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By Julia Cooper.

It’s a family affair Saturday at Bottom of the Hill when San Francisco’s Shuteye Unison, a baby to the local live scene, … in a particularly ambient entry into the local rock music scene. Recording with better equipment at Closer Recording studios, run by Tim Mooney of American Music Club, and experimenting with microphones [more...]

Oakland band Maldroid announced yesterday it has signed to progressive San Francisco “music company” Fuzz. While the group did receive major label attention in the aftermath of its YouTube music video victory in November, it opted to sign with a like-minded indie in order to retain complete control over its image and products.

Maldroid has designs on some unusual steps in the future, such as releasing a full-length album as a series of singles and ultimately packaging the record as a DVD, with each song having its own video. Fuzz, for its part, goes by the slogan “Music Uprising” and hopes to “revolutionize the music industry,” so chances are good that many of Maldroid’s new ideas will be seen to fruition. Of course, some of the band’s plans, such as more elaborate music video production, will require increased financial backing that Fuzz may or may not be able to provide — certainly not to the extent that a major could.

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[This post originally published 8/17/06.]

Street to Nowhere signs to Capitol Records

You heard it here first: Street to Nowhere has signed to Capitol Records!