The San Fransisco garage rock scene is becoming increasingly weird and abundant. Case in point: Guitarist Wymond Miles , apparently not sated by the already large amount of music released by his band The Fresh & Onlys , decided it was time for some solo work. That's not to say that his debut is interchangeable with the material of his more famous project, though. Instead, Miles' first EP has a seriously introspective, methodically watery quality to it. Earth Has Doors has a huge scope, circling a core of uncertainty. Based on the title of [...]
Mixtape: Twenty Years of Noise Pop (Podcast #269) In February, the Noise Pop Music Festival turns twenty by gathering over one hundred local and touring bands from across the indie spectrum for a week of exciting concerts all over the City. Two decades of championing independent music is an accomplishment worth celebrating, and this mixtape collects twenty bands that have performed at Noise Pop events in years past. As you'll hear, a whole bunch of big names graced Noise Pop bills before achieving fame, as past festivals [...]
Wymond Miles is best known for his role as The Fresh & Onlys guitar-shredding virtuoso and the daunting shock of hair that protrudes from his scalp. This talented gent is branching out though and will release his first solo EP on Sacred Bones in early February. It's a mix of spacey psych rock, The Cure, [...]
Wymond Miles - Hidden Things Are Asking You To Find Them by sacredbones "Hidden Things Are Asking You To Find Them" is a terrifically epic first glimpse at the Fresh & Onlys' lead guitarist Wymond Miles' first solo venture. On February 7, Sacred Bones will release the 4-song 12inch, with a run of 100 hand-numbered, limited copies in a hand-silk-screened envelope with a wax stamp. You can read more about the creative direction behind this release on the label's website . [...]
Image edited by Ben Kramer We at Rollo & Grady are excited to announce our 3rd annual feature in which we ask some of our favorite artists to list their top 10 albums of 2011. Be on the lookout tomorrow for our "Top 10 List" featuring selections from music bloggers, music supervisors, journalists, DJs, and other music industry professionals. JOHN DWYER - THEE OH SEES total control - henge [...]
Song: "Delicate Creatures" Artist: Tim Cohen I'm really tempted to describe the haunting beauty of this tune by just copy/pasting the lyrics here, but even that won't do it justice. Tim Cohen fronts the San Francisco psych-pop outfit The Fresh & Onlys , but in this solo track he strips away all of the trappings and bares his musical soul. There's nothing but a strummed acoustic, a softly-shaken percussive shaker, his lilting voice, and a faint, ghostly warble in the background, but that's all this song needs. It's a strange little creature [...]
The Fresh & Onlys have signed to Mexican Summer , joining the likes of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Marissa Nadler, Washed Out, Weekend, Young Prisms, Wooden Shjips, and many more. Mexican Summer will release the Fresh & Onlys' fourth LP - which is currently wrapping up production at Lucky Cat Studios with producer/engineer Phil Manley (Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo, Les Savy Fav, Grass Widow) - sometime in the first half of 2012. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall" (from Play It Strange ) This new record [...]
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Poco a poco nos vamos metiendo en los puestos 'mas importantes' de este conteo aunque al final, cada uno de estos tracks tiene algo que los hace unicos y especiales dependiendo de los momentos en los que los hayan llegado a marcar asi que... No importa el numero en el que esten apareciendo sino ese valor que hayan tenido para algunos de ustedes durante el año aunque claro, esto tambien sirve por si no conocian a alguna banda pues tengan la dicha de conocerlos antes de que termine el año. En esta nueva entrega encontraran algunos fragmentos de debuts que [...]
Where better to spend your Friday night than at one of the hottest rock clubs in the universe catching, critically acclaimed San Francisco collective, Papercuts, perform with support from Tim Cohen's Magic Trick (of the Fresh & Onlys) and Cassorla? It's all going down at The Satellite tomorrow in Silverlake, Los Angeles and we're giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky reader! To win just drop us a line HERE and you'll entered to win a pair of tickets for the set. Our winner will be raffled and contacted [...]
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 [...]
Live This Month: October 2011 (Podcast #258) 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. While the Treasure Island Music Festival is the month's biggest draw - and we'll have a separate mixtape soon showcasing TIMF's many great bands - there are plenty of great shows this month. Girls cap a national tour with two big hometown shows, while The War on Drugs brings an acclaimed new album to SF. Meanwhile, EMA and Hooray for [...]
Every Monday, we'll be offering you early picks for some of the week's best concerts. Do you think we omitted something worthwhile? Let us know in the comments! Be sure to visit our Local Concert Calendar for an expanded set of daily listings. Friday: The Bay Bridged Presents "Buried Treasure," a Treasure Island Music Festival Happy Hour with Melted Toys, ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted, Elephant and Castle (DJ set) Whatever your other plans this week, [...]
Arvel Hernandez and the fantastic folk at Empty Cellar Records have taken a moment from their exceedingly busy days and given one of you lucky readers the opportunity to win the brand new LP (vinyl styles here folks) from Tim Cohen (of a little band called The Fresh & Onlys). The Glad Birth of Love is [...]
Arvel Hernandez and the fantastic folk at Empty Cellar Records have taken a moment from their exceedingly busy days and given one of you lucky readers the opportunity to win the brand new LP (vinyl styles here folks) from Tim Cohen (of a little band called The Fresh & Onlys). The Glad Birth of Love is [...]
For a while now there's been an entirely welcome little bird chirping in my ear about a bevy of amazing San Francisco releases. That bird would be Arvel Hernandez of Empty Cellar Records, a label that deserves more credit for releasing some absolutely amazing stuff in the last few years. You could, if you were [...]
The Fresh & Onlys-"Fascinated (live)"
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars If you've been following the Fresh & Onlys over the last year or so, you probably saw that the Secret Walls EP lurked just around the corner. Tim Cohen has been changing his own approach, and with that, so too goes the band's sound. This isn't a bad thing by any means, unless of course you're against change and progression. "Secret Walls" feels like the culmination of the last few things Cohen and his friends [...]
Singles The Heavenly States - "Model Son" From Oui Camera Oui , due 4/19 via Hippies Are Dead Records Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - "Hard Time In A Terrible Land" From Mysterious Power , due 4/5 via Red Parlor Records Sonny & The Sunsets - "I Wanna Do It" From Hit After Hit , due 4/12 on Fat Possum The Fresh and Onlys [...]
As the band alluded to in our interview last week, San Fransisco's Fresh & Onlys have a new EP, Secret Walls , coming out on Sacred Bones April 26th. Listening to this track, it's a lot less energetic than their most recent effort, Play It Strange , which doesn't really surprise me, as Tim Cohen, the front man for the band, has been slowing things down a bit with his solo material as [...]
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