Sex Vid
"Sex Vid is a Sisyphean itch you can't scratch. This stuff will turn your lawn brown. It'll scare your grandma and make babies cry. It's the sound of a serial killer being born. Two years, three EPs, and one live cassingle later, the name Sex Vid is still being whispered with ominous breaths. Maybe it's the cool, determined ruthlessness that lies beneath the surface of a frenzied, chaotic brand of hardcore we haven't heard the likes of since the 1980s. Maybe it's the way the songs seem to be held together with desperate, anguished moans — a tortured sound that almost stares at you with a vacuous gaze. Who cares what it is? The band doesn't. Either way, I've been waiting months for this show, subsisting on a diet of broken glass and battery acid." - SF Bay Guardian

The Freak Accident
Featuring guitarist/ vocalist Ralph Spight from Victim's Family. The Freak Accident sports a crushing bass tone and moments ranging from raging hardcore to shimmering beauty to garagey blues.

Sisters
Olympia punks on tour with Sex Vid. Forthcoming record on Parts Unknown, home to insurgent stars such as Billy Bao, Snake Apartment, Homo Stupids, and Never Healed.

Modey Lemon
"Somewhere around Curious City, the Modey Lemon made a shift in direction, smoothing its rackety, blues-drunk grooves into a Krautish, hallucinogenic trip. You could pin it all on Jason Kirker, who joined after Thunder + Lightning, but the shift is equally evident in Phil Boyd's vocals, no longer abrasive, and mixed substantially lower in the fuzz. About the only thing that hasn't changed on Sweets is Paul Quattrone's ferocious drumming – and that's a good thing, because the Modey Lemon just wouldn't be the Modey Lemon without it.

Quattrone is one of three or four really distinctive, noticeable drummers in rock and roll right now. At SXSW, someone behind me murmured, "He's like Bonham," in a break between songs, and yes, he hits as hard and as heavy as the Zeppelin drummer. Still there's an element of chaos, of rickety, boxy, falling-down-the-stairs abandon that distinguishes him from all the classic rock guys (except maybe Keith Moon). You watch him (or listen) because it seems like he's going to have to fall off the stool at some point, as fast as he's going. But he doesn't.

What's interesting is how the Modey Lemon incorporates this brutal, chaotic element into a set of songs that are, on balance, fairly tuneful. In opener "The Bear Comes Back Down the Mtn,” the drums give guitar-clanging riffery an almost ritual heft, pounding like a procession of soldiers under the song's slow-churning mysticism. "It Made You Dumb," the album's most immediately accessible cut, submerges 16th notes and slashing cymbals under pop keyboards and vocals. It's a lot like Oneida in spots – placid and dreamy on top, explosively rhythmic and aggressive underneath." - Dusted

Lou Lou & the Guitarfish
"Rumored to have multiple members with familial ties to fabled SF punk forefathers Crime, Lou Lou and gang are the new true heirs to the throne of teen punk royalty.
Rightly deserving of this bottlecap-encrusted crown (the young Red Kross would be proud!), the Guitarfish blow the fenders off any other band in today's 13-17 year-old band race. And though that snob at the bar is sure to pride himself on yet another tired Old Skull crack, have no fear -- this is NOT some gang of junior high talent show squirts propped up with dad-sculpted mohawks, and his brief moment of self-satisfaction will shortly be drowned in their
singalong punk snot! With a young Penelope Houston (Avengers, dope!) in frontgrrrl Lou Lou, and with an undeniably startling display of hooks, and yeah, chops (!), this band of young destroyers is just getting started." -
Matt Roberts, Noise Pop

Fauna Valetta

Battlehooch
"Their performance is nothing short of insanity and is more art than rock ...... pure sunshine." - Rock Insider (LA)

"... the six members of Battlehooch create a fantastic racket that makes you want to scream your way right into a straightjacket." - SF Guardian

"Battlehooch sounds like an ungodly jazz beast, loose and furious at a summer music festival, tearing up some punk band and maybe half of !!! in its horrible jaws.... {they sound like} what the Mars Volta might have been like if it had no money..." - Willamette Week (PDX, OR)

Capt. Ahab
Antics-ridden primitive beat raveplo from the Southland.

Bryan Lewis Saunders
Standup tragedy.

60 Watt Kid
The San Francisco trio simultaneously pays homage to the culture of stripped-down rock n roll while abusing it irreverently, tweaking it with wacked out of time beats and infinite reverb. They blend psychedelic experimental pop with electronic glitches and old rock n roll chops. (bio)

Meth Teeth
"The debut 7" EP from the ominously named Portland combo Meth Teeth has arrived this week on Sweet Rot Records, and it's got such an unsettling vibe of depravity and ruinous tones ringing throughout its grooves that it might just be that record that keeps you up at night, listening for those inevitable voices to creep inside your head. The band includes members of Artificial Limbs, Leper Print, and Night Wounds and churns out four powerful and subdued songs that reach beyond the scope of their members' previous incarnations, with an unnerving twisted conviction. It penetrates the genre confines with ease, just like some of their contemporaries such as Sic Alps and Nothing People have done so well, and ushers their name into the hushed inner circles of the discerning underground rock'n'roll cognoscenti." - Victim of Time

Christmas Island
Newest In the Red signing! San Diego duo that will surely appeal to fans of Urinals, Tall Dwarfs, TV Personalities, The Homosexuals and The Clean.

Soft Boiled Eggies
Experimental pop and bedroom lullabyes from Los Angeles.

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

DJ Jonas Reinhart

Ad Hawk
This version of Ad Hawk (the Hawkwind tribute) will include:
Mike McKevitt - guitar (Mongoloid, Fluf Grrl, Abu Graib), Austin Lannan - bass (Mongoloid), Adam Beach - sax/flute (Uptones), Titch Turner - drums (Liquorball, Vaticans, Tryptophan).

My Education
My Education (Austin, TX) are renowned for marrying the stark post-rock of Godspeed you Black Emperor with the emotional charge of Explosions in the Sky, and the driving climaxes of Kinski.  The band includes current and former members of Stars of the Lid and Ultrasound. They've released 4 critically acclaimed albums on the Bally and Thirty Ghosts labels, and their spectacular 4th longplayer with be released by Strange Attractors.