Amoeblog > Tag > amoebapalooza

How We Rocked: A Pictorial. Amoebapalooza San Francisco, 2013

Posted by The Bay Area Crew, February 4, 2013 07:30pm | Post a Comment

On January 27th, Amoeba San Francisco celebrated the yearly rite of rock -- Amoebapalooza -- at Cafe Du Nord. It was raucous night filled with top notch entertainment and everything from country to electronic to sea shanties was represented.

Here are some beautiful photos of the event by Amoeba's own Kaitlin Layher.

Born Petrified

Hank Aaron Williams (featuring the one and only Joe Goldmark)

Sparts

Ceiling Eyes

Death Pajamas

Cliff Diver

Shore Leave

Amoebapalooza San Francisco, January 27th

Posted by The Bay Area Crew, January 14, 2013 07:16pm | Post a Comment

Amoebapalooza SF, Amoeba Music's annual tradition of musical mayhem featuring bands comprised of Amoeba San Francisco employees & friends, is back!

Join us on January 27th at Cafe Du Nord for this celebrations of employee creativity. The doors open at 8:00pm and the show starts promptly at 8:30pm. Admission is just $5! Can you believe it?! Just $5 to see all of these bands:

Born Petrified

Hank Aaron Williams (featuring the one and only Joe Goldmark)

Sparts

Ceiling Eyes

Death Pajamas

Cliff Diver

Shore Leave

Special thanks to our friends at SIR SF for donating the backline for the second year in a row! Contact SIR for all of your equipment needs. DO it!

Amoebapalooza Berkeley 2012!

Posted by The Bay Area Crew, November 18, 2012 06:40pm | Post a Comment

Amoeba Music's annual tradition of musical mayhem featuring bands comprised of Amoeba Berkeley family members returns on Sunday, December 9th.

This celebrations of homegrown music and the enduring human spirit is open to the public, so come on down to Bar 355 (355 19th Street, Oakland)! Doors open at 8:30pm and the bands start promptly at 9:00pm. And get this...no cover! (21+ please.)

Here are the Berktastic bands you'll see that night:

ARTIFICIAL LIFE (A tribute to Operation Ivy with members of Eastern Span, Gnarboots, 100%, and Die Hard)

CABERNET VOLTAIRE (A tribute to Cabaret Voltaire with members of Poontang Wranglers, Sutekh Hexen, Larva, and Petit Mal)

THE TENTH PLANET (Avant-rock jams that are way far out, Baby)

SOFT TUG (A potpourri of sonic interludes, covers, and more from members of Musk)

TOTAL FAILURE (A psychedelic head-trip of originals and covers)

Amoebapalooza Hollywood, September 30th

Posted by Amoebite, September 28, 2012 02:16pm | Post a Comment

Join Amoeba for our annual night of musical mayhem, a.k.a. Amoebapalooza!! Our staff of talented and energectic music fans has put together bands for one night only, and will perform tributes, original music and, if previous years are any indication, there will be plenty more surprises. Join us for a full Sunday night of fun, 9/30, at The Dragonfly. Doors at 9 p.m. 21+ over, $5 at the door.

Amoebapalooza SF done Decked them Halls at Cafe du Nord!

Posted by Kelly S. Osato, December 8, 2011 10:42pm | Post a Comment

Right about now some of us here at Amoeba Music are probably experiencing disconcerting flash-backs of last Sunday nights' Amoebapalooza 2011 extravaganza - our annual variety show / collaborative fete wherein we Amoebites take all of our informed musical tastes and influences and toss them in in a blender with extra heaping helping of dysfunctional family sentiments and exhibitionist zeal often resulting in a veritable battle-of-the-bands whodunnit of epic proportions. For those who couldn't make it, and for those who can't remember exactly what happened, I'm here to commit all of my impressions and observations to the interwebs via personal recollection rendered threadbare by copious rum consumption. [photos by Kaitlin Layher]

Amoebapalooza liquid karma drone guru level experimental electronica julian maestas

First up, right on schedule, we had the elusive "powered by crystals" act Liquid Karma. Now, I know what you're probably thinking - "Liquid Karma? The all-natural plant growth stimulant?" No, silly! I'm talking about the signed-up-by-his-no-good-co-worker, one-man, guru-level experimental drone-core laptop wizard that opened Amoebapalooza 2011 - guess you had to be there, man. The only way he could've improved his performance is with the addition of a fog-machine. I really liked his senior shades.

Following Liquid Karma's wall of WTF we had the good fortune to enjoy fifteen delicious minutes of SCHNITZELKLIT - a newlywed duo performing songs like "Blue Moon" and a heart-swelling rendition of David Lynch's and Angelo Badalamenti's Fire Walk With Me slow jam "Sycamore Trees," complete with an on-hand portable tape recorder playing the sax solo to lend a true Twin Peaks air to the affair. Lovely indeed!

After that we had our very own self-styled "Jesus with a bun" Gabi Back strumming out a solid set of poignant acoustic covers what closed with an especially emotional rendition of Radiohead's "Lucky" proving that, within the span of just three brief acts, the spectrum of musical tastes and talents of our Amoeba brethren is as enthusiastic as it is expansive.

george harrison mask face amoebapalooza 2011 darkhorse tribute

amoebapalooza 2011 dark horse tattoo george harrison tribute label design

The next act in the line up took their love of George Harrison to new heights as Darkhorse: the one man/three women tribute act that featured our resident Jazz-man/Metal dude/Kate Bush enthusiast (every record store should have one) on guitar, steaming up the inside of his GH mask as he shredded his through the acoustic set accompanied by a Kaitlin, our lady of the Darkhorse tattoo on drums and vocals, with further vocal accompanyment provided by Amoeba ladies both dear and fair of voice. Everyone of them in some way sporting a likeness of Mr. Harrison. I know that sounds like kooky fun, and it totally was, but there are unfortunately no pictures the act to make true said observation. [sigh] I hope the images above, them kooky masks and Kait's Darkhorse tat, make up for it even if it's just a little bit.

<< 1 2 3 4 >> NEXT