Music City SF Presents the Wandering,Slow Coast & Said Sara

Join us at Music City SF for an electrifying night of live music featuring performances by The Wandering, Slow Coast, and Said Sara.

The Wandering are a SF Bay Area band led by novelist/songwriter Joe Clifford. The band started in the ’90s as a punk rock alternative mash-up before morphing into its latter incarnation as an alt-country/power pop/Floydian anomaly. The current lineup includes Clifford on vocals, guitar, and the occasional piano, with Matt Rosoff (bass), Joe Dean (lead), Franz Nicolay (keys, accordion), Kevin Seidel (vocals); and on drums the inimitable Michael Urbano (Smashmouth, Cracker, Lindsey Buckingham, et al).

Slow Coast in an indie rock project out of the Bay Area in California. Their sunny, upbeat, beach-rock sound is contrasted by heavier introspective lyrics. Influences such as The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, and Tame Impala are heard throughout the band’s hook-filled song catalogue.

2023 was the most expansive year for dark/pop/folk/prog solo acoustic artist/singer-songwriter David Benson, aka Said Sara, who debuted live in 4 countries.* Succeeding the victory of dissemination that was 2023’s Same, Said Sara has created the emphatic but affectionate Then There You Are out of pure stardust.

As a child of the 70’s, David grew up on the singer-songwriters of that era of emergence: Baez, Stevens, Croce, Taylor, Buckingham, Mitchell. But Benson was/is a metalhead and then a punk, and then a punk and then a metalhead -- from the 80s to the 90s and beyond. In 2008, he joined crust punk-turned death metal warhorse Acephalix as the drummer. David continues to hold that seat.

There is a 2-way passage between the dark but accessible, acoustic-rooted Said Sara and the aforementioned strains of sonic extremity: Transition. David spent 15 years as guitarist/vocalist-turned vocalist of this genre-obscuring clique, whose sole full-length, 1994’s Spine, was released by Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn’s ultra-legendary SST Records.

When: August 16th, 2024, 7 pm-10 pm

Where: Music City San Francisco, 1355 Bush St, San Francisco, CA 91409

Tickets: $10adv/$12door

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