HAIGHT & ASHBURY
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VASF is the first in a number of RVCA retail flagships to open around the globe. Launched in September 2007, the store, situated on the iconic corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, combines art, music, fashion and popular culture, offering an ideal platform to illustrate PM Tenore’s vision for the brand.
Acting as centre stage, VASF showcases the latest RVCA apparel collections as well as unique RVCA product collaborations with the likes of ANP Quarterly magazine, The Cobrasnake, Hamburger Eyes, Cinelli and Adam Wallacavage. Also supporting like-minded brands by members of the RVCA family, VASF stocks brands such as The Seventh Letter jewelry and Caleb Siemon glassware.
Complementing the RVCA product collection is an assortment of books, magazines, DVD’s, and music currated by RVCA Advocate’s Family. Family is Los Angeles’ leading underground book and music emporium, founded by Australian born owners, David Kramer, Sammy Harkham and Tahli Harkham.
VASF is the ultimate platform to share RVCA’s culture with the brand’s fan base. Showcasing the talents of RVCA’s ANP (Artist Network Program), VASF collaborates with ANP members on a wide variety of projects - Artist Josh Lazcano aka AMAZE executed a piece on the façade of the building prior to it’s opening while skateboarder come artist and ANP Quarterly editor Ed Templeton and ANP Artist Clare Rojas completed the window displays for the store’s opening. VASF also showcases world-renowned artist Adam Wallacavages’ unique chandeliers, which hang throughout the store.
The culmination of RVCA culture is the gallery space in VASF. The gallery is a special platform for ANP artists. Curating four key shows each year, VASF aims to become a new and exciting source of art culture for the local community, working alongside the ANP and local artists and personalities on special projects and events.
VASF | 1485 Haight St | San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P: 1 (415) 701 7822
Store Hours 11am – 7pm daily
IT’S LIKE NORMALCY ONLY A LITTLE STRANGER
Three weird bands playing tonight at Amnesia. If nothing else, you will leave confused and happy.
California Sunshine (Aaron Sunshine’s new band)
Jonesin’
and Double Brainbow
9pm
free cookies
JEN
CANDY MAN
Marmelade Mountain is my friend Zach’s band. Zach, although we float in and out of contact, was an integral part of my high school career and remains as probably the only reason I passed Algebra II. Copying is wrong dudes, only do it if you are hopelessly screwed without it. Thanks, Zach.
Anyway, Marmelade Mountain rules. It’s slow, happy, creepy lo-fi, Charlie Manson music (minus the evil, add some Bolan in a weird way). Their album is available for free download on their myspace. Go get ‘em, tiger.
Here for Marmelade Mountain’s Myspace
JEN
NOISE POP/PICS/PEOPLE
You know Noise Pop? Well did you know that they’re having a photography show going on this month?
It’s called “Outside the Crowd” and I’ll bet if you want to see your favorite band members doing something other than playing music, or see people enjoying other people making music, then this shall be thine jam. It runs through the 3rd of March at Hotel Biron and should be a lovely time. So
Featured Photographers include Ashod Simonian, Charlie Homo, Deb Zeller, Heather Bernard, Jay Blakesberg, Jeanne Ellenby, Josh Withers, Misha Vladimirskiy, Paige Parsons and Peter Ellenby.
JEN
FURIOUS
Check out the new interview Fecal Face did with Matt Furie, one of our favorite SF artists EVER.
JEN
SINGALONG
Saturday 2/27 EARLY Show for Songbird Festival: Karina Denike, Lauren Cameron Klein and Aaron Novik’s Thorny Brocky. 6pm, $5
This show marks the kick off 2010’s Songbird Festival here in San Francisco. Singer/songwriter Karina Denike (Dance Hall Crashers) is headlining the event with a far less ska, and far more beautiful set. Denike has a fantastic voice which is markedly controlled yet full of personality and energy. She plays a Chord Organ backed by other musicians, filling out her vintage style solo-act. Denike, who has done backup vocals for a number of prominent punk bands including NOFX and Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, has a knack for showing off her rougher roots in a sophisticated frame. A combination of old doo wop, folk, and bluesy harmonies with a definite appreciation for the grittiness of the zeitgeist of today, Denike is a pretty safe bet for almost anyone. The night will be kicked off by the psychedelic and eclectic Aaron Novick’s Thorny Brocky, whose music is onomatopoeic: strange, cool, weird, different.
JEN
HAND OVER FIST
San Francisco, CA - RVCA / VASF is delighted to present ‘Hand Over Fist’, a collection of new and recent work by 8 excellent emerging contemporary artists from around the west coast.
The exhibition will run from Thursday, February 4th - March 26th.
An opening reception will be held @ 6pm on February 4th with some of the artists in attendance.
RVCA / VASF is located at 1485 Haight St. at the corner of Ashbury, and is open 7 days a week, 11am-7pm.
EMAIL MEGHAN EDWARDS WITH ADDITIONAL SHOW INQUIRIES, PHOTOS, PRICE LIST ETC.
MEDWARDS@RVCA.COM
Featured artists in this exhibition are:
Jason Jagel (San Francisco, CA)
Ryan Bubnis (Portland, OR)
Katy Horan (Austin, TX)
Derek Albeck (Los Angeles, CA)
Paul Urich (San Francisco, CA)
Jessie Rose Vala (Portland, OR / Brooklyn, NY)
Tahiti Pehrson (Nevada City, CA)
Marco Zamora (Los Angeles, CA)
Jason Jagel’s colorful compositions are a fabric woven from dreams, experience and memory. These individual narratives intersect to create wild, open ended stories full of rhythm flow exist without beginning or end, leaving endless possibilities of conclusions from the viewer’s perspective. Jason is both a graduate and faculty member at CCA and holds an MFA from Stanford.
-M.E.
BAJDA BING BAJDA BOOM
Our main man, and VASF ruler, Matthew Bajda is awesome. He’s multitalented, too: photography, weird scary art, taking care of business, and he’s a musician.
You can go see for yourself at his next show, coming up on February 7th, only one week before Valentines Day. HEY! I JUST GOT AN IDEA! Show your love to that special someone by buying something from Matthew!
check his website here
check out his flickr here
JEN
CHUCK-E-CHEESE WAS NOTHING
Come check out an animatronic band and light show controlled by handmade synthesizers and programmed toys… seriously, folks, this is going to be amazing. I’ve seen this shit, it’s outta control.
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SFMOMA presents The Hex Inverter and Kimber Lite And The Pipes by Max Lawrence: artist and mechanical mad scientist.
Opening reception: January 9th, 5-7pm on in the Natoma Alley off New Montgomery.
The electric conductor will be presenting a self-sustaining light orchestra, which will hold concerts nightly in the SFMOMA Artists Gallery Garage windows between Minna and Natoma. The band, comprised out of rewired toys and homemade synthesizers, functions deceptively as a mural by day.
Lawrence’s installations boast the lo-fi sentiments of the Chuck-E-Cheese band executed with the homemade, maddening ingenuity of the Unabomber. Fed up with musicianship and the uncertain nature of the human race, Lawrence turns to machines to do his musical bidding. From touch synthesizer lion heads that react to the ph balance of your skin, to beaded belts that control drum machines, Lawrence invites you into a darker version of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Lawrence’s themes of haphazard dichotomies have manifested themselves in electronics and musical instruments, reminding us that chaos and symmetry are both beautiful and intertwined.
Lawrence lives and works in Philadelphia, where he co-founded Space 1026 and record label Free News projects, which produced MF Dooms second album, and also functions as a publishing house. When he isn’t busy constructing remote-controlled tarantulas out of acrylic nails, or rewiring Furby dolls, you can find him pushing some of the greatest artists and musicians of our time into the spotlight.
On Saturday, January 9th, the windows of Minna and Natoma Streets will become the bathroom peephole into the secret lives of Lawrence’s melodic machines. We invite you to a show performed by lifeless machines presented to anyone who happens by. Three secret shows will happen nightly at 5:30 and 11, and once at 3 a.m. as a special treat for the living dead that may wander over from 6th street.
JEN
