Neil Hamburger
America's Funnyman is back!

"Despite his appalling comic timing, muddled delivery, and cliched material, stand-up Neil Hamburger nevertheless emerged as one of the most acclaimed and name-checked comedians of his generation; like Lenny Bruce before him, he was a hipster icon whose trailblazing riffs defied conventions at every turn, transcending the confines of hilarity with kamikaze recklessness. Prior to his ascendance, comedians were expected not only to be funny, but insightful as well; Hamburger changed all that forever." - All Music Guide

Pleaseeasaur
(already in the name, flashes the unholy nexus between the sheer relentlessness of Godzilla and the pleasures of pleasure)

PLEASEEASAUR: An astonishing two-man entertainment strike-force comprised of performer/musician JP Hasson and projectionist/costume designer/multimedia extraordinaire Thomas Hurley III.

A dynamic duo that specializes in the absurd...and the absurdly funny. From the commercial jingle-esque hits like No Prob Limo or Pizza Brothers & Sons Inc. to the educationally motivated WARNING: These Cobras Are Totally Cool... Pleaseeasaur's ever-expanding field of inspiration is similar to that of a deep space vacuum...where equal parts surreal lunacy, pop orthodoxy, literary syntax, infomercial music and sheer idiocy are culled, cultivated and transformed into classic Pleaseeasaur song form...then dispensed with glee to pleasure seekers of every ilk amongst their rapidly growing world-wide cult following. (bio)

Jake Mann
"Low-watt singer-songwriter rock that's almost shoegazily bothered by texture. The first thought — thanks to the skuzzy guitar and dirty-weekend vocals of 'Flames at My Feet' — goes to some less vain Marc Bolan: all the seamy T.Rex aesthetics without the bad intent. But a more accurate ancestor may be the Neil Young of 1975's Zuma (Reprise), its meld of fractured melodies and grimy guitars is an obvious influence on Daytime." - SF Bay Guardian

The Spires
"This boy-girl act from Ventura creates pleasantly melancholy pop music that takes from (but doesn't bite off of) such acts as The Smiths, Robyn Hitchcock, and Lou Reed. It's pretty empathetic stuff, happy if you're happy, sad with you, if you're sad. But in the end? Just really good..." - Radio Free Silverlake

Salt & Samovar
Salt & Samovar (Brooklyn): "best absorbed on sun- baked patches of grass, kicking up puffs of dust that'd thoroughly coat the band's jaunty vests and heirloom suits. Built around David Moltz and Kelli Scarr (formerly of Boston's electronic-groove outfit Moonraker), S&S very much yank their tunes from the topsoil of Walt Whitman's dreams, with Moltz's earthy, elegiac vocals bolstered by his bandmates' three-part harmony. A caravan of American roots music, the record's reverence echoes joyfully in the trotting rhythm of "Soon to Be Dust" or the sing-along strumming of "What Can You Expect to Come?" But edged by Moltz's fierce guitar, foreboding sentiments lurk, mixing soothing traditional sounds with lyrics of contemporary angst." - Village Voice

Punk Rock Sideshow w/DJ Tragic & the Duchess of Hazard, every Monday

Strangers Die Every Day
"Equal parts Bernard Herrmann, John Zorn and Jim O'Rourke, Strangers Die Every Day makes cinematic, esoteric chamber punk that never forgets to rock. This intrepid quartet wanders giddily off course, indulging in dissonant, cathartic and downright spooky reveries that would make Stravinsky smile. Still, there's just enough straightforward rock sensibility preserved to make the most classical-phobic scenester nod along." - The Westword

Lisa Papineau
Electronic chanteuse, formerly of Big Sir, and a vocal contributor to recent albums by Air and Mars Volta.

Joseph Childress
Lush lullabies from a California-born, Colorado-bred songwriter.

Yellow Swans
Yellow Swans play a constantly evolving mass of psychedelic noise that is
both physically arresting and psychically liberating. Their music is powerful rendering of free rock, black electronics, and white light vibrations.

Consisting of Pete Swanson (vocals, drum machine, and electronics) and Gabriel Mindel Saloman (guitars, feedback, electronics), Yellow Swans create a dense ocean of sound using various analog and digital machines, all locked in a spiraling web of feedback.

Yellow Swans, having spent two years in Oakland, CA, are based once again in Portland, OR, where they originally formed in the Fall of 2001.

They have just released their third studio album, "At All Ends", on LOAD Records.

Mouthus
Mouthus (Ecstatic Peace) is duo Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Brooklyn and they absolutely destroy, fuzzing minds wherever they blow. Super psyche-snarled feedback guitar and overload drum squall w/ hep sick-wave edge. A brain-gouged cross of Manowar head implosion and New York dustbomb detonation. Total surf skum blooze drone. (bio)

NVH
Bringing horror home to roost, Noel Von Harmonson jellies your knees with this stripped down, no-place-to-hide assault. Masterful improvisations and the unadorned appeal of shredding sound viscera, fear will find your heart for you. If ever you've wanted to see a man who sleeps with a stuffed panda juggle a bag of flaming knives come see this man. NVH is also a member of Comets On Fire, Murder Murder, Bloodstool, Automagic, etc. (bio)

The Fuxedos
Los Angeles' THE FUXEDOS are lounge-punk-comedy-rock and roll-free jazz-storytelling-freakout-cinematic-what-the-hell? band, complete with costumes, props, and bizarrely humorous theatrics. Members' credits include such innovative bands and acts as Idiot Flesh, Les Claypool, Faun Fables, Stolen Babies, Charming Hostess, and Cirque du Soleil. (bio)

The Damnettes
Eclectic, DIY, punk rock n' roll dance group. Low-to-hi-brow sketch comedy elements incorporating some multimedia and crossing several style boundaries all the while worshipping the torn fishnet.

Lady Genius

Signal Hill
Hook-laden post-rock that favors pristine plucking over distorted shredding.

Cloud Archive

Form & Fate
Soaring melodics, dense harmonics, and assaultive post-apocalyptic wall of sound.

Earthless
"San Diego's Earthless purvey majestic acid rock, a genre that bakes the neurons with industrious instrumentals. And this trio blisters more brain cells than most. On its sophomore release, Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky, Earthless opens with a molten salute. The five suites clustered into "Godspeed" offer dynamic shifts from hard Hendrix boogies to more contemplative treks. But that's only the first (20-minute) journey from the group into your ear canal, an intermission-free adventure in corkscrewing sound effects and bowel-rumbling rhythms.

Led by Hot Snakes/Rocket from the Crypt drummer Mario Rubalcaba, Earthless lives up to its name. Guitarist Isaiah Mitchell's nimble riffs crescendo skyward, sprawling feedback enters from the fourth dimension, and Rubalcaba strikes his kit with brute force. In Earthless' hands, metal is a wordless meditation on triumphantly rocking out — until the third and final track. Cosmic coda "Cherry Red" covers the bluesy sludge and galloping guitar licks of vintage Brit band, Groundhogs. But in keeping with the rest of the record, Earthless keeps even this interpretation ruggedly exploratory, moving with transcendent skill from classic rock badlands to heavy metal cosmos." - Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly

Hot Lunch
new band w/Eric Shea from Parchman Farm and Charlie Karr from Harold Ray.