The SF Weekly found Green Living, released 7/28 on World Famous in SF, to be “a combination of ’70s bedroom-freak Gary Wilson and ’80s pop screwball Lawrence Hayward of Felt, recorded at the epicenter of the current hipster underground.”

We here at World Famous like those comparisons and are extremely pleased that Green Living entered the CMJ top 200 it’s first week out. Response from DJ’s has been extremely positive:

“Oh man, the 1980s! Glamour! Dancing! Not being obnoxious and creating music that throws back this hard to that era is an incredible, incredible feet. Synth rock nu-wave that is so incredibly spot on and so well crafted I couldn’t not give it a nod.”

“got hooked on (1) second it started – I feel no shame in liking something that combines the most addictive musical elements of disco and lo-fi with retro pop rock.”

“Lo-fi masterpiece with an air of 60’s psychedelic pop/folk, hints of surf rock and new wave bleeding through. a moody, atmospheric sound.”

Copies of the LP will be on sale as well as a limited edition promo CD version of the album that is not available in store. Tom & Jeremy of World Famous in SF will be there live and in person selling the record. Please come out and help us celebrate the release of this excellent LP!

Bonus! This is a triple record release show, also appearing The Splinters, and The Perverts all celebrating new vinyl. The Splinters’ first official release is the Splintered Bridges 7″ on the excellent Double Negative Records (Battleship, The Fucking Ocean).

Garage rock trio The Perverts celebrate the recent release of their debut 7″ by HBSP-2X Records, and the band opens Saturday’s show.

Brian Glaze & The Night Shift
Splinters
The Perverts
Saturday 8/1
Amnesia
853 Valencia (at 20th St.)
San Francisco, CA
415-970-0012
http://www.amnesiathebar.com

Hey y’all, Green Living, the new record by Brian Glaze, is due for release on July 28th but we’re taking pre-orders starting now. Pre-orders of the vinyl come with a free mp3 download of the album!

Brian Glaze’s notoriety as the original drummer in the Brian Jonestown Massacre is forever eclipsed by his status as a singer/songwriter with his new LP, Green Living, out July 13 on World Famous In San Francisco. This “best of” collection of home recordings makes fora surprisingly cohesive album with a strong narrative arc.

In the past Glaze has collaborated in the studio and on the road with Greg Ashley of Gris Gris fame, here Brian has constructed every recording by himself and the result is his most focused effort to date best evidenced in what proves to be the definitive take on “Bad News.” This moody atmospheric demo truly conjures up the feeling that bad news is indeed lurking in the shadows no matter where you go and is sooner or later bound to turn up. Songs like “Leader of The Band” a strange mash-up of classic Elton John la la la’s and Ariel Pink’s densely layered production is pure pop with a hip lo-fi aesthetic. “Killing Time”recalls shades of Creation Records psychedelic pop band Revolving Paint Dream while “Silver Ashes” mines the territory of late 70’s new wave. The last song on the LP, “Shake Shiloh,” find’s Glaze literally singing “Goodbye” to the listener. Bringing a true sense of closure to an intensely personal musical experience. This record proves that the strength of the song and the highly personal nature of home demo recordings are tough to improve upon. This is Brian Glaze at his best.

Brian Glaze – Leader of the Band listen
Brian Glaze – Killing Time listen

Dudes, new Hunx video. Sonically, Tears On My Telephone continues to explore what is probably the only viable path for girl group sounds: via the ramones in the aftermath of the gay bomb. Visually the video doesn’t stray either, its like a muppet babies version of John Waters or Kenneth Anger (but don’t think there’s no danger, a visit to the clinic is always closer than you think). Surprisingly it seems like the lens, and not the men, is what’s greased up in this video as there’s tons of soft focus action. Its cool though, I think this is the best looking video these guys have done even though I’m not in it and I’m kind of confused by Hunx’s russian widow outfit.

Speaking of World Famous in SF cameos, there’s a few in this one. Keep your eyes peeled for Liza from BRIDEZ and its Brian Glaze man!

Directed by Justin Kelly. Cinematography by David Kavanaugh
Starring Hunx, Brande Baugh, Liza Thorn and Bama

Down about being separate but ‘equal’? Mystified by the new breed of gay unicorns the california supreme court birthed today? Don’t sweat it, come to the gay bar and have a good time with us!

5/28/09
The Eagle (398 12th St)

Brian Glaze
Hard Place
Mon Cousin Belge
Myles

The way California votes may be a total bummer but those bozos aren’t going to be at this show. There will be advance copies of the new Brian Glaze record Green Living (or, pre-order it through this here site). Mon Cousin Belge will continue to inch their way closer and closer to Spinal Tap like absurdities on their endless run of reunion shows! Hard Place will be making a rare San Francisco appearance and this is also your first chance to catch Myles of The Passionistas doing his new, super polished, super professional, super solo project.

Monday, April 27th!! Come support Neil’s benefit for the Mission Creek Music Festival 2009!!
Show at 9 PM, $7
The Knockout, 3223 Mission St.

SMiLE! presents a Benefit for the 13th Annual
MISSION CREEK MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

http://www.mcmf.org

9pm – RADIUS
http://www.myspace.com/radiussanfrancisco

10pm – PUCE MOMENT
http://www.myspace.com/pucemomentsf

11pm – THE AEROSOLS
http://www.myspace.com/theaerosols >

Midnight – BRIAN GLAZE & THE NIGHTSHIFT
http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom

DJ Neil Martinson

The Knockout is at 3223 Mission near 29th.

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Club Club You’re Dead presents:
The Passionistas/Hard Place split seven inch record release party!!
7 dollars gets you 7 inches!

12/3 @ The Stud
9PM
The Passionistas
Hard Place
Brian Glaze
Free 7″ record with admission
DJs PRIMO & CHRIS

This is going to be so much fun. Work off those turkey day pounds dancing till your feet bleed!! The Over 40 Gay Man’s Beauty Contest was a total success, men over forty really want to show you their beauty! We’re doing it again, start getting your outfit and talent together. You have to do better than this awesome push up that won last month:

Do me a favor already, go to this please. Brian Glaze is rad.

9/26/08
The Knockout (3223 Mission @Valencia)
Brian Glaze & The Nightshift – http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom
White Music – http://www.myspace.com/httpmyspacecomwhitemusic
Les Sylphides

This dude — he knows how to have a good time and he knows how to include you, on stage and off. On stage he will deliver his pop/rock gems; he will give it his all until he falls off of the stage onto you (I’ve seen it).You should go over to his myspace page right now and check out the music. The song “Leader of the Band” works some kind of Elton John groove that you will not be able to shake, I swear it. I’ve been trying to shake it for a month now and I’ve still got it.

Seen at a party he will impart wisdom on the subject of world music and how awesome it was for Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel and how there would be no Animal Collective without its influence on them while his friends laugh hysterically and you try to work it out. He will stand in the front at a show and scream and beg for one more song until there are beer soaked girls wrestling on the floor because they are so desperate to hear this song he is screaming for.

You will have fun. I’m not familliar with the other bands, but here’s what the Smile email had to say:
At 10pm, you can begin to absorb the subtle and seductive messages of Les Sylphides.
By 11pm, you should be sufficiently primed to succumb to the one-touch hypnosis of White Music.

On Saturday afternoon, I guarantee you should go to Dolores Park and have a beer and check out the Arts Expo instead of blog/catch up on blogs/fret over your investments/watch Tabitha’s Salon Takeover/freebase or do whatever it is you do on a Saturday afternoon.

http://artsandmedia.net/expo/
4pm The Aerosols http://www.myspace.com/theaerosols
3pm Uni & Her Ukelele’s Ding! String Trio http://www.myspace.com/uniherukelele
2:30 Foxtails Brigade http://www.myspace.com/lauraweinbach

I went and saw the Aerosols a while back and then didn’t write about it because I couldn’t think of anything to say other than I really liked it. I still can’t but thats stupid, I should just write this: I really liked their brand of psychedelic pop music. You should go see them tomorrow, maybe they’ll do that cover of Lucifer Sam again that got all the kids at SMiLE that night dancing.

On the for real, what is going on? I saw BRIDEZ and Brian Glaze a few nights ago at SMiLE. I do not know what it is, but I really think that guy’s album cover should look like a guns and roses album cover or some other pop metal kinda thing. I thought it sounded like Bruce Springsteen though or some other kind of ‘melodic rock’ thing. I know, lame kinda but, still, I liked this! I noticed a lot of Birdman Records people in the audience, you know because of the connection(s) with The Cuts. At one point I said to my friend “I think everbody in the audience is on Birdman” and she leaned forward and asked some guy if he had a record on Birdman and he did! Also, Brian Glaze fell on me at this show. I don’t know how he managed it, but he went tumbling off of that four inch stage and right into me. WORLD FAMOUS CURSE?

BRIDEZ were great as always and they didn’t spill anybodies drinks but their own!

I was so busy being down south I almost fo’got ta mentuhn that tonight is Monday Night SMiLE! You know we love SMiLE, Neil, and The Knockout. You also know we love Bridez; so tonight is going to be a good one:

This Monday June 2, you should leave the house with your eyes shut and wander aimlessly like a somnambulist. Without fail, your feet will carry you to the Knockout where you can safely open your eyes and take in the spectacle of smiling faces and dancing bodies. What will be the cause of the merriment?

At around 9:30pm, Frond will take the stage. They are composed of Amy and Andrew who used to be in Tapestry together (also known as Shag Tapestry) with the addition of Jesse from Bramble & Briar. This is bound to be delightful!
http://www.myspace.com/tapestrymusic

An hour or so after this, the heavy and fun rock of Bridez will spin through your head. They filled a bill for me last month in a pinch, and I was so dazzled by them I invited them back right away. Liza’s best band to date, and a really hot one! (A hot date?)
http://www.myspace.com/fakebloodjacket

Sometime before midnight, I will introduce the headlining act, namely Brian Glaze and the Night Shift. I’ll save my flowery rhetoric for that moment, and simply say that this is one of the most enjoyable, solid acts around.
http://www.myspace.com/brianglazeusyahoocom

So don’t miss this show. It’d just be dumb. The drinks are cheap, the bartenders are friendly, and I’ll be playing all manner of groovy tunes before, between, and after the bands.

Also: Pam (from Sugar & Gold) will be guest dj!

The Knockout is at 3223 Mission near 29th street.

xox,
Neil

Except for the fact that I’m super tired because I couldn’t get to sleep last night, I think tonight is finally the night I’m not going to bail early because I’m exhausted and stick around for Brian Glaze. I mean it! Promises!

I remember Brian Glaze being forced to stand outside of the Purple Onion because he wasn’t 21 and was only allowed in to play drums for the Brian Jonestown Massacre by music empresario Tom Guido moments before the band took the stage. Now he’s old and can get into any club he wants! Brian Glaze and the Nightshift headline an awesome line up in the East Bay! Don’t miss the first band, a veritable Bay Area Super Group, the Trade (feat members of Sugar & Gold, Boyjazz, Cars Get Crushed), I hope they like their Trade rough!

Details:
Brian Glaze and the Nightshift (feat members of the Cuts and Gris Gris)

Bart Davenport (solo acoustic)

The Trade (feat members of Sugar & Gold, Boyjazz, and, ahem… Cars Get Crushed)

It all starts around 10.

Ghost Town Gallery: 2519 San Pablo Ave, Oakland. Leave no valuables in yr car, friends.

Hope you can make it out!