Oakland’s Warm Soda flaunts a gift for punchy power pop hooks reminiscent of classic punk bands like The Buzzocks and The Soft Boys. Their first full-length album, Someone For You, drops next week on Castle Face Records (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall). The album was recorded at the band’s own studio, Fuzz City Studio, and offers twelve raucous tracks that are bursting with retro gusto. Singer Matthew Melton’s vocals maintain a peculiar and attractive delicacy against the backdrop of vintage rock ‘n’ roll overdrive. Warm Soda is currently busy touring the U.S., and will return to the Bay Area in late April. Stream Someone For You in its entirety here. -Andy Lambert

3/18 – NEW ORLEANS, LA – SATURN BAR w/ PEACH KELLI POP
3/19 – JACKSON, MS – MORNINGBELL RECORDS 
3/20 – TUSCALOOSA, AL – EGANS
3/21 – OXFORD, MS – LAMAR LOUNGE
3/23 – NASHVILLE, TN – THE STONE FOX w/ DIRTY DREAMS
3/24 – KNOXVILLE, TN – GROUNDSWELL w/ BURNING ITCH
3/25 – RICHMOND, VA – STRANGE MATTER w/ PEACH KELLI POP
3/26 – WASHINGTON, DC – THE PINCH
3/27 – BALTIMORE, MD – OTTOBAR 
3/28 — NEW YORK, NY- CAKE SHOP w/ WHITE MYSTERY, HECTORS
3/29 – PROVIDENCE, RI – FIREHOUSE 13 w/ WHITE MYSTERY
3/30 – ALBANY, NY – VALENTINES
3/31 — ROCHESTER, NY – THE BUG JAR w/ WHITE MYSTERY
4/1 – COLUMBUS, OH – CARABAR 
4/2 – INDIANAPOLIS, IN – WHITE RABBIT w/ DAY CREEPER
4/3 – CINCINATI, OH – THE COMET w/ TWEENS
4/4 – BLOOMINGTON, IN – THE BISHOP
4/5 – KALAMAZOO, MI – 411 CLUB
4/6 – CHICAGO, IL – SPACE CLUB
4/7 – MILWAUKEE, WI- LOOKOUT FEST
4/8 – MADISON, WI – GOOD STYLE SHOP
4/9 – FARGO, ND – THE AQUARIUM
4/12 – SEATTLE, WA – THE COMET
4/13 – PORTLAND, OR – BENDER FEST
4/14 – ARCATA, CA – THE FACEMENT
4/20 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – BRICK & MORTAR 
4/26 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – BOTTOM OF THE HILL 

Athens, Greece’s underground garage punk princes, Acid Baby Jeses are set to play two shows in the Bay Area next week. The band will be playing live in San Francisco at The Hemlock Tavern on March 26th and on March 27th, they’ll be performing in Oakland at The Stork Club. This highly acclaimed post punk quartet will be sure to put on an enthralling show. Make sure you don’t miss them!

Oakland based electronic, psychedelic pop band, Mwahaha is making waves with their distinct brand of ethereal electro psychedelia. A burst of recent exposure, including love from NPR and a spot on the Warp Records SXSW showcase, has made these sonic savants difficult to ignore. LA-based indie label Plug Research has singed the band, and will re-release their self-titled debut album later this month.

The record is a swirling vortex of fluid textures and glitch honey. Think Elephant Six Collective meets TV On the Radio. Track highlights include Swimmer, Deep Sleep and Love–the latter featuring tUnE-yArDs‘ Merril Garbus.

The band recorded “Mwahaha” with Oakland-based engineer Eli Crews (Deerhoof, Rogue Wave) last year and put the album out themselves in limited quantity. The new Plug Research edition features two additional tracks and new artwork, and will be available on vinyl. -Andy Lambert

San Francisco based experimental indie rock band, Tartufi, will be releasing their fourth full length album as they break an almost three year span of silence after releasing their last studio effort, an EP entitled, The Goodwill of The Scar. In celebration of the March 26th release of their new album, These Factory Days, Tartufi has shared a new single entitled, Underwater. This seasoned Bay Area trio will also be playing several tour dates across the United States, and will end their tour in San Francisco with their official album release event at the Brick and Mortar Music Hall on April 26th, exactly a month after the album’s release date.

These Factory Days is dramatic and superfluously elegant. Make sure you check out the album’s new single, Underwater, and buy a copy of These Factory Days, which will make for a great addition to your music collection.

Tartufi 2013 US Tour Dates:

03.22.13 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival at the Neurolux
03.23.13 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival at House Of Light
03.24.13 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Festival at Minot
03.25.13 – Pocatello, ID @ The Flipside
03.26.13 – Denver, CO @ Armoury
03.27.13 – Witchita KS @ Kirby’s Beer Store
03.28.13 – Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
03.29.13 – Milwaukee, WI @ Frank’s Powerplant
03.30.13 – South Bend, IN @ McCormick’s
03.31.13 – Chicago, IL @ TBA
04.01.13 – Cleveland, OH @ The Euclid Tavern
04.02.13 – Harrisburg, PA @ Stage on Herr
04.03.13 – Boston, MA @ Radio Upstairs
04.04.13 – Philadelphia, PA @ TBA
04.05.13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Spike Hill
04.06.13 – Asbury Park, NJ @ TBA
04.08.13 – Manhattan, NY @ Mercury Lounge
04.10.13 – Washington DC @ Ghion
04.11.13 – Greensboro, NC @ UNCG
04.12.13 – Winston-Salem, NC @ The Garage
04.13.13 – Durham, NC @ The Casbah
04.14.13 – Atlanta, GA @ TBA
04.15.13 – Little Rock, AK @ TBA
04.16.13 – Fayetteville, AR @ Nightbird Books
04.17.13 – Denton, TX @ TBA
04.19.13 – Tucscon, AZ @ Cafe Passe
04.20.13 – Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
04.26.13 – San Francisco, CA @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall (These Factory Days RELEASE SHOW) w/ Kowloon Walled City and Queen Crescent

Monday night’s intimate benefit show for Adobe Books left everyone who attended much better for the wear. A combined sense of revelry and urgency permeated San Francisco’s Public Works and congealed into a series of inspired performances. Cozy acoustic contributions from both Van and Adam Stephens interposed the kinetic atmospherics supplied by The Tambo Rays and The Dodos. Each act was punctuated by an alluring panorama of wall projection eye candy, and between sets DJ Andy Cabic spun the greatest tracks you’ve never heard from a collection too easy to envy.

Adobe enthusiast Tiffany Sainz grew inspired to organize the event at seeing the names of past performers scrawled on the shop’s walls. Many San Francisco artists harbor formative memories attached to Adobe, including stalwart indie duo The Dodos. Guitarist/Vocalist Meric Long once lived across the street from the iconic bookseller, where he fondly recalls gigging early in his career. Drummer Logan Kroeber once heard the worst bassline of all time at Adobe, a memory he narrated with high regard and which speaks to the shop’s reputation as a source for the genuine. The Dodos returned from a European tour just days before the event, and despite the jet lag put on a staggering performance filled with new material. They’ve finished recording a new LP, which I’m told we can expect this August.

The Save Adobe Books Indiegogo campaign concludes Friday, March 15th. If you were unable to attend the benefit show, it’s not too late to contribute! -Andy Lambert

Oakland based songwriter/producer Wallpaper. became a viable music industry success after singning with L.A. Reid and Epic Records last year. Wallpaper. (which consists of members, Arjun Singh, Tom Peyton, Derek Taylor, and vocalist Novena Carmel – the daughter of music legend Sly Stone) also known as Ricky Reed, has been riding high from accumulating promotional support from MTV and Boardwalk Records, landing his music on television shows like Jersey Shore and The Real World, which led him to receive hundreds of thousands of music downloads before his major label signing.

Reed’s most recent effort, Good 4 It was released yesterday on Itunes, and is the theme song for VH1’s newest tv show, Wicked Single.

You can catch Wallpaper. live for three nights at SXSW and on the line up of this summer’s Ven’s Warped Tour:

03/14 Roxy Showcase Empire Automotive, 604 E. 7th St.
03/15 Spotify House 1100 E. Cesar Chavez St.
03/16 Doritos Bold Stage 5th St & Red River

Wallpaper. on Vans Warped Tour 2013:

03/28 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
06/15 Seattle, WA White River Amphitheater
06/19 San Diego, CA Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
06/20 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairplex
06/21 Pomona, CA Pomona Fairplex
06/22 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
06/23 Ventura, CA Seaside Park
06/26 Las Cruces, NM N.M.S.U. Practice Field
06/27 Phoenix, AZ Quail Run Park
06/28 Las Vegas, NV Silverton Casino Parking Lot
06/29 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairpark
06/30 Denver, CO Sports Authority Field at Mile High
07/03 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
07/05 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
07/06 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
07/07 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Concert Center
07/09 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
07/10 Washington DC Merriweather Post Pavilion
07/11 Boston, MA Comcast Center
07/12 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
07/13 New York, NY Nassau Memorial Coliseum
07/14 Hartford, CT The Comcast Theatre
07/16 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
07/17 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion
07/18 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center
07/19 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
07/20 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
07/21 Minneapolis, MN Canterbury Park
07/23 Kansas City, KS Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
07/24 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
07/25 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood
07/26 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park
07/27 West Palm, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
07/28 Orlando, FL Central Florida Fairgrounds
07/29 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
07/30 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
07/31 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheatre
08/02 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
08/03 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
08/04 Houston, TX Reliant Center Parking Lot

MTV Hive has endorsed the new single from Oakland’s Tremor Low, “Give Blood”. The track exhibits the familiar brand of neo-goth dance punk rock that fans will recognize from the group’s previous release, Kingmaker. The Kingmaker EP, recorded with Jamie Hill (Nada Surf, Cut Copy, Rogue Wave), landed them on Live 105‘s “5 Bay Area Bands You Need to Know” list in 2012.

“Give Blood” centers around frontman Don Bellenger’s tale of foreboding woods and their resident monsters, accented with a light touch of gore and is executed with a stylistic nod to Robert Smith. The MTV Hive premier precedes Tremor Low’s South By Southwest 2013 debut, offering the band a valuable piece of national exposure. Check them out on any of four consecutive nights at the Free Now! Showcase in Austin, Texas. -Andy Lambert

March 13 – Free Now! Showcase @ The Brew Exchange – 5 PM
March 14 – Free Now! Showcase @ The Brew Exchange – 7 PM
March 15 – Free Now! Showcase @ The Brew Exchange – 7:30 PM
March 16 – Free Now! Showcase @ The Brew Exchange – 11 PM

Ambitious and profound, the documentary Reincarnated takes viewers on a journey to Jamaica as we follow Snoop Lion’s transformation from gangsterific rapper to peace-loving Rastafarian. The film reveals a candid Snoop who matured amidst a turbulent past, and professes to having been drawn to Jamaican culture for years, but felt unable to explore that path due to his past time constraints and his then-limited spiritual understanding of the Rastafarian culture.

In the heart of Rastafarian culture, Trench Town, Snoop explores its history, and was personally set on learning from reggae icon and Bob Marley bandmate, Bunny Wailer to create his own re-defining album that underlines his newfound identity. While Snoop states himself, that his life has consisted of many stages, the emotion and sincerity of the film makes it hard to think of his journey as another fullt completed ‘stage’ for him—particularly in the light of him having lost so many close friends. He was open and honest about his continued growth as an artist and as a man. He contemplated the meaning of his losses throughout his years in the rap industry.

“We don’t love them while they’re here and I wanna be loved, and the only way to get love is to give love,” Snoop confesses. Hard to disagree with such a philosophy. -Natacha Pavlov

*Reincarnated will premiere in San Francisco at the Opera Plaza Cinema on March 15, 2013.

San Francisco’s iconic lit paradise Adobe Books is facing a massive rent hike which is threatening its survival. We don’t want to let that happen! As part of a series of events, several Bay Area bands are taking to the stage to help raise funds and awareness for a substantial revamp to the store. Word has it, that the new Adobe will feature a pop-up shop with Haight-Ashbury vinyl luminary, Groove Merchant Records.

The Music for Adobe Fundraiser takes place on Monday, May 11th at Public Works in San Francisco. Adobe’s musical beneficiaries include The Dodos, Adam Stevens of Two Gallants, The Tambo Rays and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic (DJ set). Attend the show and hear some of SF’s finest, while helping expand and sustain one of the city’s cultural mainstays. It’s any easy win-win.

You can also check out the Save Adobe Books Indiegogo campaign for more information about Adobe’s future and how to contribute. –Andy Lambert

Up and coming New York City based art rock, pop darlings, Changing Modes are performing tonight (03.09) at The 3rd Annual Armory Night Performance at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. The event goes from 8-11 pm. If you can’t make it, you’ll have another chance to see them live on May 5th at the National Underground..

Two years after the release of their debut EP, San Franciscan band Slowness returns with their first full-length LP, the alluring and addicting For Those Who Wish To See The Glass Half Full. Singer Geoffrey Scott, bassist Julie Lynn, and drummer Scott Putnam deliver eight hypnotic drone pop-shoegaze tracks set to a dreamy atmosphere and succinct lyrics that trigger pleasant familiarity. The album, although brief, doesn’t lessen the impression that you’ve floated away into aural ecstasy. The optimistic “Day For Night” starts off with an upbeat, infectious beat that leads to an intense outro, before mellowing-out in “The Glass.” Anti-political undertones are heard in the catchy anthem “Energy” and the entrancing, melancholic “Calm & Dispel.” The sluggish “Repeater” channels a lethargic vibe that paves the way for a gradual, two-minute long airy outro, contrasting the upbeat intensity of “Wired.” The journey ends with the visionary invitation to “Race To Mars” and the beautifully moody “Walls of Blue.”

With a polished sound that breeds intimacy and nods to many great 80’s bands, Slowness proves that their realm is one to get lost into… rapidly. -Natacha Pavlov

You can can also attand Slowness’ Vinyl Release Cocktail Party tomorrow at Bar 821. Find details and RSVP here.