Babe Rainbow &
LA LOM
@ Union Square
SF LIVE at Union Square is BACK with another star-studded line-up featuring
BABE RAINBOW, LA LOM, MINAMI DEUTSCH, BOOGARINS, AND THEE HEART TONES!
Babe Rainbow & LA LOM @ Union Square x The Chapel
DATE: Saturday, October 12, 2024
TIME: 1:00PM - 6:00PM
LOCATION: Union Square Plaza, San Francisco
FREE • All Ages
Live & Featured
LIVE
Babe Rainbow
Babe Rainbow are Biblical, magical, they conjure up emotion, sincerity, classic modern music. Cool breeze with his long blonde hair saying: ‘We want to tell people what we are about and let them know that we understand what they are about.’
‘Fresh As A Head of Lettuce’ takes their love for the experimental folkies and spaced out summer psychedelia but speeded up, mawkish, in exotic vamp, up and down the stage at the same time switching halfway into fast rock.
Opening with this very slow meaningful love song ‘Super Ego’, it is followed by the feel good raver ‘Sunshine’: an upbeat jungle toucher with the bands main ingredients. It’s the next two songs ‘Paradise Garage’ and ‘Quicksilver’ that pull away from box tricks under the influence of producer Timon Martin and Jorge Elbrecht mixing.
Both songs are jungle music really, an asylum for emotional imbeciles, beat music, big, open, fun, vintage, original rock brought together by the babe rainbow gift for the obvious.
LIVE
LA LOM
The Los Angeles League of Musicians, LA LOM, are an instrumental trio formed in Los Angeles in 2021. They blend the sounds of Cumbia Sonidera, 60’s soul ballads and classic romantic boleros that emanate from radios, backyard parties and dance clubs of Los Angeles with the twang of Peruvian Chicha and Bakersfield Country.
LIVE
MINAMI DEUTSCH
Minami Deutsch/南ドイツ was formed by Kyotaro Miula (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) in Tokyo in 2014. The band members being self-professed “repetition freaks” who heavily listen to minimal techno.
LIVE
BOOGARINS
Boogarins’ Fernando “Dino” Almeida and Benke Ferraz began playing music together as teenagers in the central Brazilian city of Goiânia– recording psychedelic pop in their parents’ gardens, filtering their country’s rich musical history through a very modern lens.
’Manual’ has the same dual meanings in Portuguese and English: “to work with your hands” and “an instruction book.” With the full title being Manual, ou guia livre de dissolução dos sonhos (Manual, or free guide to the dissolution of dreams), the album should more so be viewed as a sort of diary or dream journal. The artwork, by artist Nei Caetano da Silva (taken from a sketchbook in which he used to draw with his children), perfectly represents the mood of the music: deeply personal, emotional, free-flowing and in the moment, tying together thoughts and dreams. Reflecting on Boogarins’ epic journey over the last few years, during album centerpiece “Falsa Folha de Rosto” Dino sings, “viver virou sonhar” (living became dreaming). Yes, Boogarins’ new LP does indeed offer a free ride to the dissolution of your dreams.
LIVE
THEE HEART TONES
Thee Heart Tones are Jazmine on vocals, Ricky on keys and organ, Jorge on drums, Jeffrey Romero on bass, Peter Chagolla on lead guitar, and Walter Morales on rhythm guitar. They’re all precociously young: Jorge is the eldest at 21 (“the old man of the band,” Ricky jokes,) Jazmine the youngest at 19, and the others are all 20. Ricky met Jorge, Peter, Walter, and Jeff at Hawthorne High School.
Thee Heart Tones debut album Forever & Ever is a testament to their unmistakable chemistry and talent that are both far beyond their years. Choosing to cover “Sabor A Mi”, a 1950s bolero by Mexican musician Alvaro Carrillo also shows a sophistication in their intention rarely found in kids their age.
“It allows us to let our audience know we go back to our roots,” Jazmine says. “Growing up in LA, you get influenced by the city, the artwork, the music,” Ricky says. “Dad didn’t own a lowrider car, but other members of our family did. Impalas. El Caminos. I was influenced by the culture, particularly the Chicano culture. And oldies and soul music played a big part.” The style. The culture. The nod to the past. “That’s what we’re going for. We want to connect young Chicanos with their heritage. And we want to unite people — old and young.”
DJ SET
Walkin’ Love
Walkin' Love (Gregorio Perez Figueroa) is a vinyl disc jockey, artist and leader of the San Francisco based psychedelic rock band BOLERO!
Gregorio (Walkin' Love) has played both on live air and online radio such as KXSF 102.5 FM, Psyched Radio, Fault Radio and other various programs. His selections range from deep cut rarities to dollar bin records within the styles of international groove, psychedelia, rock, funk, Latin, country, blues, soul and beyond.
He has opened for such acts as: Buddy Guy, Phil Lesh & Friends, Os Mutantes, Jalen Ngonda, and Old Crow Medicine Show.
Being a regular in the Bay Area Vinyl community, he has performed at such venues as: Stern Grove Festival, HIPNIC, The Chapel, The Independent, Bandcamp Oakland, Make-Out Room, Rickshaw Stop, Kilowatt, Eli's Mile High Club, Churchill, The Halfway Club and more.
His moniker "Walkin' Love" stems from a nickname coined by a close group of peers while studying at the San Francisco Art Institute, which is where he started his first ever radio show "Sonic Image Radio" in 2015.
Schedule -
12pm - DJ Walkin' Love
12:45pm - LA LOM
1:45pm - Thee Heart Tones
2:35pm - Boogarins
3:40pm - Minami Deutsch
4:45pm - Babe Rainbow
Food & Drink:
Drinks bar by The Chapel
Tacolicious
ADA Seating Available - All Ages
Bring your whole crew, family, and an open heart as we unite to celebrate the magic of music and community!