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Friday March 28 2014
 CLOSED

           -------Religious Girls and Boyfrndz canceled earlier today.
                   As a result, the whole show is canceled.

 Friday March 28 2014
  8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• 21 AND OVER
  $10
  Religious Girls   
      facebook.com/RELIGIOUSGIRLS
      electronic experimental pop rap rock
  Boyfrndz 
      facebook.com/boyfrndz

      alternative math rock noise-pop progressive experimental psychedelic indie rock
  Face Tat 
      facebook.com/facetatsf
      electronic darkwave post-rock
  Pale Blue Dot 
      soundcloud.com/pbdofoakland‎‎‎‎‎
      space-disco,bliss-disco



Religious Girls
Christopher Danko, Nicholas Cowman, and Luis Gutierrez.
-From Oakland, California.
-REligious Girls are a diverse group of multi-instrumentalists, with each member hailing from separate musical backgrounds that ranges from metal to noise to math rock and pop. Using their talents, Religious Girls focus their energy into creating beautiful harmonies and layering them over intricate percussive rhythms. Preferring to play on the floor near listeners rather than a distant stage, they feel that no matter how high of quality a recording may be, the live set is what moves people, and therefore focus on creating intimacy with the crowd. Collectively, the band has tried to push aside the standards of popular song writing with non-repeating structures, an intricate mathematical style, and a carefully laid out set in which all songs are interwoven into one. Religious Girls offers an intense and dramatic set, leaving viewers in awe by the end of the performance. 




Boyfrndz
Aaron Perez, Joseph Raines, Scott Martin, and Jesse Moore.
-From Austin, Texas.
-"New Austin, Texas, band Boyfrndz, however, was very well put-together, with a decidedly math-rock bent (You don't pack a six-string bass for nothing, right?) But they're much more than that. They merge kinetic, head-exploding release with an airy sense of song. This melodic heavenliness makes their technicality an invigorating punch and not a dragging anchor of overreaching display that kills the humanity in their music. It's the kind of experimental rock with real beauty, the kind that doesn't lose sight of the emotionality of music. They were the question mark from out of town, but ended up being a surprise find." -Orlando Weekly

"This is just one of those bands you don't want to label with technical mumbo-jumo. One moment you're caught in the hook with eerie vocals, bobbing your head, and the next a complicated guitar riff slams and faster-than-light drums hit you in the back of the head. If music is a journey, Boyfrndz is weaving in and out the back roads on a schizophrenic highway."- Hearingade  





Face Tat
Mike P and Mike G.
-From San Francisco, California.
-Face Tat is a dark wave group from San Francisco. Pulsing, piercing, hypnotic and nuanced, Face Tat's unique brand of dark wave moves your very core.  



Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is the brainchild of Oakland’s own Adam Myatt, a key affiliate of the Mapzzz crew and a tireless Oakland music man who has put in countless hours as one-half of James & Evander and served as a key member of Hoodcats, Empty Pockets, and a host of other projects. With Mapzzz EP19, Myatt debuts his latest synthy concoction, enlisting the aid of guitarist Jonny Latimer and bassist Andrew Macy (both of which are noteworthy Bay Area musicians in their own right) to craft spiraling pieces of space-age disco-pop as Pale Blue Dot. The EP’s two original tracks are fun and lighthearted instrumentals, but don’t let the playful melodies fool you—these are dense and engrossing tracks that gradually lead the listener from driving disco beats to stoney synthscapes with an understated ease.

The East Bay trio known as Pale Blue Dot does not necessarily self-identify as a “supergroup,” but I went there anyway. Comprised of members of James & Evander, The Aimless Never Miss, and B. Hamilton, what else would you call it?
“There may be a few Bay Area music nerds who know our other bands, but we’d hardly call it a supergroup,” says Adam Myatt, also of James & Evander. “We’re three somewhat-like-minded musicians/friends from Oakland, who met playing shows in various bands together, and like to think of this current project as Carl Sagan-inspired disco.”
You read that right, folks: “Carl Sagan-inspired disco.” So now would probably be a good time to hit you with Pale Blue Dot’s first track. Here’s “Voyage”, which does indeed ride a disco-ish beat, but there’s so much more here to like – crystalline guitar lines, spacey synths (hence the Carl Sagan, I’m guessing), and a grooving, bouncy bass line.


“We’re hoping people are drawn into our groovitational pull"

 .Pale Blue Dot.