San Francisco
News: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club announce new album
It’s been a while in the making, but Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are always worth the wait. This week has seen the revealing of their new single ‘Little Thing Gone Wild’ from upcoming album Wrong Creatures which will be released early 2018. The trio hailing from San Francisco, California have been carrying the torch for …
Premiere: Equators – Second Wind
Equators are essentially the project of Trevor H, and they make rather lovely psychedelic pop out of San Francisco, CA. Describing their output as being an attempt to “break away from a (sometimes) forced or narrow structure within pop/rock music to conjure sounds/textures/melodies based on off-the-cuff exercises creating something charged with immediacy…little by little the …
Say Psych: Live in San Francisco by Feral Ohms
Oh. My. Fucking. God. When a bunch of guys from bands who have been partially responsibly for some of my favourite releases of the year get together to do a live album I’m going to take notice. But this? THE SCUZZ! MY MIND? THE SCUZZ! BLOWN! Feral Ohms are Ethan Miller (Heron Oblivion), Chris Johnson (Andy Human …
Track: The New Up – Future Is Now
San Francisco’s The New Up have just revealed a new track – Future is Now, taken from their as yet untitled (at least as far as we know) album, which is out in November. The band have a real DIY spirit, building their own studio to record in and recording everything between there and a …
Tracks: Picture Atlantic – Billy Banker
San Francisco quartet Picture Atlantic have released their new single Billy Banker, the second single taken from their forthcoming new album, Assouf. The song itself is described by singer/guitarist Nikolaus Bartunek as being “…the satirical archetype for all the young A&R and label reps we’d meet or had met in the past. It’s not so …
Track: Magic Trick share two tracks from forthcoming album Other Man’s Blues
Ahead of the release of their forthcoming album Other Man’s Blues, out on August 26th via Empty Cellar, San Francisco’s Magic Trick have released a couple of tracks from the record, ‘Forest of Kates’ and ‘First Thought’. The record is a loose, largely improvised affair, written by the bands songwriter Tom Cohen, and features a …
Track: Heron Oblivion – Your Hollows
Heron Oblivion are making it easy for us to love them with their new single Your Hollows. Although they’re a new band out of San Francisco, they boast members of Sic Alps, Six Organs of Admittance, Howlin’ Rain and Feral Ohms amongst others, as well as Meg Baird of Espers. Taken from their debut self-titled …
Premiere: TAXES – Lost at Sea / Your Other Left (remixes)
San Franciscan six piece TAXES release their new single, Lost at Sea, backed by Your Other Left his coming Friday (November 20th) and we’re delighted to premiere remixes of both tracks by Chris Crawford from clintongore. Lost at Sea retains its form as rather a lovely little pop song that makes your heart ache a …
See: Flesh World release video for Just to Tear Me Down, plus September UK tour dates
Photo Credit: Melissa Farley San Francisco quartet Flesh World are heading over to the UK for a bunch of dates next month including a couple of shows in London, in support of their debut album The Wild Animals in My Life, which is out now on Iron Lung Records. From it comes ‘Just To Tear …
See: N. Lannon releases new video for “Endless Night”
Sometime Film School guitarist N. Lannon aka Nyles Lannon has recently released his third solo album, Falling Inside, and eclectic mix of electro-folk onto which Lannon has added samples from old Persian records and his guitar recorded backwards, as well as a liberal smattering of 808 kick bass. From it, the San Francisco based singer-songwriter …