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The Art of Rocks
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Gumby's Junk

Oakland-based art rock band Gumby’s Junk began in 2018 as a complete mishap. Pushing musical surrealism to its limits with outrageous harmonies, circus-fast riffs, and a genre-defying mishmash, they have been described as oblique, colorful madness—like running fast while looking at the ground.
Personnel:
Jas Stade- guitars, vocals | Emmalee Johnson-Kao- bass, vocals | Eli Streich- drums

Ologist

Neo noise pseudo core conducting botched experiments with fraudulent PhD's
Personnel:
Alan - drums | Droozie - vocals | Alec - bass | Niko - guitar

Lunar Mistake

Lunar Mistake is a band of Bay Area art-rock veterans who perform with or have performed with Eskimo, Free Salamander Exhibit, MoeTar, New Zombies, Secret Chiefs 3, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Surplus 1980, and others. Drummer David Shamrock is the principal composer, and most of the lyrics are written by vocalist Jackie Wheeler, although other band members have contributed material and arrangements are collaborative. Lunar Mistake sounds slightly different to everyone who hears it, making more adjectives available than are informative or descriptive. Fortunately, the fact that we are a bunch of prog nerds who learned an hour of XTC for a backyard pandemic concert is both informative and descriptive. The modal response from listeners is along the lines of "DEVO meets Rush." Although it took me decades to forgive Rush for allowing my adolescent self to overestimate their musicianship, and although it feels weird to be selling a band to the Outsound Program Committee by comparing it to Rush, I can't say that I have a huge problem with that description. Reviewers have also repeatedly cited Cardiacs and Thinking Plague as points of reference, and one (Anthony Garrone at Make Weird Music) brought up the recent Raze the Maze-Paul Hanson collaboration.
Personnel:
Matt Lebofsky- keyboards | Steve Lew- bass David Shamrock- drums \ Drew Wheeler- guitar | Jackie Wheeler- vocals, percussion

Tri-Cornered Tent Show

In the early 20th century "tent shows" created multiple stages of interest vying simultaneously for attention. They could be selling you medicine, salvation, entertainment or war. While Drawing on combined influences in R&B/dance, classical, multi cultural folk, progressive rock, 20th century avant garde, free jazz and heavy metal, Tri-Cornered Tent Show pushes the envelope of melodic groove and arrhythmic improvisation, sometimes evoking images of 70's Italian horror pictures. and other outr`e forms of cinema. Around the turn of the 21st century the Tri-Cornered Tent Show driven by two intrepid tavelers Philip Everett and Ray Schaeffer, came out from their exile held up in a well-insulated dank studio in the depths of Richmond California for almost three decades.
Personnel:
Philip Everett - Electric Lapharp and Xlarinet | Ray Schaeffer - Electric Basses | Anthony Flores - Drums

Modesty

Texas born and raised, classically trained on violin & piano from the age of six. Modesty later retired her classical instruments to join a garage punk band playing bass & guitar. A love of producing electronic music began in 2010. Modesty has performed live in Texas and across SoCal recording in the Mojave with a focus on sound healing, meditation / synths, noise & experimental chaos magic
Personnel:
Chantelle Rodriguez - synthesizers, voice


Cost: $16/25