Playing in Fog Presents: Ex-Boyfriends, Music For Animals, Sholi July 5, 2006

Playing in Fog Presents:

Ex-Boyfriends
Music For Animals
Sholi

July 5, 2006
Café DuNord
$8 • 9pm

Music For Animals is one of the newest bands on the San Francisco rock scene coming out of nowhere with a blistering set of melodic rock. Drawing on the influences of 80's rock, Interpol, Blonde Redhead, Pinback, The Pixies, The Talking Heads and The Flaming Lips among others, the band has formed a powerful sound that drowned audiences in their first few shows. The band is an amalgam of musicians from different backgrounds including Jayson Martinovich and Eli Meyskens, former frontman and bassist from the band One of Many, guitarist Nick Bray from Hot Bed Sleeper in Santa Cruz, and Ryan Malley a Pittsburgh transplant and talented drummer that the band found on Craigslist in order to complete the sound that would become Music For Animals. Shortly after the band solidified its lineup they immediately gained attention in the summer of 2005 by winning the Live 105 and Sauza Tequila local band competition, which put them on the radio and allowed them to open for OK GO (Capitol Records) at the Hard Rock Café. Since then the band has been working hard in the Bay Area to gain a strong local following and has also toured regularly to LA, San Diego and all over California to expose other scenes to their sound. The band has recently released their debut album Transmission and is currently working on a follow up album to be released in Fall 2006. Music For Animals believes strongly in the independent motto DIY "do it yourself" and will be doing just that by continuing to tour and support their album and record and release their own music.

Sholi is a San Francisco Bay Area trio consisting of guitarist/singer Payam Bavafa, drummer Jonathon Bafus, and bassist Eric Ruud. This lineup was solidified in September of 2005, and has made vast leaps forward in 2006. A Sholi song will explore a range of moods and tonalities, be tied to a strong emotional and thematic core, and will accomplish these ends in surprising ways. Primary songwriter Bavafa crafts melodies to rival some of indie-pop's finest, and his lyrics carry near-hallucinogenic clarity. His agile and inventive guitar playing fills two roles, sometimes melding with the shifting, liquid rhythmic patterns of Bafus and Ruud, sometimes floating above. This rhythm section draws equally from the joyous noise of rock music and from the academic or the avant-garde. At local shows the trio is often joined by Greg Hagel, who contributes layers of rhodes piano, lo-fi organ, and various percussion.

Official Website: http://www.playinginfog.com/presents/070506.html