I’m back after a one-week break to see Joe Pernice play a couple of backyard shows here in the Bay Area of Northern California. This week’s program included new gems from The Popguns, Dark Tea, The Suncharms, Gonzalez Smith, Oliver Marson, Freezing Hands, The Garment District, Cormac O Caoimh, Soft Covers, The Happy Somethings & Slovenly Boy, The Smashing Times, Anton Barbeau, The March Afternoons, The Photocopies, Cuticles, Lightheaded, The Small Intestines, Jordsjø, Meatraffle, Violent Change, Hartle Road, The Paranoid Style, Adiós Amores, Thanks For Coming, Melenas, EXEK, David Christian And The Pinecone Orchestra, Gruff Rhys, Lower Plenty, Uni Boys, Blod, Alicja-Pop, Bed Bits, Creation Rebel, Great Area, Masami Takashima, Braake, Tele Novella, Blonde Redhead, A. Savage, Class, and a heretofore unreleased track from The Woods (the mid ‘80s Linda Smith combo, not the “Battleship Chains” group or Jeremy Earl’s Woods).

From the past: A selection from the just-reissued 1981 LP from INU.