Date and Time
- Thursday, Dec 4, 2025 7pm - 8pm
Location
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
Details
Ovarian Trolley released three albums of fractured, intense noise rock in the 1990s. Comprised of sisters Laurie and Jennifer Hall and Buck Bito, the band was praised for their “scraggly electric ugliness” in Trouser Press. The band’s intertwined voices, focused structures, and visceral slashes of sound construct a momentous, transfixing funhouse of sound. Throughout their existence, Ovarian Trolley acted as the high-tension heartbeat of San Francisco’s creative underground, a hook-filled articulation of the dire, anarchic, and sublime possibilities of life in the city’s margins. The band found a kindred spirit, also concerned with the possibilities at the margins, in Margaret Kilgallen, who created the cover art for their final single, Romeo, released in 1997. Since disbanding in 1998, Ovarian Trolley has reconvened only a handful of times, each one reiterating the gleeful challenge of music, the vitality of collaboration and the force of shared outrage.
