Mission Mission

First Warhol inspired street art, now this?

Tomorrow night (Tuesday 10/26), a bunch of bay area musicians (including Liz Phair!) are recreating the Velvet Underground & Nico in it’s entirety at Coda Lounge on Mission and 14th.

Here are the confirmed artists:

• Dave Mihaly
• Matt Adams/The Blank Tapes
• Rupa Marya
• Aaron Novik/Sarah Palmer
• Adam Theis/Jazz Mafia/Liz Phair
• The California Honeydrops
• Mark Matos & Os Beaches
• Jugtown Pirates
• Michael Musika
• Charith Premawardhana/Classical Revolution
• Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind)

This will probably be a total shit show. I mean, the musicians that make up these groups alone will probably occupy most of the club to begin with. So if you want in, you’d better score some advance tickets right now here. There will be a 7pm show and a 9pm show.

They are also going to record this entire show and put out a record of it. So if you can’t make it, you’ll still be able to hear it someday. We’ll keep you posted on that as it develops.

More info on the social network.

TheBayTaper just put up a stunning video of Realistic Orchestra performing live at Coda Lounge. Realistic Orchestra is a jazz/hip-hop band made up of members of the Jazz Mafia, a super-group collective of San Francisco musicians.

Click the image to check it out, or the mp3 link below if your bandwidth can’t take the 720p.

Realistic Orchestra live at Coda Lounge MP3

The world-renowned Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey is performing at Coda Lounge (you know, that place Stevie Wonder sometimes hangs out) on Mission and Duboce this Friday 2/12. They are a super-fresh modern jazz group out of Oklahoma that now features an instrument you don’t usually see in this genre: lap steel guitar. Check out the video below for a sample.

These guys don’t just pound out standards, they write a lot of original music and their sound is really unique, blending rock, middle-eastern, hip-hop, country, and experimental influences. It’s modern, yet still rockin’ and accessible. No diss to lots of other modern/experimental jazz stuff, but I don’t always like to hear squeaking saxophones and see dudes hunched over effects pedals.

That and any band who uses a Spinal Tap reference in their name is fine by me.

They start at 10pm and the show is $15.