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The Floating Corpses looking for drummer Corpse

TheFloatingCorpses — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:35:56 GMT

SynthPunk/Sewer Rock band seeks Drummer
we are searching for a drummer that gets garage rock, has swing, and is foot heavy, but that is open to experimental sounds as well as grooving rock n roll.

We are two musicians, that create tension and flow between us by our sound and instrument choices, tube amp surfy goth rock guitar battling and making out with analog synth waveforms, bluesy organ keyboard collaborating with tweaked live played samples of self recorded obscure sources, low groans and high screaches co-exist with poisoned pop punk melodies and crooning cabaret dramatics. We need our third member, the drummer/percussionist, to hold down the beat, and explore with us. We call ourselves The Floating Corpses. We've been playing together for about 5 years, and both of us were in bands before this, one of us in rock n roll bands, the other in noise bands. We have recorded, toured, and get good gigs, have rehearsal space, etc. We work the underground scenes, not the mainstream; we are a serious band that lives for music, this isn't a hobby, but we arn't professionals per se, although we know how to be professional, we prefer to keep our punk ethics and keep having fun, but we are planning on touring the world.

You can find songs of ours on the web, but we have many sets of new songs that need to be fully brought to life with our new drummer. If you want to try out sometime, email us and tell us a bit about yourself. check out some songs on www.myspace.com/thefreakmafia

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OSP @ The Starry Plough Saturday

bvandy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:58:38 GMT

Open Space Project will be performing at the Starry Plough in Berkeley this
Saturday July 15th. We'll be opening the show for 7th Direction and Plum
Crazy. Hope you come early to catch our set!

Open Space Project
with 7th Direction and Plum Crazy
at the Starry Plough
Saturday, July 15th
9:30pm OSP opens the show
http://www.starryploughpub.com/
3101 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705
Phone: 510-841-2082

OSP sites:
http://www.openspacemusic.net
http://www.myspace.com/openspaceproject

7th Direction official website
http://www.7thdirection.net/

Plum Crazy official website
http://www.plumcrazymusic.com/

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Binuaral dimensions 3/9-3/11

Leggylady — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:32:31 GMT

Dark-Tekno Collective Presents
San Francisco's first dark Electronic festival....

Binaural Dimensions
Three days of dark electronic glorious madness from all over.
15+ bands, 20+ DJs, 3 Nights, 2 floors - a multi electro eargasm. ;^)
March 9th - 11th
@ the Blue Cube 34 Mason St
18+
Cover varies see below.
OR
Online advance sale packages are available for this event.
These passes will NOT be available at the door!
3 day pass (full festival) for $30
3 day pass (full festival) and festival t-shirt for $36
http://www.dark-tekno.com/binaural

DIMENSION 1 - Digital <R>evolution
Thursday March 9th
$12 at the Door
Doors @ 9p - 2a
1st Floor:
Synapscape (Ant-Zen)
Asche (Ant-Zen)
Special DJ set from s.alt (Ant-Zen)
wh0rm0ngr (Dark-Tekno)
DJs: pHreaki bOi & .ultra.v10let.
2nd Floor:
Ritter Gluck
DJ Disconnect (DEFSF)
DJ Dice
More TBA

DIMENSION 2 - Binary Breakdown
Friday March 10th
$15 at the Door
Doors @ 9p - 3a (approx)
1st Floor:
Richard Devine (Warp, Sublight, Schematic)
Cylob (Rephlex)
The Flashbulb (Sublight, Alphabasics)
Eustachian (1320, Fathme, Daly city Records)
Exillon (Zod, Component, Ad Noiseam)
Polar (Katabatik, mms)
666 Ganstas (5lowershop)
DJ McKell Smith
2nd Floor:
DJ Battle- Catharsis vs, pHreaki bOi
Raydeus (Pronoia, Bassworship)
Smoove (NewsBreakz)
j_moody (Meiotic - Chicago/SF)
More TBA

DIMENSION 3 - Spin THIS!
Saturday March 11th
$12 at the Door
Doors @ 930p - no one is left
1st Floor:
Cdatakill (Ad Noiseam)
eats tapes (Tigerbeat6, Community Library)
nO thiNg (looppool, AKA Rick Walker)
Loma Prieta (Dark-Tekno)
More TBA
2nd Floor:
Ghreg on Earth (MoE)
Heartworm (DHR) vs Jawa (DTC)
TeflonJacket (Tokyo Electric, Activ)
White Rabbit
More TBA.......

more info on artists and specific nite details- www.dark-tekno.tribe.net/

Video Artists, Performance Artists, and vending shall be announced shortly.

Off the HOOK!!!! For how many of those bands will this be their first performance in SF?
8^)

YEAH!
Something like this has not happened in SF... Until now!

Come on out and celebrate darkness before the days become longer than the nights.

BINAURAL DIMENSIONS
A Festival of Dark Elektronix

Stay up to date on all the additions!
http://www.dark-tekno.com/binaural
www.dark-tekno.tribe.net/
www.groups.myspace.com/darktekno

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Maxwell Adams, Saturday 14th @ Blake's

godzillo — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:31:48 GMT

As they were setting up, I thought we were in for sheer metal-thrash. Maybe it was post traumatic syndrome from the night before with the metal tribute bands. Lots of guys lining up near the stage. Once the band started, all these girls came out of nowhere and the place filled up. This was Live 105 material... totally. The band was tight, the crowd knew the material and they rocked the basement right. The singer has a perfectly classic voice that reminds me of all those "alternative" bands I never bother to remember the names of. The only one who looked like she could care less was the princess in the tiara who kept pacing from the stage to the bar. With the right break and appropriate image control, these guys could go corporate, fur shur.

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Children of the Damned, Damage Inc, Blood Red @ Slim's Friday the 13th

godzillo — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:12:28 GMT

This was an evening of tribute bands at one of my favorite SF venues. Security was a little tighter than usual and they were frisking dudes at the door. Once inside there was a palpable threat of big hair and mulletude that luckily never really took hold in a red neck manner that the urbane frown upon. Sure there was lots of bridge and tunnel representing but I didn't get the sense we were dealing with the meth set. The crowd was attentive and there to support their heroes. I saw a well endowed woman (with her boyfriend in tow) strip to her bra and start hollerin', whoooo hoooo! Blood Red (Slayer) exhibited synchronized hair swinging that made my follicles resonnate in sympathy. Damage Inc. (Early Metallica) had an excellent front man who kept the audience focused on the messsage. Children of the Damned (Iron Maiden) was by far the more elaborate of the bands in terms of stage show. The singer had an excellent voice but I thought he looked more like Freddie Mercury. The very young bass player was in heaven... so happy to be there... infectuous. Children of the Damned and Damage Inc. shared a guitar player. Quite impressive to keep all those songs in yer head. At one point on the floor, I overheard the singer of Children of the Damned telling his buddies "This chick flashed her tits at me and I didn't know what to do. Then everyone started laughing at me!" Yes, it was slightly raunchy but good natured and harmless fun in the end. My head is still banging. I kept hoping one band would morph into a Black Sabbath tribute but it just wasn't that kinda night. After all, tribute bands remind us there's a place for everything and everything in it's place.

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PiF Presents: Heavenly States + Built Like Alaska + David Dondero + Rum Diary

deb — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:49:03 GMT

Playing in Fog Presents

The Heavenly States
Built Like Alaska
David Dondero
The Rum Diary

August 06, 2005
The Independent
9pm • $10

Poster Artist: Terrence Ryan

Imagine if you were at an electro dance party that didn't suck because the music was played with the verve and bravado which, at the time of writing this, is still beyond the capability of most robots or even your average hipster grist. As you would at a good dance party, you find your self blasted against and enveloped within a complex and rocked-out wall of frequencies somehow navigable as carefully crafted verse-chorus-verse-bridge-chorus tunesmithing. All this is achieved without the gimicry of odd mathy time signatures or Kool pallettes of sounds. The instrument setting takes rock performance in a new direction. This my young friend, is he Heavenly States.
www.theheavenlystates.com

The isolation of the Central Valley has provided Built Like Alaska (Neil Jackson-vocals/guitar, Matt Candelario-bass, David Burtch-drums, Susane Reis-keyboards/vocals, Sean Norman- guitars) with the physical and mental space to develop into a creative force. Their new album contains vivid pictures of rural life with all the beauty and struggle that comes with it. Autumnland was recorded in Oakdale CA, near Modesto, by band member Neil Jackson with additional help from friend Lucky Lew, who has also helped on many of Grandaddy's recordings in the past. Autumnland as Neil puts it, "is like smelling the air full of chimney smoke from the first fire of the year or making a homemade Halloween costume when you were a kid, comforting feelings a person hopes they never lose." From the airy keyboards of "Train Wreck" to themes of small-town ennui that permeate "Does Your Mother Feel Sick?" and "Happy Home", Built Like Alaska is able to transcend the open isolation of the Central Valley with majestic, melancholic, music. (bio)
www.builtlikealaska.com

Singer/songwriter David Dondero's musical career began in 1993, when he released the first of three records as a member of the alt-rock band Sunbrain. But since he split the band and headed out on his own, his music has been more comparable to such American folk music/troubadour greats as Woody Guthrie and Townes Van Zandt. The year 2001 saw the release of his solo effort Shooting at the Sun With a Water Gun, an album in which Dondero assumes the role of different characters for nearly each song (while some were biographical, such as "Analysis of a 1970's Divorce," which recounts his parents' split). The album was produced by Billy Konkel, and was recorded in Konkel's living room. In 2003 he released Transient, his second full-length for Future Farmer records. - allmusic.com
www.futurefarmer.com/davidd.html

The Rum Diary's Poisons That Save Lives sounds like the answer to that rarely asked musical question, "What would happen if a bunch of emo kids got hold of a stack of early-'70s space rock albums?" The results are actually quite delightful; this style of music has been resurrected several times, most recently by the post-Radiohead, chillily artsy likes of Sigur Rós and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and just before that by the mid-'90s wave of slowcore bands like Codeine and Bedhead. The similarities between the Rum Diary's take on this music and their immediate predecessors is obvious -- the bass, wooden and hollow-sounding, takes the melodic lead most of the time, with the guitars mostly there to anchor the drones and offer single-chord rhythm parts, and the drums are alternately nearly amorphous and tensely, skitteringly, driving -- but Poisons That Save Lives is much more musically direct and vibrant than either of the previous subgenres. Their songs have a stronger melodic focus -- "Killed By the Cowboy President" is practically a pop song, and would not sound at all out of place on any late-era Yo La Tengo album -- and even at their most droning, as on the lengthy closing track, "The No Hunt," the songs are never simply shapeless haze. Highly recommended. - allmusic.com
www.therumdiary.net

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:+: reviews :+: interview :+: presents :+:

deb — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 20:54:05 GMT

:+:+:+: Reviews :+:+:+:

A-Frames
The Bittersweets
The Duchess
Hawk and a Hacksaw
Harold Ray: Live in Concert
The Idaho Falls
The Intelligence
The Lonelyhearts
Mandrake
The Mothballs
Okkervil River
The Pets
PINE*am
postcoitus
Ryan Auffenberg
Say Hi To Your Mom
Smile Brigade

:+:+:+: Interview :+:+:+:

Moggs

:+:+:+: Presents :+:+:+:

Playing in Fog &
Three Ring Records Presents

Scrabbel
Scattered Pages
Outline Kit

August 24, 2005
Rickshaw Stop
9pm - $6

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http://www.playinginfog.com
http://www.scrabbel.org
http://www.scatteredpages.com
http://www.myspace.com/outlinekit
http://www.rickshawstop.com

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Hanging on a Star

deb — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:37:56 GMT

Hanging on a Star
A tribute to Nick Drake

Kelley Stoltz
The Court and Spark
Judith & Holofernes
Lia Rose (minipop)
Dazzling Strangers
20 Minute Loop
Christian Kiefer
Mandrake

June 19, 2005
Café DuNord
$10 • 9m

Join Playing in Fog and Cafe Du Nord for the third annual "HANGING ON A STAR: A TRIBUTE TO NICK DRAKE."

HANGING ON A STAR is a unique, once a year opportunity for PIF to revive the timeless songs of Nick Drake while acknowledging the incredible talent of the SF local music. Toward that end, Playing in Fog strongly encourages bands to play one of their own songs in addition to their choice of Drake tunes. Each act will be given 15 minutes to perform three songs, with the exception of Kelley Stoltz, who will play a longer closing set.

Kelley Stoltz's stellar debut, The Past Was Faster, was recorded at home on a four-track, with Stoltz playing just about every note on the record. The modus operandi for Antique Glow is still the same, but the results are even better. He traded in his four-track for an eight-track, so the production values are a good bit higher. In addition, while many of the tunes on The Past Was Faster sounded like homages to Stoltz's many influences (Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake), those influences are much more thoroughly assimilated on Antique Glow. Not that the songs sound similar to each other, it's that the different styles now all reflect Stoltz as much or more than the inspiration, giving the album a better flow and Stoltz a more personalized sound. And what a wonderful sound it is. A lazy, folky psychedelia, similar to Syd Barrett, but with homemade Wall of Sound production. Even upon first listen, these songs have such a familiar quality; you'll think you've been hearing them for years. Stoltz has a great knack for wordplay, and can turn out some wonderful and strange lyrics. There's a lot going on in some of the tracks (guitars, bells, theremins, double-tracked vocals, who knows what else), but the music never sounds cluttered; Stoltz really has mastered the art of self-recording, supplying tons of detail in the music but never stepping on himself. He likes to record as he's writing, and doesn't do a lot of takes on anything. This freshness comes through on the album, along with a sense that this all comes easily to Stoltz; the songs are well-crafted but retain a certain loose feel, which can be a difficult balancing act. Antique Glow puts Kelley Stoltz's talents into even sharper focus than his debut, not only as a composer/performer but as producer/engineer as well. As the major labels clamor to sign (and probably drop) the next Dave Matthews Band knockoff, let's hope Kelley Stoltz stays at home, kicking out the homemade jams without regard for the outside world. Recommended. - All Music.com
http://www.electriccity.org

Judith and Holofernes started in 2002 after Mark (bass), Stitches (6-string guitar), Dos (12-string guitarra and vocals) and Tracy (vocals) had been playing together for several years, in a variety of different bands. Somewhere between the Central Valley and San Francisco, they decided to create a style of music that blended their indie rock roots and Portuguese fado. The word "Fado Core" started as a tongue in cheek phrase but was the only word to describe what they do. One trip to Lisbon and a few months later, the band was up and running, playing shows up and down the west coast, giving something new to local music, and breathing life back into fado.
http://www.fadocore.com

Dazzling Strangers leader, Chris Streng has been called everything from a “dreamboat” to a “pretentious whiner”. His music strives for primitive simplicity and emotional resonance. He utilizes minimalism, traditional song structures and inventive arrangements to create the music that he wants to hear. He presently plays bass with SF shoegazers, LSD & the Search for God, as well as guitar in the Virgin Killers (a Scorpions tribute band). His favorite food is pizza.

20 Minute Loop: Greg Giles is a magnificently off-kilter songwriter, both musically and lyrically; he traffics in abrupt shifts, enigmatic abstractions and observational snapshots. Like Stephen Malkmus, he is a peculiar spokesman for an endlessly curious world, one who prods listeners to bust out of their tired indie-rock complacency. And then there’s Kelly Atkins. The specters of death and lost love skulk around in her songs and, fittingly, she can sing as though her life hangs in the balance. There¹s a soothing sweetness to her harmonies, making it all the more powerful when she unleashes and wails. Clearly, the definitive piece of 20 Minute Loop’s sound is the interplay between Giles and Atkins. While sharing lead vocals across gender lines has become commonplace, it¹s rare for the voices to be both so complementary and so idiosyncratic. Despite some weighty subject matter, these are never ponderous songs. In fact, the band has never sounded so accessible. -Artists Direct
http://www.20minuteloop.com

Chritian Kiefer: Growing up in Auburn, just northeast of Sacramento, and wandering fields of rusting mining equipment. Hence rust in the heart. And blood. History permeates everything--from the way we think to the way we write our songs. And you. Now in suburbs with corporate coffee and sport-utility vehicles. It's a life, but not the one that was dreamed. Still, there's music: acoustic-based post-folk songs mostly. Weedy stuff. Grainy. And occasional improvised freak-outs and minimalist compositions. Ambience. More weeds and grain. Completing fourth full-length CD with help from Garth Hudson of the Band, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker from Low, and a few others of note. It's good and you should hear it. Always at www.christiankiefer.com in case of. Crack band here: Jason Roberts (guitar) and Matthew Gerkin (bass) of acoustic math rockers Nice Monster, Chip Conrad (drums) and Simon Ennis (accordion, both of St. Simon 3). Nick Drake is listening to you right now.
http://www.christiankiefer.com

Mandrake is an acoustic rock quartet playing a variety of instruments and well-crafted songs. From straight acoustic rock to foot-stomping banjo and acapella to classically influenced folk pieces, Mandrake has a style that difficult to pin down, but incredible to hear.
http://www.mandrakeband.com/

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PiF Presents: The Lonelyhearts + Smile Brigade (Seattle) + Mandrake

deb — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:18:03 GMT

Playing in Fog Presents

The Lonelyhearts
Smile Brigade
Mandrake

May 7, 2005
Hemlock Tavern
$7 • 10:00pm

Poster Artist: Adan Arellano

The Lonelyhearts are Andre Perry (vox, keyboards) and John Lindenbaum (vox,guitar). Using a 12-string acoustic guitar and a couple of synthesizers, the duo blends angsty folk-rock lyrics with spacey keyboard textures. Their sound certainly recalls the acoustic stylings of Neutral Milk Hotel and the Mountain Goats as well as the synth-rock of Grandaddy and Earlimart. The Lonelyhearts released their debut EP, Make Yourself At Home (DIY or Else Records), in June 2004 and then traveled across the country for their first East Coast tour. Since their return, the band has played around the Bay Area with frequent trips down to Los Angeles. They have played alongside such acts as Lou Barlow, Tim Bluhm, Bishop Allen, Audio Out Send,and their DIY labelmates, Elephone. They are currently recording their first full-length album, due out in June 2005. A summer tour will follow.
http://www.thelonelyhearts.net

Smile Brigade lay their cards on the table, sincerely holding a deck of influences from The Beatles to REM. Patty Lieu of Rainy Dawg Radio says “Their refreshing deviation from straight ahead power chords will one day show the world that Seattle is over grunge.” This quartet vocally harmonizes and deals out a full house of hooks and melodies that will have you pleasantly humming their songs when you least expect it.
http://www.myspace.com/smilebrigade

Mandrake is an acoustic rock quartet playing a variety of instruments and well-crafted songs. From straight acoustic rock to foot-stomping banjo and acapella to classically influenced folk pieces, Mandrake has a style that difficult to pin down, but incredible to hear.
http://www.xenflux.com

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Live reviews recently posted on PiF

deb — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:15:24 GMT

New reviews have been posted...

Black Mountain
Boyjazz
Burning Bride
Conspiracy of Beards
Dead Meadow
Dizzee Rascal
Foreign Born
Frog Eyes
The Fucking Champs
Low
Slint
Nedelle
M. Ward
Mastodon
The Futureheads
Kylesa
High on Fire
Jennifer Gentle
Pedro the Lion

http://www.playinginfog.com

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[:|:[ rewiews ]:|:][:|:[ presents ]:|:]

deb — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:09:19 GMT

[:|:[ REVIEWS ]:|:]

Barr
The Brazilian Girls
Broken Social Scene
Earlimart
The Evens
Farma
Last of the Blacksmiths
Our Lady of the Highway
Parchman Farm
Paul Westerberg
Rogue Wave

[:|:[ PRESENTS ]:|:]

Playing in Fog Presents

20 Minute Loop
The Visible Men
Ex-Boyfriends

March 26, 2005
Hemlock Tavern
$6 • 10:00pm

San Francisco's 20 Minute Loop plays original music for the hook-
hungry mob, the nervous foot, the jaded indie-phile... those who
hate having decisions made for them. With their unpredictable
songwriting, imaginative themes and trademark boy/girl harmonies, 20ML is difficult to categorize and impossible to forget. Pitchfork says: "20 Minute Loop is one of the more refreshing musical experiences I've had in months and months... say you've got XTC. Now subtract the TC, and pair the remainder of John Doe and Exene Cervenka with J. Robbins in a six-by-six cell haunted by Frank Black's muse, with only a Radiohead CD, a Flannery O'Connor novel, and occasional visits from the members of Seely to break the psychosis."

Ex-Boyfriends formed in the spring of 2003 when guitarist/vocalist
Colin Daly and drummer Chris Ohnesorge decided to get together and kick their post-band breakup blues by trying out a new musical project. Although their chemistry was instantaneous, they quickly recruited bassist Peter Harb to complete the tried-and-true power trio model. Not surprisingly, the music that came out of practice space 69 was more vibrant and electric than anything any one of them had written before. The songs automatically came built-in with three part harmonies, hook-laden guitars, fluid bass lines and punchy, danceable beats. Armed with a truckload of stick-in-your-head songs and the need for you to dance at their shows, Colin, Peter and Chris are already on their way to becoming everyone's favorite Ex- Boyfriends.

http://www.20minuteloop.com
http://www.thevisiblemen.com
http://ex-bf.com

http://www.playinginfog.com

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Borful Tang live on KFJC 89.7 FM, Saturday 2/12 at 4:PM

yol — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:46:06 GMT

Psychoacoustic Soundclash
with Nozmo King
Saturdays, 3-6 PM (PT)

KFJC 89.7 FM (http://kfjc.org)

Saturday, February 12 at 4:PM
Borful Tang (http://snurp.net/tang_hear.html) bends minds with his one
man show of sampledelic electronic mayhem live in the pit.

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Upcoming live actions:

Saturday, February 19 at 4:PM
Christopher Willits (http://christopherwillits.com) and Wobbly
(http://detritus.net/wobbly) review the finer points of lowercase
sound.

Saturday, February 26 at 3:PM
Guest DJ Mason Jones (http://charnel.com/mason) and interview.

Saturday, March 5 at 4:PM
Skozey Fetisch (http://myspace.com/skozeyfetisch/) unleash winding
reel loop hell. It's the sound of your heady, heady, heady head being
quite stuck in a hyperdimensional votextuator and you like it!

Saturday April 2 at 3:PM
There will be no sloppy seconds when Master Musicians of Bukkake
(http://suncitygirls.com/abduction/mmob.php) perform lysergically
poisoned impressions of ceremonial music!

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The Psychoacoustic Soundclash is an evolving soundscape created from
layering multiple sources at once. I'm always interested in new music
to play on my show. Send your vinyl, CDs or self-produced CD-Rs of
experimental, drone, noise, microsound, dark ambient, home recordings
and field recordings to:

KFJC
Attn: Nozmo King
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Thanks for listening!

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Le Flange du Mal live on KFJC 89.7 FM, Saturday 1/15 at 4:PM

yol — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:32:27 GMT

Psychoacoustic Soundclash
with Nozmo King
Saturdays, 3-6 PM (PT)

KFJC 89.7 FM (http://kfjc.org)

Saturday, January 15 at 4:PM
Le Flange du Mal (http://kimosciotic.com/flange_press.htm) bring their
distorto synth-punk and marching band spectacle to the pit.

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Upcoming live actions:

Monday, January 17 at 8:PM
Birchville Cat Motel (http://furious.com/perfect/birchvillecatmotel.html)
and friends collaborate live in the pit. Will it be free-rock, noisy
electronics or warm organic drones? Tune in and find out! Hosted by
Nozmo King.

Saturday, January 22 at 4:PM
Descending on a glacier of drone, The Antarcticans
(http://theantarcticans.com) will impale what's left with the tip of
their iceberg!

Saturday, January 29 at 4:PM
Tarantism (http://geocities.com/tarantismland) rear back and pinch
live in the pit.

Saturday, February 5 at NOON
Guest DJ Robert Rich (http://robertrich.com) and interview.

Saturday, February 12 at 4:PM
Borful Tang (http://snurp.net/tang_hear.html) bends minds with his one
man show of sampledelic electronic mayhem live in the pit.

Saturday, February 19 at 4:PM
Christopher Willits (http://christopherwillits.com) and Wobbly
(http://detritus.net/wobbly) review the finer points of lowercase
sound.

Saturday, February 26 at 3:PM
Guest DJ Mason Jones (http://charnel.com/mason) and interview.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Psychoacoustic Soundclash is an evolving soundscape created from
layering multiple sources at once. I'm always interested in new music
to play on my show. Send your vinyl, CDs or self-produced CD-Rs of
experimental, drone, noise, microsound, dark ambient, home recordings
and field recordings to:

KFJC
Attn: Nozmo King
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Thanks for listening!

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Yellow Swans, Sat 1/8 @ Grandma's House

yol — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:22:03 GMT

Saturday, Jan 8

Yellow Swans
Davenport (Madison, WI)
Le Flange du Mal
Blarke Bayer (Australia)
Flaspar (Las Vegas)
John Wiese

Grandma's House
2002 Myrtle Street
Oakland
9 PM $donation

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PiF Presents: Built Like Alaska + Loquat + Audio Out Send

deb — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:14:04 GMT

Playing in Fog Presents

Built Like Alaska
Loquat
Audio Out Send

January 8, 2005
The Independent
628 Divisadero Street, SF
$10 • 9pm

Poster Artist: Terrence Ryan - posters will be for sale at the show.

On February 1st, Oakdale CA, band Built Like Alaska releases the
remarkable Autumnland, their first album for California Central
Valley spawned labels Future Farmer Recordings and Grandaddy's own
Sweat Of The Alps Music Products (a collaboration which hopes to
bear more musical fruit in the near future). Another milestone in
the band's already illustrious career is the debut of the
film "Ellie Parker" (the first feature from writer/director Scott
Coffey) at The Sundance Film Festival. The film was scored by and
features two tracks from Built Like Alaska. It stars Naomi Watts and
Chevy Chase and promises to be BLA's first real break from the
shadows of their home state.

The isolation of the Central Valley has provided Built Like Alaska
(Neil Jackson-vocals/guitar, Matt Candelario-bass, David Burtch-
drums, Susane Reis - keyboards/vocals, Sean Norman- guitars) with the physical and mental space to develop into a creative force. Their new album contains vivid pictures of rural life with all the beauty and struggle that comes with it. Autumnland was recorded in Oakdale CA, near Modesto, by band member Neil Jackson with additional help from friend Lucky Lew, who has also helped on many of Grandaddy's recordings in the past. Autumnland as Neil puts it, "is like smelling the air full of chimney smoke from the first fire of the year or making a homemade Halloween costume when you were a kid, comforting feelings a person hopes they never lose." From the airy keyboards of "Train Wreck" to themes of small-town ennui that permeate "Does Your Mother Feel Sick?" and "Happy Home", Built Like Alaska is able to transcend the open isolation of the Central Valley with majestic, melancholic, music. (bio)
http://www.builtlikealaska.com/

"It's the combination of the superb musicians and their significant
restraint that make Loquat so habit forming." Of guitarist and lead
vocalist Swenson, Tudor adds, "[Her] lyrical imagery, consisting of
childhood playgrounds and paranoid delusions, matches an elfin voice replete with breathy melancholy and sultry languor." Silke Tudor of the SF Weekly

Loquat recently finished its debut full-length album, It's Yours to
Keep, which was released on Spain's Dearstereofan label
(www.dearstereofan.com) and distributed in Spain, Portugal and
Mexico in October 2004. The album will be released in the U.S. and beyond on Jackpine Social Club records in April 2005.
http://www.loquatmusic.com

"...the debut album from AOS is the sonic equivalent of a slow
motion shot of landscape through a car window. Delicate keyboards, fuzzed out guitars and drowsy vocals create a floating space rock sound that stretches time, and dissipates it into tiny particles" - West Coast Performer
http://www.audiooutsend.com

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MTKJ Quartet live on KFJC 89.7 FM, Saturday 1/8 at 3:PM

yol — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:43:35 GMT

Psychoacoustic Soundclash
with Nozmo King
Saturdays, 3-6 PM (PT)

KFJC 89.7 FM (http://kfjc.org)

Saturday, January 8 at 3:PM
The Mears Tiner Kikuchi Johnson Quartet (http://kristiner.com/mtkj.html)
cook up some tasty free jazz live in the pit.

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Upcoming live actions:

Saturday, January 15 at 4:PM
Le Flange du Mal (http://kimosciotic.com/ksr008.htm) bring their
distorto synth-punk and marching band spectacle to the pit.

Monday, January 17 at 8:PM
Birchville Cat Motel (http://furious.com/perfect/birchvillecatmotel.html)
and friends collaborate live in the pit. Will it be free-rock, noisy
electronics or warm organic drones? Tune in and find out! Hosted by
Nozmo King.

Saturday, January 22 at 4:PM
Descending on a glacier of drone, The Antarcticans
(http://theantarcticans.com) will impale what's left with the tip of
their iceberg!

Saturday, January 29 at 4:PM
Tarantism (http://geocities.com/tarantismland) rear back and pinch
live in the pit.

Saturday, February 5 at 3:PM
Guest DJ Robert Rich (http://robertrich.com) and interview.

Saturday, February 12 at 4:PM
Borful Tang (http://snurp.net/tang_hear.html) bends minds with his one
man show of sampledelic electronic mayhem live in the pit.

Saturday, February 19 at 4:PM
Christopher Willits (http://christopherwillits.com) and Wobbly
(http://detritus.net/wobbly) review the finer points of lowercase
sound.

Saturday, February 26 at 3:PM
Guest DJ Mason Jones (http://charnel.com/mason) and interview.

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The Psychoacoustic Soundclash is an evolving soundscape created from
layering multiple sources at once. I'm always interested in new music
to play on my show. Send your vinyl, CDs or self-produced CD-Rs of
experimental, drone, noise, microsound, dark ambient, home recordings
and field recordings to:

KFJC
Attn: Nozmo King
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Thanks for listening!

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Nick Drake Tribute

deb — Fri, 14 May 2004 00:11:04 GMT

Join Playing in Fog and Cafe Du Nord for the second annual "HANGING ON A STAR-A TRIBUTE TO NICK DRAKE". Last year's sold out show kept Drake fans enthralled with an All-Star local roster that boasted both KELLEY STOLTZ and JOLIE HOLLAND. This year's show will fall on Drakes's birthday, June 19th, and will be truly celebratory with performances from THE BOTHER, MINMAE, THEE MORE SHALLOWS, and featuring Drake's biggest champion, the incredible DAMIEN JURADO.

HANGING ON A STAR is a unique, once a year opportunity for PIF to revive the timeless songs of Nick Drake while acknowledging the incredible talent of the SF local music. Toward that end, PiF strongly encourages bands to play one of their own songs in addition to their choice of Drake tunes. Each act will be given 15 minutes to perform three songs, with the exception of Mr. Jurado, who has generously offered to play a longer set.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Playing in Fog show without the telltale graphics of San Francisco's premier poster artist, Terrence "LilTuffy" Ryan. Collectors of Tuffy's works will be lining up early for a chance to purchase a limited-edition, signed and numbered silkscreen. If no one's hipped you to Tuffy, check out his designs here: http://www.mj12.net

Playing in Fog Presents

HANGING ON A STAR:
A TRIBUTE TO NICK DRAKE
: Damien Jurado
: Thee More Shallows
: Sonny Smith
: Minmae
: Ral Partha Vogelbacher
: My Life is on the Line
: The Bother
: Loquat

June 19, 2004
Café DuNord
$10 • 9pm

Tickets can be purchased here:
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=sfbay&query=detail&event=514264

http://www.playinginfog.com

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elephone :: audio out send :: cerberus shoal

deb — Wed, 12 May 2004 23:30:31 GMT

Playing in Fog Presents

elephone
Audio Out Send
Cerberus Shoal

May 14, 2004
Bottom of the Hill
$8.oo • 9pm

After playing in separate touring indie bands in LA, Terry and Ryan moved to SF to form a band that could develop an honest, unique, lush and soul-wrenching sound. Finding the infectious “less-is-more” rhythm section in Gavin and Arnie gave elephone it’s birth. The addition of Mauri, who was the singer and guitar player for girl-rockers Glitter Mini 9 and the touring guitar player for post-Pavement popsters Preston School of Industry, brought elephone it’s attitude and shape.

elephone is a San Francisco band whose dark guitar textures and dynamic vocal range have earned them comparisons to Radiohead, Grandaddy and The Cure in local and national press. The band describes their sound as a cross between Charlie Chaplin and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Audio Out Send was established in the fall of 1996 (Oakland, CA). The band's performance route spans the greater California area, and is stadily spiraling outward, feeling out the Great West. A mixture of rock and roll, electronic noise, and sonic arrangement form the basis of the band's sound.

Cerberus Shoal: Chaiming the Knoblessone is, in a way, this experimental rock outfit's world album. Though don't expect anything remotely like glossy new age -- Cerberus Shoal takes influences from the Middle East, Africa, India (and maybe half a dozen other countries, not to mention planets) and builds a slithering, buzzing cacophony of avant-garde folk insanity. "Apatrides" starts simple enough (it's 14 minutes long, by the way) and eventually evolves into a kooky shout-along that falls somewhere between cLOUDDEAD's obtuse hip-hop poetry and some sort of cult revival. "Mrs. Shakespeare Torso" sounds like something :zoviet*france: might have done with cut-up found sound until it sounds like a Jim O'Rourke noise composition (off of say, I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1,2,3,4) but with ethereal female vocals. The "intermission," "A Paranoid Home Companion," is like an interrogation of Kubrick's HAL9000, literally on some bizarro-world version of Garrison Keillor's show. For all intensive purposes, this album sounds like absolute madness, but crazy or not, it's also an important entry into the new weird Americana free folk revolution of the 2000s. -- Charles Spano, Allmusic.com

http://www.elephone.net
http://www.audiooutsend.com
http://www.cerberusshoal.com
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http://www.bottomofthehill.com

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My Life is on the Line

deb — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:58:19 GMT

Has anyone heard this band? They just sent me their cd and I can't stop listening to it. It's moody and layered, just like I like it! Violins and a cello add just the perfect amount of orchestration to keep my head happy and heart insane. www.mylifeisontheline.com

deb

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free compilation cdr

deb — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:48:23 GMT

I'm putting together a compilation cd for the next PiF show. Come on out on the 9th and pick one up for FREE, as well as see three faaaantastic bands:

- January 9th, 2004
: Film School
: Minmae
: The Bother
- Cafe DuNord $8

Come out and play!

The cd will feature an unreleased track by Minmae as well as tracks from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Zephyrs, Quickspace, Shallow Be They Name (from Chapel Hill), Cass McCombs, [the] caseworker... plus more!

oxo,
deb

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Best Of 2003

deb — Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:56:03 GMT

Hi!

Send me your list of top ten albums for 2003. I'll compile the results and post them on Playing in Fog sometime in Jauary.

pif@playinginfog.com

oxo,
deb

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playing in fog presents a very scary christmas...

deb — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:59:49 GMT

Okay, it's not really scary, but it's going to be loud! Make sure to check out the poster on the site.

Playing in Fog Presents
Lower Forty-Eight
Greenlight the Bombers

December 12, 2003
Hemlock Tavern
$6.oo • 10pm

Lower Forty-Eight was formed in May 2000 with the intent of playing music that has the heaviness of metal, elements of progressive rock and the political intensity of punk and hardcore. In January 2001, Lower Forty-Eight began playing shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and released their first EP, "Gentle Tyranny". Less than a year later, LFE's first full-length LP "Halfback" was released. The newest album "Skin Failure" is finished and set for release in UK and Europe on Monotreme Records in October 2003. LFE will also be touring UK, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Germany in early 2004 with The Mass.

http://www.playinginfog.com
http://www.lowerforty-eight.com
http://www.greenlightthebombers.com

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good shows coming up?

Unsubscribed — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:16:10 GMT

Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing) will be at Cafe DuNord tonight and tomorrow. KMFDM will be at Slim's Saturday and Sunday. Pigface is playing on Dec 5.

anything else going on over the next month worth checking out?

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