
Mixtape: Music to Drink Beer to (Podcast #261) Think of our latest mixtape as something of an hour-long indie music/beer pairing, inspired by our upcoming The Bay Brewed rock and roll beer festival. On Saturday, December 3rd, we'll be at The Verdi Club , for performances by Weekend , Sleepy Sun , Extra Classic , and Terry Malts , and unlimited local craft beer samplings from 21st Amendment , Anchor Steam , Beach Chalet , Drake's Brewing , Lagunitas [...]
The Fucking Champs' Tim Green, who has produced records for the Melvins, Six Organs of Admittance, and Comets on Fire, is clearly a guy who understands the finer points of heavy, retrofitted psych-rock. And this professional expertise comes in particularly handy on Ekranoplan, the second album from Bay Area trio the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound. Following their self-released 2005 debut, which
This is Part 2 of 2 for Ticket Giveaway Wednesday. Check our earlier post with three other giveaways. Saturday, October 2nd - Adam Stephens , Mini Mansions , Sea of Bees @ The Independent Adam Haworth Stephens - "The Cities You've Burned" To enter send an email to contest@thebaybridged.com with your full name in the body and the phrase "I want to see Adam Stephens!" [...]

With a name like that you'd half expect some variation on the Brian Jonestown Massacre and these bay area psychedelia rendering folks don't disappoint. The slick meandering 'Kolob Canyon' is taken from Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound's third LP 'When Sweet Sleep Returned' and is a perfect soundtrack for long summer fiesta's when the last thing on anyone's mind is work. By then minds might not be their own anyway as the stoner vibes present throughout encourage tempting thoughts of illegal scoffing. The chords are so jangly, the percussion so shuffled it must have made complete sense to offer vocals [...]

Heartless Bastards Recently Announced Shows. Bootleg Theater Friday, April 16th: Autolux with Fran Nicolay Saturday, April 17th: Here We Go Magic Sunday, April 25th: Javelin / Maus Haus / 60-Watt Kid Friday, April 30th: Gift Horse Saturday, May 8th: Warpaint with Priestbird Wednesday, May 19th: Horse Feathers with Dawn Landes Tuesday, June 1st: First Aid Kit Warpaint [...]

2009 has shaped up to be quite a year for HT faves Blind Pilot . The Portland-based act have logged a lot of miles on the road over the course of the last six-plus months with headlining tours, festival appearances and holding down the opening slot for a number of big name bands which include the likes of The Decemberists, Gomez and the Counting Crows. Showing no signs of slowing down, Blind Pilot will head out yet again for another round of dates with a two-month run that kicks off on October 9 - with The Low [...]

Riding the San Francisco psychedelic wave (Thee Oh Sees, Girls) Sleepy Sun sounds like a lot of other classic rock, prog and other old-school bands.. For fans of...Beck, Black Angels, Vampire Hands, First Communion Afterparty, Black Mountain Monday, September 28, 2009 SLEEPY SUN The Entry / 8:00 pm / 18+ with ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND, and MAGIC CASTLES $6.00 adv | $6.00 door Sleepy Sun - Snow Goddess (Daytrotter session) (MP3) [...]

MP3: By The Rippling Green I don't know if it's something in the water, but there seem to be a great deal of psychedelic/stoner rock bands coming through town (or forming in town) these days. San Franciscan quartet Assembled Head In Sunburst Sound will make the latest addition to the list with their appearance at The Summit Friday night. This multi-gendered band is touring in support of their 2009 Tee Pee Records release, When Sweet Sleep Returned , eight tracks of hazy, road-weary [...]
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound kick off a three week US tour with fellow San Francisco natives Sleepy Sun tomorrow night at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY. The tour will be in support of Assemble Head's critically acclaimed third album "When Sweet Sleep Returned" released in April on Tee Pee Records. MP3 Download: ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND - BY THE RIPPLING GREEN "Sunlit, pot-addled, West Coast rock-pop perfection." UNCUT UK "(Assemble Head's) strength isn't necessarily in fuzzed-out amplification (on Sweet Sleep Returned), but in unpredictable versatility; all at once [...]

PLAYLIST : Megafaun - Kaufman's Ballad Gather, Form & Fly ( Table of Elements - 2009) www.myspace.com/megafaun The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - By The Rippling Green When Sweet Sleep Returned ( Tee Pee records - 2009) www.myspace.com/theassemblehea dinsunburstsound Monsters Of Folk - Say Please Monsters Of Folk ( Rough [...]
Tee Pee Records is hands down my favorite label of 2009 with a number of droney/stonergaze rock releases. Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound is one of the standouts on the label - influences ranging from Spiritualized to the Byrds to Pink Floyd - and the band is teaming up the like-minded (non-Tee Pee) band Sleepy Sun for a 3-week run across the U.S. DOWNLOAD: Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - "Clive and Lyre" DOWNLOAD: [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound : "By the Rippling Green" [mp3] from When Sweet Sleep Returned Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound : "The Slumbering Ones" [mp3] from When Sweet Sleep Returned other Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound posts at Largehearted Boy Samara Lubelski : [...]

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound and Sleepy Sun will join this September for a three-week coast-to-coast extravaganza. The tour officially kicks off in Providence, Rhode Island on September 17. Both bands will also play dates in New York City in the days leading up to the tour kickoff. Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound's third LP, When Sweet Sleep Returned , has been receiving joyous applause. audio: By The Ripping Green Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound Tour Dates: Fri 7/31/09 The Henry Miller Library [...]

DOWNLOAD: Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - "By The Ripping Green" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - "The Slumbering Ones" (MP3) Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound After the Autolux trek , not to mention ATP NY , Sleepy Sun will hit the road with Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound for a [...]

Near Side 20 Minutes, 40 Years • Isis , from Wavering Radiant Already Gone • Saint Bernadette , from Word To The Lourdes Becoming [...]
If you live in the greater San Francisco area I hope to see you at tonight's first Sleepy Sun...

Weekend Mix is our new mp3-driven preview of some of the upcoming weekend's best concerts. Let us know what you're looking forward to in the comments. Friday: - Sleepy Sun , Spindrift , Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound , DJ Wet Burrito @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm, $13 Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound - "By the Rippling Green" - Trainwreck Riders , The Botticellis , Gilded Rooks @ Bottom of the Hill, 10pm, $12 [...]
1. Smile Smile - "Sad Song"2. Esser - "Remedy" (Little Boots' Remix)3. Slim Twig - "Young Hussies"4. Assemble Head - "By the Rippling Green"5. The Fire and Reason - "Do it Again" (Blogula Remix) (through upload)6. Thieves Like Us - "Really Like To See You Again"7. Christina Courtin - "Foreign Country"8. Cazwell - "Get My Money Back"9. Donny Hue - "My Toy Steamboattrain"10. Lost in the Trees - "
1. *MP3 : Sun Volt - Down To The Wire The low-key alt-country ambience (lead by the usual Hammond organ, acoustic guitar, and soft, but persistent drum work) make the latest from Son Volt palatable. But a little more excitable elements—perhaps more emotion from vocalist Jay Ferrar, a faster tempo—would help to make "Wire" more memorable Grade: B- 2. *MP3: Gay Beast - "Expanding" A cacocophonous blend of noise-pop, free jazz, and lord knows what else (prob. polka for all [...]
Woods - "To Clean" (MTV.com says "tight and beautifully lighthearted ghostly folkish songs") Future of the Left - "Arming Eritrea" (ex-Mclusky) Ear Pwr - "Future Eyes" (Blistering thumpers with infectious melodies, Disco chants with wild-eyed electro anthems) Ganglians - "Lost Words" (pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to) Phenomenal Handclap Band - "15 to 203 [...]