Vestals
Vestals is the solo guise of Higuma’s Lisa McGee. Steering away from the sonic abstractions explored in Higuma, Vestals finds McGee diving deep into the craft of the surreal song through layered guitars, dense vocal arrangements, and psychedelic adornments that result in a hypnotic and infectious bliss out. (bio)

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Holly Herndon
Holly Herndon recently received her MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College under the guidance of John Bischoff, James Fei, Maggi Payne, and Fred Frith. While at Mills she won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers award for Best Composer in 2010.

Her musical work explores embodied experience in electronic media through experiments with the electronically processed voice, using extended vocal techniques, vocal processing and FM synthesis. Before moving to the Bay Area, she was one half of the critically acclaimed electronic duo Electrocute, touring the world from a base in Berlin, Germany. She also started the miserablist noise project Ankoko No Oto with Emma Albury of Leopard Leg, releasing a self titled EP on Turgid Animal in 2007. (bio)

La Corde

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Waldo Astoria

Wet Illustrated

Angora Debs
"sounds like Nick Lowe on an amphetamine bender with the Buzzcocks." - Lars Finberg

George Hurd Ensemble
Employing classical instrumentation of violin, viola, cello, bass, vibraphone and piano with an array of electronics, Hurd’s music is both wildly, intricately rhythmic and aglow with shimmering harmonies and melodies. (bio)

Broken Water (Olympia)
"From a sludgy slam into a bass-heavy, nimble post-punk/gaze hybrid, with galloping drums and a somewhat clean, classy demeanor – you’ve never seen anyone get dressed up this fast, buttoning up the top button, and snapping straight up." - Still Single

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

Outdoorsmen
"It's becoming fewer and further between instances of getting some wild single in the mail out of nowhere from some band you've never heard of before, who don't have ties to some pre-existing scene or aren't made up of dudes from bands you already know. No ties to some guy who has a label or zine or some shit, outsiders in their own city, doing it all on their own time and dime without any help. That's what immediately made me take notice of The Outdoorsmen. The records looked incredibly dumb, which is always a turn on in my book. They seemed to be practically invisible in the well documented Bay Area scene. And the tunes were genuine balls-out garage rock, not rawk, not indie, not weird (in the weirdpunk sense), just legitimate snotty rock'n'roll. The most faithful interpretation of the BFTG/Teen Shutdown model I've seen in some time. True one song per side singles, bitching about girls, raw, slightly inept yet courageously rocking, catchy even. I raved about their debut self-released single, a few people glanced their way, then they foolhardily released another 7" on their own label, and maybe now people are giving them the time of day. Rightfully so." - Terminal Boredom

San Francisco Water Cooler
Tapping into traditional influences (VU, John Fahey, The Rolling Stones, 70s DIY punk, 60s psychedelia), SFWC somehow emerge as a unique act among the wealth of noisemakers polluting internet musical exploration. - KEXP

White Pee
"This San Francisco quartet’s enchanting, dark and humorous din is a delight. The perfect soundtrack for what you want to do and what you don’t! A long slow descent towards a brown acid hell, luckily crashing in an ocean of drink, and alive by the grace of God." - David Tibet

"White Pee’s enormous, nay Titanic slab of both-ends-burning glacial erratic sonic sub-strata that, were it an oven cleaner, would be available only to large professional family businesses with 100% safety records."
- Julian Cope

Polly Darton
Polly Darton is a two piece from Olympia, Washington specializing in raw, cathartic, noise rock reminiscent of Harry Pussy or Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. They use typical rock instrumentation but favor broken tambours and physical release over tonality and rhythm. Live they oscillate between sonic thrashing and bizarre performance art: chopping firewood, mentally insane stand up comedy, and the channeling of ancestors are all par for the course. (bio)