The Broken Robots share the bill with Brian Ember and his band at Best video Film & Cultural Center on Fri., Feb. 28. The show starts at 7 PM and the cover is $10.

Led by vocalist and performance artist Jack Daniel, the Broken Robots' fully improvised shows have been stretching the minds and spines of audiences for a decade and a half. From SF to NYC to the moon, the search for the profound in the profane, mundane, and insane continues. Punk jazz rock and whatever comes next--with inspirations from Zappa, Waits, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen, Andy Kaufman, and the Buddha, as well as the giants of jazz.

Classically-trained composer and singer, Brian Ember, has been making music since singing “You Are So Beautiful” as a toddler in the bathtub. A musical chimera, his love of rock and glam sat side-by-side with doo-wop, Mozart, Bach and contemporary composers like Györy Ligeti and John Corigliano.

With a host of works for string quartet, symphony orchestra, and choirs under his belt, Ember started the string quartet-powered rock band, The Tet Offensive, in New York City; fusing his love for counterpoint and horsehair strings with theatrics and thrashing.

Ember left the strings in the background for his first solo endeavor, “The New Chastity,” a full-on loungy, soulful baroque pop album that takes inspiration from late ‘70s musicians like Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Eric Carmen and Electric Light Orchestra to deliver a deeply personal record about divorce and lost love.

His follow-up EP, “Thank You,” and second LP, “Get Ready to Hate Me” are coming soon.