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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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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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Sleepy Sun to conclude North American tour with album release show Friday 5/18/12 at The Independent

May 17, 2012 by Jason Shane · Leave a Comment »
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SF pysch-rock quintet Sleepy Sun rolls back into SF this Friday, 5/18/12, after a month’s-long tour across the States and Canada in support of their latest effort Spine Hits (out April 10th on The End Records), and they’re celebrating the occasion with an album release show this Friday, May 18th at The Independent. Joining the band are Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Some Ember, and DJ Britt Govea.

After a very brief rest (read: enough time to do their laundry and repack), Sleepy Sun returns to the road, heading to Europe for a run of shows beginning on May 23rd in the Netherlands, before a short turn around the West Coast in June. Spine Hits is their third full-length album, and the band has been gaining steam on the strength of tracks like “V.O.G.”, which we previously featured back in April:

Get full details on the show and Sleepy Sun’s upcoming European and West Coast tours after the jump.

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The Soft Moon – “Evidence” (with John Foxx of Ultravox)

May 17, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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The Soft Moon recently released this new song, which features Luis Vasquez and company collaborating with John Foxx And The Maths, the new band from former Ultravox singer John Foxx. It’s an expansive-sounding synth pop song, brighter than we’re used to from The Soft Moon to be sure, but definitely worth checking out.

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Night Dust: Barn Owl’s Evan Caminiti releases new solo LP

May 16, 2012 by Ben Van Houten · Leave a Comment »
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Evan Caminiti of Barn Owl’s latest solo release is Night Dust, out now on Immune Recordings. The album is out on LP and cassette, and, as Caminiti told Fluid Radio, tape played a big role in Night Dust‘s composition:

I just used a cassette 4 track for basic tracking but then bounced the tracks through an effects chain to a DAW and layered gradually on top of that. I was influenced by the approach of dub mixes so there is a lot delay involved but I experimented with other techniques like playing cassettes back through different amps and re-recording them or playing tapes backwards.

Caminiti performs at Liminal Space on Saturday, May 26th. Check out the below video for Night Dust‘s “Returning Spirits”:

Evan Caminiti, KWJAZ, Marielle Jakobsons
Liminal Space
May 26, 2012
9pm, $7-10

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