The Hundreds and Live 105 Presents
White Arrows
Young Digerati, Trails and Ways, Miles the DJ
Wed, October 24, 2012
Doors: 9:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
$10.53 - $13.00
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http://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/event/152519/
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White Arrows
Lead singer of White Arrows, Mickey Schiff was born blind. At the age of 11 after years of gradual eye exercises and otherworldly determination, he regained his sight. Someone who has experienced and achieved this is undoubtedly going to be profoundly effected and perhaps understandably, a degree in Business Studies was not ever going to be an option for Schiff when he came to select his subject for college: he chose Ritualistic Shamanism.
In the summer of 2008, fresh out of NYU armed with his degree, Los Angeles native Mickey Schiff began White Arrows. Fusing his studies with a drum machine and the looming, immediate presence of a booming NYC club scene; White Arrows was intended less as a group than a social document, detailing the experience of the young, ambitious, fucked-up, beautiful children of a new cosmopolitan America – all coastal culture and no middle. Schiff’s own remarkable history meant that there could be no other reasoning behind the band. It didn’t take long before Schiff began seeing White Arrows tagged across the lower east side and tattooed on the arms of friends and acquaintances.
Schiff moved back to Los Angeles where in 2010 White Arrows began its life as a performing unit. The line-up features Steven Vernet (guitar and percussion), Rob Banks (guitar) Andrew Naeve (keys) and Mickey Schiff, as well as his 17 year old brother Henry Schiff (drums) and half-brother, John Paul Caballero (bass).
The ep is the band’s first release in the UK and will herald their forthcoming debut album later in the year. The eponymous ep is the prologue to the White Arrows story, they are demos exposed, a work in progress. It is five original tracks and two remixes by RAC (Remix Artist Collective) and KKS (Kevin Seaton). RAC are currently producing the debut long player and whilst the ep offers a glimpse into what can be expected from the California five piece it is the album that really showcases their fusion of hip hop drum samples, analogue synths and heavyweight melodic hooks.
White Arrows own “brilliant new” remix of Alexander Ebert’s (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes) track Truth has just featured on NME.com
In the summer of 2008, fresh out of NYU armed with his degree, Los Angeles native Mickey Schiff began White Arrows. Fusing his studies with a drum machine and the looming, immediate presence of a booming NYC club scene; White Arrows was intended less as a group than a social document, detailing the experience of the young, ambitious, fucked-up, beautiful children of a new cosmopolitan America – all coastal culture and no middle. Schiff’s own remarkable history meant that there could be no other reasoning behind the band. It didn’t take long before Schiff began seeing White Arrows tagged across the lower east side and tattooed on the arms of friends and acquaintances.
Schiff moved back to Los Angeles where in 2010 White Arrows began its life as a performing unit. The line-up features Steven Vernet (guitar and percussion), Rob Banks (guitar) Andrew Naeve (keys) and Mickey Schiff, as well as his 17 year old brother Henry Schiff (drums) and half-brother, John Paul Caballero (bass).
The ep is the band’s first release in the UK and will herald their forthcoming debut album later in the year. The eponymous ep is the prologue to the White Arrows story, they are demos exposed, a work in progress. It is five original tracks and two remixes by RAC (Remix Artist Collective) and KKS (Kevin Seaton). RAC are currently producing the debut long player and whilst the ep offers a glimpse into what can be expected from the California five piece it is the album that really showcases their fusion of hip hop drum samples, analogue synths and heavyweight melodic hooks.
White Arrows own “brilliant new” remix of Alexander Ebert’s (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes) track Truth has just featured on NME.com
Young Digerati
Young Digerati are the architects of a synth-heavy, Anglo-centric, (small “r”) romantic sound that could have been built only in San Francisco (or in 1985). So it's no shock they’ve already scored airplay on their hometown’s influential Live 105 - or that they've been booked on the station’s BFD Festival and on DJ Aaron Axelsen’s legendary “Britpop” night Popscene.
The prototypical Young D tune features lushly programmed keyboards and guitars, layered over live drums and bass. It inevitably stars a girl whom the band clearly will never get, and guys with whom they’ll never quite fit in. “Why do the girls I like move to the South to start a brand new life?” That’s the ego-crushing query that crops up in the very first line of the debut single, The Dauphin. The band’s expanding cycle of songs consistently and un-self-consciously calls to mind the Pet Shop Boys collaborating with the Postal Service on the soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. They're currently writing, recording, and performing gigs on the West Coast and around the Bay Area.
The prototypical Young D tune features lushly programmed keyboards and guitars, layered over live drums and bass. It inevitably stars a girl whom the band clearly will never get, and guys with whom they’ll never quite fit in. “Why do the girls I like move to the South to start a brand new life?” That’s the ego-crushing query that crops up in the very first line of the debut single, The Dauphin. The band’s expanding cycle of songs consistently and un-self-consciously calls to mind the Pet Shop Boys collaborating with the Postal Service on the soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. They're currently writing, recording, and performing gigs on the West Coast and around the Bay Area.
Trails and Ways
"Temporal, the second EP from Oakland-based DIY-pop quartet Trails and Ways, is a startling — and startlingly impressive — sophomore release: unique and ambitious and freighted with potential, at once dense and delicate, deftly combining disparate genres and dozens of instruments to create a sound that's hard to categorize and equally hard to forget....Temporal manages to invoke sounds as disparate as bossanova, afrobeat, calypso, and jazz, often in the same song; it's telling that the band has a broad range of influences, including Animal Collective, Bon Iver, Thelonius Monk, Drake, Paul Simon, and, especially, tUnE-yArDs." --East Bay Express
Miles the DJ
I am on the air and handle production at the radio station LIVE 105. I am a resident at "popscene" in San Francisco. I DJ quite a bit in Bay Area clubs/venues like Mezzanine, NightLife (at The California Academy Of Sciences), The Fillmore, The Rickshaw Stop, and 111 Minna among others. You will also find me DJing at LIVE 105 events like BFD, Spookfest and Not So Silent Night in between bands.
**All patrons under 21 years old must purchase a $5 drink ticket.
**All patrons under 21 years old must purchase a $5 drink ticket.
Venue Information:
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
1710 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103
http://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
1710 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103
http://www.brickandmortarmusic.com/