Day Schedule
for Fri, February 19, 2010
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At Slim's:
333 11th Street
San Francisco, California

Sloan
HIJK
Taylor Locke (of Rooney) & The Roughs

Showtime: 9:00 PM (Doors: 8:00 PM)
Ticket price: $15
Tickets available on-line at: slimstickets.com
All Ages 6 and Over

Listen to "Believe" by Sloan

Sloan's eighth studio album, "Never Hear the End of It" – its first on new US label Yep Roc Records – not only delivers another serving of august and finely crafted rock, it's also thirty tracks long. You heard me. Thirty. “Call it an extremist’s reaction to a singles culture," says Jay Ferguson. "It's definitely a bit of a sprawling record, but I think that if any band can attempt to pull it off, it might as well be us."

One of the most successful Canadian bands of the last fifteen years, Sloan formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1991 with Andrew Scott (drums, vocals), Patrick Pentland (guitar, vocals), Chris Murphy (bass, vocals), and Jay Ferguson (guitar, vocals). By 1992, they self-released their first EP, "Peppermint," and within a year had signed to DGC and released their full length, critically lauded debut, "Smeared." Their next album, "Twice Removed," brought even more critical acclaim (including citation as "The Best Canadian Album of All Time" by Chart Magazine), accolades they confirmed with the subsequent successes of "One Chord to Another" (1997), "Navy Blues" (1998), "Between the Bridges" (1999), "Pretty Together" (2001), and "Action Pact" (2003). And throughout such output, Sloan has managed to share songwriting duties between all members and never have a change in line-up.

"No one can be replaced in Sloan," Patrick Pentland says. "We’re a band of four characters that together make sense."