There’s a quality all-ages concert tonight (on a Monday!) at Fresno Brewing Co. on the Fulton Mall featuring L.A. band SISU.
Here’s the hook: SISU is a side project of Sandra Vu, who plays drum in Dum Dum Girls, an indie rock band signed to the famed Sub Pop record label. In SISU, Vu plays with another Dum Dum Girl, keyboardist Jules Medeiros, as well as guitarist Ryan Wood, drummer Nathanael Keefer and bassist Chris Stevens. The band’s music is dreamy and sparse, with gentle vocals backed by electro beats.
A club in the sky, live music, beer glasses with mustaches and a rap dude a hookah lounge. Let the fliers below be your guide. For more, head to Post No Bills.
It’s time to “Elevate Your Taste” with a new installment of my podcast/radio show Ozmosis. This week’s show has new music from Toro Y Moi, Paul Banks, Foals and DRGN King, among others. Also featured: Sir Sly (playing Saturday night at The Cellar Door in Visalia) and local singer J.J. Brown, who just put out a Veterans Day benefit song.
Today Fresno welcomes another step forward in its growing mobile food culture. CArthop, a weekly gathering of mobile food vendors, debuts at 10 a.m. on the Fulton Mall. The event is a joint effort from Dusty Buns Bistro Bus and Fresno Brewing Co.
It’s not quite Fresno’s version of Off the Grid. Instead, CArthop focuses on local, organic food. There’s also live music and art, making it seem a bit like a smaller, food-focused version of the Catacomb Party that happened in July
The Bee’s Bethany Clough had a nice piece about CArthop in Wednesday’s paper. You can read the whole thing, but this part will tell you more about the motivation behind the event:
1. FILL YOUR EARS WITH LOCAL MUSIC Tonight is the kick off of an interesting campaign by the folks behind Fuse Fest. They’re starting a Fresno Covers Fresno compilation. In short, as the name suggests, it’ll be Fresno musicians covering the music of other Fresno musicians. Hope is for the comp to be done at this time next year. This Tokyo Garden show is the start of fund-raising efforts for Fresno Covers Fresno. [More]
1. THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE I’ve been talking about it for a while, but it’s finally here: The Star Wars Pub Crawl in the Tower District to celebrate May 4 (aka May the Fourth Be With You). Ten different bars are in, with signature drinks, games and contests. The whole thing starts at 7:30 p.m. with a gathering of Jedis, Sith, wookies, etc., in the parking lot behind Livingstone’s. Read my column from The Bee for more info. [Info]
For the next in my 7Qs series, I cornered Ephiram Bosse to ask him questions about his recently opened Fulton Mall business, Fresno Brewing Co. It’s a coffee place with plans for beer in the coming months — hitting both ends of the brewing spectrum, ya know?
One update to something Bosse talks about in the video: Twee Boutique, the cool Tower District boutique, has opened a second location next to Fresno Brewing Co., in what sounds like it’s going to be a commune of cool stuff.
1. CELEBRATE WITH AUDIE
Audie of Audie’s Olympic is celebrating his birthday tonight and Saturday with the two-day Audiepalooza. Go help him blow out the candles.
There’s a quality all-ages concert tonight (on a Monday!) at Fresno Brewing Co. on the Fulton Mall featuring L.A. band SISU.
