Mark Matos & Os Beaches - "Hired Hand" Mark Matos' Campo Bravo left us with a great podcast episode and some terrific psych rock, so the emergence of Mark Matos & Os Beaches ' debut Words of the Knife is an exciting development around here. The album comes out on November 17th on Porto Franco Records , but there's a special pre-release show Thursday (9pm, $10) at Cafe Du Nord . Matos promises a "special evening...full of warrior-monks, jumping tigers, burning [...]
So digging through my CDs the other day in order to find a CD that was not in it's case (and still outstanding!), I re-found Campo Bravo's 2006 release "Goodbye, Oklahoma". I proceeded to give it a spin and remembered why I purchased in the first place. Good solid Americana. From what I can gather Campo Bravo is a collection of musicians fronted by Mark Matos. The group seems to have a bit of a roster of revolving and returning band mates [...]
one striking trend that jumped out when endeavoring to put together this compilation of bay area music - of which this post serves as the first of two volumes - was how much of the collective sound reflected what can reasonably be described, i think, as the city's, the region's, dueling ethos: the populist counter-cultural strain, or hippie for short, & the high technology sector. take, for example, the oakland band xiu xiu , who will make an appearance on part 2 (and who, by the way, have a killer promotion tied into their new album, [...]
Campo Bravo : "Waste/Haste" [mp3] from Goodbye, Oklahoma Hypertonics : 2005-11-09, New York [mp3,ogg,flac] "You Get So Uncomfortable When You're Uncomfortable" [mp3] Mike Watt : 1998-05-20, Toledo [mp3,ogg,flac] "Drove Up From Pedro" [mp3] The Organ : "We've Got to Meet" [mp3] from Sinking Hearts The Playwrights : "21st Century Kaspar Hauser" [mp3] from English Self Storage [...]
(Editors note: I've got a ton of ridiculously great music to get to, so it'll be two a day posts from here on out for the foreseeable future. Hope that's ok!?) Who the hell is Campo Bravo and how the fuck do they materialize out of thin air with a sound this polished and rich? I mean really...it took Richard Buckner, Giant Sand and Will Oldham a combined 50 years to reach the artsitic pinacle of their career, it's just not fair that a band can [...]
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