New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Today marks the release of the latest album, Chamma, from Jenny Gillespie. We previewed the release back in April and gave you the history leading up to the recording of this fantastic album. To celebrate the release Jenny has released a second single from the album, "Child of the Universe" and a video for the album’s first single "Holi".
Paperhouse Presents an evening of heavy psychedelic revivalist and experimental music tomorrow night at The Night Light. The Oakland based second floor music venue will host local bands, Disappearing People, Psychic Ju Jitsu and Mall Walk who will perform in support of the Mexico based psych band, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. If you’re into real psychdelic rock, it is important that you attend this show.
While Disappearing People and Psychic Ju Jitsu play out frequently, both bands have a distinct face-melting and energetic live show that will expose you to a more musically proficient side of the underground. These bands will be supporting the talented and trippy Bay Area based band, Mall Walk, whose washed out, lofi and echoey musical aesthetic will fit right in with the rest of the line up.
The entire show will seamlessly wrap around the Mexico based band, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’s American tour. This band’s style is a bit more soulful, with a heavy desert psych influence. They will meld and mesh just fine with the rest of the line up, and what Paperhouse has woven together will be a real and well curated experience.
Psych rock is not dead, it is in fact, more alive than ever in the Bay Area. Make sure you make it out to this show TOMORROW in Oakland at The Night Light.
The San Francisco based garage – gaze band, Void Boys are at it again. After the release of their 10-inch vinyl, 2-track single, Starfish, the band has promptly allowed The Deli Magazine San Francisco to premiere their new track, Cosmos.
This song is a previously unreleased track that is being put out by a small L.A. based cassette label called Tuesday Tapes. Void Boys’ song is on side A, and shares the rest of the cassette’s film with the Los Angeles based band, Hillary Chillton.
Cosmos sounds a bit more intentional than the band’s previous compositions. It is romantic and soulful and shows a different side of the band, compared to their upbeat, punkier track, Starfish. Lead singer, Shannon Bodrogi’s voice is clear, and has a classic ring to it as she effortlessly bellows over the intriguing, fuzzed out wall of sound that this three-piece band is able to conjure and amplify on their recordings. Cosmos is consistent with Void Boys’ signature garage-gaze sound, but this track also embodies a tighter execution that exudes more confidence, instrumentally and vocally. We like it.
We also like that they are headlining a show on Thursday, June 5th at Bottom of the Hill with Modern Man and Sea Knight. This show is going to be a loud, soulful and fuzzed out night of experimental garage rock, and we can’t wait for it to begin. We totally recommend you make your way out to Bottom of the Hill this week, and listen to Void Boy’s new track, Cosmos. –je
Psalmships, a.k.a. Joshua Britton, just posted a new full-length album I Sleep Alone that you can stream below and will be available on vinyl and CD on July 8 via Big School Records. You may notice some familiar tunes from his past catalogue amidst some new ones performed with backing help from Chelsea Allen, Brad Hinton, Anousheh Khalili and Adam Rose. They were recorded, engineered, and mixed by Michael Batchelor at Kettle Pot Tracks, Allen Bergendahl at Viking Recording Co., and Britton at The Sluice Box.
Burlington transplants Hello Shark have found their way to Philly, and we are happy to welcome them with open arms. Linc Halloran delivers quirky lyrics and vocals that find spaces filled with reminders of David Byrne and the Violent Femmes. Hello Shark’s songs are oddly beautiful, making me feel good in such a somber way. Keep your attention on these guys, and make sure to check out their albums, HS and Break Arms, which are both available via Portsmouth, NH indie record label and book publisher Burst & Bloom. Co-headlining the evening will be psych-punk outfit Seismic Thrust and Chicago power-popsters Clearance. The Clint Squint, which is made up of member from Time Hitler and the Assholes From Space, will be kicking the night off. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 Front St., 8pm, $5, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman
The product of a collaboration between members of CHAPPO and Jupiter One (two NYC bands that put out some noteworthy records and received a good amount of coverage in The Deli) , Fancy Colors plays chilled out pop that’s reminiscent of what some people called "sophisti-pop"- a late Eighties phenomenon apparently triggered by Roxy Music’s "Avalon" and Brian Ferry’s solo albums, that mixed crooning mid tempos with subtle exotic musical influences (from that era, you may remember also Everythink But The Girl and Curiosity Killed the Cat). The band will be releasing their new LP ‘Island of the Dead’ with a show at Mercury Lounge tonight (June 3rd) at Mercury Lounge, sharing the stage with The Deli’s brand new Artist of the Month Elaphant. Check out the single "Love is Easy," streaming below.
Thomas Comerford has spent the last three years preparing for his second solo album, II, the follow up 2011’s Archive + Spiral. The result is a thoughtful, introspective album filled folk and western sounds and themes. Most of the eight tracks are built from acoustic guitar and deep, rich vocals. The sound and style could be compared to Mike Johnson. Several tracks, "Silt and Dust", "Chrysalis", "Prefer Not To", and others, then build with twang and organic instrumentation into small southern symphonies. This is bedroom meets barroom but at times it swells into larger realms. This is most apparent in "Done and Done" with its lush full band sound.
II will be released by Strange Weather Records on June 10th.
Comerford recently released a video with the help of local animator Chris Sullivan for the track "Prefer Not To".
You can celebrate with Thomas at The Burlington Bar on June 12th with Mar Caribe and Angela James.
The Goodbye Party (a.k.a. Michael Cantor of The Ambulars) has a new split 7" with Spoonboy. You can stream Cantor’s two tracks, "5am Moonlight" and "Telescopic Eyes," below. They were recorded by Peter Helmis (ex-Algernon Cadwallader, Mike Bell & the Movies, etc.) at Studio P at Big Mama’s Warehouse. Hard copy will be available via Silver Sprocket.
Leave it to The Grayces to soothe that little heartbreak that comes with the first of every month. Sunday was the strategic release date of their video for "Drop in a Bucket," proving that a rock and roll kick to the head will always be an excellent distraction from the chronic financial loss of living in your hovel. With the video comes the announcement of their Nashville pre-release show at The Basement on June 28th. This will be your opportunity to get your mitts on their album "Westing" before its release in October. Take our word for it, you want your mitts on The Grayces. -Terra James-Jura
Rock music is experiencing a new wave of innovation, with a number of groups contributing their creations to the music scene; yet of these bands, only a handful possess the chops to make it big.
SF based group, WAG are in the handful. Their newest album, No Worries illuminates their Strokes-mixed-with-RHCP qualities with strong vocals, solid guitar leads and commanding drum beats. This 9-song track album ranges in style, from head-bobbing summertime jams like, Delay to more poignant selections like the bluesy, poignant track, New Devils. Grappling with California is a slow, passionate jam with aurally clean guitar grooves and crashing cymbals that accompany powerful and edgy vocals, while delivering equally powerful lyrics. Shed rounds out the album with a building guitar riff and a steady drum foundation that leads up to a pleading chorus that jumps into a grungy, effects-heavy black hole of goodness.
All clichés aside, this indie-rock quartet is certain to make you WAG your tail. –Kat Collins
Beverly is the new dream pop project involving Frankie Rose and Drew Citron. Their debut album "Careers" is coming out on Kanine Records on July 1st, check out the video for single "Honey Do" below.
