Sunday, February 21  early show 5:30pm, $6 // later show 9:30pm, $7
early show with Nick Castro, Raul Rauelsson, Kacey Johansing

Nick Castro & the Young Elders

Raul Rauelsson
"In 'La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha', Rauelsson expands his inviting sense of melody and arrangement yet the organic construct of its songs remains based on his willingness to work with a simple, though evocative, palette of acoustic ingredients. Produced by Portland's finest Adam Selzer (M.Ward, The Decemberists, Mirah, Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, etc.) and co-produced by Dave Depper and Raúl, the album presents a noble collection of eleven songs which grandeur resides primarily on their well captured subtle sensibility. With emotive, dynamic transitions between austere to rich, sombre to bright territories."

emcee Bart Davenport

later - Marco Enedi and Steve Adams!

Marco Eneidi
"Alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi is one of contemporary creative music's unsung heroes. He studied with Jimmy Lyons and Sonny Simmons and has played and recorded with illustrious musicians including Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, William Parker and Glenn Spearman." - All About Jazz

Steve Adams
of the Rova Saxaphone Quartet

Monday, February 22  10pm, FREE

Tuesday, February 23  9:00pm, $7

Wednesday, February 24  9:00pm, $7
Thursday, February 25  9:00pm, $7

Zaimph
Artist and musician Marcia Bassett (Un, Double Leopards) began releasing solo works as Zaïmph in 2003, appropriating the name from Gustav Flaubert's hallucinatory novel Salammbo. In Salammbo, the Zaïmph is the holy magical veil that guards the statue of the moon goddess Tanit.

In this lunar spirit, Zaïmph's music conveys an atmosphere of glittering bedlam concealing nocturnal vistas of transcendence, bliss, and eternity. Under the Zaïmph veil, Bassett utilizes guitar and vocals to transform both song and noise, creating shimmering metallic drones that unexpectedly shift to cracked ragas or brutal, white-hot noise. Her sound is both seductive and laden with crackling premonitions of ultimate apocalypse. (bio)

Stellar OM Source
Stellar OM Source is the solo project of Netherlands' electronic musician Christelle Gualdi.

Vodka Soap
Spencer from Skaters plus Scott Simmons from Eat Skull.

Bill Orcutt
Guitarist of the almighty Harry Pussy.

"After more than ten years of silence, ex-Harry Pussy guitar player Bill Orcutt released ‘An New Way To Pay Old Debts’, an acoustic hardcore blues record that sounds heavier than all the eclectic guitar records in your collection. It was the best album of 2009." - Foxy Digitalis

Friday, February 26  9:30pm, $7

Visqueen
Seattle rock band featuring Rachel Flotard of Neko Case's band.

Wild Yaks (NYC)
San Francisco, please welcome back returning favorite son, Mr. Sean Kennerly and the Wild Yaks!!

"Sweaty boys playing sloppy drunk jammy music is the reason why I like dudes, and Wild Yaks do it oh so well. I want to be their friends because I bet they have a really dirty apartment and watch really good movies. I want to listen to their music because it's masculine and not at all pretentious and they're so into it and their glasses slide off their noses and their shorts are too short. The drummer looks like a beardier williamsburgier Iggy Pop. They sing songs about girls and love and tomahawks and pearls like the world and beg for a new guitar when they bust their own. They have a saxophone player with really sticky-uppy hair. You could totally kick ass and run around and drive your car to their songs. Their myspace url is "boyhoodforever" which makes me think they may be aware of how dudely they are but it makes me like them more. They also played this slower song that actually DID remind me of Jonathan Richman, specifically the part in "A Plea For Tenderness" that goes "I know how beautiful death is (duh duh duh duh duh)/ I know why you hate life..." and so on. They're kind of like a screamyier Modern Lovers. Or maybe they're just what The Modern Lovers would be like if they weren't straight edge. If they were real real real drunk." - Maud

Saturday, February 27  9:30pm, $6

Sunday, February 28  9:00pm, $FREE
DJ Austin