Stevil’s KUSF Page

Ween - Friends

Bobb Trimble - Glass Menagerie Fantasies

Foot Village - Crow Call

Operation S - Paranoia Mafia

Metal Urbain - Panik

The Phantom LImbs - Hot Knives and Hornets

King Khan & the Shrines - No Regrets

Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home

Frustration - Blind

Yelle - Mon Meilleur Ami

Experimental Dental School - Earthquake

The Intelligence - South Bay Surfers

The Halo Benders - Love Travels Faster

The Jesus & the Mary Chain - Guitarman

The Strange Boys - This Girl Taught Me a Dance

Dalek - Who Medgar Evers Was

Dr. Octagon - 3000

Z-Trip - For My People

Zion I - Take Over

Cursovdialect - Wolf Moon

Joe Lally - Day is Born

Psychic Ills - Mantis

Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch

Hearts Revolution - Digital Suicide

Black Dice - Glazin

Quiet Village - Gold Rush

Marisa Nadler - Little Hells

Death - Rock ‘n Roll Victim

Volcano Suns - JAK

Jay Reatard - My Shadow

The Puddle - Too Hot to Be Cool

Hoppy Kamiyama - Sometimes I’m Happy

Islaja - Melodi Melodica

The Happy Clams - I Hate Everything

Prefects - Things in General

Jandek - Arms of a Stranger

Bobby Bare - Drop Kick Me Jesus

Ernie Mars - Plastic Jesus

Hank Williams, Jr. - Tear in My Beer

Marianne Faithful - The Crane Wife 3

Tampa Red & Chicago 5 - I’m Gonna Get High

The Goat Family - Little Red Demons

Mummyshots - Captain Sick

All Saved Freak Band - Prince and International Kaleidoscope

King Khan & the Shrines - (How Can I Keep You) Outta Harm’s Way

The Intelligence - Tower

Thee Oh Sees - A Flag in the Court

Psychic Ills - Mantis

Suicide - Rocket USA

The Flight of the Conchords - Bowie

Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels (Request)

The Happy Clams - The Last Days of My Favorite Shirt

Experimental Dental School - Earthquake

The Phantom Limbs - Shut Up Old Man

The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints

King City - Chicken in a China Shop

Kemo Sabe - Dirty Boy

Dex Romweber Duo - Ruins of Berlin

Dalek - No Question

Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil 2

Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady

The Planet The - Arty Movie

391 - Jet Plane

Rodd Keith - I Died Today

John Coltrane - Ascent

Crime & the City Solution - I Have the Gun

Joel Mathis - Time Machine

Mad Grooves - She Got a Nose Job

Ramones - We’re a Happy Family (Request)

Agent Orange - Bloodstains

The Cure - I Wanna Be Old

The Stolen Minks - North End Strangler

Passage - Competition

Eppu Normaali - Oi Maa

The Replacements - Go

Grass Widow - To Where

Scott Walker - Jackie

Goblin Cock - Stumped

Acid King - 2 Wheel Nation

The Ex - Rara Rap

I went to see Japanther at the Hemlock Tavern with some friends on the 14^th of April and it was something else.  Japanther, once they hit the stage, were cool and full of crazy energy.  I was bouncing and thrashing in front of the stage for their entire set.  To my regret, they played a short set (mostly because the opening band played way too long), but they managed to perform a lot of familiar songs, though they failed to play Critical (one of my favs).

The opener was Ninja Sonic and they were a hip-hop group.  I guess they were okay, but I didn’t come out to see a hip-hop show, and all the crowd participation stuff.  Not only that, but they just wouldn’t leave the stage.  I must surmise that they are friends with Japanther because both groups are from Brooklyn, and also because one of the guys from Ninja Sonic did a coupe of songs with Japanther.  Still, I would have preferred to have the headliner (Japanther) to do the longer set (which they did not, man).

That being said, Japanther’s short set was worth the wait.  In fact, I thrashed way more than I would have if they had come on sooner.  When I left the show, I had beer in my hair (and I don’t drink) and sweat everywhere else (use your imagination).

You must see Japanther.

Photos by my friend Ezra Ekman (http://www.ezraphoto.com)

I had the pleasure of seeing the Dickies on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at the Red Devil Lounge.  Before the show, I said to Chris Cook, Ezra and Deanna, “This show will either be really great or it was suck ass.”  I am happy to report that it was really great.

The Dickies came out and rocked one right after another, the musicianship was tight and the songs were fun.  The singer, Leonard Graves Phillips, was snotty, clever and funny as hell.  He kept saying that he was so happy to be back in San Leandro.

There were props for a lot of the songs including a monkey mask, a penis hand puppet (with scrotum) and an inflatable doll.  Needless to say, the floorshow was quite entertaining.  But I will say this, without the props and without the jokes, it still would have been a great show.  The musicians were “spot on” and the vocals were fantastic.  Leonard’s voice is exactly the same as it was 25+ years ago.  Very cool, man.

The opening act was The Pleasure Kills, a local SF band that I have wanted to see for a while.  They were great.  They came out, they played a few catchy garage-punk tunes and split.  They seemed to be having a great time.  There was even a brief moment of moshing wherein a beer was splattered on the floor and the pint glass shattered.  Spattered and shattered.

Squeezed in between the above mentioned bands was the B-Cups.  They were fun fun fun.  The singer is an Amazon goddess that I would love to wrestle with.  But enough about me, check ‘em out, they rock.

I’d say if you get a chance to see the Dickies, and you’re familiar with their music, you should go.  They played all my favs Gigantor, If Stuart Could Talk, Paranoid, Knights in White Satin, and much more.

Photos by my friend Ezra Ekman (http://www.ezraphoto.com).

Bazooka - Painful Therapeutic Process

Ogogo - Movement I

Prolapse - Visa for Violet and Van

Contact - Someone Like You

The Wooden Shjips - For So Long

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

Japanther - The Gravy

Japanther - IIO

Japanther - Critical

Thee Oh Sees - Ruby Go Home

Wavves - So Bored

Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes

El-P - Habeas Corpses

Sole & the Skyrider Band - Stupid Things Implode on Themselves

Dr. Octagon - Trees

China Blue - The Woeful Tale of Jack the Snail

The Strange Boys - They’re Building the Death Camps

Television - See No Evil

Cheval Sombre - Hyacinth House

Syd Barrett - Terrapin

Devendra Banhart - Poughkeepsie (Request)

Marisa Nadler - Little Hells

The Concretes - Diana Ross

The Fresh & Onlys - Priceless

Tom T. Hall - I Like Beer

T.T.C. - Girlfriend

The Beastie Boys - Shambala/Bodhistattva Vow

The Phantom Limbs - Hot Knives and Hornets

The Vanishing - Lost in Pictures

Mike Jones - Reckless Policies

Entrance - Lost in the Dark

Weave - Laveau

Harry Roche Constellation - Pinball Wizard

Alejandro Franov - Aquagong II

Matmos - Last Delicious Cigarette

The Prefects - Things in General

Bridez - Heart

Curtains of Night - Living Forest

Koenijihakkei - Wammilica Iffirom

Ovo - Miastenia

China Blue - Crypto Keys

Grampall Jookabox - Let’s Go Mad Together

Hawnay Troof - Oblivions

The Munsters - Herman Say, “Hello”

Ben Vaughn - Sundown, Sundown

Dex Romweber Duo - Lovers’ Gold

The Strange Boys - Woe is You and Me

Grass Widow - To Where

Times New Viking - Love Your Daughters

Toy Killers - Sex Carp

The Satelliters - Something

Alejandro Franov - Aquagong II

Satanic Porn Occult Shop - Lesson Ugh

Hearts Revolution - Dance Till Dawn

Add N to (X) - A Silhouette of a Man and a Wasp

Diagram Brothers - There is No Shower

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

Mono - Ashes in the Snow

Clem Snide - Fill Me With Your Light

Arab Strap - Dream Sequence

The Silver Jews - Random Rules (Request)

John Coltrane - Living Space

Mirah - While We Have the Sun

The Phantom Limbs - Track 16

Negative Trend - Meat House

Rik L. Rik - Meat House

Volcano Suns - Cornfield

Cheval Sombre - It’s a Shame

The Dickies - If Stuart Could Talk

Weave! - Mouthpiece 

A Tribe Called Quest - Push it Along

Zion I - Peppermint Patty

Psychic Ills - Fingernail Tea

I saw a cool “stoner” rock show at the Café du Nord on Saturday March 28, 2009.  It was Earthless, The Wooden Shjips and Eyes.  It was a chilly night and the club was packed, but the music delivered the one-two-three punch.

Eyes was the opener and they were pretty interesting.  There was a certain “psychedelic” undertone to the music, with all the effected vocals and mix of keyboards, guitar and saxophone.  The drummer, by the way, was excellent.  The only complaint I had was that the keyboards were too loud along side the other instruments.  The band features members of The Finches and The Roots of Orchis.

Sandwiched between Eyes and Earthless was San Francisco’s (and KUSF’s darlings) The Wooden Shjips.  They dimmed the lights in the club and tore out with some heavy jams, and they did not disappoint.  Their music was tight and they grooved non-stop for what felt like an hour, one right after another.  It was a circus of sound that kept us all plugged in.  The audience was captivated and so was I.

Last but certainly not least, the headliner – Earthless from San Diego – came on and rocked (and I mean ROCKED) till the end of the night.  They maneuvered in and out of free form jams to calculated grooves like the best surfers riding the biggest waves (silly analogy, I know).  It was heavy, loud and traveled quite extensively throughout the internal landscape.  The bass player was super-duper consistent and the drummer was slammin’ as he seemed to program all the changes.  The guitar player wailed, and then wailed some more.  When it was over, we all knew that it was over.

After my friends and I left the club, we were all pretty fried.  I think two bands of that ilk would have been sufficient.  But as far as I can tell, I’m still here.

Photos by my friend Ezra Ekman (http://www.ezraphoto.com)

Rodd Keith - Shome Howe Jehovason Plays

Throbbing Gristle - The Worm Waits Its Turn

Anton Levay - Please Answer Me, My Love

Jack Blanchard - Dance of the Living Dead Chickens

Raveonettes - Attack of the Ghost Riders

Negative Trend - Black and Red

Rik L. Rik - Black and Red

The Puddle - No Good

Psychic Ills - Fingernail Tea

Carlton Melton - Happy Song (Request)

Violent Femmes - Kiss Off

Mirah - Shells

The Music Lovers - This World v. The Next World

Cheval Sombre - Hyacinth House

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

Bathtub Shitter - Umber

Prizehog - Chew On

Motorhead - Cat Scratch Fever

Volcano Suns - Greasy Spine

Couch Flambeau - We’ll Go Through the Windshield

Minutemen - This Ain’t No Picnic

In Like Flint Soundtrack

T.S.O.L. - Sounds of Laughter

Husker Du - What’s Going On?

The Fresh & Onlys - Come Dance With Me

Mystery Girls - I Took the Poison

Wire - Map Ref.

Wire - No Warning Given (Request)

Mike Jones - Reckless Policies

Emeralds - Living Room

Juana Molina - El Vestido

Burzum - Snu Mikrokosmos Tegn

Trashmen - Surfing Bird

Gwar - Tormentor

Negative Trend - Meathouse

Cramps - Surfing Bird

The Burning Hell - Grave Situation Part 1

Miles Davis - All Blues

Ogogo - Significant

The Ramones - Surfing Bird

The Replacements - Go

The Replacements - Kiss Me on the Bus

Flipper - Life (Request)

Family Guy - Surfing Bird

Dex Romweber Duo - Lonesome Train

The Grizzley Owls - What’s a Girl to Do?

Ames Harris Desert Water Bag Company - People

Trashmen - Surfing Bird

The Dawn Breakers - Boy with the Be-Bop Glasses

Contact - Some Like You

391 - Jet Plane

The Stolen Minks - Consecutives

The Cramps - Surfing Bird

Merle Haggard - Okie From Muskogee

Toy Killers - Sex Carp

The Curtains of Night - Total Domination

The Happy Clams - Burning Flesh

Trashmen - Surfing Bird

Serge Gainsbourg - Shu Ba Du Ba Loo Ba

Sole & the Skyrider Band - Bones of Pets (Bit Tuner Remix)

Bahamada - Paper Thin

Wooden Ships - Fallin

Photobooth - Track 2

Jandek - This Wasted Life

My Barbarian - Dances You Witches (Dance)

Nina Hagen - White Punks on Dope

These Are Powers - Double Double Yolk

The Ramones - Surfing Bird

Cheval Sombre - It’s a Shame

The Phantom Limbs - The Biggest Snow Ball

The Ramones - Surfing Bird (Request)

The Tubes - What Do YOu Want From Life (Request)

Family Guy - Surfing Bird (Request)

Hawney Troof - Water