The Independent is a premier live music venue in San Francisco that opened its doors to Bay Area music lovers in February 2004. Centrally located, The Independent has undergone a complete renovation with new, state-of-the-art sound and light systems. The majority of the structural and technical improvements within the club create an aesthetically appealing live music environment for the audience and musicians alike. All events at the Independent are 21 and over.
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THE INDEPENDENT’S FEATURED ARTIST:
FUJIYA & MIYAGI -- Live at The Independent on October 28th!
Fujiya & Miyagi’s songs are incisive snapshots of real lives that make household appliances sound threatening. They are steeped in vintage music from evocative krautrock to deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth, Floydian Englishness and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times.
In total, Fujiya & Miyagi don’t really sound like anything. Instead, they sound like everything condensed into perfectly arranged three minute chunks of infectious pop music, a strange hybrid of James Brown on Valium and Wire gone pop. Or maybe Serge Gainsbourg with a PhD in electronics backed by David Byrne’s Eno-produced scratchy guitar mixed by MF Doom. It’s Darwinism gone mad.
Fujiya & Miyagi stay away from lyrical themes that have been done to death. Using old synths to punctuate their beautifully-observed anecdotes on romantic triumphs and disasters, heroes and villains and the world at large, their rhythms palpitate to produce modern symphonies like no-one else. Light Bulbs is a journey littered with fragmented images, anecdotes from the sublime to the ridiculous, blurry stories that you feel you shouldn’t have overheard. Each track an aural contamination set to itch your inner ear every waking moment.
Check out Fujiya & Miyagi’s “Ankle Injuries†Music Video
Fujiya & Miyagi’s MySpace page - www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi
