Music To Save Dogs By: A Benefit for In Defense of Animals

[Guest guest]

WHAT: " Music To Save Dogs By " will feature three local bands

and a free raffle to raise

money to benefit IDA.

 

WHO: The three bands are 20 Minute Loop, Carrie Bradley, and Bermuda

Triangle Service,

great local bands with loyal followings.

 

WHEN: Sunday, July 11th, 2004. The doors open at 7:30 and the show

starts at 8:00 pm.

 

WHERE: Hotel Utah, 500 4th Street at Bryant Street, San Francisco.

Thehotelutahsaloon.com. Tel. 415-546-6300.

 

HOW MUCH: $8.00 which includes a raffle ticket

 

Carrie Bradley is an alumnus of San Francisco bands Ed's Redeeming

Qualities, the

Buckets, and 100 Watt Smile. A singer-songwriter, she has also played

violin for the

Breeders, Jonathan Richman, John Wesley Harding, the Red House

Painters, Granfaloon

Bus, Love and Rockets, and many others. She is joined by Scott

Greiner (100 Watt

Smile), Bernie Jungle (Thunderbleed aka Blind Vengeance), Adam

McCauley (Little My,

Warm Wires), Joe Kyle (The Waybacks), and Josh Housh (Nickel Beer

Riot, Lipsey Mountain

String Band) to play songs about dogs, birds, sex, death, food, and

paradox. You can

check either www.100wattsmile.com; <http://www.100

wattsmile.com;/>...or for Carrie in

general, use www.allmusic.com <http://www.allmusic.com/>

 

Talking dolphins, June bug cognoscenti and sleeping Dachshunds are

all stars in the lyrics

of Bermuda Triangle Service. With meandering slide guitars and

melancholy melodica,

Adam McCauley (Warm Wires/Little My), Robert Malta (PawPaw

Blowtorch), and Cynthia

Wigginton (Alejandro Escovedo/Mekons/Richard Buckner) spin tales of

otherworldly

adventures with music that maintains an earthy, down home sort of

feel. http://www.bermudatriangleservice.com <http://www.bermuda

triangleservice.com/>

 

20 Minute Loop (20ML) was formed by guitarist/vocalist Greg Giles in

1998 after many

curious adventures with an eight-track and the occasional open-mike

appearance with

vocalist/keyboardist Kelly Atkins. In 1999, lead guitarist Joe

Ostrowski joined them and

then bassist Nils Erikson and drummer Mike Romano completed the

group.

 

A heavily active band in the San Francisco scene, 20ML offers

energetic and highly

acclaimed live performances that showcase their signature co-ed

harmonies and tight

arrangements. Audiences can expect an alternatively manic and

intimate pop experience

with glimpses of the carnivalesque and plenty of catchy choruses.

 

20ML has been featured in the prestigious San Francisco Noise Pop

Festival, The Mission

Creek Music Festival and Nadine's Wild Weekend. In addition to their

large following as

headliners, they have supported such national acts as Solex, Creeper

Lagoon, Stereo Total,

The Minders, Mates of State, Save Ferris, The Extra Glenns (The

Mountain Goats), I am the

World Trade Center, Phil Elvrum (The Microphones), John Vanderslice

and Smokey and

Miho, The Lilys, Alaska, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Stratford 4, The

Swords Project, Xiu

Xiu and Erase Errata.

 

20ML's critically praised self-titled debut was released nationally

by Fortune Records in

August of 2000 and was produced by Chris Manning, who has worked with

Jellyfish,

Metallica, Guster, NWA and Roy Rogers, among others. Manning also

produced their highly

anticipated follow-up album, " Decline of Day " , which was released by

Fortune Records in

October of 2001 and picked up by Revolver/Midheaven in 2002. Thatyear

also found

them continuously touring Northern and Southern California and the

Northwestern and

Southwestern United States. In 2003, 20ML look forward to the release

of their third

album. 20ML's website is: http://www.20minuteloop.com <http://

www.20minuteloop.com/> .

 

For more information on the event, please contact Karen Penley. Tel.:

415-662-6826. E-

mail: Kpenley.