Artist: Key Losers

The video for Key Losers ' "Limited Time" is the story of people driving around, running a bunch of errands, but when you pair that with former SF-er Katy Davidson singing "There is a limited time," the image takes on an extra melancholy. It also makes one thankful not to spend much time in a car or at a strip mall. California Lite will likely wind up one of the year's hidden gems, and fans of that Elverum hi-lo-fi sound should seek it out. Key Losers perform at the Hemlock [...]

Live This Month: November 2011 (Podcast #260) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. The November concert schedule offers a chance to check out the artists behind some big recent releases, as bands like M83, Wild Flag, and Real Estate arrive in support of well-received new albums. Locally, a diverse assortment of acts are launching new releases of their own, including the classic-leaning rock and roll of Zodiac Death Valley, The Northern Key's singer-songwriter [...]

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Key Losers — "Bi-Focal" Key Losers is Katy Davidson, Portland-based musician who's album California Lite is her first musical venture since leading her former band Dear Nora . The record was engineered by Phil Elverum (of Microphones / Mount Eerie fame). Folky and melodic backed with concept-driven lyrics, Davidson's work feels right at home next to her West Coast brethren (Mount Eerie, Mirah, etc.). Check out one of [...]

• Key Losers - Bi-Focal

June opened on a hot streak. It made sense to counter the sweat by opening this Monthly Mix of recent standout free MP3s with a few chillier tracks. You don't want to hide out in the air conditioning forever, of course, so things open and move outdoors to a humid rooftop party just past the halfway mark. (Play the final song at midnight, or whenever you're ready to head home and remain indoors forever). Read More...

Mount Eerie , Little Wings , Key Losers , and Nicholas Krgovich in the Mission last night was one of those shows that could not be entered with any expectations. It was a completely unknown venue (which turned out to be an upcoming free radical K-12 school, Brightworks ), and featured a few completely unpredictable performers - Mount Eerie and Little Wings - both of whom either plan for, or spontaneously provide, the most unpredictable one-off sets. Key Losers features Katy Davidson, a longtime San Franciscan, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone collaborator and core member [...]

eine schande wäre es, wenn mir ausgerechnet "california lite" durch die lappen gegangen wäre. doch aufmerksam, wie ich bin, erhaschte ich einen blick auf das album, welches katy davidson unter neuem moniker am 24. mai veröffentlichen wird. wer sich etwas mit dem "klienicum" auskennt, der weiß um ein paar konstanten. dear nora war so eine, eine band, in der katy stetes mitglied war, die auf magic marker veröffentlichte und bis zum jahr 2008, in dem die trennung vollzogen wurde, ein ums andere album herausbrachte. ich empfehle noch heute uneingeschränkt "we'll have a time" aus 2001 ( hier [...]

• Key Losers - keylosers-limitedtime.mp3
• Key Losers - Bi-Focal
• P.W. Elverum & Sun, ltd. - Horizon Line (from "California Lite" by Key Losers)

Key Losers is the Portland, Oregon-based project of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Katy Davidson, ex-Dear Nora, YACHT collaborator, etc. Her airy, sunny, graceful, impressively patchwork first official Key Losers full-length California Lite follows a 2009 "mini-album" Adjust . She's joined on it by the "Key Losers Black Crow Session Band," a group of collaborators featuring Karl Blau (saxophone), Total Noise's Greg Campanile (percussion) and 
Tom Filardo (lead guitar, vocals
), LAKE's 
Andrew Dorsett (bass and vocals) and Eli Moore (vocals), and No Kids' Nick Krgovich (keyboards and vocals)
. It was engineered by Phil Elverum, who captured the 12 songs "almost [...]

• Key Losers - Bi-Focal