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Wednesday December 30
2026
8:00PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES $100 $118.26 in advance [100 face value +18.26 service fee] Shannon Shaw theshannonshaw.com instrumental alternative rock Tino Drima instagram.com/tinodrima garage punk rock / Foodcourt instagram.com/parker.t.gibbs spinning eating songs / Sasquatch Borracho spinning drinking songs Shannon Shaw -from the Bay Area, CA -A garage rock diva whose music merges the sounds of doo wop and '60s rock with the bold attitude of indie and underground sounds, Shannon Shaw first gained an audience as the leader of the group Shannon & the Clams. Born and raised in Northern California, Shaw grew up on a musical diet of '50s and '60s oldies, and while studying art in the 2000s, she fell in with like-minded musicians to form Shannon & the Clams, rising through the indie rock underground on the strength of albums like 2013's Dreams in the Rat House and 2015's Gone by the Dawn. An alliance with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys led to him producing 2018's Onion, as well as Shaw's solo debut, a country-accented set titled Shannon in Nashville. Four months later, Easy Eye premiered Shaw's first solo album. Shannon in Nashville teamed Shaw with a studio band that included veteran session men Gene Chrisman and Bobby Wood, and saw her adding country and pop accents to her retro garage sound. Tino Drima -from Los Angeles, CA -Tino Drima’s new EP, Suitin’ Up, is raw, emotional, stripped down to basics, and aimed at making you feel. It is the core of what they do–and they do it like no one else. Having gone the lush route with accompanying horns and strings decorating their debut album Her Kind Of Man, the band decided to “simplify the tunes,” says band frontman Gregory DiMartino, and move forward into “a cleaner, ’70s-inspired production.” There are spaces in the songs now, textures that allow the precision of each note and every lyric to be appreciated more fully. A singular emotional intensity runs through each of Suitin’ Up’s five songs, but not a single one sounds the same. There is opening track “Lover,” which draws its inspiration from old soul records and Captain Beefheart’s “I’m Glad,” and, says DiMartino, is a “hot, heavy, creamy tune for cruising in the car and night thinking about good times and sex.” There is the weary resignation of “Do The Damn Thing,” in which the song’s protagonist feels like a disengaged character in his own life story, “throwing any kind of shit at the wall of the soul to see if anything sticks.” And there is the surge of pride, of enhanced self-esteem and moral clarity to be had on “The Actress”–a pulsing, standout track about “getting yourself hyped up and saying ‘I deserve this, I have earned it, I am good enough, get out of my way, motherfucker.’” As always, the dark side and its flipside play a key role in the music of Tino Drima. “Kind Of Strange” offers consolation to someone in a dark place, and EP closer “Please Send Health” sounds like it comes from a very dark place: “It’s about running your body to the ground partying, playing shows, touring, living a fake dream that is harsh and ultimately shitty,” says DiMartino. “About wanting to switch one life for another.” The versatility that marks Suitin’ Up’s every track has been a hallmark of Tino Drima’s music since the San Franciscan band emerged close to five years ago. The band’s core members—DiMartino (guitar, piano, vocals), Rob Mills (drums, backing vox), Scott Huerta (guitar, backing vox), Henry Baker (keyboards), and Mackenzie Bunch (who played bass, engineered and recorded and mixed it all)—share a passion and musical sophistication that makes Tino Drima’s music something both powerful, and comforting at once. When it touches you, it will touch you deeply. And it will touch you very soon. / Foodcourt -Parker T. Gibbs -from 2014: 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." / Sasquatch Borracho -Dave Pehling -spinning drinking songs |
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