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Friday May 29
2026 8:00PM doors -- music at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $20 Chip Kinman & Band of The Dils instagram.com/chipkinman electronic Steakhouse instagram.com/steakhouserock country electro post-punk 
Temple Beautiful Bandtemplebeautifulband.weebly.com Punk Rock Golden Oldies Chip Kinman & Band -from Burbank, CA -Chip Kinman (Dils, Rank and File, Blackbird, Cowboy Nation) released one of 2022’s best records and it flew under the radar. The Great Confrontation was heavily influenced by Krautrock and was a double LP fans of Robert Rental and Chris & Cosey would’ve really appreciated. Kinman’s new LP is unlike The Great Confrontation. Chip Kinman is reminiscent of his past body of work. The record occasionally utilizes a drum machine (think Blackbird) and it’s the B side that I really like. “Me and Tony,” Chip’s endearing ode to his late brother and collaborator Tony Kinman, has a 1970s Lou Reed vibe to it (Coney Island Baby not Sally Can’t Dance). Closer “Forever Shining” is ethereal and sounds like something Jim Dickinson would’ve produced with Alex Chilton in the mid-1970s. Admittedly, these are some heavy references, but Chip Kinman is a great record. Hopefully, this album connects like it should and if anyone reading this runs into Chip, let him know there is an audience for The Great Confrontation II. -Ryan Leach (Bored Out) Steakhouse -from San Francisco, CA -Steakhouse is a rock group from San Francisco, California. They play post-punk with bits of country/ western thrown in at all the wrong times. They've headlined big clubs in San Francisco but have yet to play a single rodeo. Temple Beautiful Band -from the Bay Area, CA -The Temple Beautiful Band has a twist, a San Francisco Bay Area Punk Rock cover band with its own twisted roots. The band is the brainchild of one of the original promoters who staged events at Temple Beautiful, Geoffrey Pond. Songs in the set list are "hits" from bands that played at the original Temple Beautiful between 1978-79 and that are no longer performing their own material. That covers a lot of music because Temple Beautiful was a significant venue for many prominent and up-and-coming local bands. The musicians all have serious local cred in the performing arts and know how to put on a show that summons the spirit of the age. In the late 1970's in San Francisco, the new forms of music referred to as either Punk Rock, New Wave or WTF... were in the air like spray paint, cross pollinating with the other arts known for their social conscience, biting wit and ability to work with nothing, all primarily supported in one of two ways; kids who bought the precious few songs on vinyl in the few local record stores that had them kids who went to venues to learn to be interested in the records and maybe score a t-shirt. The Temple Beautiful was such a venue and for a time between 1977-1978 Paul Rat and Geoffrey Pond produced bedrock Punk Rock events that both supported the existing acts, local and touring, and launched notorious new acts, Flipper being the obvious one to name drop in this context. Now there's The Temple Beautiful Band, a collection of local Bay Area musicians performing songs from a cross selection of OG Punk bands that performed at 1839 Geary St. but are no longer around to perform their own music, now that it's known that their work mattered in a big picture that endures. It certainly adds an air of authenticity that much of the band now used to be in the mosh pit then or paying the venue to make it all possible in the first place. |
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