Frisco Styles
Compilation of current San Francisco punk/art/electro/indie rock/folk/country and a lot of them are live tracks. Quite a good time capsule of what the kids in SF are listening to -- CD1 has more art punk/electro and CD2 has more folk/country/indie rock. Especially check out Track 1 on CD1 by Shotwell, which was recorded on Wednesday Night Live on KZSU! Woo hoo!!
PICS: CD1: 1,4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25
CD2: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23
FCC -- CD1 track 19, CD2 track 20
CD1:
1. Shotwell - speech about capitalism/communism, then punk song about patriots -- great!!
2. Coachwhips - white boy blues a la jon spencer -- distorted vocs
3. Chimney Lions - downtempo/reggae/jazz instrumental
4. Touched by a Janitor - slower math rock -- good
5. Onion Flavored Rings - catchy punk/rock
6. Kung Fu USA - party rock and roll/big metal riffs
7. Nam - catchy punk, great driving guitar
8. Caesura - math/punk rock -- big guitar chords + complex bass lines -- shouted lyrics
9. Mr. & Mrs. Evil - blues/funk/rock -- funky guitar, distorted vocals
10. Hello Noisy - instrumental epic rock -- slow at beginning, rocks out later
11. Tarentel - spare instrumental rock, clanking sounds
12. Uber Murder - short goofy scat
13. Condor - slow death electro -- then faster later
14. Veronica Lipgloss - electro rock -- great, great female screaming vocs
15. The Boy Explodes - dark 80s style electro, deep voice -- great
16. Total Shutdown - electro noodling then grindcore
17. Dynasty - dreamy female vocs at beginning then punky electro -- good
18. Track Star - uptempo indie rock
19. The Quails - FCC at beginning -- catchy political punk
20. Troll - nordic/spanish garage rock -- interesting
21. Erase Errata - dancepunk
22. Tension - catchy punk, trebly ANGULAR guitar, great screams
23. Little Fuzzy - slow indie pop -- keyboards, lispy high voice
24. Songs for Emma - driving political punk
25. Virginia Dare - folky rock with autoharp -- anti-consumerist


CD2:
1. Aerosol Species - electro laser sound effects, electro punk
2. Zmrzlina - indie artrockers
3. Aislers Set - lushious pop
4. Wonderin g Stars - sweet country ballad
5. Hall Flowers - acoustic rock, country influences, female vocs,
6. Tommy Guerrero - skateboarder god, downtempo electronica + guitar
7. Vetiver - jangly country, sad vocals, cute
8. Nate Denver's Neck - dark dark gothic folk - slow, distorted vocals
9. Goth Hick - catchy rock 'n roll, female vocals
10. Broken Horse - funky bass line, slide guitar
11. The Enablers - organ, drums, noodling guitar, beat-poetry-style lyrics
12. Sonny Smith - country/folk singer/songwriter
13. Virgil Shaw - kristofferson-style heart rending singer/songwriter -- great!
14. Peggy Honeywell - dark, spare folk
15. Hello Donkey - catchy pop/rock, cute
16. The Helen Lundy Trio - electro chimes, keyboard loops, voices speaking about language, arty
17. Mesh - electro thunderstorm, distorted, echoing vocals + guitar
18. Mutilated Mannequins - industrial rock, death keyboards, many theatrics
19. Crack W.A.R. - electronic art-noise, sexy female vocs,
20. Zeigenbock Kopf - electronic chugging, hilarious voice talking about sex in many places, FCC
21. Tussle - funky basslines, drums, catchy instrumental
22. Deep Throats - spare art rock, murky, smarmy lyrics
23. Allergic to Bullshit - balls out rock n roll