The Rabbles, Wet Dreams Dry Magic, Hotel Eden

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The Art Beat Foundation is please to welcome:

The Rabbles (9pm)
http://therabbles.wordpress.com/
The Rabbles are a psychedelic rock band from San Francisco founded in 2003. It’s members include J.Lee and Marina Lazzara on guitar and vocals, Dave Mairs on drums and backing vocals, Jamie Kimmel on bass, lead and backing vocals and Michael Chulada on organ/keyboards. They play a pastiche of styles influenced by 60′s psychedelia, 70′s and 80′s underground post-punk and various art and noise rock.

The members of The Rabbles have been a part of San Francisco’s music scene for the past two decades. Past bands have included Static Faction, Blue Gum Art, Shmoogie, Ghost Echoes, and The Love X Nowhere.

Wet Dreams Dry Magic (10pm)
http://www.facebook.com/wetdreamsdrymagic
"A bicycle crash in junior high left Sweeney with his jaw wired shut for six weeks, and in recovering, his sustenance was on an acoustic guitar. What was he chasing? Perhaps something in a progression that led to the acquisition of a Yamaha MT-50 4-track recorder, seclusion in empty piano rooms on the campus of UC Berkeley, emerging only to host cassette release parties in his co-op; the rabid touring and recording in some of (Vows, Montra); and the logging of enough sonic gold on tape to get a stretch of Highway 101 named after him. Yet there's many a sonic contribution still ahead...

In 2006 he conjured up a mix of mostly instrumental psychedelic pop musings entitled ‘Wet Dreams Dry Magic’, and has since assembled a cast of accomplished players around that moniker – including Brett Eastman (ex-Girls), Jerome Steegmans (ex-Sugar & Gold), and Ms. Rohini Moradi (ex-Plum). As a band, Wet Dreams Dry Magic delivers the spectrum of Sweeney's songs – which span from heart-on-sleeve folk to stream-of-subconscious confessionals to euphoric barn-burners drenched in soulful sweetness – into a magnet of ears who hear something familiar yet mysteriously new, as if plucked from an Earth-like planet just barely detectable on our Doppler.

With much road traveled and tape unraveled, Sweeney has recorded two albums in the past year – an eclectic collection of electric psych-soul gems cut in October 2011 at Media Blitz in Brooklyn with producer Robin MacMillan (Persephone’s Bees, Shalants), and a stripped-down folk-feel record this past spring at the house of Lucas Boilon (of Faultline Studios & Golden Gate Recording). Both are due for release in the coming year, poised to reach a new level of detection on the national radar." ~ Roy Raines

Hotel Eden (11pm)
http://www.hoteledenmusic.com/
"How I’ve never heard of them until that night (Brick & Mortar 2/2012) amazes me. Hotel Eden, lead by multi-instrumentalist Kelly Warner, was backed by drummer Sam Romo, bassist John Nash and guitarist Louis Chinn. Warner has a pop aesthetic, though I’ve heard the group compared to Radiohead. On their album, Highlights From A Cold and Desperate Song, you can definitely hear Kid A’s influence. What really turned me on was his use of a single turntable to mix and scratch his own sound"--Sheila Mohammed, Thrillcall.com

About the Art Beat Foundation
Art Beat Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that connects creativity and community by hosting free or sliding scale Concerts, Workshops, Readings, Film Screenings, Acoustic Sessions, Pop-Up Indie Marts and much more.
http://www.artbeatfoundation.org/

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