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Main Attrakionz remixes Dominant Legs’ “Make Time For The Boy”

May 18, 2012 by Jason Shane · Leave a Comment »
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Stereogum recently premiered Oakland hip-hip duo Main Attrakionz‘ remix of cross-Bay indie outfit Dominant Legs‘ “Make Time for the Boy.” Squadda Bambino and MondreM.A.N. inject a healthy dose of cloud rap beats and laid-back lyricism into the track, along with a sped-up vocal sample from the original’s opening line. Check it out below:

Dominant Legs – “Make Time For The Boy” (Main Attrakionz Remix)

Dominant Legs also just announced two shows at the end of the month. On 5/30/12, they’re joining Wavves, Smith Westerns, Go Back To The Zoo, Tennis, Mr Wix and SpaceGirls at The Paradiso in Amsterdam for Hilfiger Denim Live, and they play San Miguel Primavera Sound in Barcelona the very next day.

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New 7″ from Grandma’s Boyfriend out on Loglady Records

May 18, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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While the designation “punk-pop” might suggest that slick, whiny garbage that somehow became popular around the turn of the millennium, Grandma’s Boyfriend is helping to seize back nervy, sped-up pop for the rest of us. The SF band is giving away their new EP of songs “about getting killed and lost love and girls that just take things too far” below, but this is seven-inch music, so grab one from Loglady. As the flyer indicates, the “cuttiessssst band of 20122#” is currently on tour.

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Sonny Smith releases ‘One Act Plays’ and shares new track from upcoming LP with the Sunsets

May 18, 2012 by Jackie Andrews · Leave a Comment »
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That Sonny Smith of Sonny and the Sunsets would bridge music and theater is a matter of natural progression. Smith began his musical career at 18 playing Jimmy Yancy covers at mountain town clubs in Colorado before he ended up in Central America writing screenplays whose characters and plots eventually developed into songs. So, it makes sense that in 2005 the Watchword lit-mag would commission Smith to create a CD of plays as songs that would be performed on stage in a production called The Dangerous Stranger.

One Act Plays finally saw a proper vinyl release on May 8 on Secret Seven Records. Appearances by Edith Frost, Neko Case, Miranda July, Andy Cabic, Virgil Shaw, Mark Eitzel, John Dwyer, and others help bring bring to life the fictional vignettes depicted in the songs, “except for ‘Freaks In Space’ and ‘Honey Roy Rockwell,’” writes Smith. “Those two are the complete truth. The terrible truth.” Listen to the warbly album stand-out, “Eddie and Rita”:

Sonny and the Sunsets the band has a new LP coming out on Polyvinyl on June 26. Longtime Companion was written about his breakup with a girlfriend of ten years, and if this track, “Pretend You Love Me,” is any indication, expect a heartwrenching classic country follow-up to last year’s Hit After Hit:

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Check out Billy & Dolly’s new album, recorded by Papercuts’ Jason Quever

May 18, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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billy and dolly - dally bon idyll cover

In 2009, Bill Rousseau and Dahlia Gallin Ramirez released In the Beginning, an appropriately-named debut as the likewise appropriately-named Billy & Dolly. Three years later, the duo of former Monolith members returns with Dally Bon Idyll, a Jason Quever-recorded set of winning AM Gold-meets-FM power pop. It’s top-shelf stuff, and you should stream it below.

After the jump, check out the duo’s new video for “Oh Yeah.”

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SF’s Cazadero releases ‘Dusk for Dawn’

May 17, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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New SF band Cazadero serves up dusty folk-rock with a notable country feel on its debut LP, Dusk for Dawn, which you can stream in its entirety below. The band’s first live show is at Viracocha this Friday night (9pm, $10) with Nika Aila States of Red Steppes and special guests.

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Davis music festival Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom returns for twelfth installment

May 17, 2012 by Zack Frederick · Leave a Comment »
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As a UC Davis alumnus, I’m always proud to promote the vibrant underground music scene in Davis, CA. Run primarily by the local college radio station KDVS 90.3FM, the city lights up every week with house shows by bands playing diverse versions of strange, noisy, alt-everything. Often very few of the students present have even heard the band — but it’s still worth it to go to the show, grab a 40 oz of Miller Lite and join the ear-splitting, sweaty, living room mosh pit and then waltz outside and have a cigarette with your friends. What San Franciscans gain in bringing big name artists, we lose in freedom — bouncers, camera passes, ID checks, no moshing rules, expensive equipment.

The point is this: in Davis, they’re celebrating that no-fucks-given attitude like they have eleven times prior with Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom, a day long outdoor music festival at a biker bar (a real one, not Zeitgeist) in the agricultural fields outside of Davis. Find a spot in the grass and watch an eclectic lineup of Sacramento/Bay Area artists and bands pound their instruments into the ground right in front of you. For those (like me) obsessed with the weather, it should be 85 degrees in Davis this Saturday. Perfect.

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Stream the new Mount Eerie LP ‘Clear Moon’ on NPR

May 17, 2012 by Zack Frederick · Leave a Comment »
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Mount Eerie — the always soft yet threateningly strange project of Phil Elverum — are getting set to release their newest album Clear Moon on May 22. According to NPR:

“Recorded in his recently established de-sanctified church turned recording studio, The Unknown in Anacortes, Wash., Clear Moon is an immersive, sprawling album that finds common ground in folk, ominous chamber music, electronics and…ambient metal tonalities. Murky and beguiling, Clear Moon is remarkably consistent.”

Try before you buy and stream the entire album over at NPR right now.

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