Mark Matos & Os Beaches 
Led by Bay Area native son Mark Matos - main man behind anarcho-popslingers Campo Bravo, Os Beaches is a collective of Mission District veterans who teamed up with Tim Mooney's Closer Recordings and producer Eric Moffat to bring you Words of the Knife.

Throughout the album Tucson-flavored pop songs meld with the sun-baked chords and beats of 60's Tropicalia, New York street poetry and California country-rock. Words of the Knife is a window into exactly what is happening in San Francisco right now - a renaissance of independent music of hybrid bloodlines.

Mark Matos was raised in the large Portuguese immigrant communtiy in California's Bay Area and Central Valley, where his father and grandfather founded one of the Bay Area's first Portuguese marching bands and were instrumental in bringing Portuguese Fado musicians to the Bay Area. Shortly after graduating high school, Matos hitchiked out of town, searching for life and music in the American Wilderness. Inspired by the beat generation, the following decade was spent on the road; washing dishes in Alaska, cold in Boston drunk tanks, amongst slack key players in Hawaii, and crashing countless couches on Seattle's Capital Hill.

By 2003 Matos had settled in Tucson, AZ where he began playing as Campo Bravo amongst the likes of Howe Gelb, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and his long time collaborators, the Golden Boots. After the release of Goodbye, Oklahoma (KEEP Recordings, 2006), he hit the road... (read more)
The Band: 

Mark Matos - voice, guitar, keys
Ben Reisdorph - backup voice, guitar
Joe Lewis - backup voice, bass
Joe Miller - drums
with occasional guests Tom Heyman, Dave Mihaly, Aaron Kierbel, Kacey Johansing, Matt Adams
Albums 
Words of the Knife
Album release press contact:
publicity@teamclermont.com
(706) 543-9455
Team Clermont

Tour press contact:
Carl Hanni
Mod Media
520-622-6313
modmedia@theriver.com 		Feb. 17 - Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, CA
Feb. 18 - Smiley's, Bolinas, CA
Feb. 19 - The Hub, Sacramento, CA
Feb. 20 - TBA, Santa Cruz, CA
Feb. 21 - TBA, San Louis Obispo, CA
Feb. 22 - TBA, Santa Barbara, CA
Feb. 23 - TBA, Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 24 - TBA, San Diego, CA
Feb. 25 - Plush, Tucson, AZ
Feb. 26 - TBA, Joshua Tree, CA
Feb. 27 - TBA, Fresno, CA
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 (Mark Growden) (Saint Judas)
Saint Judas San Francisco album release series
 03/12 —  Porto Franco Art Parlor
 8pm door, 8:30 show | $15-99 Buy now
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 Live: 10/29/2009 (2:00:00)
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