Paul Collins The Best of The Nerves and The Beat and The Exploding Hearts: Night 1

A concert at Kilowatt in San Francisco, billing Paul Collins with the Paul Collins Beat project and the punk band The Exploding Hearts. The program draws on the catalog of The Nerves and The Beat.

Paul Collins is best known as a founding member of The Nerves, a San Francisco power pop trio formed in 1974 with Jack Lee and Peter Case. Their 1976 EP included "Hanging On the Telephone," a song written by Jack Lee that Blondie recorded in 1978. Paul Collins Beat is the later project carrying Collins's melodic guitar pop forward, and the title of this evening points to material from both The Nerves and The Beat.

The Exploding Hearts are a punk band from Portland, Oregon, and their album Guitar Romantic is part of their recorded output. Their set sits alongside the power pop material on the bill, pairing two strands of guitar-driven rock from different eras.

Kilowatt is a San Francisco venue that hosts concerts and shows. The bill suits listeners interested in 1970s power pop and in the punk tradition that grew from it, and it is the first of several nights of this program.