Terry Malts and Uzi Rash play free show Saturday
May 22, 2012
In a city starved for all ages shows and free shows, you can’t beat this opportunity to see Terry Malts and Uzi Rash on Saturday afternoon. Don’t let the location, the Speakeasy Ales & Lagers brewery, fool you — it is an all ages affair, but there will be tasty Speakeasy beers on hand for the adults. Terry Malts, by the way, have a new split 7″ coming out in June on Loglady.
Terry Malts, Uzi Rash, Synthetic I.D., Yi
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers
May 26, 2012
4pm, Free, All Ages
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Come to the Steer The Stars’ release party, get a free dinner
May 22, 2012
This is not just some slick marketing pitch, there really is a free meal involved: Buy a pre-sale ticket to the Steer the Stars CD Release party going down on May 26 at the Great America Music Hall, also featuring Debbie Neigher, Handshake, and HUFF THIS!, and you’re invited to a special event on June 9 at which all of the bands will cook you dinner (more details here).
Also, if you bring your ticket stub to Steer the Stars’ merch table at the show, you get a free copy of their debut album, Light Life Sleep and the Sea. Even if the dinner is BYOB, buying a ticket to this show might be the greatest deal of all time.
You can also just check out Steer the Stars’ album Light Life Sleep and the Sea right here:
And check out Debbie Neigher’s self-titled album, which is available as a name-your-own-price download on Bandcamp:
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Interview: Surf Club to bring their landlocked surf rock to SF for Popfest
May 22, 2012
Surf Club may be from Stockton, but that doesn’t mean they’ve got the Land Locked Blues. On the contrary, their sound is pretty light and breezy summer pop, with — as you might have guessed — plenty of surf rock sounds mixed in. And as it turns out, their sound is still very much shaped by their hometown, even though it’s miles and miles from the coast.
I talked with Surf Club singer/guitarist Frankie Soto about wanting to escape Stockton, his favorite SF venues, and how 60s girl groups helped shape his sound. Check it out after the jump.
Surf Club plays the Knockout as part of SF Popfest on May 26th with Kids On A Crime Spree and Manatee.
Kids On A Crime Spree, Surf Club, Manatee, Dead Angle, Cruel Summer
The Knockout
May 26
4pm, $10
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Stream the new Grass Widow album, ‘Internal Logic’
May 22, 2012
San Francisco’s own Grass Widow is streaming their new album Internal Logic over at Stereogum. A follow-up to 2010′s Past Time, Internal Logic is a tight collection of tracks, showcasing the trio’s layered vocal harmonies and slightly dischordant, pop-punk guitar sound.
Internal Logic is being released on May 29th on the band’s own label, HLR (short for Hannah, Lillian, and Raven). They’ll be touring in support shortly after, and will be playing a hometown show June 22nd at the Verdi Club.
Check out the full album over on Stereogum, or check out the album’s first single “Goldilocks Zone” below:
Grass Widow, Carletta Sue Kay, Hindu Pirates, Nicole Kidman (John Barba), Shannon and the Clams
Verdi Club
June 22, 2012
8 pm, $12
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The Rum Diary is playing a reunion show, and they want you to pick the set list
May 22, 2012
The NorCal rhythm is gonna get you! That’s right, the Cotati Sound Machine is back. Sort of.
The Rum Diary are playing a reunion show at this year’s C.A.M.P. festival. Let all who have missed the ethereal indie rock sounds of the Cotati-based band rejoice.
The coolest part is that if you’ve been dying inside every day since the band broke up in 2007 because you never got to hear your favorite Rum Diary song played live, this is your chance. They’re leaving the set list up to you: go fill out this survey and tell them what songs you want to hear.
I say it’s “sort of” a reunion show, however, because original drummer Joe Ryckebosch is not going to be playing, though it appears they did initially hope to have him there.
But Daniel Mckenzie and Jon Fee, who went on to start the indie post-rock band Shuteye Unison after The Rum Diary broke up, will be in full effect. Shuteye Unison drummer Jake Krohn will be filling in on the kit, which means it kinda still counts as a reunion of sorts because he did play in The Rum Diary for a short spell after Ryckebosch left the group. So it’s all good. “Shuteye Unison to me is basically the same band with a different drummer,” Daniel McKenzie told the Bohemian. “People just want to hear the old songs, you know?”
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Future Twin announces July 31 “dual release”
May 21, 2012
Future Twin has announced a “dual release” for July 31: the band is putting out a new 7″, called the Resist 7″, as well as Future Twin Deluxe Edition, a CD that will contain both the new record and the Situation EP. Both are coming out on the Future Twin Inc. label — which is to say, both will be self-released.
Here’s the video for Situation EP track “Landslide,” which premiered on Impose.tv earlier this year. It’s a bit of a tour video with some candid footage of the band thrown in, to give you a nice little window into what it’s like to be Future Twin.
In the lead-up to the dual release date, Future Twin is playing a couple dates in Brooklyn, then coming back and playing the Hemlock here in their hometown. Details after the jump, along with a downloadable version of “Landslide.”
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The Invisible Cities – “Freeze Ray Knees”
May 21, 2012
On May 11, San Francisco based indie-pop band The Invisible Cities announced they were releasing a new song every Friday for ten weeks, calling it the Meet the Lampreys project. The first release of the series, “Freeze Ray Knees” may only be 75 seconds long, but that’s just enough time to have it stuck in your head for days. The band creates a vibe that is perfect for some laid-back toe tapping on a lazy San Francisco evening.
Check out the new tracks as they are released every Friday on The Invisible Cities’ website or Bandcamp page, and watch their quirky video for “Freeze Ray Knees” below:
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Permanent Collection share track from upcoming LP
May 21, 2012
Permanent Collection’s previous EP, last year’s Delirium (a solo effort from ex-Young Prism Jason Hendardy), was a reverb-heavy release that had some folks divided on whether it was an overdone mess or a dream-pop masterpiece.
Judging from the first track to be shared off of the debut LP set for an August 7 release on Hendardy and friends’ Loglady Records, Newly Wed Nearly Dead should satisfy both camps. The noise and atmosphere are still there, but Hendardy’s vocals emerge from the squall to complement the music, not get suffocated by it.
Perhaps it was the influence of three newly recruited band members — bassist Megan Dabkowski, guitarist Brenden Nerfa, and drummer Mike Stillman — or the recording/mastering assistance of Monte Vallier (of Swell/Half-Church and Ruminator Audio) and Kramer (Galaxie 500 and Low producer) for the sonic clarification, but either way, maybe we can stop referring to Permanent Collection as a Young Prisms spin-off and look forward to future offerings from this promising quartet.
Permanent Collection will be touring the Northwest with Terry Malts in June, from Portland to Vancouver (alas, no SF date as of yet.)
