San Francisco
Premiere: Chayse Porter announces new album for January & shares ‘Lead Pipe Cinch’
It’s always good to hear from San Francisco’s Chayse Porter, especially when he’s got a new record on the way. It’s shaping up to be a record you better make time for when it arrives early next year, and the lead single pings in so many different dimensions at once it’s quite difficult to pin …
Premiere: Careful explores painful intimacy on bare-bones new single ‘I had a secret’
Last month, the San Francisco-based Eric Lindley resumed activity as Careful after a hiatus of nearly a decade, announcing his intention to release a new EP in September. Today, Lindley shares the collection’s stripped-back second single. If ‘I had a secret’ sounds like a forgotten relic of another time, smothered in cassette artefacts and lo-fi …
Premiere: Eric Lindley returns as Careful with first new music in almost a decade, ‘Promise’
Here’s a welcome surprise for a Thursday evening – you may have thought Eric Lindley had hung it up as Careful, but life events simply got in the way for a while. He’s a father now, and such seismic changes often make it difficult to find a way back into making music. Throw in the …
PREMIERE: San Francisco’s Hot Flash Heat Wave are going through the ‘m o t i o n s’ as they prep new LP
With their last notable body of work arriving two years ago in the form of the Mood Ring EP, San Francisco trio Hot Flash Heat Wave are gearing up for their first full-length in nearly 5 whole years – they released a further teaser track from it called ‘vampires‘ a few weeks ago, and today …
Say Psych: Album Review: Cool Ghouls – At George’s Zoo
Cool Ghouls, a band fledged in San Francisco on house shows, minimum wage jobs, BBQ’s in Golden Gate Park and the romance of a city’s psychedelic history turns 10 this year. What better a decennial celebration than the release of their fourth album, At George’s Zoo. The journey so far: the teenage friendship of complimentary …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Asteroid No. 4 – Northern Songs
Psychedelic rock legends The Asteroid No.4 will release their new album Northern Songs this Friday through a partnership with UK-based Cardinal Fuzz Records and Portland’s Little Cloud Records. Stalwarts of the modern ‘psych’ genre, they are known for their prolific discography of reverb-drenched recordings and liquid-projected live performances. With a sound all their own and neo-psychedelic / shoegaze leanings, they are often compared to acts …
Track: Giraffage – Basketball
San Franciscan producer Giraffage, aka Charlie Yin follows his recent track ‘Workout’ with a new track based on his love for Basketball – taking that as his title. On the topic of “Basketball”, Giraffage explains, “Basketballs and sounds associated with basketball have such a distinct timbre in my mind and so I knew that I needed …
Premiere: New Spell – Where you are
Were delighted to premiere the new track from San Franciscan indie pop duo New Spell. Of the track, the bands Leanne Kelly told us “Scrolling through the digital world, it can be easy for me to get stuck in self-doubt. I wanted to write an honest, celebratory, jubilant song as a reminder to myself, and anyone …
Track: Tycho – Easy
San Francisco’s Tycho have just released a new single ‘Easy’ on Mom + Pop X Ninja Tune, and comes ahead of a new album, due out later in the year. With a CV that boasts over 1.3 million sales and a Grammy Nomination, Tycho – essentially the project of Scott Hansen, knows what he’s doing, …
Say Psych: Live Review: Cool Ghouls, Tamashi Horo, The Goa Express @ The Castle – 25.02.2018
The Castle is undoubtedly one of the best underground venues in Manchester and with tonight’s line up it is certain to be packed to capacity. Opening we have The Goa Express, five young lads from Burnley who have been causing a stir on the Manchester scene for some time now, with ripples finally exuding further …