Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Willie Brown was cashing in on live-work lofts going up all over SoMa to set the stage for the gentrification and displacement crisis of today, now-defunct nightclubs like The Trocadero and Paradise Lounge stages would host a sort of lounge/punk rock band

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