Dirty Ghosts @ Slim’s // 10.22

October 21st, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Featured, Upcoming Shows

Dirty Ghosts @ Slim’s // 10.22

Photo by Julie Schuchard Get down with Dirty Ghosts this Saturday at Slim’s as they open with Alex Totally! for Mickey Avalon. We promise they won’t disappoint as they sure got our asses shaking at Different Fur Studio’s 43rd Anniversary Show. That’s Allyson Baker singing into the mic above, and with the help of Erin [...]

Different Fur Turns 43!! // 08.26

August 19th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Featured, random

 Different Fur Turns 43!! // 08.26

Flyer design by Joey Enos. Different Fur Presents… Ourself! It’s our Anniversary yo and we want to bask in all our 43-year-old glory with all y’all. So the deal is you’re cordially invited to Café Du Nord, Friday August 26th for a night of brilliant music and carousing with friends. The last show we did [...]

Patrick Brown Interview W/ Culture Brats

August 19th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Featured, in the building

 Patrick Brown Interview W/ Culture Brats

Photo by Molly Decoudreaux Writing collective Culture Brats are a blog that devotes their bandwidth to musing on all things pop culture. I.E. the only things worth living for these days: Music, movies, tv, geek phenomena, oh and interviews! And this time around they’ve decided to feature one of DF’s very own, Owner/ Engineer Patrick [...]

East Bay Express Features// Ash Reiter

July 29th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Featured, friends

East Bay Express Features// Ash Reiter

After slamming out four days of recording at DF studios this past June, the effervescent Ash Reiter and Co. are on track to put out their forthcoming album this September. East Bay Express caught wind of their doings and has featured a lovely little run down on their current state of affairs here. Bonnie Horgos [...]

Zodiac Death Valley // Lilac @ the Independent 07.21

July 20th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Upcoming Shows

Zodiac Death Valley and Lilac are bending it up at The Independent next Thursday 07.21. Zodiac Death Valley are a self-described concoction of “cactus flower romanticism, junk rock echoing the hardened curbside soul of The Haight and Mission districts, dark sailor music extracted from the cold bawdy Barbary waterfront”. Yeah. Might be a mouthful but [...]

Fubar Gives Away $10,000/Month in Battle of the Bands

July 15th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in news

Would you like $10,000 dollars? For playing some of those jams your band loves to play so much? Well, the social media site Fubar is giving away $10,000 a month to the top voted band in their Battle Royal of the Bands. So you’re not in a band? No worries you can still get in [...]

J.O. Cool and John Wade// Album Release

July 11th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in in the building

 J.O. Cool and John Wade// Album Release

Album Art by Centel Baton Rouge based producer John Wade wants you to know what Southern hip-hop sound is about these days. Teamed up with South Carolina’s J.O. Cool, the duo mixed their debut album, First Impressions at DF studios. The 16 track album was primarily mixed by Fur engineers Nic Atamanuk and Pat Brown. [...]

Washed Out @ GAMH 7/9

July 8th, 2011  |  by lindsey  |  published in Upcoming Shows

Also-ran or phenomenon? Will Govus Since Washed Out hit the scene back in 2009 he’s dialed down the sampling and scaled up the songwriting with his new album, Within and Without. With a background in everything from jazz to instrumental hip-hop he produces a synthy soundscape that will put the dreamy buzz(or acid trip?) in [...]