San Francisco, California.

in non-locals only but crap anywayz news:

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major bummage about thomas being at amnesia. that place is cool for drinks, but to get loose ? not even steven.

Two more nights at Laszlo for out Beards Of A Feather, myself and most likely Jaxon

Saturday May 23rd
Tuesday June 23rd

Flyers to come

anyone check out thomas at amnesia? how was it?

amazing. i got there around midnight. totally packed. good crowd. thomas was up on the stage dancing. how old is this guy? how long has he been doing this? he played great chicago house and disco and a bunch of edits.

one in particular i want to remember. i've heard it before. upbeat, gospelly, soulful disco and the lyrics were something like (not nec in this order, just what i remember)

got to do right
everything i tell you

and another that said "steal my love away"???

yeah thomas has been around for a while, he's probably in his mid to late 40's, same as harvey, actually used to dj with harvey in the uk when they were doing the tonka crew parties. i first encountered him via the wicked parties in the mid 90's where he dj'ed along jeno, garth. back then i remembered his style would always stray from the rest of wicked crew, his sets were always focused on the more percussive aspect of house and disco. he was part of are weapons in the early 00's but kinda was around the same scene in nyc that james murphy came out of, playing disco, rock, post punk together. now that shit is par for the course but thomas and harvey have been doing this shit for almost two decades now. sounds like a great night. wish i could have went.

dudes! i live in SF! i've been here for the past year! but i'm only here for a few more weeks. FAP?

nah, i mean, i know who thomas is and all that, but i'm saying, he's been doing this for so long, and he's getting up there in years, and he was having a BLAST onstage. i only wish to have that enthusiasm when i'm older.

i feel you. esp after playing so many parties, so many records you would think there would be jadedness or burnout. i am sure that is the case with alot of dj's but yeah its def inspiring and cool to see that enthusiasm in someone of that age, and still killing it to top it off.

hey SF balearic/beardo dudes - i'm trying to drum up some gigs for Mike Smith aka Balearic Mike (Manchester-based DJ who recently compiled the Originals comp on Claremont 56) in SF during his stay here 6/15-29. anybody got anything for him? he's a fantastic selector...

if he wants to play at our night at laszlo on june 23rd we'd love to have him

i love his comp

it's a tuesday tho :/

for sure, did you just PM me? never got one of those from ilx before :D

but yeah, i'm sure he'd be down, i was hoping you'd respond tbh, your night would be perfect i think. i'll speak to him and let you know. thanks!

Best City for the Outdoors

in other claremont 56-related news, i'm planning on checking out this fist of facts release party tonight where ken man, who was also in liquid idiot which later became liquid liquid, is djing along with josh/tristes and people from bands...

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there's a fist of facts tune on that 'originals vol. 1' comp that balearic mike helped compile, btw

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Dusty disco, forgotten funk, rock & hip-hop classics from the ARCHIVE.

1st and 3rd Fridays

DJs
Bret Slaughter
Catch & Release
+ Special Guests

Art. Drinks. Music.

DADA Lounge
86 2nd Street
21+ No Cover

xpost - Claremont 56 is putting out a Fist of Facts 12" with 4 or 5 unreleased Sal P.-associated tracks.

http://claremont56.bigcartel.com/product/fist-of-facts-ep

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dammit!! i'm out of town! :(

hey, so to get away from all the flyering, what good bands are bay area based right now? i'm feeling Mi Ami and Jonas Reinhardt. there's also the whole balearic camp of Sorcerer, Windsurf and Hatchback. anything else to keep eyes out for?

i like brilliant colors, and girls.

http://www.myspace.com/brilliantcolorssanfrancisco

http://www.myspace.com/girlssanfran

bridez:
http://www.myspace.com/bridezsf

great, I'm over at amnesia way more often than I'd like and then out of town when a good dj shows up. if I have to see another hillbilly nonsense outfit there I'm gonna snap

i think i like the idea of mi ami more than the music. or maybe i just wish there was less screaming going on

ugh, most SF bands sound like garbage to me. completely unoriginal, amateurish hipster bullshit....strange tho, because i have met people in the bands mentioned above, and they are all fine folks.

also, i am going to see Brilliant Colors play with LIMP WRIST (my favorite queercore band from my youth) at the eagle soon.

APOOLSKI DEF

honey soundsystem mix on beats in space is raddd. i feel foolish for not having checked out their night at the paradise as of yet

it's a good party. i don't really like the paradise lounge, but their night is in the upstairs loft, with the downstairs part of the club closed. i think it works better that way. they're def very good djs.

i like the upstairs area there; i think the space has potential but it's a little chintzy too i suppose. sundays are a good night in sf, what with this and sweaterfunk on the same night

What are Nobunny shows like?

i don't know how i feel about Honey Soundsystem DJs, but that's because i still harbor suspicions about CDJing, and that is what they tend to do a lot of.

also, though it's a silly sort of complaint, i often want them to play more stuff that i don't know-- it's pretty standard tracks that they rock, albeit in heavily-edited forms.

finally, sometimes the outside DJs that they bring into Paradise Lounge are superbly crappy. sometimes superbly good, but eh...

went to kon and amir last nite. very nice. lots of disco, boogie and latin. i am convinced cool chris (owner of groove merchant)has some of the best records in the western hemisphere. his set was only 30 minutes long but his 7-8 tracks pretty much destroyed what everyone else is playing right now in terms of the whole cosmic, disco, boogie, scene. being the owner of a record store im sure helps.

How is the Saturday night "Leisure" thing at Paradise? The descriptors on the flyer are kinda vague. Anyone who's been: What specifically do they play? Good vibe? How crowded, etc.

glad everyone could dig up some great SF bands. i'm glad to call this place home.

this band- the disappearance of the dwarf planet pluto- plays at my house pretty often (for noise pancakes- we're basically the de facto brutal-sfx headquarters) and is probably my favorite out of the regular acts here. if you check the myspace you'll get a pretty noise-oriented side of things, but they just acquired a crap-ton of expensive equipment and developed a jones for horror-flick synths and as of this morning things sounded pretty fuck'n awesome.

clipd beaks is from oakland, no?

that sounds right. none of these artists are new necessarily but i still enjoy seeing them if they're on a bill or i get the chance...

dominique leone
arp
tussle
wooden shjips
hospitals
inca ore
t.i.t.s.
ty segall/traditional fools (lots of stuff like this around but i know this dude and he does it well)
rubber o cement/caroliner (maybe more b/c of the performance art aspect than the music tho)

at one point i would've said sic alps but they suck live and are ALWAYS complaining about technical difficulties

arp/alexis moved to nyc last year...

:(

he's probably my favorite of the bunch, too

i've been to the hospitals and a few ty segall/thee oh sees shows. great great bluesy noise rock, but nothin dancey.

that t.i.t.s record is a lot of fun

i'd love to hear the t.i.t.s. record. or see them live. great from the myspace clips i heard a while back. one of the girls was in Crack: WAR

The Independent
A-Trak plus Rye Rye / Treasure Fingers Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 9:00 PM PDT

we're playing sunday 6/14 @ the hemlock w/Odawas (psych-folk, just moved from Chicago) and Wiener Kids (zorn-ish instrumental trio), and 6/19 @ totally intense fractal mindgaze in oakland w/capillary action. come see! my band now is 7-piece, and we play minimalist jungle prog. AND WE DON'T SUCK!!!!! :)

xxpost - i guess from the T.I.T.S. myspace you can find a ton of local noize/experimental bands from the bay.

Numbers (they still here?), fuckwolf, the flying luttenbachers, Erase Errata (they still here?), Death Sentence: PANDA! , ezeetiger, xbxrx, TOTAL SHUTDOWN, Hands On Heads, Condor

one of the girls was in Crack: WAR

lolz wow they were horrible. Kinda wish I didn't know that, tbh!

oh Dominique, i'm sorry that one of your shows is with Capillary Action. j0n pfeffer might be the biggest douchebag i've ever met.

he's the sort of guy that used to list EVERY TYPE OF MUSIC EVER MADE IN EVERY COUNTRY AROUND THE WORLD as his favorite music on facebook. silly to take such things so seriously in my case, yes, but especially in his case...he also never credited me for some interviews i did with him back in the day, so he's on my shitlist for real.

u should come to the show and I can arrange foxyboxing to settle the score