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One week from today, we’re opening for Faun Fables at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. This is going to be a pretty spectacular show — we’re going to play some new songs for you, and Faun Fables is going to be in top form coming off their European tour. You’ll also get first crack at our brand-new stickers!

We definitely recommend getting tickets in advance for this show. Can’t wait to see you there! https://www.bottomofthehill.com/20250906.html

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Hello friends! We’re delighted to announce three upcoming shows!

On July 26th, we’ll be playing the OUTSOUND New Music Summit at the Finnish Hall in Berkeley, with Gumby’s Junk, Ologist, Tri-Cornered Tent Show, and Modesty.

On August 21st we’ll be headlining the good old Ivy Room in Albany CA with Mind Beams (on tour out of Seattle) and fellow travelers Gentleman Surfer from Sacramento.

On September 6th, we will be opening for the ever-spectacular Faun Fables at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco.

All three nights are going to be packed with excellent music played for you with care by skilled and personable professionals. You should come out!

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Kind words from Kev Rowland over on Progressor.net:

Somehow I came across the band Lunar Mistake and when I asked them for more information I was sent this, “Lunar Mistake is a prog/post-punk/new wave band from Oakland. It features long-time members of the Bay Area music scene, including Matt Lebofsky (Secret Chiefs 3, miRthkon, MoeTar) on keyboards, Steve Lew (New Zombies, Eskimo, Ebola Soup) on bass, David Shamrock (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Free Salamander Exhibit, Slombis) on drums, Drew Wheeler (Free Salamander Exhibit, Young Has Beens) on guitar, and Jackie Wheeler on vocals and percussion. Points of reference may include: Devo, Thinking Plague, Danny Elfman, Rush.” The more observant of you may have seen a couple of musical genres listed which surely could only mean one thing, and you would be right, as here is a pronk band which Tim Smith would surely be proud of. I cannot believe I don’t see a mention of Cardiacs in their influences (is it really more than a quarter of a century since ‘Sing To God’?) as here is a band who have taken pronk and run with it to make something which is RIO, Avant, yet somehow commercial at the same time.

Jackie may not have a great deal of experience in bands but she is happy with everything the band is throwing at her, whether it is the Devo-style punk of “Infinite Loop” or the more comical “Fishies”. This is a load of fun which could have come from the stable of either Cardiacs or Poisoned Electrick head and is a blast of punk prog fun which is so very different indeed to what is in the current scene where prog often seems to be quite involved at gazing at one’s navel. What we have here is a band producing music which was underground thirty years, and now is even more so as they are so very different indeed, yet their jagged angular melodies and guitar riffs are literally music to my ears.

Kev Rowland, January 2025

https://progressor-net.blogspot.com/2025/01/lunar-mistake-2024-lunar-mistake.html

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We are happy to announce that today is release day for our debut album! Check it out on Bandcamp, Apple Music, Prime, Spotify, or pretty much wherever you get your music! Big thanks to everyone who preordered the album already – we deeply appreciate it.

You can also order the compact disc from Bandcamp!