• Spiral Stairs (Pavement/PSOI)
• Still Flyin’
• Kelley Stoltz
• Hank IV
• The Muslims
• The Blank Stares
• Si, Claro
• Big Drums (ezee Tiger & John Dwyer)
• with more to be announced….

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- Spiral Stairs (Pavement/PSOI)

Spiral Stairs, also known as Scott Kannberg, former guitarist of the influential 1990s indie-rock band Pavement, and leader of his follow up band Preston School of Industry. Tonight he will have a unique and surprising lineup of musicians, not to be missed.

- Still Flyin’

More of a collective than an actual rock band, Still Flyin’ is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Sean Rawls, who formed it in late 2004 in San Francisco after relocating there from Athens, GA, in 2003. Rawls was inspired to put the group together by a song he had written while a member of Je Suis France, Never Gonna Touch the Ground. To jam on the song, he invited a wide range of friends to rehearse, resulting in an ever-shifting personnel of upwards of 15 musicians and singers at a time, performing locally. The Still Flyin’ press biography lists as members Yoshi Nakamoto (of the Aislers Set), Drew Cramer, Zach Moran, Gabe Saucedo (of Red Pony Clock, Rafter, and Half-Handed Cloud), Frank Jordan (of the Bright Lights), Mindy Schweitzer, Brian Girgus (of Track Star and Lowercase), Becky Barron (of the Bright Lights and Poundsign), Phil Horan (of Maserati), Lizeth Santos (of Red Pony Clock), Alicia Vanden Heuvel (of the Aisler Set and Poundsign), Marjan Esfandiari, Jaime Knight (of Dear Nora and Poundsign), and Bren Mead (of Masters of the Hemisphere) as member of the group, which has been augmented live by Wyatt Cusick (of the Aislers Set and Track Star), Josephine Olausson (of Love Is All), Jens Lekman, Tara Shackell (of Architecture in Helsinki), Isobel Knowles (of Architecture in Helsinki), Mark Monnone (of the Lucksmiths), Richard Baluyut (of Versus), and Terese Nordstrom (of the Jens Lekman band). In April 2005, Still Flyin’ organized the Mind Zap Festival at McLaren Park in San Francisco, after which the band embarked on a West Coast tour opening for Architecture in Helsinki. Antenna Farm Records signed Still Flyin’ and released the group’s debut EP (or EJ, as the label put it, for extended jam) Time Wrinkle on June 13, 2006. A second EP, Za Cloud, followed on April 24, 2007.

- Kelley Stoltz

Multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz grew up in the Detroit area, but eventually found his way to San Francisco after taking a detour to New York City, where he worked in the mailroom at Jeff Buckley’s management company. Armed with a four-track recorder and tons of great ideas, Stoltz began recording his own songs, performing all the parts himself. These songs caught the ear of Monte Vallier, who helped Stoltz clean up and sweeten the recordings for release as The Past Was Faster on The Telegraph Company. After that, Stoltz upgraded to an eight-track and self-released Antique Glow in a limited quantity of 200 vinyl copies, each one housed in a different, originally designed sleeve by Stoltz. Antique Glow was then picked up by Jackpine Social Club for wider release in 2003, which both raised his profile and allowed him to quit his teaching job. He then moved to Sub Pop, releasing the Sun Comes Through EP in late 2005 and the full-length Below the Branches in March of 2006. Stolz’s band toured that summer as the opening act for the Raconteurs, and the musician returned in 2008 with his lushest production yet, Circular Sounds.

- Hank IV

HANK IV is a San Francisco panic-skiffle rock band with no relation whatsoever to the Hank Williams clan. Fronted by the spectacle of singer Bob McDonald and his jaw-dropping dance moves, Hank IV plays hard-charging, primitive and cathartic dual-guitar rock music that has been likened to “Crime meets Viletones meets Styrenes punk” (Z-Gun Magazine) and by WFMU’s DJ Terre T as “a sick combination of Volcano Suns and Blue Cheer and Chain Gang!”

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- The Muslims

A San Diego born pop punk combo that formed in 2006, the Muslims (vocalist Matt Lamkin, bassist Emily Neveu, Matty McLoughlin on guitar, and drummer Gabe Patuzzi) were initially formed when, upon returning home from college, Lamkin and long time friend McLoughlin began writing songs together. Eventually the band took on their other members — from such bands as Clock Work Army and Holy Boys — and began gigging in and around southern California. The band released a debut platter, the Muslims, on 1928 Recordings soon after. In 2007, the band uprooted, and moved to Los Angeles.

- The Blank Stares

Started in the summer of 1999 in NYC, went through various line-up changes until settling on the current three-piece rock action. The band played around the Big Apple and the various outlying area, all the while recording their songs about space-born messiahs, insomnia, govt paranoia, and first dates involving being thrown down stairs.
The Blank Stares have now relocated to the beautiful city of San Francisco, Ca. where they hope to grab a few more fans who like three (possibly four) chord, melody-driven songs that you can dance and kiss to. Look for live performance spots at www.wfmu.org, where the Stares are played regularly on various DJ sets, most notably Three Chord Monte w/ Joe Belock

with more to be announced….