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

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:54:44 +0000

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.

4/20/2010 Live music w/ Fleeting Trance

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:50:47 +0000

Fleeting Trance

Live music w/ Fleeting Trance
When: Tuesday, April 20
Time: 8pm
Cost: FREE
Details:
Fleeting Trance
http://www.myspace.com/fleetingtrance
http://fleetingtrance.com/
SF based dreamy indie rock.
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.

4/19/2010 Live music w/ The Margins

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:43:34 +0000

Live music w/ The Margins
When: Monday, April 19
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
The Margins
http://www.themarginsmusic.com/
Quirky pop delights
[from their website..]

The Margins consist of Alexes Orellana and Wills. We decided to keep it simple for everyone, so we decided to only let people in our band who happen to be named “Alex”. We met at the illustrious University of California, Santa Cruz, and on a whim decided to live in San Francisco. Well, we’ve been here for a couple years now, and find ourselves living in the ever-active Mission District.

I (alexo) grew up listening to Punk here in the Bay Area, and have been in my share of Punk and Ska bands. Then in college, I for some reason became absolutely fascinated by classical music, and decided to get myself a minor in it. Which, I might add, was far more work (and far more rewarding) than my Econ major. I fell in love with people like Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Stravinsky, and the like. While I was there I also found myself writing scores to some of my friend’s short films, which was a pretty incredible experience. So now I have a digital piano+computer keyboard+footpedal going into my computer, which controls hundreds of sampled instruments at my command! I also have a modeling guitar going into an amp modeler going into my computer, to give me a pretty ridiculous arsenal of instruments to play and loop.

Wills has more of a taste for electronic music. He’s always loved tinkering with all kinds of crazy software the same way that you might remember playing with Legos as a kid. Although, that’s not to say that he’s ONLY interested in electronic music, frankly, his tastes are probably a lot broader in a lot of ways compared to mine, possibly because he’s much less of an obsessive douche as I am. One random day a while back, after he realized he had learned to play Rock Band drums to perfection with little to no effort, he decided to take the step to some real drums. On our way to pick up the drums, we saw a truck with about 2 tons of junkyard paraphernalia loaded about 15 feet high with only three wheels, and we knew from that moment on that we should start a fucking sweet ass band. Hopefully he can add more in here so I don’t look like such a self-obsessed douchebag. Currently he’s rocking the whole percussion section, from drums to shaker to the occasional vocal line.

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

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:37:57 +0000

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]

4/19/2010 Live music w/ Domestic Electrics

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:29:47 +0000

Domestic Electrics

Live music w/ Domestic Electrics
When: Monday, April 19
Time: 7pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Domestic Electrics
Indie/emo from San Francisco, sounds like: drama, dancing and drugs

4/17/2010 Live music w/ The Smokestacks

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:12:27 +0000

The Smokestacks

Live music w/ The Smokestacks
When: Saturday, April 17
Time: 9pm
Cost: 8pm
Details:
The Smokestacks
http://www.myspace.com/wearethesmokestacks
The Smokestacks play with a a manic rock n’ roll soul. We play it with old and new, fast and smooth, heavy and deranged. We play it with punk and blues, with rock and funk, with sweat pouring from our brows. And man we try to speak the truth – which is usually pretty damn loud. [myspace]

4/17/2010 Live music w/ Inferno of Joy

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:07:39 +0000

Inferno of Joy

Live music w/ Inferno of Joy
When: Saturday, April 17
Time: 9pm
Cost: 8pm
Details:
Inferno of Joy
http://www.myspace.com/infernoofjoy
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.

4/17/2010 Live music w/ Heavy Hindenburg

barback — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:03:16 +0000

Heavy Hindenburg

Live music w/ Heavy Hindenburg
When: Saturday, April 17
Time: 9pm
Cost: 8pm
Details:
Heavy Hindenburg
http://www.myspace.com/heaviesthindenburg
The Bay Area’s best all-male Led Zeppelin tribute band. Kind of like seeing Spinal Tap except if they were Led Zeppelin.

4/13/2010 Live music w/ Sons of Doug

barback — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:05:55 +0000

Sons of Doug

Live music w/ Sons of Doug
When: Tuesday, April 13
Time: 8pm
Cost: $5
Details:
Sons of Doug
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sons-of-Doug/213204580758
http://www.myspace.com/sonsofdoug

The Sons of Doug are a three piece rock and roll band from California inspired by the work of Joy Division, the Drive-By Truckers, and Buddy Holly. Their songs are about heartbreak and drugs and the decline of American civilization. In 2009, they sold everything they owned and set out on the highway to brand their music on the face of this country.

3/20/2010 Live music w/ Midway Delta

barback — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:02:13 +0000

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]