The Bribes

Welcome to PianoFight! We are a community-driven indy arts venue that takes pride in partnering with local artists to make great shows, mouth watering eats and delicious cocktails adding up to a uniquely San Francisco experience. Our two intimate theaters and cabaret stage host music, comedy, plays, dance, film screenings, drag, magic, variety shows and more, while our restaurant and bar serves up new American bites and classic cocktails. We provide space and infrastructure to hundreds of artists, who create and stage 1,500 performances for over 50,000 audience members each year.  During the day, we are the home base for the offices and classrooms of community non-profits like Tenderloin Walking Tours and Code Tenderloin which runs a job-readiness program for TL residents.

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The Bribes is the project of Chicago-born, San Francisco-based musician Philip Toscano. Toscano has relocated The Bribes to the Bay after releasing three records and headlining nearly every mid-sized and DIY venue on the northwest side. He is currently performing solo under the name The Bribes and collaborating with Jameson Irish Whisky as a part of the "Spirit of the Neighborhood" campaign.
A self-taught guitarist who grew up listening to the music from The Animals, Vivaldi, and John Lee Hooker in a classic Midwestern basement, Toscano exhibits a unique garage-blues-rock sound that possesses both the rollicking energy of Jack White, The Flat Duo Jets, and The Black Keys as well as the masterful, evocative musicianship which seems descended from Skip James and Bobby "Blue" Bland. Toscano's primary project, The Bribes, boasts a catalog of complex songs all of this same spirit. Founded in 2011, The Bribes have worked with musicians throughout the Midwest and opened for national acts Eli Paperboy Reed and Nick Waterhouse. The band's latest recording, "Dust Tapes," released in May 2016, is an ambitious bite-sized rock opera intended to portray a series of dreams about mortality through a melodically accessible sonic landscape. The result is a cohesive, dark-but-danceable record infused with pop rock hooks and 1950s/60s rock and roll sensibilities.
The Bribes have been featured in the Windy City Times, WXRT Local Anesthetic, Midwest Action, and, most recently, The Bay Bridged. Last winter, The Bribes won The Deli Magazine's Best of 2015 Reader's Poll.

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