KUSF presents

NOISE POP 2010
w/
FOREIGN BORN
The Fresh & Onlys
Free Energy
The Splinters

8 pm
$12 adv/$14 doors

Noise Pop 2010 rocks the house!
noisepop.com/2010

FOREIGN BORN
The songs of LA's Foreign Born feature African high-life guitars countered with New Wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its pallet open to most any influence -- from U2 to The Feelies. If the Walkmen weren't afraid to go out in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops, you may have a sound close to this... like it could be Phil Spector's mid-70's 'lost recordings' inspired by the depth of second-line drum bands from New Orleans. "The band [has a] feel for anthemic '80s rock shaded by complex arrangements and cathartic moments that make the likes of Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire so appealing."- LA Times
myspace.com/foreignborn

THE FRESH & ONLYS
"The Fresh & Onlys traffic in jangly garage-pop, balancing psych-rock swagger with generous dollops of sweetly cockeyed melody. Their recordings are lovingly caked with crud, and their jams sometimes veer perilously close to derailing completely, which might seem to lump them in with other San Francisco psych revivalists like Thee Oh Sees and Sic Alps. But the Fresh & Onlys are set apart by an endearingly fussy devotion to songcraft and an understated and unfakeable weirdness." --Pitchfork
myspace.com/thefreshonlys

FREE ENERGY
Ex-Hockey Nighters recorded an album for DFA and it sounds like the unholy child of Thin Lizzy and the Rapture. "Free Energy is one of the best live bands in America. After Friday night's show at Brooklyn Bowl, I'm ready to call them five of the best people in the world, hands down, and give them any accompanying awards (note to self -- check if there is a Rock 'n' Roll Noble Prize, award to Free Energy if so), just based on the amount of joy the band brings into the world with its music. Not in a 'joy to the world' way, either, but in a 'Trans Am going 120 miles an hour while you're out of your mind on whiskey and weed' way. If there is a heaven, Free Energy will be the house band." --NY Press
myspace.com/freeenergymusic

THE SPLINTERS
"Taking cues from greats like The Raincoats, the Vaselines, and the Shop Assistants, the Splinters create songs that are both immediate and wear well with many repeated listens. It wouldn't be a far stretch to find The Splinters landing on a label like K or Merge in the years to come as this is a band that knows its underground rock history yet creates songs that feel so completely present and all their own." --Aquarius Records
myspace.com/thesplintersband

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