drunk Horse (on Tee Pee Records) – Headliner
http://www.myspace.com/drunkhorse
Drunk Horse emphasizes the interpenetration of what are usually called “mind” and “body”. According to this idea, people’s deeply-held thoughts make them ill or at least create the preconditions for disease and psychological problems. We work to remove deeply held resentments, to release unexpressed emotions, to assuage buried terror (all of which, in this view, are caused by deeply held thoughts), in order to build self-confidence and to plant in people a positive and hopeful view of their path through life. ..

Hot Lunch

Hot Lunch
http://www.myspace.com/hotlunchrules
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Lunch/116240715101900
FOLLOWING the sudden implosion of Parchman Farm, singer Eric Shea knew that he had only two options; start a Firefall tribute band named High On Firefall or build a heavy punk ‘n’ roll quartet by sandwiching members from his favorite San Francisco bands. Following his gut, he pursued the sandwich. [facebook]

Carlton Melton

Carlton Melton (new split release 12″ on Mid-to-Late Records)
http://www.myspace.com/carltonmelton
http://carltonmeltonmusic.com/
The band CARLTON MELTON formed along the Mendocino County coastline in Northern California on the weekend of July 17th, 2008. The idea to play live, loud, improvised, experimental, instrumental, psychedelic music in a geodesic dome had been discussed for many years prior to this date. The opportunity came to fruition after the dome was completely rebuilt and the acoustic sounds inside were fully realized.

Songs for Snakes

Details:
SONGS FOR SNAKES
http://myspace.com/songsforsnakes
http://www.reverbnation.com/songsforsnakes
“San Francisco’s post-hardcore band, Songs for Snakes, seems to be strongly influenced by artists such as Drive Like Jehu and Jawbreaker, which is evident in their guitar style. Songs for Snakes has slithered all the way up from number 28 to number 1 in the past week here at KSPC.
KSPC
“These Bay Area dudes are way into Jawbreaker. They also slowed the pace down a little. I enjoyed the faster songs alot more than most of the CD, which was full of slower songs and has a tendency to drag. Not as good as Jawbreaker, better than Jets To Brazil”
Paul Lucich – Maximum Rock N Roll

Time Traveling Assassins

TIME TRAVELING ASSASSINS
http://myspace.com/timetravelingassassins

Bite

BITE
http://myspace.com/bitesf
We’re about playin’ fast, loud, sexy, trashy down and dirty punk and roll. We’ve had some kickass players in this band and the current lineup is no exception. We’ve all been around the block and back so this shit ain’t about jumpin’ on some trendy bandwagon. This is our lives people, and along the way we’ve met and played with some amazing people, you know who you are. A couple of shows that stand out are gigs with Texas Terri, The Lewd And Dee Dee Ramone a year before he died. Yeah that’s the reason we do this, that and we have to, what else is there people besides REAL RAW ROCK AND FUCKIN’ ROLL?! We see no alternative, so if you like it fierce and fearless, check it out.

Hot Lunch • photo by Josie Ramondetta

HOT LUNCH
http://www.myspace.com/hotlunchrules
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Lunch/116240715101900
FOLLOWING the sudden implosion of Parchman Farm, singer Eric Shea knew that he had only two options; start a Firefall tribute band named High On Firefall or build a heavy punk ‘n’ roll quartet by sandwiching members from his favorite San Francisco bands. Following his gut, he pursued the sandwich.

Since he had a fondness for heavy acid-rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Shea called up Aaron Nudelman to ask if he still played guitar with the wild and shirtless abandon of his former band Mensclub. Nudelman said that although a recent court-order demanded he keep his shirt on in a public setting, he was still summoning a six-string jihad and that it would behoove Shea to lose his longhaired, backwoods, bow-hunting Republican pride and negotiate with guitarrorists.

Two negotiations and twelve beers later, Shea and Nudelman were knocking on the door of Rob Alper, as both drunk men were longtime fans of Alper’s drum work with Estrus Records darlings, The Fells as well as his contributions to The Sermon’s Volume. Alper apologized for answering the door naked before admitting that he liked the idea of dusting off his behemoth drum-kit and beating the living hell out of those drums like they were his own beloved children.

Two twelvers and nine high-fives later Shea, Nudelman and Alper knew they needed a bass player to flesh out their rock sandwich – and not just any bass player but a lead bass player without herpes. Enter Charlie Karr. A former member of The Hostiliteens and Alternative Tentacles recordings artists Harold Ray Live In Concert, Karr already had much in common with the others, especially their love for surfing, skateboarding, barbequing and playing heavy rock so loud that it melted the faces right off the skulls of evil Nazis, much like the end scene in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

But the group also shared a lusty hunger for noontime meals served piping hot, which led them to one of the most clever, well thought-out and originally conceptualized monikers in the history of all music: HOT LUNCH. [from Facebook]

The Meat Sluts

THE MEAT SLUTS
http://www.facebook.com/themeatsluts
http://www.myspace.com/themeatsluts
MEET THE MEAT SLUTS: Taking the cock outta rock, putting pussy into punk, these meat muffins are four tunnels of fun from San Francisco. THE MEAT SLUTS have cum together to ROCK BABY, ROOOOOCK and leave you hungry for more! It’s time to mess around!
Filet O’ Nettie – Guitar and Howls
BB Rumproast – Guitard and Growls
Carmela Mignon – Bass and Back Ups
Scarlet Spamchop – Sticks-n-Skins

The Jack Saints

THE JACK SAINTS
http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomthejacksaints
“Getting into trouble hanging out with Nick -The scenester girls are pretty, but they make us sick.”.. .. The Jack Saints started in Palm Springs, Ca back in 1995. Shortly after we moved to San Francisco. Released a split 10″ with the Idiots, and put out a full length on Scooch Pooch/Sub Pop and toured. A few years ago Regal left and was replaced by ex New Bomb turk drummer, Bill Randt. We put out our 2nd full length, toured Europe again and played in SF with one of our favorites, Fitz of Depression! .. Mike moved back to SF in Feb 2008, and we’ve written 12 or so new songs (and still writing more!) and have some fun shows coming up with new drummer RD. Check it out! [from myspace]

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
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
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

The Sleepwalkers

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.

Bellrays

Live music w/ THE BELLRAYS ~ Carletta Sue Kay (Punk/Soul/Country)
When: Sun Sep 5
Time: 8pm
Cost: $10
Details:
The Bellrays
http://myspace.com/thebellrays
It goes without saying that singer Lisa Kekaula has a voice thats as big as her Afro, and powerful enough to strip paint off of a car, and that her male comrades are all black belts on their respective instruments. What REALLY impressed me about their performance was the sincerity and passion behind it. [myspace]

Carletta Sue Kay

Carletta Sue Kay
http://myspace.com/carlettasuekay
7″ release party
One of San Francisco’s most wonderfully…San Franciscan acts is Carletta Sue Kay! She’s been blowing up the underground scene here in SF. Carletta Sue Kay is a flouncy, dramatic gal who loves to sing gripping stories about her adoration for lads and her various heartbreaks. This is one talented gal who can sing her guts out! [ameoblog]

Sex Presleys

Live music w/ Sex Presleys ~ Atomic Lucy ~ Scott Young
When: Sat Sep 4
Time: 9pm
Cost: $8
Details:

Sex Presleys
http://www.myspace.com/sexpresleys
Hailing from S.F. the Sex Presleys are the bastard demon child of Las Vegas Elvis and a transgender Sex Pistols. GOD SAVE THE KING!

Atomic Lucy

Atomic Lucy
http://www.myspace.com/atomiclucy
Atomic Lucy is high energy, seductive rock with infectious pop melodies. Imagine the combination of four visionary musicians pushing the parameters of rock/pop, and you will discover why Atomic Lucy is The Premier Rock Band in San Francisco.

Scott Young w/ Red Meat

Scott Young (Solo – from Red Meat!)
http://www.myspace.com/redmeatcountry
Carrying on the strong West Coast tradition of creating authentic country and western music with a sharp edge, the San Francisco based band Red Meat is dedicated to keeping honky tonk music fresh and alive. Formed in a garage in the Mission District in 1993, Red Meat takes its inspiration from the likes of Bakersfield legend Buck Owens, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Sr. and the Carter Family. They also count Gram Parsons as an influence and visually they recall the salad days of the Modesto, California-based Maddox Brothers and Sister Rose. [myspace]

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]