Throwin’ Bo’s presents:
Magic Fig
(Valerian Tea Album Release Show)
Magic Fig is a San Francisco-based psych-pop group featuring members of The Umbrellas, Healing Potpourri, Almond Joy, and Whitney's Playland. The project was born out of guitarist Muzzy Moskowitz, keyboardist Jon Chaney, and bassist Matthew Ferrara’s shared love of fuzz organ, Bach, and Pink Floyd. The band later expanded to include drummer Taylor Giffin and vocalist Inna Showalter. Magic Fig’s self-titled debut album, produced by Joel Robinow of Once and Future Band, was released on Silver Current Records on May 17, 2024. It takes the listener on an odyssey through secret worlds and strange but oddly familiar terrains, candidly exploring themes spanning the cosmic and the mundane.
abracadabra
(Dub Duo Set)
If you find the time, please come and stay a while in abracadabra’s beautiful neighbourhood; a magically wonky wonderland where strangers leave as friends to a block party soundtrack as eclectic as it is infectious. The California duo’s album shapes & colors is a dazzling collage of psych-fuelled synthscapes and contemporary Baroque-pop of anti-capitalist movements and escapism, precisely pieced around their own working lives in a blue-collar town.
In the heart of Oakland’s industrial Jingletown above a former auto-repair shop in what was once a mechanics’ break room where poker rounds ensued, Hannah Skelton (Vocals, Synthesizers) and Chris Niles, (Bass, Synthesizers) constructed the angular 80s-tinged anthems (think John Hughes montages to Talking Heads) of their new album, to positively offset the pandemic’s amplification of dysfunctional society.
Diving into decades of electronica and crunchy sound effects, field recordings and animal sounds, blended with an infectious Latin influence, "shapes & colors" is bolstered by live percussionists. It shimmies with the charismatic energy of ESG, Tom Tom Club, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and the dub hits of King Tubby, the melodic sensibilities of Prince, Stereolab, and idiosyncratic Deerhoof offering an ornate alternative to traditional guitar pop chord progressions as they layer wrecking ball-sized danceable motifs to rumble the dust off the cars on the street from the nearby concrete factory.
Mayya
Mayya is inspired by anyone who is unapologetically themselves and aspires to create a positive environment through her melodic, energetic music. She has shared bills with Deerhoof, Mike Watt, Luna, Kid Congo Powers, John Doe, Tim Presley, Death Valley Girls, The Avengers, Downtown Boys, Jeffrey Lewis, and more.
DOORS at 7:00PM | MUSIC at 8:00 PM