Tag Archives: 1998 in San Francisco

Conceived in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1998, Iran started as the four-track bedroom-recording task of singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Aites. Playing a lot of the tools himself and recruiting close friends as required, Aites released Iran’s self-titled debut through Andee Connors’ (A Forest, J Chapel, Ticwar) Tumult label in …

The gentlemen of Pinq formed in 1998 following the demise of indie rock loudmouths Goldenrod and aimed for spiritual musical journey. Tim Mitchell (vocals/acoustic guitar), Ben Montesano (drums), and Greg Bertens (bass) trudged around their indigenous San Francisco through the past due ’90s. Andrew Simas became a member of on …

Alt-popsters the Stratford 4 includes users Chris Streng (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jake Hosek (acoustic guitar), Andrea Caturegli (drums), and Sheetal Singh (bass) — and even though the quartet is situated in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, almost fifty percent of their users hail originally from Seattle. Created in 1998, the music …

With few obvious alternative country comparisons, because they are neither attracted to the psychedelic sounds common to bands like Beachwood Sparks nor the rootsy rock of Son Volt and their ilk, the Court & Spark create twangy feeling music. Formed round the nucleus of Scott Hirsch, Alex Stimmel, Wayne Kim, …

The seed that became Dark Rebel Motorbike Club — or BRMC for short — was planted in 1995, when Robert Levon Been (aka Robert Turner) and Peter Hayes met while attending senior high school in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. The two produced a solid camaraderie and a distributed camaraderie predicated …

Obtaining their official begin following the break-up of Janitors Against Apartheid, Snoop Lodgey Lodge (vocals/ sax), Paul Grim (trumpet), Clay Davidson (bass), Eric Clifford (drums) and Blin (guitar) shifted to start out The Adjustments in 1998. Having a relocation from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to LA a couple days after …

The dub/trip-hop production team Otaku came together in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1998, originally to soundtrack a skill exhibition comprising alien artifacts. Brothers Colonel 32 and NaN got already been documenting for quite some time, however, using the reams of examples collected on the hard drives in addition to …

Jet Dark Crayon may be the instrumental post-rock outlet for former professional skater Tommy Guerrero, who also produces more eclectic, hip-hop oriented units under his personal name. (Back the 1980s, Guerrero was also the bassist within the famous — mostly for their really superb name — skatepunk clothing Free Ale, …

Motivated by post-punk, wish pop, and some electronica, the San Francisco-via-New York quintet Film Classes started because the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist Krayg Burton (aka Greg Bertens), who started recording beneath the Film Classes name in the past due ’90s. After launching the I’m NO LONGER WORKING 7″ on MeToo! Information, …

Influenced by Scandinavian one-man black color steel entrepreneurs like Bathory’s Quorthon, Burzum’s Rely Grishnackh, as well as the ubiquitous Mortiis, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA indigenous Jef Whitehead used the nom de guerre Wrest in 1998 and soon started self-recording and liberating demos beneath the Leviathan going. Within five years, these …