Bands
Archers of Loaf-Chapel Hill's finest quirky noisepop, RIP!
Black Ghost-Oakland CA, 2 piece noisy rock champions
Boyjazz-dumb name, great band, an arena rock show for your living room
From Monument to Masses-Insistant, political, post-rock/progressive rock from the bay area, with rad samples
Moggs-Amazing noiserock 2-piece from Petaluma
The Mass-Great eastbay spazzy jazz metal
Cartographer-Ben from Replicator on guitar and drum machine!
Truxton - The kind of stuff that SHOULD be on the radio but probably won't.
Hot Snakes - Jehu dream team back and 'in effect'. Wow.
Mike Watt-A living legend! Minutemen, fIREHOUSE, aaaay, forget about it!
Maxwell Horse-sf indie rock and analog purists
Mandragora-Norman Oklahoma's finest rock and roll.
Jucifer-Athens, GA based 2 piece that manages to bring really loud and heavy beauty together pretty darn well.
31 Knots-Proggy stuff with feeling from Portland, OR
Lower Forty-Eight - Proggy, punk-ish noiserock you didn't know was missing from your life.
Greenlight the bombers-Oakland post hardcoremath craziness, formerly known as 60 foot time
Kill Me Tomorrow-Creepy, endearing and insistant San Diego trio
The Coup-savvy, and incredibly awesome political rap/hip hop from oakland
400 Blows-Most rocking, and no they're not porn.
Freedom for Saturn - Soundtracks to the best most manic movies about breakdancing robots you've never seen.
The Nightmare Syndicate- The Garden of Elastic Whores!
ifihadahifi - Sexed up Geek rock out of Neo Tokyo.... Wisconsin?!
The Flying Luttenbachers-Free Jazz craziness or Brutal Prog?
Blood Brothers - They're young, they're good looking, they're great... they're going to be huge!
Saraswati-Indianapolis, Indiana's finest
Stay Gold Pony Boy-The dukes of fuck.
Ashpool-Prog?! yet great and wonderfully unpretentious!
Theory Of Ruin-Alex Newport from fudgetunnel, nailbomb. Don't want to say crushing, but uh... crushing!
Totimoshi-Oakland heavy rock champeens
My Sunny Disposition-powerful, emotional (not emo) rock music from... Concord? sadly defunct.
Former Employee-Ex-MSD band carried the rock torch
New Left Right-Ex-MSD, EX-Former Employee creamy goodness
Porch-Todd Huth was in Primus, I think they explore more of the Jesus Lizard/Unwound territory though.
Dysrhythmia-Off Kilter, complex jazzy noisy stuff from Philadelphia
Stinking Lizaveta-Progish, intense and powerful Philadelphia instrumental madness
Caustic Resin-Heavy, druggy psycho-delic rock music, the evil cousin of built to spill.
Shevel Knievel-All female, bay area, heavy rock action
Captured by Robots-One man, captured by evil Robots and forced to perform music for their enjoyment
Enon-Ex-Brainiac/Skeleton Key quirky goodness.
Electro Group-Shoegazey type music that's tough too.
Amscray-sf based powerindierock worth checking out
Jim Yoshii Pile Up-great SF band, slow and emotional, complex and great!
The Fucking Champs-like metal songs, with the crappy parts removed. They will crush you!
Radiohead - yes a band can be mainstream and still push boundries.
Deerhoof-Arty rocking children's nursery rhyme horror stories
fugazi-commited to excellence, commited to walking the walk.
Citizens Here and Abroad-SF based indierock gems ex-Secadora
Sparklehorse-poignant, heartfelt and slightly warped songs
Daniel Johnston-One man, lots of feeling, mental instability, lots of heart from Texas.
Milemarker-post hardcore, synths, insects and what not outta Chicago
Oxes-Wireless Wonders! super rocking and heavy stuff from Baltimore, MD
Butthole Surfers-Texas kings of acidsoaked nightmare music and some darn good songs, too bad about that lawsuit and pop album
Dianogah- two basses, and drums good stuff from Chicago, very unique
Trans Am-Robot dance rock invasion from DC, Kraftwerk by way of Rush
Godspeed You Black Emperor!-thematic, noir-ish instro ensemble, haunting and beautiful, apocolyptic from Canada
Cat Power-is a good cop.
The Flaming Lips-exquisite innovators in new directions of sounds, possibly the best thing to come outta Oklahoma
Hayden-heartwrenchingly good songs from a cool guy in Canada
Hovercraft-Xperimental may not quite cover 'em.
The Librarians-Peppy smartass eastbay noisepop
Steel Pole Bathtub-so far ahead of their time it makes me wanna puke.
Milk Cult-ever wonder what happened to Steel Pole Bathtub? Incredible stuff
Unwound-The definition of progressive punk music from the pacific northwest
Poster Children-great driving noisepop, one of the hardest working bands in the biz! from Champaign, IL
Les Savy Fav
Liars-Tense, spastic, sickeningly creative and one of the best live bands on the planet.
Ex-Models-Amazing, angular pop songs for those with ADD
Oneida-Brooklyn's own teachers of the psyche domain.
Last of the Juanitas-Heavy, tense and spacious, with a twist of lime
Don Caballero-Clever parts to songs, clever song titles, skilled Prog-isms with math from Pittsburgh, PA
Shipping News- rhythmic, intense, iconoclastic
Melt Banana- spasmatic, angular, scratchy, Japanese, noisy artcore, screeching, intoxicatingly catchy and totally amazing.
The Mae Shi-Spasmatic, insanely catchy LA craziness. Like throwing an armful of old video game systems in a blender while playing air guitar, in a good way.
The Manifolds-LA band that brings the angular SD/Polvo-style hookiness with the power of rock, baby.
Circuit Side-Ex-Need goodness, just like a marathon session of D & D, but better live.
The King Cobra-Also Ex-Need, theatrical, cinematic and powerful stuff from the NW
The Apes-DC's finest concept album making simians, like Iron butterfly if they had grew up on punk rock and had 20X more imagination.
Zeni Geva- impossibly Crushing, Brutal and incredible, from japan. KK Null over all.
The Paperchase-Incredibly tense, cinematic rock goodness from Denton, TX
Below The Sound-Alby-ker-key's finest precision rock
The Ladderback-North Carolina madmen, that make you smile.
Fiesel-Mass. rock guardians of the all ages scene
Creta Bourzia-Powerful Pittsburgh Protaganists
Qui-LA based two piece that bringeth the rock
Avenue of the Strongest-Portland's very own street of whupass
Low- Sparse, spartan and nearly empty.
Schpattenoptimator- German, groundbreaking and offhandedly brilliant.
(((Microwaves)))-Bent noisy pittsburgh psycho music, all in the best possible way
The Wipers-Groundbreakingly influential and damn cool pacific northwest 'punk' band
Hot Fought Cold-AZ rock goodness, one part wipers, 1 part Jehu, all danger!
Hillbilly Devilspeak-Pounding AZ rock that will have you believing the hills have eyes.
Silkworm-Intelligent indie arena rock? Chicago by way of Seattle
The Breeders/Amps-great hooky noisepoppy rock from the ever talented Kim Deal
Bunny Foot Charm-Olympia noisy rock or acoustic stuff, defunct
Shellac-Minimal, striking and powerful Chicago trio, apparantly they sound like Replicator too.
Mogwai-Dynamic and powerful Scotland group with plenty of tricks up their sleeve
Babyland-amazing 2 piece electronicjunkpunk band from LA, they will NOT go away. THANK GOD!
...and you will know us by the trail of the dead-the saviors of ROCK? maybe, maybe not, Str8 out of Austin
The Causey Way-is not a cult, but it is a cool band from Florida
Pilot: Scott Tracy-Take flight with the Causeys into the future
Man... or Astro Man?-astrosurfpostrock goodness from SPAAACCCE...er Georgia
Thrones-One man, a bassandguitar combo, a drum machine and lots of spooky sound FX, live!
Yo La Tengo-Straight outta Hoboken!
Sonic Youth-Do they NEED an introduction?!!
Neutral Milk Hotel - Haunting, wrenching... poignant.
Guided By Voices-possibly the most prolific band on earth, definitely one of the most drunken
Tom Waits-the man himself, an american treasure and a heck of a guy.
The Residents-the world's most famous unknown band
Sleater Kinney-3 girls, 2 guitars, some drums and a whole lot of rock!

Bay Area Record Stores
Amoeba
Aquarius Records
Mod Lang

Clubs and Performance Spaces for Live Material
Bay area
21 Grand-Eastbay performances space/gallery! has arty shows too, ALL AGES!!
Bimbo's-Classy SF Northbeach gangster type club, that usually books big bands or crap.
Kimo's- SF Rock Dive/Transvestite Bar
Bottom of the Hill-The Mecca of Independent SF Rock shows
Great American Music Hall-The other Mecca of Independent SF Rock shows, former Bordello!
The Fillmore-The big time! Clear Channel owns this sucker...
The Warfield-the BIGGER time!! Clear Channel owns this too, see a pattern?
Cafe Du Nord-upscale lil' SF club, kind of David Lynch like in look
El Rio-one of SF's best kept secrets
Daniland-not a place but Dani works books multiple venues in the eastbay and supports music in other ways.
Starry Plough-Irish club and resteraunt in Berkeley great food/drinks
Stork Club- family owned oakland bar/club, christmas all year round.
Slim's-Sporadically cool SF Rock Club, it may be huge, but it's all ages!
Edinburgh Castle -not a REAL castle at all i'm afraid to say, but still an AWESOME sf pub and performance space!
Hemlock Tavern-Super hipster venue, tiny but with great shows.
Thee Parkside-Beer fueled indie rock/garage venue that's pretty cool

elsewhere
the Blackbird- portland rock club, quite possibly our favorite anywhere!
the Smell- our LA home, somewhat seedy, all ages and an institution!
Spaceland-Another nice LA club, very sleek, they have a smoking room that's like a people-quarium
The Fold-Scott Sterling does shows at Silverlake Lounge and the derby
Knitting Factory LA-It's kind of like the Chevy's of rock clubs, it's in a hollywood mini-mall, but it has it's charms
Modified Arts-Phoenix AZ, all ages joint that is cool.
Radio Radio-Swanky Indianapolis venue run by a former Zero Boy, neat!
Melody Inn-Fun Indianapolis rock bar.
King's Barcade-awesome Raleigh, NC combo bar and arcade, owned by indie rock royalty.
OldStore @ The Shed-The heart and soul of Palmer, Mass.
31st St Pub-Sleazy Pittsburgh Rock bar, that sometimes has strippers
MP Shows-Da heart of working class Chicago shows
First Avenue/7th st entry-Minneapolis MN combo venue, Purple Rain was filmed here
Jay's Upstairs-Completely awesome Missoula Montana rock bar/punk rock rec room
3 B Tavern-Bellingham's finest rock club/boozing joint, great selection of beer.

Radio Stations
KALX-90.7fm Berkeley, CA
KDHX88.1, St. Louis, MO
KDVS-90.3 fm UC davis, CA
KSPC-88.7 fm, Claremont, CA
KUCI-88.9FM in Irvine, CA
KUSF-90.3FM San Francisco, CA
KXLU- 88.9 FM Los Angeles, CA
KZSU-90.1 FM Stanford, CA
WICR-88.7 FM, Indianapolis, IN (free zone)
WFMU-91.1/Jersey City, NJ; 90.1/Hudson Valley, NY
WMTU-91.9 Houghton, MI FM Stereo

Studios and Recording
Ben Adrian recording engineer - Ben from Replicator records bands
Mr Toad's - bigger SF based studio that is pretty rad, Ben works here.

Tickets
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