World Famous In San Francisco

Before these videos, I wasn't quite sure how to describe Bridez other than referencing Liza's old band So So Many White White Tigers. But after seeing the grainy TV screen quality of shake out my hair it clicked -- The Jesus and Mary Chain fronted by Jennifer Herrema. And not just because Liza works the same look. This is the nineties remembered by people who weren't even teenagers yet in 1990.

Till Your Dead



Shake out my Hair

You can read a little bit more about the video (and buy the album of course) over at our label website.

Some older photos. All The Young Children On Crack are a Television Personalities cover band featuring current and ex members of the Passionistas and they were super fun. Fake accents and all:







Tea Elles were next and they took a million years to set up. Its two guitars and drums, which I think were shared with the other bands, come on! Put the drink down, tell your friend you'll talk to them after the show. If you think they won't be there after, well...





Nah. Actually, I was sick and cranky so every little thing was annoying me. The band was ok -- definitely better than their myspace. I had the tonsillitis though, so after a few songs I just couldn't keep up with all the acrobatic guitar and had to go home and stare at my disfigured tonsils in the mirror.

TransAM was super fun! Lots of people came out in the crappy weather, the beard party was in full swing, and there were even some cute guys. The downstairs DJ, DJ Jef Leopard, played some seriously choice records -- that is, if you like that British DIY kind of thing, trashy seventies rock, tropicalia, and 'good' punk like the Dead Boys, and Iggy.

If you couldn't make it, here's a bunch of videos Myles took (continuing his reign of awesomeness with that camera):

Miss Nix:


Hard Place:




Rentecca:


As usual, I took too many photos:


see the rest here

Using the power of their sexuality, the passionistas have made a commercial for Sonic Living (a bay area based upcoming.org kinda deal, except dedicated to music and with artist profiles and links to iTunes so that you can buy from apple instead of the artist.). Really, its not surprising. It's been their goal since before the dawn of time. And now that Myles has a video camera total pop success can't be that far off for them.

Chris Crocker's Comeback


Chris Crocker is back from his three month hiatus after the fame of "leave Britney alone" with a music video! It's shot in some sad LA studio apartment that's not even his. I can't tell if I totally hate it, or totally love it. Totally.

New Actually Huizenga of Hard Place Christmas video!



Hard Place play club TransAm Saturday January 5th.

Yes of course the world needs more hysterical Chris Crocker fans. This video pretty much speaks for itself. Thank Godoogle for YouTube!

How can you not??? Elton and Myles are too modest to post here about their own shows so once again I'm here to tell you all about their awesome shows. Hard Place and The Passionistas under the same roof at Smile! After having gone to all these theme parties down in LA (like this or this), I'm thinking about how we really need one up here. So, I haven't discussed this with the club or the bands and I'm totally making this up, but this show is totally the "Wet Dream Before Halloween" party, so dress like that! Oh, OK. I'll stop.

Friday, October 19Th
Smile @ The Knock Out
3318 Mission St

So if you're singing to a stuffed raccoon in your video, you've kinda already won. People wonder why I don't like "inde bands." It's because they're never able to make a video as awesome as Hard Place. They're also not smart enough to make web 2.0 jokes with their video descriptions and tags. God inde rock. Grow an iPhone for a brain already. hel~lo. Long live Hard Place and all their painfully nostalgic flashbacks and dream sequences.