THE FRESNAN

BANDGEEK!: A Rocking Vacation

We are on a vacation. That's our excuse THIS week for having another limited Bandgeek post. Now you may ask "How DOES one take a vacation from being an unpaid blogger?" Not sure but it's happening. Anyway, Fresno music isn't taking a vacation. It's working hard:

FRIDAY

KUPPAJOE'S: Metal and hardcore from San Jose's Me The Mountain and more:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Look out. Patrick Contreras playing with the Jay Smith Group. Crazy amount of talent for one stage.

BABYLON: Huge festival size lineup, headlined by Wes Borland's Black Light Burns. Plus all kinds of local talent like Violent Serenade, Euphoria and more. Tickets. Info:

THE LAMP POST: He was a hit at FUSE Fest and now see B. Rawcity for free:

In Town Tonight: Ape Machine

Portland brings the shit with stoner rock band Ape Machine. Plus Fresno's Style Like Revelators and the continuing return of Beastmaker whom have quickly got some good local buzz going.

 

In Town Tonight: A Whole Lot of 'Core-ing

At the CYC, pretty much all your key 'core rock will be represented tonight when seven bands throw down in china town. Seattle's Mercy Ties leads the way with, Bubonic Bear (Philadelphia, PA), Heavy Medical (Philadelphia, PA), Fever Dreams (Saint George, UT), Globe and Beast (San Diego, CA) helping out. Let's not forget locals Grow and Tiger Lily.

Mercy Ties:

Bubonic Bear:

FUSE Fest 2012: It's The Moments That Count

It's probably a good sign when you are tired after a music festival. Nobody is ever tired after having a boring time. Such is the case the day after FUSE Fest 2012. We're very tired.

There were a lot of cool moments this year: Being moved by the rock of Sparklejet. Discovering Alana Hill has an amazing voice. Seeing Kat Jones reconnect with her Fresno fans. People tripping out on the robot that is Collecto. Light Thieves wowing F55:

Werebear tearing it up the Lampost:

People on Iron Bird Loft balconies enjoying Blake Jones:

Post Takeover - FUSE Fest 2012: It Begins

FUSE Fest 2012. It all starts tonight with a festival pre-party happening at The Hashtag on Wishon Row. See various FUSE Fest artists doing hella short sets, plus get your festival passes for Friday and Saturday along with FUSE Fest merch.

You can also get a sweet program you can use to start planning your festival routing. It's music nerd stuff and it's fun as hell. If you don't get a program you can start planning with this.

Get hyped by listening to all the pre-festival podcasting:

• Flowing With FUSE Fest 2012.
• Ozmosis FUSE Fest Special.
• Josh Tehee talking FUSE on The Drive.
• Omar Nare and Before Perils on Radio Bilingue.
• Werebear on Dorktown.

It's like Christmas Eve for Fresno music nerds. Can't wait for it to start.

 

Post Takeover - FUSE Fest 2012: Flowing With FUSE

Back again with another special edition of Flowing With Famous: Flowing With FUSE 2012.

Josh and Mikey talk about some highlights from the past five years of the Fresno Urban Sound Experience.  Plus, breakdown what they’re looking forward to this year, all with FUSE Fest music flowing in and out.

It’s a good time. Click to listen: FlowingWithFUSE2012.mp3

*Heads up: Some of the music is Not Safe For Work - which makes it more kickass.

FUSE Fest 2012 'Post Takeover' - Coattrack Records Boxset Featuring FUSE Fest Artists

As we continue our 'post takeover' with FUSE, we find that the new Coattrack Records box set features plenty of FUSE Fest 2012 bands. Such as Niilo Smeds, Actress and Restaurnaut. It's good stuff no matter how many FUSE bands there are:

Check out the video Coattrack put together to promote the box set:

FUSE Fest 'Post Takeover': Dorktown Podcast #122 with Werebear

Musician and festival organizer, Cristobal, from animal-punk band Werebear and Spanspek Music & Arts Festival, visits Dorktown and helps the gang talk about stuff like:

• Dove season in Fresno.
• Is it okay for Dorktown to drink something other than Tioga Sequoia beer?
• The whats and whys of Spanspek.
• Growing up Orosi.
• What is wrong with Clovis?
• Mikey gets Dorktown involved with some podcast beef with Podawful and Ear Candy and it's awesome!
• MUSIC BREAK: Collecto.
• Werebear is also playing FUSE Fest 2012 dontcha know.
• Mikey almost dies for Becky.
• What the hell is a Werebear?
• MUSIC BREAK: Werebear.
• Fonzy Eyyys!

Please go out and have a nice craft beer from our friends at Tioga Sequoia!

Check out Dorktown's home, leave a kickass review on iTunes, like their Face and Tweet'um... you know... if you have the time or whatever.

FUSE Fest 2012 - Fresnan 'Post Takeover' + FUSE Schedule

If you're a beer snob then you may have heard of a thing called a 'tap takeover'. It's when one brewing company takes over all the taps at a bar or restaurant for the whole night.

So we're taking that idea and bringing it to the blog world. This week on The Fresnan, all the posts will be Fresno Urban Sound Expierience related. In other nerdy words: FUSE Fest is doing a 'post takeover' here at The Fresnan.

First up, it's maybe the most important of all: the schedule is out for this weekend's FUSE Fest. You can check the site, or check it right now here:

BANDGEEK!: Goldenboys, Big Tops, Down Words, Chop Tops and Dismembering

We have to apologize for this week's Bandgeek. It's thin on linking, heavy on just fliers. We are helping with next week's big local music event and this version of Bandgeek is half-assed because of it. It's cool, it's still... Bandgeeeeek!!:

FRIDAY

FULTON 55: So-Cal indie dream-pop band Goldenboy. More show info here.

FULL CIRCLE: It's Under The Big Top 2:

STARLINE: The return of Down Word:

FRESNO BREWING COMPANY: Oregon folk-rock from The Harmed Brothers:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC:

SATURDAY

FULL CIRCLE BREWERY: Blind Disciple, Azazel, Spirit Descending, Fatal Rebirth and Azathoth:

New Music Tuesday: Restaurnaut "FUSEcore"

Just in time for Fresno Urban Sound Experience #5, Restaurnaut is getting way ready for his FUSE performance (6:30 at Fresno Brewing Company, Saturday Sept 8th) by releasing a special FUSE inspired EP called "Friendcore Applecore Horseycore Forevermore".

He just sat down with a mic the other night and did it. Go download it for a hidden track here:

 

In Town Tonight: Chiefs

Phoenix rock band, Chiefs, stops in a Audie's Olympic tonight. In support are locals Kinship, Euphoria and American Sanchez. Plus the night is hosted by Internet radio show Everybody's Doing It w' Kris & Laura.

 

BANDGEEK! Bank Vaults, Doin It and Rocking The Top

Plenty to cover. Let's get to it. Let's Bandgeeeeek!!:

FRIDAY

PACIFIC SOUTHWEST BUILDING: The Light Thieves are hot and have new music to play for you. It's Hide and Seek's two-year anniversary. Starskate will be there too. And it's all happening in an old bank vault. Go:

KUPPAJOE'S: Experimental rock from Las Vegas with Stolas and Habit. Plus locals Mane Horse, Corsair and Weary Hands:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: If the Soulflower Group is doing a tribute to Def Jam we're pretty damn sure it's going to be good:

STARLINE: Well hand it to American Made Concerts for bringing the OG metal through town. It's Mandy Lion:

THE LAMP POST:  

THAI PALMS: 

THE NEXT BAR: Metal from Grooveyard, Spirit Descending and more:

In Town Tonight: Typical Thursday Night Kickass

Like it. It's seems Fulton 55 is opening things up a bit. Doin' some punk action, we see. Big Sexy Anus Kings are playing... wait. That was supposed to be seperate. Big Sexy and Anus Kings yes AND Anus Kings are playing.... Anus Kings. Plus the return of Fresno's Beastmaker and maybe the first time It'll Grow Back plays F55 we thinks:

Audie's Olympic. Fresnan Sahab, Mondo Deco (Sac-town glam) and Style Like Revelators (Fresno bluseyrock).

The CYC. Kayo Dot is a "compositional/avant rock band" out of Brooklyn. Wreck & Reference is "experimental drone" music from Los Angels. Strawberry Jam (Fresno) and Ovarian Office... isn't playing, but Eindrah (Fresno) is taking their place so it's cool:

Video Dump: Patrick Contreras "Rise & Fall"

Patrick Contreras has been doing some interesting stuff with his violyn lately (not a euphemism) and incorpirating some dub-step style into his music:

Check him out on the Fulton Mall this Saturday playing during the Fresno Chile Festival at 7pm under the Clock Tower. He'll also be at FUSE Fest on Saturday, September 8th, at Frank's Place at 10pm.