For Your Pleasure
(Music Video Release Show!)
Lead vocalist and guitar player Maria Weiss of the San Francisco lesbian rock band For Your Pleasure says she hopes listeners will feel empowered to take action for whatever causes they are interested in. Weiss has been playing guitar her whole life and joined her high school band. Her father also played drums in different bands and would send Weiss to a family dance camp every winter for years.
“I think that when I write songs, I don’t have a plan, or I’m not like, ‘I want to write a song about this,’ but somehow the lyrics just form what I’ve been thinking about, kind of like a diary or journal,” said Weiss.
She wrote music for years but was too shy to share it with others until she began playing at open mic events and meeting people. She formed the band in 2019, which includes her sister, Catherine, who plays drums and vocals. The band is in the process of recording their first album.
“This is the first time I’ve ever recorded in like a legitimate way,” said Weiss. “So we’re gonna release some singles, and we picked [“Teardown”] because it feels relevant to the political and cultural climate of our world.”
Regarding the song “Teardown,” Weiss said, “I wrote it in 2020 [during] peak COVID and [the] Black Lives Matter [movement] and just kind of really a lot of people grappling with the realities of our world, and so it’s really about like tearing down systems of oppression and hate and all that kind of stuff.”
The band’s members include Catherine Weiss, Gabi Orion, and Parker Cohen. —Chloe Morizono, Spencer Whitney at KQED
The Breathing Room
(Music Video Release Show!)
The Breathing Room creates a dreamy & atmospheric space for their listeners to inhabit. Based in San Francisco, California, their sound is a unique blend of their eclectic surroundings & musical influences ranging from psychedelia, jazz, classic songwriting to heartfelt soul.
LoPi
(First Show!)
Lo Pilato (Members of Credit Electric)
DOORS at 7:00PM | MUSIC at 8:00 PM