Analog Dog, Fake Your Own Death, Nyte Skye

Analog Dog makes genre fluid music in San Francisco, USA. Hailing from all corners of the country, the band came together in and around the hallowed musical breeding grounds of Golden Gate Park. With each member drawing on diverse inspirations and musical backgrounds, from self-taught to classically trained, they unite over a common love for genre-bending composition and improvisation. Honoring the vibrations of the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s with big guitar-driven hooks and stacked vocal harmonies, while simultaneously embracing modern indie pop soundscapes, Analog Dog is it’s own thing.

You don’t have to actually die to start over, but you might have to pretend to. Fake Your Own Death was born out of studio apartment located above a bar in Berlin where Terry Ashkinos (formerly of indie band Elephone) was studying the fall of communism for the American government. A handful of songs became a collaboration between Terry and drummer Scott Eberhardt and soon after became a band with the addition of Joey Federale on bass and Shane Ryan on guitar and synth.Fake Your Own Death songs are a combination of loathing and reverb. Tight beats and sharp guitars compliment a bass heavy vibe that is post punk at its finest. All snarl and spit. Alluring stories about misfits, escape and the collapse of meaning create a patchwork of uneasiness and romantic nostalgia. FYOD has been compared to bands like Fontaines DC, Echo and the Bunnymen, Love and Rockets, Froth, Sonic Youth, The National and Jesus and Mary Chain by both local and national press.The band has played with the likes of The Warlocks, Blood Red Shoes, You Say Party We Say Die, Film School, White Denim, Bob Mould, Trail of the Dead, !!!, The Devotionals, The Kills and Gang of Four. Fake Your Own Death’s debut album is called Invisible and Bulletproof (Monolathe Recordings 2014) followed by El Terrible (Breakup Records 2016). In 2018, they released 2 EP’s The Wake and Smile Campaign (What Rough Beast 2018). And most recently they released Spit in 2021.The year 2020 and the first half of 2021 was, by all accounts, a rough time for anyone who doesn’t own Amazon, Netflix or Peloton. We were all forced to stay home in order to not spread an invisible disease that took more American lives than all our wars combined since the Civil War. It also laid bare the limits and fragility of democracy and our ability to recognize truth from fiction. Terry Ashkinos, known as El Terrible, used this time to write and collaborate and invite in other isolated musicians, and producers to perform and record this 9 song collection of orphans entitled Spit. The members of Fake Your Own Death were not always able to meet up during any of these recordings as they were either quarantining in town or out of state. But through various home recording studios as well as a couple vacant professional studios in San Francisco, Pacifica, Oakland, Portland, San Rafael, El Sobrante, and Los Angeles, they were able to communicate and collaborate on the songs as a direct reflection to the health crisis, isolation, racial and gender awakening and unrest, democratic crisis and misinformation campaign that we were all experiencing in 2020. What Spit gives us is one particular perspective of life, death and a reimagining of the world after a pandemic. Songs like Shrug triumphantly laugh at the notion of justice and an afterlife while the single, Want, comes to terms with our more selfish aspects of ourselves. Then there is Live by the Scam which is a response to the Capitol riots of Jan 6 and Lifer is a call out to all those artists out there who refuse to quit long after realizing they will never get paid (Terry published and essay by the same title in an upcoming collection coming out on Chronicle/Prism Books on May 25 titled “The End of the Golden Gate” about SF in the 90’s). There is also a glorious cover of The Fixx’s One Thing Leads to Another and a bonus track of Jesus and Mary Chain’s Nine Million Rainy Days. In the end, this is an old school “album” that moves from different voices and moods from song to song and can be listened to on a long drive out of the wasteland we are all trying to desperately escape from in the (hopefully) near future.

Bay Area natives Nyles Lannon and his son Skye spent many nights together during lockdown, holed up in Nyles’ home studio, channeling their anxieties into songs. The father-son duo made a promise that they would make a whole album, chronicling that time together, and the result is a lively stew of atmospheric, moody rock, articulated with Skye’s dynamic, Stewart Copeland-inspired drumming. Nyte Skye will release their debut album “Vanishing” on the Sonic Ritual record label, in the Fall.

Composer for commercials by day, Nyles Lannon has released several solo works, earning numerous accolades, including Best Album of the Year from the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Best Folktronica Artist from SF Weekly. He is also in the band Film School, who will be opening a string of shows for Pavement in September. Skye Lannon has been drumming since age 6, after learning a basic beat from his dad (who’s “kind of terrible at drums,” Skye reveals). Within a few days, he was hooked on playing drums and lost interest in all his other hobbies. He just graduated 8th grade.

Multi-instrumentalists David Gould and Nichole Kreglow complete the band.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Amado's, 998 Valencia Street, San Francisco, United States