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This August the non-profit we are raising money for is Oakland's own Women's Cancer Resource Center whose mission is to empower women with cancer to be active and informed consumers and survivors; to provide community for women with cancer and their supporters; to educate the general community about cancer; and to be actively involved in the struggle for a life-affirming, cancer-free society. Join us this August in Oakland and San Francisco as we celebrate life, art, music, joy, community, good food and good times! Keep checking back here for details! Can't wait to celebrate with you! And in the meantime, keep on pushin'!

"Teri Falini first came to prominence in 2005 with a debut which married angst-filled lyrics fuelled by bitter personal experience to a hook-filled modern rock. . 'The Room' is multi-layered, better produced and documents the maturing talents of Falini. The opening 'Tangerine' gets things started on a Velvet Underground-like downer. The portentous 'My Father' is a stunning dark tale delivered in a way that demands attention. It's a stunning moment which is matched by the similarly well-judged 'Undone' and the mysterious 'Lion's Grace'."
- Leonard's Lair

"San Francisco’s quartet Teri Falini has a lead singer with the same name who was once a Harvard trained lawyer who moved on from that success after a personal tragedy. She sings about the lure of drugs, heartache, and the emotional institutionalization of one of her family members. Reminding one of PJ Harvey, her music is psychedelic, alluring, and offers a quietly disturbed calm."
- Smother Magazine

"There is a heaviness throughout the twelve songs on Teri Falini's second record, The Room. Ambitious with dense, layered instrumentation, the record is full of disturbed characters who suffer from various forms of paralysis, crippling anguish, and other psychological distress. The disc opens with the vaguely menacing electric guitar notes of "Tangerine (drug)," with violin strings that lazily drift along the air recalling the lethargic fogginess of George Harrison's "Blue Jay Way." Elsewhere on the disc, the bright garage rock of "Undressed" features Falini singing "I own it all, my my lies/ scarred face I have no disguise/ of what I am and how I have tried/ to repair the harm inside." This leads the way to the disc's centerpiece, "My Father," a droning, hypnotic dirge about a family member who is institutionalized; "My my father/ Won't close his eyes/His lives underneath/ Bright red sky/ She pleads come with me/ Leave your mind/ I follow him into his eyes...." sings Falini, dragging out the last word as she fades into the swelling music."
- Amplifier Magazine

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