Mission Mission

Warm Leatherette used to take place in some other neighborhood, so they’re billing tonight’s party as their “Mission Migration.” Lucky us! Here’s the official data:

//////////Warm Leatherette travels on its maiden voyage to the Mission for our November edition at SUB/MIssion. As always, you’ll hear the dancier side of POST PUNK, MINIMAL SYNTH, COLD WAVE, ITALO and whatever else we may feel like playing.

//////////DJs Riegler, Justin, Dreamweapon, Nihar and Nary Guman will be spinning weird, infectious rarities and classics from the era when ice gripped the hearts of Europe’s disco-going youth.

//////////Why now? Why not?

RSVP and invite your friends, but not before listening to some choice post-punk cuts (courtesy of Warm Leatherette’s Facebook wall):

Here’s what you could’ve gotten had you acted faster:

• Luxury Limousine transportation to and from the show
• Red Carpet Treatment (Sound Check attendance, Pre and Post-show Meet & Greet, VIP seating)
• Personalized Engraved Limited Edition NYE Pot Leaf Dog Tag
• Limited Edition Signed T-Shirt – designed personally by Kreayshawn and autographed at the show. Design to be revealed prior to performance!
• Admission for (6) six to Kreayshawn’s NYE 2011 show

Bummer, dude.

[via Slob on my Blog, whose author adds, "People are morons."] [Photo by Nobunny]

At last night’s free Ty Segall show presented by Drambuie at Brick and Mortar Music Hall, nobody seemed very pumped about Drambuie. As with the free Oh Sees show presented by Drambuie a few weeks back, guests were given three drink tickets upon entering, all good for a Drambuie drink of their choice. Pretty nice of Drambuie, right? Free show, three free drinks — at a nice club with a kickass soundsystem and clean bathrooms.

But when Ty asked the crowd, “How’s the Drambuie?” the whole crowd booed. And then some dick emerged from backstage and wrote “IS GROSS” under the Drambuie logo on Drambuie’s big “Drambuie Presents SF Live” banner behind the stage. And the whole crowd cheered. Louder than they cheered for Ty all night.

Drambuie must’ve been bummed.

His band is called B. Hamilton and The Bay Bridged yesterday hipped us to the fact that their debut album is available as a free download here.

It’s a big rock ‘n’ roll album (with big rock ‘n’ roll cover art) by a big rock ‘n’ roll band. They sound like they could easily headline a big summer festival. Here’s hoping they do someday.

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The Phenomenauts are a space-themed rock and roll band from Earth’s capital: Oakland, CA.

When I teen, I played in a local touring ska band. One night we pulled up to some random shithole–I don’t know, the Tiki Wagon Tavern in Willits, or something. As I tried to process the fact that a total of seven people were likely to show up, our drummer glanced at the flyer and squealed, “Oh my God, we’re playing with THE PHENOMENAUTS tonight! They are AWESOME.”

Since then, I have probably seen the Phenomenauts more than any other band, partly because I ended up living with a couple of them for a few years. Their live show has to be seen to be believed. Try to imagine 3 guys and a robot in starship uniforms playing loud, catchy rock and roll while bombarding you with a toilet paper gun and simulated rocket exhaust.

Anyways, their act is clearly prime material for a comic book, so they went ahead and made one and paired it with a brand new EP. There is a launch party at Mission Comics and Art this Saturday from 5-7pm. You can grab the book, and catch the a stripped-down lounge version of the band. After that, be sure to catch their full-on live show at El Rio at 9pm.

As most of you know, BART busker Jesse Morris tragically passed away on Sunday. To help his family with the cost of his memorial, Different Fur Studios is releasing never-before-heard sessions of an unfinished country album Jesse began recording in 2008. The compilation, entitled “I Wanna Take It All Back,” is available for download with a suggested donation of $5.

Nic Pope, an engineer at Different Fur and a friend of Jesse’s, wrote in to share the following anecdote:

I met Jesse in the Montgomery St. Bart Station where I heard him doing his Johnny Cash covers and we got to talking. The first project we worked on together was for his punk band U.S. Kings and “I Wanna Take It All Back” was the second which we never finished. The frank and simple way Jesse could describe your darkest feelings is what drew me to his music originally. From the title track, “I look around and see the wreckage of my past, its bad enough sometimes I wanna douse myself in gas,” is one line of his that helped me grow up a bit in the last couple of years.

Preview the album here, and please consider making a donation.

UPDATE: Plus, there’s a benefit show tonight in Oakland!

Sad news — Muni Diaries reports that beloved BART busker Jesse Morris, aka “Punk Rock Johnny Cash,” passed away on Sunday. According to a commenter and alleged close friend, Jesse took his own life.

Jesse was known for his uncanny covers of Johnny Cash songs, which one could catch on lucky mornings at the 24th St. Mission BART station.

Rest in Peace, Jesse. Your voice and smile brightened many a morning commute for me.

[Photo via Troy Holden]

You’re not a real band until you take a group photo with everyone against a wall.  Extra credit if said wall is plastered with wheatpaste and every band member is looking in a different direction.

Previously:

• Shooting a music video in the park
• What’s going on here, photo crew and Yakuza-looking bros?

Here’s the official spiel:

[I]t’s CRUEL SUMMER’s first show, a band starring Josh Yule, Thea Chacamaty, Chani [Hawthorne] & Sean [Mosley]. We don’t have a website. Sorry buds. We sound like Sonic Youth making illegitimate kin with the Wedding Present…with a girl singing. Sort of. Actually we don’t really know what we sound like so you’ll have to help us figure it out.

They do have a Facebook page though, on which you can listen to and download their first single, “White Flag.”

The show tonight at the Knockout also starts POW!, Big Hurt and Garden Club. RSVP and invite your friends!