Jennifer "Miro" Anderson, singer of San Francisco's early punk band The Nuns, passed away at the age of 54 on December 16th in New York City as a result of complications from cancer. 

Getting their start in Marin, The Nuns began performing in the San Francisco in 1976 when they made their debut at the Mabuhay Gardens. By 1978, they had a show at Winterland Ballroom with The Avengers and Sex Pistols. The band split just a year later, but reunited in 1986 and again in 1997 with a more goth rock sheen. By this point, Jennifer Miro had become a popular fetish model and an aspiring screenwriter. Eventually, she went to work for a law office.

Despite suffering from both liver and lung cancer, Miro denied conventional treatment and painkillers, opting for exercise and homeopathic paths. 

Here is a clip from The Nun’s show at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in 1978.

The Secret Society Of The Sonic Six will bring their darkened disorientations to the bay area this coming week with performances in San Francisco and Oakland.  The group will be performing tracks off their next 12" release, The Pick Up, due out in Feb on 4:2:2v2, a new label out of Denmark.

Friday November 18th finds (((6))) at the Retox Lounge, a small watering hole in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.  This is the 5th anniversary of the Death Rock Dive Bar night and features locals Nezzy Idy and Headless Lizzy as well as the DRDB DJs. Make sure to head downstairs as the performance space is in the basement.






Saturday November 19th (((6))) will be visiting their gestation grounds for the first time since relocating to Los Angeles many years ago.  Katatonik is an underground monthly featuring dark experimentalists, mostly of the electronic variety. The nite is organized by the Katabatik label / soundsystem crew.  Check out the intense comps that the label has put out @ http://www.katabatik.org/kollektion/


This nite happens to be the 6th Katatonik so alignments are in place for a magikal (((6)))  evening.  Vancouver based Animal Bodies and Monsters of the Id will also be performing, along with DJ's R.M.S., Pink.Noise. and Mattreya.  The location is a tightly held secret so please contact a Katabatik representative @ contact@katabatik.org for addess specifics.  I can tell you that it's not too far from Jack London Square.

Join Amoeba Music and Strangelove for a Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration on November 4th at the Cat Club in San Francisco!

Enjoy the sounds of Dark Electro, Industrial, New Wave, and Goth with DJs Tomas Diablo, Joe Radio (Deathguild), Prince Charming (Pleasure Principle), and Fact 50 (Kinky Salon). There will also be skull face painters on hand to put a ghoulish grin on your face and a community altar to the dead, so bring some offerings!

And dont miss the piñata filled with goodies! Whoever cracks that open gets tickets to see VNV Nation AND and an Amoeba gift certificate!

The spooky details:
21+
9:30pm-3am
Just $3 before 10pm ($7 after)
Cat Club: 1190 Folsom St., SF

It's curated by Terri "Tooter" Berman and features Halloween-appropriate works by Grace Albelda, Douglas Alvarez, Kim Bagwill, Brooke Bearup, Terri "Tooter" Berman, Airom Bleicher, Julie Bossinger, Jonathan Bueno, Michelle Caplan, Deryke Cardenaz, Marcel DeJure, J Fuchs, Cristian "Smear" Gheorghiu, John Michael Gill, Harrel Goldstein, Dan Goodsell, Kio Griffith, Patrick Haemmerlein, Walter Hall, Mary J Hoffman, Lisa Hull, Jinxed Art, Billy Kheel, Aaron Kraten, Supersmash Max, Isabella Electra McGrath, Marlon McWilliams, Jon Measures, Sal Mendez, Yuki Miyazaki, Delphia Nikolaus, Tom Oliver, Jerry Paeff, Vera Paras, Carol Powell, Sarah Ramirez, Shannon Rowland, Uddon Soup, Mike Street, Paula Tade, Mayumi Tanaka, Kelly Thompson, Paul Torres, Jessica Valencia, David VonDerLinn, Susan Catherine Weber and more...