Live performance footage often abstracts location in these YouTube times, so keep in mind while watching TGMC’s three clips here that Politics’ sharp, tight, Nineties-reminiscent indie rock emanates locally. That includes the Joy Division/Interpol guitar toll on “In Your Place.” See the band at Pachanga Fest in Fiesta Gardens next Saturday, May 12.

“Come for Me”

“Shattered Dreams”

“In Your Place”

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.