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Photos by Francis Chung

Since the album-a-year pace clearly isn't enough for her, Deerhoof's Satomi Matsuzaki has taken up a few side endeavors in recent months. Back in February, the feisty frontwoman unveiled her Oneone project with Tenniscoats' Saya Ueno, while this past weekend she joined Tussle's Tomo Yasuda and Yasuda's Coconut bandmates Colter Jacobsen and Keiko at San Francisco's Knockout to showcase a little new something called Lets.

With Satomi on guitar and vocals, Lets served up a brief, relatively mellow set of groove-laden, experimental pop punctuated by occasional bursts of noise and dissonance-- not unlike what one would expect from an act comprised of members of Deerhoof and Tussle.

Also on the bill Friday night: kinetic Berkeley combo Tempo No Tempo and local newcomers the Splinters. Check out photos of all three acts below.

Deerhoof plan to hit us with their Friend Opportunity follow-up in October. Before that they have a few North American shows, plus a tour of Japan next month that finds the quartet sharing stages with Xiu Xiu, Mika Miko, Panther, Shugo Tokumaru, and the aforementioned Tenniscoats.

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The Splinters






Deerhoof:

06-07 Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier (The Roots Picnic)
06-14 Tokyo, Japan - Liquid Room *#
06-15 Osaka, Japan - Shangri-La *%+
06-16 Nagoya, Japan - Club Upset *%+
06-18 Sapporo, Japan - Bessie Hall +
07-16 Danbury, CT - Heirloom Arts Theatre !
07-18 Brooklyn, NY - Prospect Park (Wordless Music Series) ^
07-19 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Marquee Club (Halifax Jazz Festival)
07-27 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl (KCRW's World Festival) $

* with Xiu Xiu
# with Mika Miko, Panther
% with Shugo Tokumaru
+ with Tenniscoats
! with Fat Worm of Error
^ with Metropolis Ensemble
$ with Gnarls Barkley, Youssou N'Dour

Tempo No Tempo:

05-30 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
05-31 Santa Barbara, CA - House Party
06-01 Eagle Rock, CA - House Party
06-02 San Diego, CA - Beauty Bar
06-03 Encinitas, CA - San Dieguito High School
06-03 Phoenix, AZ - Trunkspace
06-04 Los Angeles, CA - Kerchoff Room at UCLA
06-07 Santa Cruz, CA - Cafe Pergolesi
06-08 San Jose, CA - TBA
06-11 Chico, CA - Nick's Nite Club
06-12 Salem, OR - The Space
06-13 Eugene, OR - TA
06-14 Port Townsend, WA - Legion Hall
06-15 Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
06-17 Portland, OR - TBA
06-18 Portland, OR - Ash Street Saloon
06-21 Oakland, CA - Fort Gallery
06-22 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill