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| Raging Bands Night: Benefit Concert for the mudslide victims in the Philippines. |
  Pidgeon is a rock band from San Francisco that is mostly noisy, somewhat pretty and, generally, not as smart as we act. We try to write catchy songs but not "I've-heard-that-before" catchy. Our sucess or failure in that regard is, of course, relative and ultimately for dis-enfranchised teenagers to decide. We pay due tribute to our influences but believe, given their obvious genius as a reference point, that we should be able to add to the things we have learned and not subtract from them (Stooges rip-off rock culture we're a-lookin at you). It would be difficult to site one particular act as a descriptive metaphore for our sound, but we agree that a Pixies-Motorhead-Cardigans combo comes as close as any.  Love Songs - Hard & Soft rock for your face. We are from the Bay Area, California. We play music and point at music when we see it. Craigums - writes the words, plays the guitar, and cracks the whip. Jackson - wears the guitar and whatever else we tell him. Seth Strong - plays bass with one finger, drinks with both hands, and is a handyman for the elderly and/or incontinent. Brad - drums, communicates only in binary code, and likes to throw around his immense girth.  The Wobblies are an Oregon-based punk-rock outfit whose nine-track release sounds very homemade, yet righteously encompasses the DIY punk spirit. Not one of these songs, which contain all of the charm of a beer-hall dance floor late on a Saturday night, runs over two-and-a-half minutes. How's that for brevity? While there's nothing Earth-shattering here, The Wobblies are fortunate: where else can you find four friends who really enjoy banging out punk rock from the heart?  Emerging from the low-key Bay Area punk/indie scene, Sputterdoll members Bernadette, Rio and Dennis pump out a blend of punk rock resembling their influences, yet you still can't quite put your finger on their sound. Bobbing your head to melodies of adolescent experiences, outlook on the little things, and ex-significant others, you realize that it's not about them, it's about you. Sputterdoll takes the show on the road touring up and down the West Coast when possible, including several California road trips, and of course, stops in every corner of the great San Francisco bay.
Mar 31, 2006 8:00pm  |