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San Andreas Fault

About Me

Conceived in 1999 as a part-time instrumental rock experiment by Chicago multi-instrumentalist Rob Warmowski, the SA Fault has evolved into a four-piece rock band featuring sardonic D. Boon-esque lyrics, odd and organic electric guitars and a rhythm section as reliable as morning and as alarming as Donald Rumsfeld. The Fault released their debut record in 2003 "Encantada" which found play on numerous popular television shows nobody admits to watching, including a show featuring the famously-encrusted Cameron Diaz. Rob's work is not limited to popular TV shows; he also co-wrote and recorded the theme to the "Upright Citizen's Brigade" on Comedy Central. Rob has shared the stage with the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, The Circle Jerks, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Naked Raygun, Bad Religion, Quicksand, Pegboy, Rifle Sport, The Dead Milkmen and dozens of other groups in his twenty-year career"in music, beginning as a highschooler by founding the Chicago hardcore punk / surf band The Defoliants in 1985. He has worked as a composer, sound engineer, producer and art director, spending three years with venerable Chicago label Perishable. He has been honored for his record cover design by inclusion in the National Design Museum. He remains interested in your earhole. To that end he is working on new songs and will soon complete a new 7" with enhanced conceptual packaging. And he is tired of referring to himself in the third person and will now stop.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/01/2005
Band Website: www.thesanandreasfault.com
Influences: Devo, Debussy, Minutemen, Ron Granier, Ennio Morricone, Fugazi, Who, Pixies, Ween, Buzzcocks, XTC, Joy Interpol Division, Gang of The Liars Four, The Cure, King Crimson, The Jesus Lizard, Burton Cummings, Paul Mariat, Kurt Vonnegut, Neneh Cherry, Spoon, Boards of Canada, Saul Bass, Roxy Music, Monk, Link Wray, Breaking Circus, Van Dyke Parks, H.L Mencken, Jawbox, Opeth, Stanley Kubrick, Slint, Boz Boorer, Bill Hicks, Walter Murch, Roy Orbison, Killing Joke, Turbonegro, Califone, Bionic, David Mamet, Pan Sonic, Karl Popper, Raybeats, Ruts, Brother Theodore, Guided By Voices, Paul Rand, Kraftwerk, The Stranglers, Agent Orange, John Waters, John Rawls, Scott Walker, Shellac, Bill Sienkiewicz, The Ventures, Michael Palin, Curtis Mayfield, Hal Blaine, Albert Brooks, O.C. and Stiggs, Dorothy Parker, Parliament, Lalo Schifrin, Louis Sullivan, Brainiac, Randy Newman, oh for god's sake it'll never end
Sounds Like: A flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs, only a little more mournful.
Record Label: Blue Leader
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SIRS: Robs new band

Fault fans:New Fault tracks are coming. But in the meantime, Rob's in a new original band: SIRS.This group is more aggro than the fault, has a frontman/singer and one member is not human. http://mys...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:38:00 GMT

Failure to suck: Art Brut and Jai-alai Savant in Chicago

Saw two bands. I saw two bands. Look at me; I saw two bands.I got out of the house and office and airplanes and hotels for a whole evening and went to see Art Brut with Jai alai Savant at Subterrene...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:25:00 GMT

Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo

Maureen and I are headed to New York City to attend the US debut of Maestro Ennio Morricone.  He will be conducting a 200-piece orchestra and choir at Radio City Music Hall as well as a private c...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:58:00 GMT

Faulty

Quit looking at me.  I know what you're thinking.  It's all my fault.So you want sad reverb and pounding drums?  Of course you do. Well, I made some.  Ten whole seconds of  bu...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:39:00 GMT

WTF is this band named 'Mew'

I could hunt down the information and pretend I knew it all along, but I'm an aescetic, an information aescetic. I think the only sane and dignified response to living in an age of immediate access t...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:32:00 GMT

Fault visits the fault; nobody killed

For the first time since the establishment of the band/project, I travelled to California and hung around San Francisco for a few days. I did this to attend the annual convention of the Audio Enginee...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:31:00 GMT

Scott Walker and Ennio Morricone on Myspace

So the titanic, enormous, impossibly huge musical giants Scott Walker and Ennio Morricone are "on" Myspace.Why do I have a hard time imagining either Maestro actually doing the pointing and the clicki...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT

Big Posse

I don't know what it is about the Scandinavian area, but something funny happens when they plug in the electric guitars up that way.  If it isn't Turbonegro doing a Tom Of Finland on your earhole...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:33:00 GMT

New tracks

Work is proceeding on new SAF songs. A new album is being developed.  Jason Tuller and Pierce Doerr helped. Stick around to enjoy the fruits of the struggle. Cheers to all who have...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:07:00 GMT