Rev. Horton Heat Interview on Pirate Cat Radio

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The Rev graciously came down to the Pirate Cat Radio Cafe and sat with Mike Routhier of Neat Neat Noise before his performance at the Great American Music Hall.

TONIGHT! Live Performance by As a People; Interview with Angela Chase

As a People
http://www.asapeople.com/
8:00pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
“Local trio As a People make indie rock that’s as charmingly shambolic as it is blisteringly rockin’. It’s impressive that they can manage to sound so schizophrenic on a three-song EP without altering their sonic palette much from song to song. Luckily, lead vocalist Adam Yas’s theatrical yelp keeps the proceedings from becoming too disjointed. The standout song, “Viktor,” plays with the same loud-quiet dynamics as the rest of the EP by getting groovy when you expect it to simply thrash.” (Aaron Sankin, SF Guardian)

Angela Chase
http://www.myspace.com/angelachasesf
9:00pm
Angela Chase is not a bunch of scrawny twenty-year olds from Brooklyn; Angela Chase is an all-girl three piece from San Francisco playing songs influenced by the Breeders, Fugazi, Hum and the Pixies. Another way to describe Angela Chase is to say that three girls in their twenties decided to name their band after a fifteen-year-old girl from the nineties and play music for the parts of their hearts that are still fifteen.

The Tide by Weather Pending

TONIGHT: Live Performance by Oona; Interview with Weather Pending

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Oona
myspace.com/oonamusic
8pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Oona Garthwaite has been singing for as long as she can remember, and began playing piano when her parents brought one home from the school rummage sale. After foraying into rap, punk and jazz, she eventually returned to her native Oakland and began to co-write her first full-length effort, Shhhhout!, with Dave Tweedie.

Weather Pending
http://www.weatherpending.net/
9pm
On their first album, And How!, the San Francisco trio known as Weather Pending creates deep, sultry, continuously unfolding music with a sound that’s vaguely familiar and surprisingly unique. The band’s electronic grooves and the smoky vocals of singer Janie Oliver draw you in. Bass player and producer Rob Cross accompanies Oliver’s luminous vocals with the dark, melancholy rhythms of hip hop and dub reggae, profound tones that swirl and dance with the elemental force of a restless ocean while guitarist Brian Bloi’s chords color with shimmering overtones that emote with aching melodies. The album’s ten sultry songs have a cinematic, one drop, hip hop flavor driven by the subliminal swing enhanced by guest drummers Max MacVeety (Crown City Rockers, Zion I) and Derek G. Taylor (Nino Moschella, Alice Russell, Hyim, Darondo).

My First Earthquakes New Video: Cool in the Cool Way

TONIGHT: Interview with The Blacks, Forrest Day and My First Earthquake

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The Blacks
http://www.theblacksarehere.com/
8pm
“JUST IMAGINE A FEMALE FRONTED PISS’N'VINEGAR DESCENDANT OF JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, AND YOU’LL HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHERE THE BLACKS ARE COMIN’ FROM.” -AQUARIUS RECORDS

Forrest Day
http://www.forrestday.com/
8:40pm
I’m Forrest Day. But my name also represents the nastiest 7-piece band you ever heard. The tracks you hear on this page are me in the studio with some great help from Chocolate O’Brian and Luke Dillon. I’m a beatmaker, songwriter, sax-player, and singer. SINGER!!! Now, however, I am going to record this beautiful band. If you have not been to a show then you are missing out, it is ridiculous! We are at our best now, a year and a half old, and beginning to reach other cities and states. My style is free, and I will continue to do whatever I want! I am going city by city and showing people what we do.

My First Earthquake
http://www.myfirstearthquake.com/
9:20pm
My First Earthquake’s first full-length album, is a collection of 10 electro / indie pop / dance rock songs. You might like it if you’re a fan of Metric, The Ting Tings, New Young Pony Club, Ladyhawke, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, or Blondie. Produced by the fantastically-talented Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev, it’s being released on June 20, 2009.

TONIGHT: Interview with The Greening

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The Greening
http://www.myspace.com/thegreening
9:20pm
The Greening’s mission statement is to push pop music to new frontiers through their blend of accessible experimentation. Our first stab at this was realized on our debut LP, 2003’s After Shoal Parlor (released on our label, Zairecords–it’s available with secure Paypal checkout here!). And then . . . we went behind the scenes.

TONIGHT: Live Perfomance by Stitchcraft; Interview with As a People

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Stitchcraft
http://www.myspace.com/stitchcraft
8pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
StitchCraft is a story of the way that community creates music and music creates community. Like a communally created quilt, or the feast in the folk tale of Stone Soup; the players of StitchCraft took their name to honor the participation of the muse, the audience, and play with the questions of life, death, adventure and self realization in our human experiences. These musicians have a powerful presence and their visible connection on stage makes their music shine and their audiences attentive.

As a People
http://www.asapeople.com/
9:20pm
“Local trio As a People make indie rock that’s as charmingly shambolic as it is blisteringly rockin’. It’s impressive that they can manage to sound so schizophrenic on a three-song EP without altering their sonic palette much from song to song. Luckily, lead vocalist Adam Yas’s theatrical yelp keeps the proceedings from becoming too disjointed. The standout song, “Viktor,” plays with the same loud-quiet dynamics as the rest of the EP by getting groovy when you expect it to simply thrash.” (Aaron Sankin, SF Guardian)

Tonight! Live Performance by Mike Kupietz; Interview with Cloud Archive

SHOW RECORDING 5-28-09

Mike Kupietz
http://www.yourtube.com/guitaristinprogress
8pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
Michael E. Kupietz, King Of The Bedroom Blues Guitar, performs imaginative stylings of traditionals and classics drawn from his eclectic breadth of popular music knowledge on a variety of guitar-shaped instruments. Together with Bronson McKinley, the human under my kitchen sink, now out of hiding, they are collectively known as Donny, Jordan, and James, the members of the Troubadours Of Montmartre, who perform high-seas song and drama under the guise of classic radio-age serial greats Captain Blackheart And The Scurvy Sea Dogs.

Cloud Archive
http://www.myspace.com/cloudarchive
9:15pm
Cloud Archive started as an instrumental rock band in Oakland California. These days, we’re headed toward multimedia collective / interdisciplinary art endeavor. We’re interested in investigating ideas through sounds, arrangements and light. Most of our influences all have the first name David.

Tonight! Live Performance by Annie Bacon; Interview with The Dry Spells; ABC and SF All Ages Club Crackdown

SHOW RECORDING 5-20-09

Annie Bacon
http://sellaband.com/anniebacon
8pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE
For me music is a way of resisting the tide that urges towards blind consumption not just of things but of ideas and lifestyles meant to imprison us in complacency. in creativity/creation we find the antidote to war, to genocide, to injustice, intolerance. we find ways to empathize with our enemies, and to gently criticize our lovers. for me it is how I explain to myself all that is unexplainable. it is my direct line to the divine.

Discussion of Alcholic Beverage Control and all-ages clubs in SF
8:50pm
Jamie Zawinski of DNA Lounge
Dawn Holiday of Great American Music Hall and Slim’s
Terrance Alan of the SF Entertainment Commission

The Dry Spells
http://www.myspace.com/thedryspells
9:20pm
The Dry Spells, a San Francisco-based female-led ensemble, create a unique sound drawing from traditional folk ballads of lost loves, unimaginable sorrows, and nostalgia for a forgotten past, charged with an array of electric and acoustic instrumentation and intricate vocal harmonies. On their debut album, Too Soon for Flowers, the Dry Spells prove they are as gifted at songwriting as they are at interpretation, presenting a song cycle that invites listeners to join them as they traverse an arboreal path less taken, to an uncertain yet revered destination. Along the way, there will be epic songs of deep-sea weddings, sirens, and gold rush tragedies, each illuminating a bit more of the path ahead and offering another piece to the puzzle.