5pm Doors • 6pm Show • $20 Tickets on Eventbrite and at the door if available
The Rubinoos
The Rubinoos - Exactly forty years after The Rubinoos capped their original and unlikely rise to fame with the Beserkley Records classic Back To The Drawing Board!, the definitive line up featuring Jon Rubin, Tommy Dunbar, Donn Spindt and Al Chan are back in action on new album From Home, out August 23 on Yep Roc Records. After forming in 1970 when no one in the band was old enough to drive a car, the Bay Area rockers earned hero status in the late 1970s over an incredible three year stretch (1977 1980) which saw them release two albums, chart on the Billboard Hot 100, perform on American Bandstand and Old Grey Whistle Test, back Jonathan Richman, grace the pages of Tiger Beat, and tour with Elvis Costello. The Rubinoos have toured and recorded in different incarnations in the intervening decades, but From Home represents a true return to the original spirit of the group.
This new album is thanks in part to fellow SF artist Chuck Prophet, a self avowed superfan who saw the Rubinoos dozens of times as a teenager. From Home sees this magnificently unconventional four piece return with all of the Beach Boys backed by a garage band intensity and impeccability of their 70s breakout.
Dot Dash
“Washington DC group Dot Dash, who have come to play as idealized and energized a form of power pop as one could imagine, didn’t grow up in the ’60s; their musical touchstones are in the new wave era: so, more the Jam than the Who, Haircut 100 rather than the Kinks. Their iconic labels are more likely to be Postcard, Rough Trade and Sarah than Immediate, Pye or Deram. While they may have started out in thrall to Wire, from whom they took their name, their progress has been towards crystalline tunefulness.“ – Ira Robbins, Trouser Press
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER: “A peppy adrenaline rush that channels late-’70s mod revival and jangly college rock in equal measure, ‘Flowers’ is the shortest track on new Dot Dash album Earthquakes & Tidal Waves, and like an ideal sock hop song, it radiates ephemeral, youthful glee before it disappears in a flash."
9:30 CLUB: "Dot Dash is from Washington D.C. Their music has been described as garage, power pop, punk, post-punk, indie rock and indie pop. Over the last 5 years Dot Dash has had 5 albums released by Canadian indie label The Beautiful Music."