Titanium Sporkestra, The Gomorran Social Aid & Pleasure Club, Rube Waddell, Khi Darag

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TITANIUM SPORKESTRA
Featuring ex-members of the infamous marching band the Infernal Noise Brigade and legendary Seattle band TchKunG!, Titanium Sporkestra delivers a bombastic blend of heavy world drumming, blaring horns, original arrangements, and covers. In the past we have played shows with the likes of Buraka Som Sistema (Portugal), Master Musicians of Jajouka (Morocco), Wolves in the Throne Room, March Fourth Marching Band and the Loyd Family Players.
titaniumsporkestra.com/

THE GOMORRAN SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE CLUB
"How the Gomorran Social Aid & Pleasure Club came to be is just as bizarre as its precursor's antics. The band started as an idea rather than a reality, when graphic designer Adam Infanticide coined the moniker and put up a Web site devoted to it, listing musicians he said played in the group but had actually never been told about it. Eventually, all the players — many of whom had met years earlier, unbeknownst to Infanticide — gathered together and began to write songs based on the idea of a darkly twisted, New Orleans-influenced Tom Waits-goes-to-Dixieland marching band. Resulting tunes like 'Whiskey Paycheck' and 'Klangmertongnjk' are brassy and boozy, lurching like a drunk on cheap booze, gloriously lurid and gleefully chaotic. Extra Action should be proud." --SF Weekly
myspace.com/thegomorrans

RUBE WADDELL
"You want entertainment-on-a-stick, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal than the warp and the woof, the vamp and the voomph, the scat and scoot, the bump and groin of the mighty Rube Waddell. Junkyard blues, a tuba held together by electrical tape, hotplate guitar, rockin' ocarina, deep friend harmonica, it's all in here." --KFJC
rubewaddell.org/

KHI DARAG
Inspired by Persian classical, last '60s garage psychedelia and surf mayhem, traditional Jewish and Armenian dances, Cambodian street music, '70s prog and art rock, along with Bollywood soundtracks, this Bay Area ensemble walks the line between the modern and the archaic. "This stuff is fun!" --Loudfarm.com
khidarag.com/