Rock out with Street Eaters, Shuv, and Máu tomorrow night at Beauty Supply Arts in Oakland
This week's essential listen: New EP "To Increase the Height" by San Huan features remixes by Bay Area club producers Ani Klang, Taraneh, and Tomu DJ
The days are short, and so is this newsletter.
We come to you today with one new album review AND one more invitation to our very punk rock solstice show, hosted by White Crate and Lower Grand Radio and happening tomorrow night at Beauty Arts Supply in Oakland.
Featuring sounds by:
STREET EATERS
SHUV
MÁU
DM FOR ADDRESS
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— White Crate
THIS WEEK’S ESSENTIAL LISTEN
“in the making of this record, I spent a lot of time thinking about the body–its absurdities, the way it can experience pain and beauty, the ways it can be degraded, and its memories.” — San Huan
In midsummer, we wrote about the “techno-like fever dream” of Red Dust…, a 20-minute experimental electronic soundscape constructed as part of a live set by San Huan. But we also noted the other side of the artist—indie pop reverie—and that’s just what San Huan has returned with.
Recorded at Tiny Telephone with Spacemoth and featuring remixes by Bay Area artists Tomu DJ, Taraneh, and Ani Klang, To Increase the Height puts the artist’s songwriting prowess front and center. Whether in the acoustic singer-songwriter piece “Once More” or the more densely layered electro pop constructions of the title track and “Factory Girl,” San Huan meditates on the body and, unwavering, sings of global suffering and personal empowerment.
It’s all midtempo synth pop vibes until you get to the remixes: Taraneh spins “Factory Girl” into a divinely chopped up electro-techno-jungle dance track, and then Ani Klang goes hardcore, turning up the tempo even higher.
— Ronny Kerr
SHOW RECS
Our top show recommendations for the coming week:
[rock] Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs, The Helltones, Poser, The Cruelty, MJ Shaw - Alameda Food Bank Benefit — Dec 15 at Thee Stork Club
[rock] Michael James Tapscott, Half Stack, Jeff Moller — Dec 15 at Little Hill Lounge
[experimental] Stephen O'Malley, François J Bonnet + Andy Guthrie — Dec 15 at the Lab
[club] DJ Juanny, Ritchrd, Finishher, Pinche Queer — Dec 15 at the SF Eagle
[choral] Before the Dawn ft. The Free Key Choir — Dec 15-17 at the First Congregational Church of Oakland
[punk] Lower Grand Radio x White Crate present: Street Eaters, Shuv, Máu, Freaks of the Industry — Dec 16 at Beauty Supply Arts
[classical] Corina Santos & Shaina Pan — Dec 16 at Minnesota Street Project
[latin] La Misa Negra, Agua Pura, DJ Julicio — Dec 16 at the New Parish
[club] Honey Dijon, Steve Fabus, Vin Sol, Brown Amy — Dec 16 at the Hibernia Bank Vault
[experimental] 7000COILS, ori diwata, transcriptions 01 — Dec 17 at CounterPulse