San Francisco's The Dry Spells have been gathering their debut album, Too Soon For Flowers, for release on August 11th. Too Soon For Flowers was recorded on analog tape at Louder Studios by Tim Green (Melvins, Joanna Newsom, Howlin' Rain, Monotonix, Sleater-Kinney).The album is a favorite of NPR's Bob Boilen and he's featuring their song "Black Is the Color," on this week's edition of All Songs Considered. The Dry Spells formed at Bard College in the early part of the decade, with the band consisting of Tahlia Harbour on vocals and guitar, April Hayley on vocals [...]
The Dry Spells - "Batwood" Antenna Farm Records has announced an August 11th release date for Too Soon For Flowers , the debut full length from San Francisco's The Dry Spells . The folk-rock band formed at Bard College, and became inspired to write their first song about a local tragedy where a nine-year-old girl was accidentally killed by a hunter while she was out collecting leaves. After graduating, the band moved to San Francisco and reconnected with Bard alumnus Ezra [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Dry Spells : "Lost Daughter" [mp3] from Too Soon For Flowers (out August 11th) The Dry Spells : "Batwood" [mp3] from Too Soon For Flowers (out August 11th) other Dry Spells posts at Largehearted Boy Lord Cut-Glass : "Even Jesus Couldn't Love You" [mp3] from Lord Cut-Glass [...]
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San Francisco's The Dry Spells are the latest band to join local label Antenna Farm Records , home to high quality acts like Bart Davenport , The Botticellis and Sugar and Gold . The group features members of Citay and the Sonny Smith Band , and their ornate psych-folk definitely bears some common elements with the former group. Check out the layered instrumentation and great harmonies on "Lost Daughter": Download audio file (the-dry-spells_lost-daughter. mp3) The Dry Spells [...]
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, [...]
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