Colleen Green (LA, Hardly Art), Jaill (Milwaukee, Sub Pop/Burger), The Cherries
Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, CA
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Colleen Green (LA, Hardly Art), Jaill (Milwaukee, Sub Pop/Burger), The Cherries
COLLEEN GREEN "While Colleen Green's first LP for Hardly Art, Sock It to Me, was a slice of breezy, self-aware stoner bubblegum that insisted on a shallow readperhaps to force us to turn away from deeper truthsits follow-up, I Want to Grow Up, is weed paralysis and paranoia in a sugary glaze. (In keeping with her first record, Milo Goes to Compton, Green named I Want To Grow Up after another Descendents song.) On this record, Green has managed to capture in very real and human terms the existential terror that everything is futile and that our lives will never amount to much: no small feat. She is keenly aware of her own limitations and has turned her reflection on those limitations into strengths. Green's got a knack for songwriting. While the Ramones taught us all that we only need a few chords to make an endless number of perfect pop songs, most bands that have followed that model to the letter don't have the ear for hooks, structure, or wordplay that their heroes did. Green does. She is also extremely effective at manipulating the studio to get the hidden depths of her seemingly simple songsthe sharks, jellyfish and other prehistoric monsters beneath the sunny surface of the beach wavesto become evident." - Pitchfork
https://colleengreen.bandcamp.com
JAILL is a lot like other bands; they've slept on your floor, you've made fun of their pillow cases, they're not nearly as good at Excitebike as they said they were and although they all say they're cool with cats, no one's excited about sleeping at the cat house. So it should come as no surprise that, as bands sometimes do, they've made a new record. And that record is Traps, their second for Sub Pop, but first to adopt the bold new marketing strategy of giving away a free pair of Nike cross-trainers to anyone who steals it on the internet. Take that, Radiohead. So, but, what is Traps? And what about it can best fill five paragraphs? Traps is pretty, it's moody, it pops. It has the scrappy, vengeful enthusiasm of a puppy stuck under a blanket. It's an adorably grumpy bear just awoken from his long winter's slumber, with a mangy heart rarely found outside of the stuffed animal bin of a Salvation Army. It's an album that expects to be taken seriously goddammit, even though it just puked on the bar.
https://www.subpop.com/artists/jaill
THE CHERRIES Featuring ex-members of Permanent Collection and The Broonies. Pretty punk ugly from SF.
http://dacherries.bandcamp.com
Location
Hemlock Tavern (View)
1131 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
