Mission Creek Music Festival: Grand Lake, Make Me, The Splinters, White Cloud, Ghost and the City, The Blank Tapes, The Dashing Suns, Colossal Yes, Double U

epicsauce said

Man/Miracle (Third Culture) -http://www.myspace.com/manmiracle

"It seems the only person who dances at shows anymore is the blazed guy up front. The thing about Bay Area-based Man/Miracle's new song from their first full-length album, The Shape of Things, though, is that it makes me want to shelve my Puritan ways, join said guy, and flail my hands around." -Pitchfork

“The Shape of Things is an infectious collection of nervy songs recommended especially for fans of Talking Heads, The Feelies, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.” -The Bay Bridged

"Oakland's Man/Miracle caught us by surprise late last year with their stunning debut LP, The Shape of Things. With ten infectiously catchy tracks in under thirty minutes, The Shape of Things is that rare all-meat, no-filler album that you will find yourself playing on repeat throughout the day, subconsciously awaiting that self-satisfying moment where the last track ends and you get to start the whole affair over again. -7x7 Magazine


Baths (Anticon) - http://www.myspace.com/bathsmusic

"As Baths, Chatsworth, Calif.'s Will Wiesenfeld connects the dots between the sun-drenched haze of glo-fi torchbearers (Washed Out, Toro Y Moi) and the woozy beat math that lights the spliffs of Los Angeles' Brainfeeder collective (Flying Lotus, the Gaslamp Killer)." -Pitchfork

"If Toro Y Moi had the chops of Matmos and the beat savoir-faire of FlyLo, it might sound something like "Maximalist." -XLR8R


The Splinters (Double Negative) - http://www.myspace.com/thesplintersband

"Four women from the Bay Area chirpily asserting their vision of garage-pop: less hazy than Vivian Girls, less vintage than Dum Dum Girls, less stoned than Best Coast. Just unclutttered, punky, and fun." -RCRDLBL

“Girl-group sounds-meets-90s punk attitude.” – Gorilla Vs. Bear

“They perfectly channel the devil-may-care, DIY, girls-in-the-garage sense.” – The Fader


Sister Crayon (Manimal) - http://www.myspace.com/silentandclementine

"The band makes gorgeous, ghostly tunes that blur the line between lo-fi electronics (drum machines, synths) and rich analog atmospherics (organ tones, human voice)." -LA Weekly

Adam B said

My band, Chambers is opening this (we're the special guests, I guess!)

Yoni M said

That was a really fun show. I'm excited for the Thursday night show potential at Milk. Can't wait until the next one.

kim z said

stoked! silian rail shreds.

beth w said

oh crap. that's tonight. or wait, was last night. oops.

Michael R said

Followed the band to their shows in Monterrey and Austin on their current national tour. Seeing them in LA on the 22nd as well. New songs are great. Live performance is wild.

thither said

These guys are also playing on Friday at Fernwood in Big Sur, if anybody wants extra hippie with that.

Adam B said

Come check our new band, Chambers!

epicsauce said

Insanely excited for this one... Full preview

Ulrika A said

Maus Haus, Rainbow Arabia, Pierre Le Robot With the advent of the robotic vacuum, and all the other little helpers that are soon to come, there will be nothing else to do but dance away our ambivalence. This line-up of electro-pop bands creates anthems for our fated futures. The San Francisco sextet Maus Haus makes mirthfully morbid '60s-inspired neo electro on top of spastic whirring synths, keys, drums and bass guitar. Los Angeles duo Rainbow Arabia fuses Afrobeat with belly-dance percussion and tops it with sweet, seductive serenades that would charm a snake. Bay Area pair Pierre Le Robot perform facing each other, obliging its dual keyboards to kiss. Mediating its squealing plea "dance, dance, dance" on "The Janjaweed of Darfur" with rhythmic throbs, the twosome tends to turn its audience into a sweaty, gyrating throng. 9:30 p.m. $10. All ages. Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., S.F. (415) 621-4455. www.bottomofthehill.com. (M.B.V.D.)

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bi


and from SF Weekly: love for Rainbow Arabia...

"The name says it all. Rainbow Arabia mashes fragrant Middle Eastern flavors into every sick color that weedy electro-psych has to offer, creating a greenhouse effect that’s part euphoria, part paranoia. The grabby 7-inch single “Omar K” and last year’s The Basta EP are shockingly dense for the work of just two people: L.A.–based spouses Danny and Tiffany Preston. He handles keys and beats, while she juggles guitar and percussion with opaque yelps recalling M.I.A. and/or amateur whale calls. The duo’s new Kabukimono EP is another hazy, clamorous outing, with no exits clearly marked. Rainbow Arabia performs with Maus Haus and Pierre Le Robot as part of the Mission Creek Music Festival." — Doug Wallen

http://www.sfweekly.com/events/maus-haus-rainbow-arabia-pierre-le-robot-dj-gatsby-1572833/

Trevor W said

Future Of The Left is in heavy rotation at my house right now. WooHoo!