Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/13/2015
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location
Starry Plough
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$6-$10 Sliding Scale | 21+ Only
Surplus 1980 is a Bay Area post-punk rock band fronted by former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum percussionist, Moe! Staiano. Built on the foundation laid by instrumental no-wave post-rock band, Mute Socialite, Surplus 1980’s music is a thicker brew with an out-jazz touch and more than a dash of punk ferocity. Surplus 1980 has a well-chosen name—as long as you pick up on the right musical references—the skewed-punk/post-punk and spiky new wave ones: Essential Logic, Pere Ubu, The Fall, The Slits, The Ex, first-album Gang of Four. Surplus 1980 is a louder and faster band than any of those, but draws from the same well of shouty discordant rock ’n’ roll clamor, and exhibits the same joy in complaining. Chord progressions are less friendly than on a Chuck Berry record, but have the same elemental drive, and the drums—plus Staiano’s various re-purposed percussion metals and tools—are featured up front to make sure the audience doesn’t miss them.
Sharon Tate Fetus Explosion is the duo of Boris Freyman and Sarah Lockhart. No Wave-inspired, post-industrial, art-damaged, and generally damaged. Huddling under the noise umbrella, some of STFE’s material is songs with words. STFE has been compared by relatively undiscerning listeners to the Residents and Sonic Youth.
BAUS is from Oakland, California.