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IBOPA "IBOPA plays music called "CINEMATIC DEATH MAMBO." It operates on your hips, your ass, your broken heart and your funny bone. IBOPA is danceable and catchy but also moody in a tragic comedy kinda way. IBOPA has been described as "a totally unique and modern, bastard step-child of a John Water's flick, P.J. Harvey, 80's New Wave, Astor Piazolla and Bjork." [plagarized from their bio] Find out what the hell their name means here.

Brown-Star

"Brown-Star began in 1995 as an acoustic side project for two notable local musicians, vocalist Moon trent and guitarist Brett Klinker. trent was singing with the techno-pop combo Pale and Klinker was part of the gothic ethereal pop band Tel Basta. The current incarnation of Brown-Star features Scot Callis on drums and Andy Lund on bass. These two veteran musicians hailed from the recently disbanded local act Spackle, whose noise/grunge sound had gained them quite a reputation. Filling out their line-up with a powerful rhythm section has catapulted Brown-Star's Sound into the realm of power pop." [more straight-up bio diggins] Don't act like you don't know what Brown Star means. Some Saturdays you'll find us here crankin' out the local SF scene live from the 9up rehearsal studio in Hunters Point. Get on our email list for upcoming shows and events. Also, to join "Noiz", the local music gossip/gear list, send mail to majordomo@nineup.com with nothing in the subject line and the words "subscribe noiz" in the body.