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Tempo No Tempo
March 2nd, 2007 | 
Author: MySpace (listen to “Static,” “A Different Weapon”)
Hometown: Berkeley
Next local show: 3/2, Oakland Metro
Recent release: The Get Down, 2006
Believe us, we’d be the first to say we’re done with the whole dance-punk thing. On principle alone, we’re just tired of it. Because face it, most of the bands suck. We get it: You discovered Gang of Four. You have a stylish haircut. You think it’s cute to coerce indie rockers to dance. Done yet? Tempo No Tempo don’t escape the latter trap, needlessly bragging on their MySpace page that they sound like “the first time you danced in public and felt okay about it.” But what makes Tempo No Tempo different from the Rapture et al is that TNT are from Berkeley and obviously not interested in assimilating into the dying dance-punk masses.
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The Love X Nowhere
MySpace (listen to “Sympathy,” “Into the Fire”)
Official site
Hometown: San Francisco
Next local show: 3/28, Rickshaw Stop
Recent release: Into the Fire vinyl EP, 2006
When a local band plays music right up your alley and has been covered by both the SF Weekly and the Chronicle, yet you still haven’t heard of them, does this mean you’ve spent the last year in a cave? In NASCENT’s case, no, unless small apartments count as caves. More likely, it means that there’s so much great independent music going on in the Bay Area right now that even those of us who make an effort to hear as much of it as possible are bound to miss some of the good stuff.
Maldroid
MySpace (listen to “Heck No,” “He Said, She Said”)
Official site
Hometown: Oakland
Next local show: 2/17, Slim’s
Recent release: Malfunction EP, 2006
Looking at the above picture of Maldroid, you may be asking yourself: What’s up with the brown suits? And the painted briefcase? And why is the band posing in front of a row of Gibson guitars? Good questions, all…good questions with very good answers. To find them, we direct you to this cover story on Maldroid that was published today in the East Bay Express.
Paul Manousos
MySpace (listen to “It’s Gonna Be Alright,” “Beautiful Girl”)
Official site
Hometown: Alameda
Next local show: 2/7, The Uptown Nightclub
Recent release: For Better or Worse, 2005
We don’t have many Heartland rockers here on the West Coast, but East Bay native Paul Manousos is definitely one of ‘em. “Something caught me,” is all he can say of his lifelong connection to music. Five years of incubation in a music-loving household led him to sit down at the family piano and play. By age sixteen he was writing songs on guitar — moved to make his own racket by eternally influential rock ’n’ rollers like Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, and Bruce Springsteen.