Christina A. Edwards
san_francisco, ca
- Gender: Male
- Interested In: Women
- Member since: 2007-04-01 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-10-21 00:00:00
- Events: 15
Events:
Battles
Where: Great American Music Hall
Date: 2007-11-01 20:00:00
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Some bands need biographies written on them, some bands don’t, yet someone still foolishly insists on writing one. Brooklyn’s Battles fall squarely into the latter category. Nonetheless… Rising from the ether of a pop-scarred 2004, the enigmatic EP C announced Battles arrival like a blinding succession of Morse Code strobes across an aphotic landscape. Even as a short-form debut it was clear that band members Ian Williams, John Stanier, Tyondai Braxton and Dave Konopka had established something utterly unique. Instead of the conventional band dynamic of individual players waiting for their turn to be showcased, the members of Battles are more analogous to a tangle of brain synapses all firing in time with each other. Having served time in seminal acts Don Caballero, Helmet, Tomahawk, Lynx and The Mark of Cain amongst others, Battles draw from a sprawling range of styles and sounds and distill this erratic static into the tightest mindfuck jams to be committed to playable format. Closely following EP C, Tras/Fantasy served as another definitive dose of labyrinthine, juggernaut rhythms and equilibrium-shifting textures that would safely place the band outside the orbit of any contemporaries. On this first pair of EPs, Stanier’s drumming is like pinpoint buckshot, Williams’ guitar is sharpened schizophrenia, Braxton’s sound manipulations are fragments focused and Konopka’s guitar is malleable granite?which is to say, all are nearly impossible to define yet none can be ignored. Late in 2004, Battles unleashed B EP and set their cryptic marks in stone. Centered by a set of extended musical movements, B EP was a fitting conclusion to the band’s inception-as-trilogy. In 2005 Battles set off across the globe on tour with Prefuse 73 and his crack live collective, combining driving atonal grooves and bombastic improvised fury that landed them in Japan opening for The Mars Volta and establishing their reputation as one of the most exciting live acts to crisscross the globe. The sheer musical breadth of their first three EPs and the lasting impact of their live shows have left fans and skeptics alike in perplexed anticipation of their debut full-length. This May will see the release of Mirrored, Battles first album proper and a significant measure of evolution from a band that has yet to cease moving. Still entirely intact are the unflinching experimentations and metallic angles of their young catalog, but a new melodic insight has manifested itself in the form of some of their most engaging tracks yet. “Tonto” opens with and off-kilter series of chimes and chugs which are welded to a forcibly shuffling drumbeat and a foreboding chant that gives way to a soaring midsection. First single “Atlas” is a verifiable anthem, unrelenting and gigantic, but never surrendering the skewed aesthetic of the band’s past. With snaking, entrancing harmonies and thundering percussive force, Battles are a distorted reflection of an entire musical diaspora?a view of innovation and tension reverberated as a flash, mirrored.
ARTHUR PHILLIPS author event
Where: Booksmith
Date: 2007-05-09 19:00:00
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ARTHUR PHILLIPS talk & booksigning for Angelica Wednesday, May 9th at 7 pm From the bestselling author of Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. Angelica - reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw - is Arthur Phillips at his best. Arthur Phillips is the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague, which was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Educated at Harvard, Phillips has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.
Qui (ex Jesus Lizard) with Lozen
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2007-09-12 20:00:00
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David Yow (of Jesus Lizard / Scratch Acid -- you know, the Texas acid punkers whose t-shirt was worn by Cobain) and his new band Qui, plus Lozen. http://www.myspace.com/qui
Mark Day at High Contrast Comedy
Where: San Francisco Comedy Club
Date: 2007-04-18 20:00:00
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Video Blogger Mark Day at High Contrast Comedy Wednesday April 18 8 PM / $7 50 Mason Comedy Lounge SF CA 415.398.4129 email reservations !!PRINT THIS OUT FOR HALF OFF ADMISSION!! Mark Day is a comedic video blogger who has acheived great notoriety across the web with his prolific and distinctive video blogs. Don't miss the rare chance to see Mark perform live at High Contrast Comedy. This week's lineup also includes: Brian Geraghty / Brendan Lynch / Boxcar High Contrast Comedy is currently seen every Wednesday at the San Francisco Comedy Club at 50 Mason. High Contrast Show Information San Francisco Comedy Club High Contrast Comedy
Judea Eden-Amy Meyers
Where: Caffe Trieste (Berkeley)
Date: 2007-04-20 20:00:00
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Come have a good time with the Judea Eden Band and Amy Meyers Band. Judea has been compared to singers Jeanette Napolitano, Annie Lennox, Linda Perry and Melissa Etheridge, but she has definitely got a style of her own and her band is sure to get your toes a tappin’ and you your hands a clappin’. Opening the show is the energetic pop star Amy Meyers and her band.
Other Cinema: Negativland DVD Launch Party
Where: Artists' Television Access
Date: 2007-12-01 20:30:00
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Come to the launch of Negativland’s DVD/CD project, co-produced by Other Cinema Digital and Seeland Records. The albums were created in collaboration with 18 makers from all over the US (and one a cappella group from Detroit). Famous mixes like Gimme the Mermaid, No Business, Time Zones, Guns, Christianity Is Stupid, Drink It Up, Truth in Advertising, and U2: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For serve as audio ground for new visual collages from the likes of Tim Maloney, Harold Boihem, Mike Cousino, RRoom, and James Gladman. Some band members will be in attendance for a short LIVE performance on “boopers,” their homemade feedback oscillators. PLUS the debut of Kembrew McLeod’s Freedom of Expression, a critical doc on intellectual property issues in the contemporary corporate mediascape.*$7
Badfish
Where: Slim's
Date: 2008-02-20 20:00:00
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Badfish is a Sublime tribute band. What separates Badfish from other tribute bands is that they have replicated Sublime's essence, developing a scene and dedicated following most commonly reserved for label-driven, mainstream acts. Badfish make their mark on the audience by playing with the spirit of Sublime -- they perform not as Sublime would have, or did -- they perform as Badfish does.
Oaxacan
Where: Hemlock Tavern
Date: 2008-01-10 21:30:00
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Oaxacan is a new Oakland-based band consisting of Amy (Living Breathing Music), Derek (ex-Chum Frink) and Mike (ex-Compromicro-Dexall, Caroliner).
15th Annual KNBR 680 Giants FanFest
Where: AT & T Park (Formerly SBC and Pacific Bell Park)
Date: 2008-02-09 10:00:00
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10th Annual Independent Games Festival
Where: Moscone Center
Date: 2008-02-20 00:00:00
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The IGF was established in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers. At the awards ceremony, the IGF gives out seven awards and $50,000 in total prize money to the most innovative independent games.
Halou w/ Nyles Lannon
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2008-04-23 21:00:00
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$10.00 Tickets on sale 3/5/08 10am
Bad Boy South & Block Ent. Hood 2 Hood Talent Search - Bay ...
Where: Fat City (formerly Studio Z)
Date: 2008-03-21 21:00:00
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Bazialini Music Group Presents Bad Boy South & Block Ent. Hood 2 Hood Bay Area Finale Come out and party with Big Duke & Jody Breeze of Boys N Da Hood at Fat City in San Francisco. They will be special guest judges for the Finale. Find out who from the Bay has talent and will be going to Miami to represent the Bay. Special Guest DJ: Rick Lee of KMELEvent submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of EGOSHA.
Shelby Lynne
Where: Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco
Date: 2008-05-01 20:00:00
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Grammy award-winning vocalist Shelby Lynne is equally adept at belting out country, jazz and soul songs. Lynne is touring in support of her latest, 'Just a Little Lovin'.'
SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Vish Mishra of Clearstone Ventu...
Where: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Date: 2008-04-24 20:00:00
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SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Vish Mishra of Clearstone Venture Partners, focus on Communications, Wireless, Consumer Internet, Service VC Breakfast Club with Vish Mishra of Clearstone Venture Partners, focus on Communications, Wireless, Consumer Internet, Service Start: 04/24/2008 - 8:00am End: 04/24/2008 - 9:30am Timezone: Etc/GMT-7 URL:www.svase.org/?q=node/1034 WHAT:VC Breakfast Club with Vish Mishra of Clearstone Venture Partners, focus Communications, Wireless, Consumer Internet and Services WHEN:Thu Apr 24 from 8:00am – 9:30am WHERE:Townsend, Townsend & Crewe 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431, www.townsend.com CONTACT:Jai Kumar, Program Chair, jai@vigyana.com Cell: 408-406-4693 COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY. This event is co-sponsored by Townsend, Townsend and Crewe, www.townsend.com. VC Breakfast Club: Vish Mishra of Clearstone Venture Partners, focus Communications, Wireless, Consumer Internet and Services Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone has a distinct approach to venture investing in technology opportunities. We prefer to be the lead investor in most of our financings and we are proactive, participating in the guidance of our companies through our relationships with the full management team. We are also very receptive to investment opportunities in market leaders with established syndicates. Inside our fund, we have invested in operating expertise to back up our investing professionals. The technology executives in our firm are available to our portfolio companies as well. Clearstone makes an unusually thorough effort to understand the intricacies of an entrepreneur's business before making an investment decision, and that detailed approach to gaining knowledge typifies our guidance of portfolio companies once we've invested. How Clearstone Invests Clearstone seeks companies that are creating next-generation infrastructure, and related solutions, that create economic advantage for businesses. We focus on enterprise technologies that propel profitable growth for business and add value for customers, communications (including the wireless, semiconductors and advanced optics that support the sector), and business-model innovations that leverage advances in Internet or communications infrastructures. We are attracted to innovators, category creators and market leaders who can define and dominate large sectors. We like to see companies mine horizontal markets for long-term scalability, with identifiable near-term revenue opportunities in specific verticals or identifiable customer types. We are also open-minded critical thinkers and are enthusiastic about pioneer companies that launched too early for steady revenue from their markets but are seeing convergence of their idea, solution and market acceptance. Vish Mishra Vish joined Clearstone in March 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a cutting edge voice web infrastructure company funded by Accel and Sequoia, which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which was funded with $7.3 million in venture capital, went public in 1987, sold for $225 million in 1989 and went on to contribute $1 billion to Novell’s revenue in subsequent years. Vish prides himself in being a mentor capitalist who sits or has sat on boards of many venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. His prior experience includes founding VP of Operations of Excelan and VP Novell and EVP of iPlanet (a unit of Sun Microsystems and AOL), and CEO of four start-ups: Info-Objects, Mindworks, IntelliMatch and Ace Software. Vish holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and MBA work from the University of Minnesota. He is a very active Director and Charter Member of TiE who has dedicated himself to the growth of the organization since its inception. Vish's focus at Clearstone is deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. His vast network in Silicon Valley, extended globally through TiE, is an invaluable asset to entrepreneurs and to us. Vish serves on the board of Novariant (formerly IntegriNautics).
Howe Gelb (of Giant Sand) with Kate Maki
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2008-04-24 20:00:00
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Date: Thursday, 4/24 Doors: 7:00 pm Show: 8:00 pm Door: $15.00 Ages: 21+ Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/event/EventListings?orgId=17518 It took singer/songwriter Howe Gelb nearly 20 years to receive the type of attention upstart indie rockers routinely obtain by their second album. During those two decades, Gelb released an abundance of material at the helm of his group, Giant Sand, presenting a highly original take on Southwestern roots and garage rock. Gelb rarely stepped off his wayward musical course and onto even ground for any length of time. Combining this with inadequate promotion and distribution from a number of independent labels, and Gelb was ensured regrettable obscurity. By the late '90s, however, people finally began to take notice of a group of musicians gathering in Tucson, AZ. Gelb and Giant Sand had spawned a number of side projects including OP8 (Giant Sand plus Lisa Germano), Calexico, and the Friends of Dean Martinez. Gelb received the biggest critical and commercial success of his career with his Chore of Enchantment album in 2000.
The Enablers
Where: Hemlock Tavern
Date: 2008-04-23 21:30:00
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Enablers vocalist Pete Simonelli is a gritty, observant narrator rather than a verbose, exaggerated frontman. His clear enunciation, dry diction and controlled passion lend impact and credibility to smart, hard-boiled phrases that range from explicit to exquisite.
The 2nd Annual Summit on Intellectual Property for Wireless ...
Where: Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Date: 2008-06-17 00:00:00
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This year's summit is the only one of its kind and includes a multitude of rich case studies and best practices presented by corporate counsels from companies that are knee-deep in wireless technology and new media. The speaking faculty share details surrounding the enforcement and defense of intellectual property rights, patent portfolio management and licensing agreement optimization in order to effectively deliver products to the market, maximize profitability, and ensure growth.