Stork Club
2330 Telegraph Avenue Oakland
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Light A Fire: Play It Very, Very Loud
(Rock/free night, or, rather, a rock free night)

A. Grex
Karl A.D. Evangelista: guitar, vox, etc.
Margaret Rei Scampavia: keys, winds, vox, etc.


Grex (Karl A.D. Evangelista-guitar, vox, etc.; Margaret Rei Scampavia-keys, winds, vox, etc.) was formed in and around the Mills College music axis, emphasizing cross-idiomatic conceits and melding elements of disparate sources--free jazz, early minimalism, impressionist music, garage rock, electroacoustic improvisation, folk balladry--into something stark and eldritch. Remarks HurdAudio, “The striking thing about this music was its stubborn refusal to eschew any element in favor of another… offered with a headlong creative urge that made the unexpected turns and sequences into a joyful expression.”

B. Quinn
Emery Barter: guitars, vox, etc.
Nate Brenner: drums, vox, etc.
Andrew Conklin: guitars, vox, etc.

Quinn is an Oakland trio of 3 men-children whose cranky guitars and lopsided songs are sweetened by minty vocals and the occasional cascade of bells. Music like this can only come from a city of crooked potholes and twinkling manmade lakes.

C. PG13
Phillip Greenlief: sax
John Shiurba: guitar
Thomas Scandura: drums

"Rock/thrash/metal extravaganza"!

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