Join us on Saturday, August 26th at 6pm for a free listening party celebrating our August Record of the Month Pick, Traffic Control by WARP!
About the Event
Join us to celebrate our Record of the Month Club with a full-length listen of the Club's August selection, Traffic Control by WARP! We're listening to it all and we're listening to it loud. This is a free, BYOEverything event with some refreshments provided. We will have LPs available for purchase at the event, and of course the bookstore will be open for all of your browsing needs. Check out all the info you need to know about our Record of the Month Club below or at the following link:
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/record-month
"Punk rock saved my life but TRAFFIC CONTROL by SF's very own WARP made me quit my job, betray all my friends, lose my keys, lose my morals, join the circus, hack into Twitter or X or whatever, and cause $20 of property damage, which coincidentally is the cost of this album so it would really help me out if you bought a copy and also don't forget to check out Warp's brand new tape AUTOMATIC GRATUITY, available from Digital Regress!!" -Max
About the Artist
San Francisco's still doomed, and few residents can trace the fault-lines beneath with more familiarity than the members of WARP. With members' musical origins in the Bay Area and beyond that include Mayyors, Flesh World, Residual Echoes, Mallard, Thee Oh Sees, Blank Square, Cruel Summer, and Straight Crimes (to name a few), the denizens of WARP manifest a sum total of decades spent seething in the once proud city by the bay; having helped shape the 'San Francisco Sound' of the new millennia, they are ready to tear it down. WARP recalls the nihilistic extravagance and rage of Flipper and No Trend with garage-y instrumental acumen a la Pissed Jeans and songwriting chops honed through hard fought years of jostling with techie slime, predatory landlords, the thuggish SFPD, and a mass exodus of friends, neighbors, and collaborators. In the midst of this hollowing out, WARP rose to fill the void and give voice to the defiant few who remained.
About the Record of the Month Club
Every month, we nominate a bookseller-endorsed LP for Record of the Month and promote the album, band, and label throughout the course of the month. We put heavy emphasis on local and/or off-the-beaten track artists and labels with the intention of bringing support and attention to our community's vibrant creative landscape.