The All Time Lows

Our friends over at Bohemiarama are throwing a Craft Fair at Cellspace on Saturday, August 6th from 12PM-5PM. There will be designers, craft tables and musicians. Should be excellent. If you want to sell your wares at Bohemiarama, visit their site for more info.

Click the flier to download Tuesday's Mesh Mix

Playlist for June 21st:
Xiu Xiu “Dangerous You Shouldn’t Be Here” La Foret 5 Rue Christine
Des Ark “Some Are Love” Loose Lips Sink Ships Bifocal Media
The Plus Ones “Write What You Know” Oh Me of Little Faith Insubordination Records
OCS “If I Had A Reason” Songs About Death & Dying Vol. 3 Narnack Records
The Mall “Grand Canyon” Mount St. Mountain
Fugazi “Target” Red Medicine Dischord
The Soviettes “Multply and Divide” LP III Fat Wreck Chords
Darediablo “Twenty Paces” Twenty Paces Southern Records
Boyskout “Girl on Girl” School of Etiquette Alive Records
Spoon “The Way We Get By” Kill The Moonlight Merge Records
The Cost “The Land of the Giant Birds” Chimaera Lookout Records
Angel Hair “Angel's Lawn” In Love With Jetts Gravity
Pleasure Forever “White Mare” Alter Sub Pop

This guy:"General Says Iraq Insurgency Still Active"

In other news, Des Ark's Loose Lips Sink Ships, is the best record I've found in my mailbox in some time. Listen to some songs here.

This goes out to AwwwDamn.



It's called "The Color of Money-Shot"

hey, my name is xxxx and i have a band called the
xxxxx. we were wondering if we could get some press
in the way of a review or interview or something.

http://thexxxxx.cjb.net

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,
xxxx

Also, if you would like to not get reviewed, please include, as this guy did, all your e-mail addresses in the "To" field so that everyone else can see them.

I've decided to start making regular picks of art and music shows in the Bay Area that I think are worth your time and money. I'll probably do these every two weeks on Wednesdays.

• Wednesday, June 22nd

Hightower, S.T.R.E.E.T.S. (Vancouver) all ages at the Auto Gallery: 3223 Telegraph, Oakland.

Hightower are the Bay Area's reigning kings of Bay Area sludge metal. Their appeal goes beyond metalheads to punk rockers and skaters and their live shows are legendary. Catch them with Vancouver's S.T.R.E.E.T.S (which stands for Skating Totally Rules, Everything Else Totally Sucks and may be the best band name ever) whose brand of skate hardcore pleases the masses with songs like "Let's Get Rad." Plus, there's art by: art by: Faye Jaime, Billy Kroft, Tracy Timmins, Morgan Wick and Lisa Sussman.

• Friday, June 24th

The Diorama Show

Mission 17
at the corner of 17th and Mission (two doors down from Thrift Town)
2111 Mission st. suite 401
San Francisco
Opening Reception 6-9pm
Celebrating an artform that has fallen into serious disrepute since my fourth grade Boston Tea Party project, is Mission 17's Diorama Show. Artists Include: Cheie Aloha, Luiz Arnias, Aylen Beazely, Jonathan Belli, Alex Braubach, Erica Browne, James Burke, Christopher Cheney, Adam Connelly, Lauren Davies, Elizabeth DiGiovanni, Sandhya Dirks, Emily Donat, Luke Dorman, Chris Dorz, Kathryn Dunlevie, Robyn Einhorn, Lora Finelli, Ben Folstien, Dustin Fosnot, Jaun Pablo Garza, Mayumi Hamanaka, Hannah Hammond-Hagman, Liz Harris, Taro Hattori, Nana Hayashi, Amy Hibbs, Ben Houston, Homero Hidalgo, Ava Jancar, David Kasdorf, Kimberlee Koym, Kristina Lewis, Mike McConnell, Megan McCready, Jason Michael, Mark Mulroney, Rebecca Noon, Caitlin Parker, Shalo Penuela, Julia Petho, Fiona Ryan, Kyle Simon, Mercedeze Singleton, Ryan Smith, Shawn Smith, Sarah Thibualt, Michael Trigilio, Gabrielle Wolodarski.

• Sunday, June 26th

Intelligence (Seattle), Boyskout, zZz (Amsterdam) at The Hemlock in San Francisco 21+ $7 9:30PM.

Two, count 'em, two bands featured in previous issues of Mesh: Seattle's purveyors of post-punk mayhem, The Intelligence and the infectious sounds of San Francisco's own Boyskout, whose live show offers a dance rocking good time.

Pitchfork's John Vanderslice interview.

In spite of my hatred for its doe-footed outfielders, I always have a soft spot in my heart for Oakland. When I headed out there early this evening, I looked forward to a relaxing night seeing one of my favorite bands, The Mall, at a warehouse space in Oakland. The climate in the East Bay is remarkably better than it is in San Francisco, so I also looked forward to hanging out at night in a short-sleeve shirt.

Turns out, the address for The Creamery I read on Fecal Face must have been incorrect, because myself, my roommate and her man-friend walked around downtown Oakland for a few hours looking for this place in a depressingly futile search. I've been on the phone with her man-friend, who is currently walking from Oakland to Albany, I'd say a ten-mile walk, and he keeps hanging up on me.

Lord, the way things are going, they're gonna crucify me.

The new Kid606, Resilience, is a collection of his songs that were recorded for various projects and ended up on this album. It is very nice to listen to, kind of like Boards of Canada with dancebeats. Put out by the excellent Tigerbeat6.

Pete Geniella is an amazing photographer here in San Francisco. He has a photoblog here. He's taking photos for Mesh now, and I couldn't be more excited. Look for his photos of The Mall in the next issue.

I like Sylvia Ji's work.

Went to catch my friends Liz & Chuck and their band, Lines In Analog Sound, at Cafe Du Nord last night. Another excellent set from them. Stuck around not realizing that Joshua Tree's Gram Rabbit was playing. We reviewed their album, Music To Start a Cult To, awhile back and I had played a track off of it on the Mesh Mix. I caught half a Gram Rabbit song at Cafe Du Nord when they played there a few months back, but didn't know too much.
Normally, I wouldn't expect myself to be into a band that wears bunny ears, but this band broke through my prejudices. Combining Patsy Cline-ish eerie country with Prince-like funk, slide guitar and indie dance sounds these guys turned out the party. In spite of the fact that the lead singer goes by the moniker Jesika von Rabbit, she--and the rest of the band--is completely charismatic. (Or as my friend said to me at the show last night, "Dude, she's like totally hot, in a really cheesy way." I'mma conspire to get them to play a Mesh party.

A House subcommittee recommended eliminating all Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting today. I wonder if they'll take that money and give it to Fox News instead.

The Unequalled Brophy Bros.!!! Dear God, please let me be related to these dudes.

As my fruitless search for a Web developer continues, I came across www.receiverstudio.com, which led me to Kari Byron. She makes these amazing doll sculptures, such as this one:



Read about her at Anno Domini gallery.

Went down to Hotel des Arts today. Can't stress how cool that place is. Learn all about it in Kendra MacLeod's article here. John Doffing, the Hotel's curator and supporter of San Francisco underground and street art, showed me around the place and introduced me to Casey O'Connell, an artist from Florida that sent John a few images. He liked her work so much he asked her to come out for a show. Despite the fact that she'd never taken part in a show before, she sold all twelve of her pieces amongst a bidding war for her work. Look for more on Casey in an upcoming issue.

Casey's art:


Also met a few other artists who's work I'm really into. The next big show at Hotel des Arts is August 3rd.

Now playing:

Listen to good music:

	Band	Song	Record	Label
1	Aereogramme	No Really, Everything's Fine	Sleep and Release	Matador Records
2	Sleater-Kinney	Entertain	The Woods	Sub Pop
3	Murder City Devils	18 Wheels	Empty Bottles Broken Hearts	Sub Pop
4	Two Ton Boa	Have Mercy	Two Ton Boa	Kill Rock Stars
5	Black Heart Procession	Did You Wonder	Amore Del Tropico	Touch and Go
6	Sage Francis	Sea Lion	A Healthy Distrust	Epitaph Records
7	Joy Division	No Love Lost	Substance
8	Hanin Elias	Future Noir	Future Noir	Cochon/Fatal Recordings
9	Hot Snakes	I Hate the Kids	Suicide Invoice	Swami
10	Youth Group	Shadowland	Skeleton Jar	Epitaph Records
11	The Death of A Party	Crimes of the Heart	The Shame of the Sweet	Double Negative Records
12	Drunk Horse	Strange Transgressors	In Tongues	Tee Pee Records
13	Boyjazz	Lookin For You	Agent Records Norcal Compilation 2005/In The City Tonight	Agent Records/Frenetic Records
14	La Plebe	Enfanada	Entre Cerveza, Ritmo, Y Emocion	Desarme
15	Love Equals Death	The Broadcast	Agent Records Norcal Compilation 2005/The Hucklebuck	Agent/Popsmear

Sleater-Kinney played The Catalyst in Santa Cruz last night performing songs off their excellent new album The Woods. Here are some photos I took at the show.

The guys that engineered the Watergate break-in are talking about ethics.

Nixon aides condemn 'Deep Throat' for betrayal
AFP - Wed Jun 1, 6:23 AM ET

WASHINGTON - (AFP) - Aides to the late president Richard Nixon have said that former FBI deputy director Mark Felt, unmasked as the anonymous Watergate source known as "Deep Throat," had breached professional ethics by leaking information. G. Gordon Liddy, a Nixon operative who engineered the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Campaign headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, and served four and a half years in jail for it, said Wednesday that Felt "violated the ethics of the law enforcement profession."