Bands to play happy hour show for David Campos
In order to creatively mix up awareness about the San Francisco Bay Area housing crisis, a group of bands are coming together to play a show which will double as a meet-and-greet with David Campos, a candidate for the State Assembly in the election coming up this June 3rd. Participating local bands are Future Twin and El Terrible, with a DJ set by San Francisco staple Jamie Jams. Future Twin is a punk-psychedelic get-up that is fronted by Jean Jeanie, a powerful singer who can command a stage with her booming voice. El Terrible, a punk/new wave trio, will bring [...]
Premiere: El Terrible’s self-titled EP
El Terrible is a new project fronted by Terry Ashkinos of Fake Your Own Death. El Terrible began when Ashkinos was in Berlin studying the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. "While I was there, I had written 5 songs in a tiny little apartment above a bar called White Trash Tattoo," Ashkinos told me. "I was excited to come back to SF and record them right away while they were fresh." Members of Fake Your Own Death were busy at the time, so he teamed up with Rob Easson (of Rogue Wave) to record the EP at Easson's home [...]