Featuring limited edition prints from the It's Pop It's Art collaboration between Airside and EMI Music Publishing, as well as never before seen pieces from US artists Hit&Run, Retna, Mike Genovese, Ethos, Garrett Morin, and Cody Hoyt.

Listen: "On The Beat" by Electocute

"Leslie Feist is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian singer-songwriter. She performs as a solo artist under the name Feist and as a member of the indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene. At the 2008 Juno Awards on April 6, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, she was the top winner with five awards, including Songwriter, Artist, Pop Album, Album and Single of the Year."

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"A distinctive fusion of old school rap, queercore, and theatrical new wave, the four-piece Gravy Train!!!! (one exclamation point for each member of the band, natch) began as the vision of singer/songwriter Chunx, whose lyrics about poorly endowed men and her appetites -- for food and otherwise -- provided the group's foundation. Keyboardist/dancer Funx helped set Chunx's vision to music..."

Join us for the party of the year as we celebrate the opening of Bay Area Now 5 with bands, djs, interactive projects with BAN 5 artists, performances by the Bay Area’s best talent and of course Campari cocktails. Expect performances and sets by Softhug (Official Tourist), T.I.T.S., Eugene International and a band so secret we can’t even tell you!

Clark and Jackson are best known for their work as part of the legendary jazz-fusion supergroup Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters. Between them they have played for a who's who of the jazz and funk world and with Jackson in Tokyo and Clark in New York, any chance to see them in San Francisco is precious. Skerik, though younger, has alsoplayed with his share of jazz, funk and punk illuminati and the three even toured together on some of the 21st Century Headhunters Tours...

Their music is best described as funk rock, with various other influences, including hip-hop, soul, alternative rock, and blues rock. Band member Pharrell Williams explains: 'N.E.R.D. stands for No-one Ever Really Dies. The Neptunes are who we are and N.E.R.D. is what we do...

Caroliner is an Industrial Bluegrass/Experimental/Noise conceptual art Costume Rock band, dedicated to creating a fever dream of American psychedelia - utilizing bluegrass music instruments, weird effects, other-worldly pageantry, and day-glo character outfits similar to those of a "Disneyland ride with a Spike Jones and his City Slickers sense of individuality."