I don’t know why I didn’t post about Will from BRIDEZ first solo outing before the show. I guess thats just how we do it around here sometimes. Sorry Will!

Because I am kinda juvenile, I was disappointed to hear that there was no band called Butt Milk Shake but that, in fact, it was two bands Butt and Milk Shake. You can’t always get what you want I guess, being a child I’m still learning that.

Anyway, Will assembled a five piece band and turned out a set of fully arranged pop songs from what was supposedly just a bedroom recording projec for the occasiont. There’s a nice writeup of this shindig over on the guardian’s music blog http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2008/10/ivy_makes_us_itch_for_more.html where you can learn that a) The Li Po is a pit but everybody loves it anyway b) Will’s backing band was basically members of Girls and the The Passionistas c) this show was fun and d) somebody is either backed by bank or spends a little too much time in an upscale grocery store because they think of presets in terms of overused adjectives for white wine. Just sayin.

Here’s some photos:

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So, I have now come across 3 different fliers for the Mon Cousin Belge record release party at Cafe Du Nord on the 17th. So lets play a game. Leave a comment telling which band designed which flier, an explanation on why, and which one is your favorite. So far there is nothing to win or gain in doing this, but maybe i’ll just be nice and give some lucky person my spot on the guest list for the show. Seeing as i don’t even know if there is a guest list, maybe i’ll just send you a new, rad, Passionistas T-shirt, or hell maybe both! - OK!
1. - The one you have seen before.

2 -

3 -

OH, yeah, leave a comment on the video flier too if you want… its just underneath this post. And I know it’s easy to tell who did what - so this is all based on why, the best why might win! BEGIN FLIERFIGHT!!

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Oh, maybe you didn’t see it on pitchfork, gorilla vs bear or rcrdlbl but Girls have a seven inch coming out on True Panther Sounds

So check this out, even though I know you’ll all be at Thee Parkside for Club Feral with Hard Place, maybe you really want to get quantum and be at the Hotel Utah as well for the Girls seven inch release party with Softboiled Eggies (word on the street is that these guys are a real, unlike some other LA acts we’ve mentioned on this blog!!) and Primo. The trick is to not be observed and its possible you were at both — we’ll tell everybody you were.

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Here is the first video from San Francisco superstars Girls. The video is for their song “Morning Light”. I was going to talk about who directed it and who’s in it, but you can go to Cobain In A Coma for that info. Just watch the video…

Also, check out the SF Bay Guardian write up they got for the show at the Rickshaw Stop with Port O’Brian it was amazing

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His voice is a slow melting thickness, warm sugar sliding, then, medicine, falling, a regretful lump in the throat. There is an Epic Soundtracks coming up in it, full of languid sadness, a drunken stumble here and there, even pitiful, maybe pitiable. This music has a sort of looking back in it. Down black alleys, down the wrong steely green eyes, down into a vortex you see yourself entering, yet again. It is a singing alone sort of voice, a walking down Turk Street late at night voice. It is a voice that spins and dizzies, looking up at the moon for direction and maybe solace. The clamoring and swelling of guitars, drums and such, accompanies him down and then back out into safer neighborhoods. Now he’s just another skinny boy in the mission somehow getting his key into the damned door, taking a piss and passing out as the sun bleaches and blights out another night.

I eavesdropped this boy and girl talking about a down payment on an apartment.

Hellhole Ratrace is an irresistible pop song. Even the most cynical among us would find it impossible to not sing it brazenly down any street, chorus after chorus after chorus…this is, getting lost in it and forgetting about tomorrow music.

It made me think about an acoustic performance with Spiritualized I saw a few years back at amoeba.

Wound up in Dolores Park…still singing that damned song.

I could become seriously obsessed with this song!

The second band I regretfully must say made me think of only one thing. Due to the fact that one of the singers looked like that pale-faced Scots called James McEvoy, I couldn’t not fantasize he was singing those otherwise forgetful songs just for me. I thought to myself at one point, “after the show James McEvoy, meet me on Refrew Street or at Sleazie’s, say around one? We’ll get a room and read Mark Doty poems to each other all night.”

“I don’t wanta die without shaking up a leg or two?” Is that the line?

The last band made me hate myself more than usual. I had to leave. The lead singer looked like Jim James from My Morning Jacket. That’s about it I guess. Oh! There were a lot of cute boys and girls enjoying this last band.

“Come on…come on…come on…come on and dance with me!”

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There’s a lot going on this week. On Wednesday Snacks and Bran(…)Posplay 21 grand. Snacks are a Baltimore duo who tape electronics to themselves and make squiggles and unholy snacks. Not electronic snacks either, food ones. Maybe its entertaining, maybe its stupid. The I’m going to find out!

On Thursday, at the The Terminal will be LA noise devastation dudes (with John Wiese) Sissy Spacek, Death Sentence: Panda! will do their tribal woodwind punk thing, Gerritt, Jason Crumer, and Chen Santa Maria (whom I always miss, but it sounds like they’re still mining that post rock thing for new sounds. Be careful guys, a lot of miners are getting trapped these days!) . Also, there’s the San Francisco debut of Mayyors (featuring Chris Woodhouse of FM Knives) at The Eagle, along with The Oh Sees and Master/Slave. Word on the street is that the first Mayyors seven inch is already sold out despite the fact that they don’t have a website and neither does their label. Is the band that awesome or are they the kings of the ‘buy now ebay later’ scene (read: did they do a small run of seven inches and sell them to a large group of friends)? I guess you’ll have to go and find out (I am).

Friday is a total unwieldy cluster fuck of a night. There’s The Mantles and The Botticellis(record release) and The Papercuts at Cafe du Nord; Jucifer at the Uptown in Oakland; Buzzer and The Aerosols at the Hemlock; Club Sandwich at the ATA; Awesomefest featuring Girls, The Oh Sees and Port O’brien.

Its kind of overwhelming. The Mantles are solid, Buzzer features Andy from The Cuts and its fun enough, Club Sandwich has some interestingly sensual moshing that you simply have to witness, and if you read this blog at all you know how we feel about Girls. You should definitely check all of these bands out SOME OTHER TIME because Friday is the Hard Place record release party for Get Your Hopes Up

Hard Place
Easy Street
The Sarrees

4/18/2008
9PM
Smile @ The Knockout
3223 Mission St. (where misson and valencia meet)
$5

And if you just can’t wait, or want to be able to sing along with every song, or you’re obligated to be at one of these other shows but feel like you could be missing out on a piece of rock ‘n roll history, you’re in luck. The record is totally for sale on iTunes right now. Come on out on Friday and say hi!

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Today we are (kinda) hip to the internet trends. A muxtape for you with some bands we’ve talked about over the past year. Except for the Hard Place and Mon Cousin Belge songs, both of which come from albums out on our label World Famous in San Francisco, these songs were all totally available for free on the WWW so don’t get mad at me for stealing, ok?

1. Girls - Lust For Life
2. The Passionistas - Don’t Hit Snooze (Live)
3. Hard Place - Mondays Are For Working
4. Mon Cousin Belge - Tweaker Bitch
5. Factrix - Splice Of Life
6. Bridez - Steal Drums
7. Sic Alps - Semi Streets
8. Fuckwolf - Mardi Gras
9. Jealousy - I Would Do That For Him
10. The Passionistas - Little Dark Room (Live)
11. Nothing People - Falling
12. Connie Fucking Francis - Where The Boys Are (Live)

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Holy Shit My Darkest Light Will Shine (Felt cover) live in San Francisco’s Kimo’s 3/8/08 for Mushroom International’s Mini Pops festival with Girls, The Passionistas and art by Jason Yates (Fast Friends Inc.)

More Holy Shit footage here

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So, I never did get around to writing about the girls show a few weeks back. It was the feel good show of the winter. So many young kids (ok, girls) who knew the songs on the myspace by heart. They could barely contain their excitement that these songs were going to be performed live, close enough to touch, which is so much closer than the internet can get you. I normally hate it when people sing along at shows but this was endearing. Really. And the band was so excited to play. Summertime fuzzy pop magic.

see the rest here

If you missed it, don’t worry! They’re playing again at the third night of Mushrooms International:

8PM Sat, March 8, 2008
Kimo’s Bar
1351 Polk St

Holy Shit (LA, featuring Ariel Pink and Matt Fishbeck)
Girls (SF)
The Passionistas

Also, here’s some video Myles took of Holy Shit when they were in town to send dead eye off on his toothless new life in appalachia. This is a spaced out bongo jam with bad drugs written all over it — just dead eye’s style.

And a passionistas video for good measure:

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