Name: Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Coffin Prick, Fog Lamp
Start: 2026-01-23T20:00:00-08:00
Location: 2330 Telegraph Ave Oakland CA 94612

Fri., 1/23/26
Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Coffin Prick, Fog Lamp
8:00pm, $20 adv., $25 door

Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon)

Tuxedomoon founding member Steven Brown will be playing music from selections from the Tuxedomoon catalogue and his soon to be released record on Crammed Disc. This will be the first Bay Area show for Steven/Tuxedomoon material in nearly twenty years. It’ll also be his first shows on the back of the long in the works reissue of the Tuxedomoon “Desire” LP (November).

Born in Illinois, Steven Brown moved to San Francisco where he founded Tuxedomoon with Blaine L.Reininger, then to New York. The band left the USA’s toxic atmosphere in the early 1980s, wandered around Europe, and settled in Brussels for twelve years. Ten years later, Steven fell in love with Mexico while changing planes on the way to Belize, and decided to settle there, in 1993. First in Mexico City, then in Oaxaca, where he built his own house. He’s been regularly returning to Europe to record and perform with Tuxedomoon, while developing various activities in Mexico, where he founded several bands (including Nine Rain and the Ensamble Kafka wind ensemble), worked to support indigenous brass bands, and has been running Cinema Domingo, which started as weekly projections of old films in his house, then developed into a band (Cinema Domingo Orchestra) specialised in writing and publicly performing new soundtracks to old movies. Steven loves Oaxaca, its landscape (he finds it to be not unlike Toscana) and the unavoidable daily encounters with bright and dark sides of Mexico’s history & culture.

https://tuxedomoon.bandcamp.com/album/desire-45th-anniversary-edition
https://stevenbrowntuxedomoon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/stevenbrown.official/

Coffin Prick
Coffin Prick’s new album, Loose Enchantment, starts out with a thick slide into some new waved Peter Murphy echo reverb stained nightclub glow, and I’m tripping back into the 80’s. Then it shifts and moves, calling out to that same decade, but a little darker, a little more avant-angular. “Shortly Forgotten Pleasure” manages to combine a cool collection of sonic references into something that manages to feel original and maybe even a little futuristic. Fad Gadget meets M meets the Human League and they agree to work together for the greater good. Then, as the songs continue to play, a strange retro-futuristic déjà vu mood settles in.
This album manages to find that perfect balance between pleasant and uncomfortable. Something feeling a little off in the songs, the hints of a John Lydon vocal catching on the guitar sharpened edge of a Throbbing Gristle riff. The dancefloor groove of a darkwaved disco pulsating under Bowie-esque keyboard hits and a little dub echo twisted by treble. It’s both unnerving and relaxing, and a little bit addictive.
https://coffinprick.bandcamp.com [https://coffinprick.bandcamp.com/]
https://www.instagram.com/coffinprick

Fog Lamp

SF's Fog Lamp have been at it for a few yrs now, repping heavily around the local environs, garnering a solid word-of-mouth reputation. Originally a trio sans tubs, the synth-driven iron gulp of their early days was like Animal of Anti-Nowhere League crashing a Cabaret Voltaire rehearsal. 'Power to the paradox' I like to say, or in the immortal words of Tug McGraw, "Ya Gotta Believe!" So after a couple tapes & whatnot, Siltbreeze got clued in & have solidly backed their debut vinyl lp, Still Entangled. Along the way, the band enlisted the solid drumming prowess of Rachelle Hughes & by doing so, Fog Lamp have zoned in an intensive, beguiling churn of Dossier era Chrome slipping into The Sleepers panic-creep of ‘Painless Nights'. Their hauntingly dense & layered murk is as authentically Bay Area as a bowl of Cioppino. Look for them on tour (West Coast only) in Jan. of 2026. Flannel is the new Goth.

https://foglamp.bandcamp.com/album/anxious-stargazing
https://www.instagram.com/fog_lamp_bay