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An indie rock trio currently based in the San Francisco Bay area, Parting Gift draws influence from the classically demented Jesus Lizard, the Pixies, the jagged beat-you-over-the-head-with-my-guitar-sound of Drive Like Jehu, and the Minutemen. Parting Gift features quirky and unpredictable guitar riffs, athletic bass playing that will rattle your naughty bits, and a mischievous drummer who somehow manages to hold it all together.

Before joining forces, members of Parting Gift worked their evil magic in the Western Pennsylvania music scene in such incarnations as Direct Action, Deep 6, Third Rail, Ten Feet Tall, the 3-D Man, Davenport, Potholder, Monkey Attack!, and The Third Man, releasing records on Pittsburgh labels Peas Cor, Pop Bus, Dada, and Crankin 18 Records.

Parting Gift has been rocking the bay area and beyond for three years, playing such venues as The Stork Club, The Edinburgh Castle, Thee Parkside, KALX live (UC Berkeley), Blake's and Stanford University. Out-of-town gigs cover the West Coast from Portland to LA and reach as far as Pennsylvania.

You can easily contact Parting Gift by calling Amie or John at 650-566-1160. Email us at partinggift@yahoo.com.

REVIEWS

I really like the first track, "Need It Now." I love her voice and the rawness of the song.

- Hillary Harrison, Bejeezus

Parting Gift combines hard drilling bass guitar lines with hard pounding cymbally percussion. Their Pittsburgh origins are evident, especially in their early to mid-90s thick/hard "indie" rocking grooves. But there are plenty of variations from one track to another, and I would be a liar if I didn't say that the best fucking thing about the Parting Gift is their slashy female punk side with its occasional sprinkles of angular dissonance and vocal psychosis. Overall think along the lines of Don Caballero and Riot-A-Go-Go.

- Elias T. Spiliotis, KZSU, Stanford









REVIEWS

I really like the first track, "Need It Now." I love her voice and the rawness of the song.

- Hillary Harrison, Bejeezus

Parting Gift combines hard drilling bass guitar lines with hard pounding cymbally percussion. Their Pittsburgh origins are evident, especially in their early to mid-90s thick/hard "indie" rocking grooves. But there are plenty of variations from one track to another, and I would be a liar if I didn't say that the best fucking thing about the Parting Gift is their slashy female punk side with its occasional sprinkles of angular dissonance and vocal psychosis. Overall think along the lines of Don Caballero and Riot-A-Go-Go.

- Elias T. Spiliotis, KZSU, Stanford