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DON'T MISS: Street Eaters at 924 Gilman tomorrow night
- Author: Mike G
- Published: Thursday, December 01, 2011
Street Eaters consists of drums, super sludgy bass riffs, and both members — Megan March and John No — splitting vocal duties. There's an energy to their riffs and vocal delivery that automatically recalls the best of what punk was always meant to be. There's a youthful exuberance to their music, that snarling punk attitude, but it's still catchy as hell. Above all, though, it's true punkness is in its authenticity — listening to Street Eaters, I feel like I'm listening to March and No lay it all out there without any frills, just raw intensity and emotion.
Fittingly enough, they're playing tomorrow night at 924 Gilman — the birthplace of Bay Area punk, the noble tradition that Street Eaters is very much carrying forward. You can probably even grab a copy of their new album Rusty Eyes And Hydrocarbons. After seeing them live, I imagine you'll definitely want to. There's a reason why my pal Jen Choch (of Schande) says, "Street Eaters are one of the most important bands in SF past, present, and future. I can't tell you why this is so much as I can only say that when you see them live you feel it, understand it, and know it."
Check out my interview with Megan March and John No below.

WTM: I hear Street Eaters has a pretty rad backstory. When did y'all first meet? When did you form the band?
Megan: We're not exactly sure when we first met, which is kind of bizarre in a way. We both grew up around the Gilman St. / Mission Records scene, going to a lot of the same shows, hanging with the same gang of friends. John's band Fleshies used to play shows with my old band Before The Fall. I remember a particular show in which we bonded over being totally gnarly — I had sliced my knuckles on my ride cymbal, smearing the blood all over my face like war paint, and he twisted his ankle hurling himself into a pile of people. Afterwards, we laughed about how broken and bad ass we were. Fleshies were doing a ton of touring then, and I was doing my own thing with bands and school, and in passing John always said we should play together. Fast forward a couple years when we started hanging out in a closer sense, we started jamming with me on the drums and singing, and Johnny playing bass and singing. That was about 3 years ago.
John: I always wanted to play in a band with Megan, ever since I saw her drumming. I'm highly attracted to crazy hard-hitting drummers, though this is the first time that attraction has gone beyond the musical realm. She was also the best sound engineer at Gilman when my bands were playing there, and would even volunteer to help do sound when me and my friends would book these crazy all-ages, all-day free shows called Geekfests there.
WTM: Tell me about the new album: Where was it recorded? What was the sound you were trying to capture? Is that different from any of your past work, and did you accomplish it? Any surprises?
John: I feel like we have kept the sound of our recordings consistent, but have built on it quite a bit over the last couple of years — we aim to get it to sound as big and powerful as possible while still sounding raw, and kind of pretty at the same time.
WTM: You just got back from a tour. Where'd you go? And what were the top two items on your tour rider?
John: Everywhere in the US and a little beyond, filling in the blanks from our summer tours and playing places we [hadn't] been to before. If we had a tour rider, the only thing we'd have on it would be iced coffee on tap. Really, we should just get a cooler and fill it up.
Megan: We are currently in a coffee shop in Tucson AZ, at the beginning of our five week tour. [This interview took place a few weeks ago.] We will head out through to the south, where we will rock it through Florida with our buddies from the band Tubers at the Fest X, and then head north to do some dates with our friends Screaming Females. We're also planing to make it up to Canada, but you never know if they'll let you in at the border. On our last tour we went to Vancouver, and we were stuck at the border for a few hours while they confiscated our cell phones and searched our truck, but we made it through.
We don't have a rider because most of the places we're playing on this tour are all ages DIY spaces, which we think is RAD. However, if we did I would like iced coffee on tap, as John mentioned, and falafel. I'm always hungry.
WTM: What are your top non-musical influences?
Megan: We write songs about things we care about that affect our community on the macro level, and then on the personal micro level. Sometimes it's hard to put to words my frustrations with things that we have no control over, like that horrific BP oil spill that happened a while back. That is why we sometimes take the fantastical tact; in the case of the song "Livid Lizard", we imagined the struggles of a creature monster born in the depths of the oil spill, and how lost it feels in the ugliness and corruption of our human world. So, does life count as a non-musical influence? Coffee?
John: The weird brutality and beauty of the natural world. Human civilization's fascinating ability to constantly destroy and re-create itself. Really wild historical theories that sometimes-inappropriately draw parallels between entirely different times and places. The worst and the best in people. Night and day. Black and white. Bitter and sweet. Chocolate and peanut butter.
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