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Friday
September 5 2014 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $10 Film School www.filmschoolmusic.com (original lineup) indie rock, shoegazing Hot Fog hotfog.net (Record release) hard rock heavy metal thrash new wave Peace Creep www.facebook.com/PeaceCreep punk, alternative with... DJ Foodcourt djfoodcourt.blogspot.com/ DJ Film School -from San Francisco and Los Angeles -The band was formed in 1998 by lead singer Greg Bertens [aka Krayg Burton]. Initially the band only consisted of Bertens working with members of Fuck and Pavement when they released their debut album Brilliant Career on MeToo! records in 2001. Jason Ruck (keyboards), Nyles Lannon (guitarist), Justin Labo (bass guitar), and Ben Montesano (drums) joined the band on a permanent basis later that year. In 2003, the band released Alwaysnever, an EP on Amazing Grease Records, a record label founded by Scott Kannberg from the band Pavement. Donny Newenhouse later replaced Montesano on drums. Their self-titled album was released in January 2006 on Beggars Banquet Records. Film School has also provided music for a series of short films by Demetri Martin, known collectively as "Clearification", an advertising campaign for Windows Vista. Film School released its third album (its second on Beggars Banquet) called Hideout in September 2007 after going through some line-up changes. Lorelei Plotczyk / Lorelei Meetze replaced Justin Labo on bass, Dave Dupuis replaced Nyles Lannon on guitar, and James Smith replaced Donny Newenhouse on drums. Hideout was recorded with Dan Long and mixed by Phil Ek. The fourth Album, Fission, was released on Hi-Speed Soul in August 2010 to mixed reviews as the band's exploration of new territory delighted some at the same time as it disappointed others. Film School played its last show February 24, 2011. Hot Fog -Mike "Sir Francis" Drake, Tim "Tommi Kazi" Mitchell, Lars "Lars Savage" Savage, Donny "Don Falconer" Newenhouse, Ronny McDonaldson - Road Dog, ESQ. - Hot Fog is a San Francisco Hard Rock and Heavy Metal band born from the ashes of a slew of SF bands spanning the 90’s through the 00’s including Oranger, Film School, Hammerdown Turpentine, Pinq, Carlos!, and Preston School of Industry. This rag-tag group band of indie veterans decided to get back to their roots — all they way back to their days of prepubescent bedroom rocking to bring forth a thundering sound akin to the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” bands of the late 70’s and early 80’s like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, with forays into proto-thrash a la early Metallica. Nodding to the past while rocking into the future with monster riffs, ripping leads, and soaring vocals, they bring it, un-ironically, and with quality and reverence – as metal is supposed be. Their live shows are sweat-soaked full-on, frontal assaults, complete with fog machines, lasers, classic metal guitars, and fans thrusting devil horns in the air as participants rather than “audience”. They do, however, have a “no costume” rule, and the band eschews the current trend of beards, tattoos, and Kyuss-tinged sludge-metal, and instead, they walk that razors edge of sincerity and fun like not many bands can. Aquarius Records, definitely experts on the subject of all things metal, put it best: What it comes down to it though, all you need to know about Hot Fog is, do they rock? And more to the point, do they slay? We’d say yea, and verily. Like a fist in the air, the vocals scream and soar. The galloping guitars storm to attack. It’s 1983 all over again, and in your face! The riffs are all instant headbangers, dished out with practically punk energy…. … As with any true metal band in this day and age, it may be that their tongues aren’t entirely removed from their cheeks. Without being utterly ironic, you can still have a sense of humor about this brand of D&D metal (you maybe have to). Doesn’t stop it from ruling though. And they’re definitely SERIOUS about loving medieval metal and kicking ass. Having fun, drinking beer, all that, but not taking the piss Peace Creep -Christian Eric Beaulieu and Phil Becker and Donny Newenhouse -Peace Creep is an alternative punk indie post hardcore trio from San Francisco, CA. The group was formed after the premature demise of Bay Area acid punk favorites and Alternative Tentacles/GSL artists Triclops!. Guitarist Christian Eric Beaulieu and drummer Phil Becker began to collect the remnants of some of their works in progress and attempted to shift them into a new entity. Beaulieu moved to Los Angeles and started an experimental recording collective called Anywhere collaborating w/ artists such as Mike Watt, Cedric Bixler, Dale Crover, Krist Novoselic, and Ethan Miller. Becker remained in SF and kick started current Alternative Tentacles recording artists Pins Of Light. In 2013 Beaulieu moved back to SF and after a few shows performing in a more free form, psychedelic/Improv setting (with bassist Ravi Durbeej of Pins Of Light helping them out) the duo decided to work on a more song-oriented approach. They reached out to friend Donny Newenhouse formerly of Beggars Banquet recording artists Film School and local metal act Hot Fog. Solidified, Peace Creep quickly rehearses and record six songs for a debut. In their first year of existence, Peace Creep has shared stages with Melt Banana, Wavves, Jello Biafra, Screaming Females, Retox, Federation X, and Tweak Bird. The band describes it's sound as a series of "what if" scenarios: WHAT IF Neil Young were on SST records wearing a dress onstage while playing Meat Puppets/Dinosaur Jr/SNFU covers. WHAT IF Hawkwind/Husker Du decided it would boost each other's careers to do songwriter workshops in tropical locations. WHAT IF San Francisco was still really cheap to live in and Hickey, Jerry Garcia, Gary Floyd and Steel Pole Bathtub all shared a practice space and recorded everything. DJ Foodcourt -Parker Gibbs a 51-year-old record nerd, DJ, former band manager, longtime San Francisco resident, and jocular friend to seemingly everyone in this city's underground rock 'n' roll scene. Gibbs is the kind of person you see at every show, or at least at every show that the city's indie illuminati deem important. He's there when Thee Oh Sees play. He's there when Shannon and the Clams play. When Mikal Cronin plays. When Ty Segall plays. When Sonny Smith or Kelley Stoltz play. Certain shows are just those kind of shows, and you know because Gibbs is there, alongside the friends or significant others of beloved local musicians, proprietors of certain local vintage shops, former alt-weekly music editors, and so on. But Gibbs is unique among them, because he's been here since '89, and because he was driving down to shows in the city even before he lived here, as a college student in Chico, and often driving back that same night. He saw My Bloody Valentine back then. He saw Big Black and the Wipers — on the same bill. He pretty much saw everybody. And yet the reason Parker Gibbs — a married white dude with thick-rimmed glasses who by day does sales and business development for a tech start-up — the reason he gets to give John Dwyer shit and get away with it and the reason many of his friends are twenty- or thirty-something musicians is because he really likes what's happening now. Gibbs is not a musician. His creative outlet is DJing — either between sets at shows, where he often runs into and befriends the artists — or at bars like the Make-Out Room, which is a hangout for local rockers. He performs as DJ FOODCOURT, a name he chose "because it's first and foremost the stupidest DJ name ever ... but it's also encompassing of the kind of stuff I play. I have no problem playing everything from Black Flag to Steely Dan, which would be a food court." He has a regular first-Thursday and bimonthly gig at the Make-Out Room, and he DJs lots of private parties, like Pavement guitarist Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg's Australian wedding. Another reason for Gibb's popularity: He is very funny, often at his friends' expense. "He's the nicest man in the world," says old pal and musician Mark Eitzel. "He's also the meanest. He's the only one I know that can get away with the most politically incorrect shit in the world." |
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