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San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees has had numerous incarnations over the years after initially being formed as a solo project by musician John Dwyer. The now five-piece’s latest, Carrion Crawler/The Dream, is an exuberant collection of groove-driven indie barnstormers. “The Dream,” a jubilant track, spans nearly seven minutes, combining gleeful guitar riffs with dance-laden rhythms. There’s a wide-eyed mania to the music that’s as terrifying as it is compelling.
Walls have just released this new track taken from their new album ‘Coracle’ out next week.
Photos by Rachel Brandon
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San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees are readying another set of barn burners for In The Red, which they’ve adorably named Warm Slime. Precedent track "I Was Denied" sounds more Bakersfield than SF–there’s some twang buried in all the guitar clamor–but it’s wide-eyed, loud-and-proud, in-the-garage debauchery all the same. The Slime splats on May 11.
Deerhoof with Grayson Gilmour and Seth Frightening
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington
Photos by Ema Richards
The Soft Pack- Extinction
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San Francisco band The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims) present us with
Extinction- an early singles and EPs collection of releases prior to their name change. It serves as a great introduction to the kind of garagey-rock and roll that they play, and chronicles their sound in the formative stages of the band.
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(Photo: Tony Mott)
The Drones’ singer Gareth Liddiard has always sounded surly on record, but live it’s like he’s fully transformed into a spit-gargling rock pirate, the kind of guy who savors singing a song called, "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For." We know, we know, but what fun is there in mincing words.
San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys always sound like they’re emanating from a graveyard radio, Spectorian girl group and garage rock ghosts absorbed in from the ether. That’s not to say they sound morbid, just totally of another time. The two-part "Dude’s Got A Tender Heart" comes from Grey-Eyed Girls, their second LP out now through the always killing it Woodsist.
(Photo: Tim Broddin)
Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (due the first week of October).
Any band that is hand picked by a member of No Age to release an album on his label is gonna get more then its fare share of a look. Silk Flowers is just such a band. Signed to Dean Spurnt’s Post Present Medium label, the band recently came to my attention thanks to Spurnt’s pushing of the group. True he calls them "probably the weirdest band I know" and they definitely live up to that billing but there is something downright catchy about their music, even if you have to give it time to branch out and become comfortable in your ears.
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