World Famous In San Francisco

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!

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)
    

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

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:

First Person Magazine has finally gone and done what I've been asking for. Girls, the new and uncommonly great San Francisco band, are finally playing a show! They're for real, its not a hoax, and word on the street is the band sounds awesome. I don't know who these FP Magazine people are but somebody should thank them!

Also playing are Yes Please, Raccoons, and Soft Hug. I checked the word on the street and nobody knows who these bands are but Yes Please are on at 9 PM sharp, so get there on time if you're curious. We're curious! Actually, we probably need to run an errand over at Chrome so maybe we won't see Yes Please. But we're firm believers in doing everything so we're going to try!

This is going to be super fun. You really should come.
Saturday Feb 16th
Cafe du Nord
2174 Market St
9 PM 10$

The Passionistas - Fucking Cold


Thanks Jeremy Smears and Elton Tom for running the blog while I was away. I was in a creative coma for a couple weeks. Expect fun new stuff. I can't tell you all the exciting news just yet - for now here is a new video I directed for my band, The Passionistas, starring Christopher Owens from Girls.

You know, in case the myspace bulletins aren't catching your attention or you aren't one of the thousands of hits on these songs, Girls have a new song. I bring the breaking news -- or I need to find somebody new to write about. The new song is pretty good -- "God Damned" is more in line with the last three songs they put up and less to do with that little pop gem they dropped right out of the gate. Get the kids hooked on something sweet and then switch it. Actually, I didn't love the song they posted before this one, so I didn't post it here, but its grown on me so check out "Hellhole Ratrace" too. Quality!

Word on the street is these dudes might be playing a show soon, which would be cool. Hopefully it won't be some super secret apartment party!

Holy Shit - PART TWO - live @ the Eagle, San Francisco, 12/27/07


So if you weren't at the Holy Shit show, you totally missed out. Luckily WFISF has a video camera now, so you don't have to miss out completely. So Holy Shit are a band from LA that make this really stubborn psychedelic music. They play V back to I a lot... sort of like David Bowie's Heroes or Modern English's Melt with You. That chord progression always sounds awesome. So check them out if you're not already familiar. The band features Christopher "Crissy Baby" Owens from one of our favorite bands Girls.

Holy Shit - PART ONE

Holy Shit - PART THREE

Check it out, a new Girls song called "Summertime". Myles was right, it does rule. Where as the last song was an undeniably catchy pop ditty, this new one is more rock with some nice psychedelic floursihes. Its like if spacemen 3 were from California and their drugs were laced with amphetamines.

Damn fellas, somebody I know with a record label is thinking seven inch!

Liza Thorn, local spectacle and member of Cobain in a Coma on West Add Radio, hipster thrash band So So Many White White Tigers, failed rap project No Condom Whatever!, and the kind of defunct Curls (actually, they're now Girls and don't feature Liza at all and have a great new song Myles posted about earlier), is also in a band called Wildflowerz whom I thought were defunct but apparently have a new song up. Its called "Human Eye" and its pretty alright. Its like SSMWWT, but with, uh, just a wee bit of melody thrown in. Really, some of you might not even notice the melody, but I do and I like it. I was way into that other song "steal", so much so that I put it on a World Famous in San Francisco mix cd I made (if you want a copy myspace us! or email w o r l d f a m o u s i n s f (a t) g m a i l (d o t) c o m)

Also, they have a show on November 9th at "The Egg". Where is that? What is that? Man, I don't know anything!

Check out the debut Girls song "Lust for life." I think it's better than the Iggy Pop song of the same name. You can listen to it over and over. It reminds me of that Adolescents song "Kids Of The Black Hole" for some reason, don't ask me why, but with even better nonsensical lyrics.

And there is more where this came from! I've heard the follow up single... and it rules.