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Tuesday April 21
2026
8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $20 Young Fresh Fellows 40th anniversary show youngfreshfellows.net Alternative/Indie Rock The Rubinoos rubinoos.com rock and roll Victor Krummenacher & Greg Lisher victorkrummenacher.com facebook.com/greg.lisher Rock \ Blues Young Fresh Fellows -from Seattle, WA -The Young Fresh Fellows are back with an electric new toaster, Toxic Youth. Remember their 1989 anthem “Two Guitars Bass & Drums”? Well, nothing has changed, except everything. Hopes have been dashed, but the men still love music. Subtitled Back To The Egg, the Fellows return to where it all began, with one last roundup at the infamous Egg Studios, Seattle WA, produced once again by Conrad Uno (who also struck gold with The Presidents Of The United States Of America). When heard that Uno was closing up his studio and retiring from the limelight, the band grabbed a last weekend to record a couple songs (they had THREE in various shape of decomposition). A couple days later there were 17 tracks, of which 12 were deemed PERFECT. “Gear Summer 2013” is Everything-Is-Falling-Apart-In-Three-Minutes, and was planned to be a smash summer single — in 2013 (amazingly, things have gotten worse). The Buzzcocks and Rezillos concur. “Never Had It Bad” heralds the spring with blue jays and more sad punk-pop problem-solving, Ramones-style. And don’t miss the heart-rending saga of a rock and roll band(s) (#47 in a series) “Bleed Out”. The Rubinoos -from Berkeley, CA -On November 2, 1976, Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States. The events of November 3 were less earth-shaking, although it was the day the power pop pioneers The Rubinoos recorded this album. The group walked into CBS Studios on Folsom Street in San Francisco to, as band co-founder and singer Jon Rubin recollects, “have a ‘set up and get comfortable in the studio’ kind of affair.” Guitarist Tommy Dunbar, who started the group more than 50 years ago with his childhood pal Rubin, recalls they were told “something like, ‘okay, the tape is going to run, just go ahead and play anything you want’.” The CBS Tapes (due out on June 25, 2021 on Yep Roc Records) chronicles that occasion, and its previously unreleased 11 tracks certainly reveal a wildly diverse set list that includes, yet reaches beyond, the power pop that the band is well known for. Selections range from the Modern Lovers (“Government Center”) to the Meters (“Cissy Strut”); King Curtis (“Memphis Soul Stew”) to the DeFranco Family (“Heartbeat, It’s a Love Beat”). The Rubinoos also tackle the bubblegum classic “Sugar, Sugar,” the iconic surf instrumental “Walk Don’t Run,” and a couple Beatles tunes (“She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand”), along with a trio of now-rare originals (“All Excited,” “I Want Her So Bad,” and “Nooshna Kavolta”). The CBS Tapes captures something unusual — a look into the recording process before it begins in earnest. This isn’t a lo-fi sloppy rehearsal tape, a stripped-down demo, or a polished finished product. Done without second takes and overdubs, the band’s loose, unencumbered live performances exude a joyful energy that embodies the band’s spirit. These recordings do benefit from Glenn Kolotkin’s engineering and mixing on the fly. By 1976, Kolotkin had already worked with acts like Janis Joplin, Journey, and Jimi Hendrix, and would go on to produce Santana, Joan Jett, and the Ramones. The Rubinoos’ performances also are rather rude and juvenile; not really surprising since Rubin, Dunbar, and drummer Donn Spindt were still in their teens, only bassist Royse Ader had finished high school. Listening to these tapes after so many years made Dunbar think, “What a bunch of foul-mouthed little punks we were,” while Rubin felt their obnoxious behavior and crude language reflect the irreverent, bratty attitude that has always been part of the Rubinoos’ makeup. Although still teenagers in 1976, these guys weren’t inexperienced. Dunbar and Rubin first formed the Rubinoos as 13-year-olds in 1970, so they could play a dance at their school, Bay High School in Berkeley, California. Spindt took over on drums a year later while Ader became the bassist in 1974. The band joined the fabled U.S. indie label Beserkley Records (Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Greg Kihn), through Dunbar’s brother Robbie, the guitarist in Beserkley’s first signee, Bay Area rock stars Earth Quake. The Rubinoos’ cover of the DeFranco Family’s “Gorilla” appeared on Beserkley’s Chartbusters sampler. The Rubinoos’ 1977 self-titled debut attracted a good deal of attention and accolades. New York Rocker proclaimed it “the best pop album of the decade.” The group appeared on American Bandstand and their version of “I Think We’re Alone Now” reached no. 45 on the Billboard Top 100 and in the Top 40 in Cashbox. Just last year, the New York Times’ Brian Raftery included the closing track, “I Never Thought It Would Happen,” in his piece “12 Essential Lesser-Known Power-Pop Songs.” Success continued with the Rubinoos’ second album, Back to the Drawing Board, featuring the hit single “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend,” and the band opened for Elvis Costello on his Armed Forces U.S. tour. The ’80s began with an ill-fated third album whose demos were released on 1994’s critically lauded Basement Tapes. The Todd Rundgren-produced mini-LP, Party of Two, contained the popular “If I Had You Back.” The Rubinoos returned triumphantly in 1999 with Paleophonic, which Allmusic described as a “delicious platter [that] picks up where their classic recordings left off.” The 21st century has seen the Rubinoos still going strong. They have released three studio albums (Automatic Toaster, Twist Pop Sin, and 45), an all-covers album (Crimes Against Music), a children’s music album (Biff-Boff-Boing), three live albums, and several compilations, including a 63-song retrospective Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Rubinoos. The Rubinoos reached another career high point with 2019’s From Home. Their Yep Roc debut (and first national release in 40 years) featured the band’s steady lineup since 1980: Rubin, Dunbar, Spindt, and bassist Al Chan. From Home was instigated by acclaimed indie rock troubadour and lifelong Rubinoos fan Chuck Prophet. Together, they created a set of songs that American Songwriter’s Hal Horowitz called “pure, unadulterated, unfiltered, industrial-strength power pop sung by adults who never lost their boyish innocence.” Now with The CBS Tapes, you can experience the Rubinoos’ unadulterated boyish innocence in all its unfiltered glory. Victor Krummenacher -from Riverside, CA -Victor Krummenacher is a co-founder of the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom and a songwriter who has released 11 albums. Krummenacher is also part of the collective The Third Mind with Dave Alvin, David Immerglück, Michael Jerome and Jesse Sykes. He currently resides between Portland, Oregon and Riverside, California. As a recording artist, Krummenacher has been active for more than 40 years and has worked with numerous artists including Cracker, Chrlie Parr, Eyelids, M. Ward, The Minus Five, Steve Barton, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Camper Van Chadbourne (with Eugene Chadbourne) as well as Two Heads (featuring John Moremen, DJ Bonebrake and Willie Aron), Mushroom, Magnet, and Robi Del Mar. Krummenacher has pursued a solo career as a singer-songwriter since 1994. His tenth solo album, “Silver Smoke of Dreams,” was released in 2021. A compilation of archival material, “If The Devil Gives Me House and Home” was released on September 27, 2024 and a new collection of songs “Block Out The Sun” will be released in 2025. Other recent projects include the album “A Colossal Waste of Light” by Eyelids, on Jealous Butcher, and the sophomore album from The Third Mind, simply entitled “2”, as well as a live release from The Third Mind entitled Live Mind, available on Feb. 14, 2025. Greg Lisher -from Santa Cruz, CA -While Greg Lisher is a familiar face to most fans of made-in-California alternative rock (thanks to his work with Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom), his new LP for Independent Project Records, UNDERWATER DETECTION METHOD, sees Greg moving in a totally new direction. While not his first solo record, CVB and MOD fans likely will be surprised by the music on his new album. It has all the feeling of discovering a new artist for the first time. “While many fans of Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom know me strictly as a guitar player in an ‘alternative’ band, I purposely stepped outside my comfort zone making Underwater Detection Method,” said Greg Lisher. “I wanted to explore a completely different aspect of music that I love. This album might surprise a few people.” After completing the guitar-based solo album Songs from the Imperial Garden (a collection of instrumentals brimming with acoustic intimacy that he would release in 2020), Lisher thought it was time for something different. UNDERWATER DETECTION METHOD sees Greg for the first time writing songs using keyboards and exploring a new world of synthesized sounds. Always a lover of keyboards and synths, and of the more experimental excursions of favorite artists such as Brian Eno, Greg took the plunge and made the decision to finally release a solo album that was anything but guitar-centric. |
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