Benefit Rock Show This Weekend.

   
WHAT: The Scott Jones Medical Benefit Rock Show with live performances by Brickbat (feat. David Yow and Mac McNeilly of The Jesus Lizard), Hot Lunch, Mitchell & Manley (Isaiah Mitchell from Earthless, Phil Manley from Trans Am), Hank IV, comedian Sean Keane, and emcee Parker Gibbs.

WHERE: Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 24th, 2013. Doors at 2:00pm, show from 3:00-8:00pm.
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PRICE: $15

AGE RESTRICTION: All-ages welcome

EVENT DESCRIPTION/BENEFIT DETAILS:

In March 2012, Scott Jones, drummer for the San Francisco rock band Hank IV, was injured in a terrible accident and suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). His wife awoke to a loud crash and found Scott unconscious at the bottom of the stairs of their Bernal Heights home. He’d fallen backwards while climbing the steps and landed striking the back of his head on the concrete landing at the bottom of the staircase. It’s suspected that his accident was related to a back injury he experienced a few days prior to his fall. And now, having at last emerged from several months in a coma and multiple surgeries, Scott is finally back living home with his wife and their three-year old son but he requires 24-hr.-a-day medical and nursing care not covered by insurance.

Scott's bandmates and friends from the local and national rock scene, including Hank IV, Hot Lunch, Isaiah Mitchell & Phil Manley, and extra special guests Brickbat (feat. David Yow and Mac McNeilly of The Jesus Lizard), are rallying together to host the Scott Jones Medical Benefit Rock Show, in conjunction with Bottom of the Hill, from which 100% of the proceeds will go to the Scott Jones Medical Fund towards Scott's ongoing medical and nursing care.

Podcast #40 + #41 Doubleheader.

Revolver USA Podcast #41 with releases with a November 9th Street Date features: Hank IV, Parting Gifts, Tyvek, Saroos, Weekend, Woolfy, Phil Wilson, Dum Dum Girls, Fern Knight, Salome, Theologian, Ehnahre, Seti-X, Polar Bear with Jyager, and Justine and the Victorian Punks.  

Revolver USA Podcast #41 with releases with an October 26the Street Dates features: Octopus Project, Grayson Gilmour, Die Die Die, John Wesley Coleman, Tropics, Numan, Shit Robot, DJ Rashad, Wooden Wand, Purling Hiss, Excepter, Slough Feg, Crystal Stilts and Phil Wilson.

Download and streaming options for both Podcasts can be found at the usual destination:
REVOLVER POD PAGE.

Hank IV Record Release Show Flyer.

Satuday Nov. 17th 2010

Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, CA.

Hank IV record release show for III available now on LP only via Siltbreeze.

Hank IV "Garbage Star" Video.

Hank IV music video for "Garbage Star", the lead-off track on their new album, III, out today on Siltbreeze. Video directed by Staci DeGagne & Heather MacLean.
Produced by Clean White Lines

Record release show this Saturday (11/13/10) at Bottom Of The Hill with Australian label mates Circle Pit.

Hank IV Reviewed On Dusted Today.

Photo ripped off from WFMU's flickr page.

Artist: Hank IV
Album: Refuge in Genre
Label: Siltbreeze
Review date: Nov. 12, 2008
Original Post

Hank IV are older men playing a young man’s game, a game that, if you’re good, you can grandfather yourself into. There’s no secret to reveal on their first album, Third Person Shooter, nor is there any in the superior follow-up Refuge in Genre, as unashamed and rambunctious as any rock record that’s been made since the Volcano Suns hung it up nearly 20 years ago. No lesson, save one: It’s uglier on the outside than on the inside. Young people, listen: the kind of loners who buy every new garage single hate a band like this because it’s a tale of what their lives might become. They call it "bad bar rock," having never truly experienced a bar rock band in all its putrid shame. Those bands play mostly covers, and couldn’t really understand where a lot like Hank IV are coming from.

So, for the benefit of those not there, here’s where they come from: Colorado, California, and elsewhere. Singer Bob McDonald was in the hardcore band Bum Kon, whose entire body of work was just unleashed on the public; as one of the kingpins behind Revolver Distribution, he’s also the reason many of you have new records to buy in the first place. Guitarist Anthony Bedard was once a member of unparalleled real-life squalor documentarians the Icky Boyfriends, who languished in relative obscurity as those who actually cared about things like success grew wild around them. If the youth turning their backs are lucky enough to survive without severe dependency issues, heart disease or cancer, they will still never be this loose, this bouncy, this rude-sounding yet together. This is the sound of an earlier generation, and the five men of Hank IV explain it through action. It’s an on/off switch of loud, forceful expression, with no time for subtlety. "I heard you say that shit, it sucks," McDonald belts out on "Symptomatic," his band chugging along behind him, unafraid of melodies and unfazed by subtleties. Nobody turns down or fades out, and these men proudly scream themselves hoarse over the din.

Those are the basics, so what are the details? Most of the 11 songs couldn’t crack three minutes if they tried, so things move along with the kind of economy these sort of records used to lack. More bands doing it for the fun, as these guys seem to be, need to take the audience’s idea of fun into consideration, so they get in and out with the necessary expedience. There’s one or two rock-solid anthems in here ("Drive the Whip" being one of them) and a fine return to repeat listenability that, in this age of tiny pressings and non-accountability, is refreshing and makes these old-sounding songs play like new. By trafficking in a brand of nostalgia that most would shun, the men of Hank IV have become their own masters, and must answer to no one but themselves.

By Doug Mosurock

Right in time for their East Coast mini tour that starts today. Keep it real dudes....
11/12 Brooklyn, NY @ The Charleston (w/ Blues Control)
11/13 Jersey City, NJ @ WFMU (live taping)
11/13 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s
11/14 New York, NY @ Cake Shop