Sharon Van Etten "Love More" ::: photo by Josh Lovseth If my 2010 was a mix tape (or a couple mix tapes as it were), these would be the tracks. These were the songs that were my most frequent and adored companions of 2010. They're the songs I'll know the words to for the rest of [...]
This is Part 4 of The Tale of The Tape's Year End Best of Series : Music Videos As my list took shape I thought it was notable for what wasn't on it: Kanye's "Runaway" and "Power," Lady Gaga's "Telephone," any "found video," and even Health's horror show cut "We Are Water." I had it backwards, the list is notable for what's on it: two cuts from Spike Jonze, one from Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz, of course), Shannyn Sossamon's directorial debut for her former band (Warpaint), the son of Costa Gavras'-Romain Gavras-police state screed for [...]
01 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round 02 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company 03 Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo 04 James Blake - CMYK 05 Girls - Carolina 06 Twin Sister - All Around and Away We Go 07 Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn 08 James Blake - I Only Know (What I Know Now) 09 [...]
Douglas Martin heard The Sandwitches can make one hell of a Grilled Cheese. The time has come. December. The month out of the year where people who get paid (and sometimes not) to think too much about music have to bang their collective and individual heads against their desks and try to put a bunch of records, tapes, CD's, and mp3s into some sort of contextual framework, trying to either figure out What It All Means or provide a handy little consumer's guide for their readers. With so much being focused on what happened [...]
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Not long ago, Sonny Smith (Sonny & The Sunsets) survived a near-drowning off the coast of northern california. The experience affected him profoundly and led to a wealth of output including a play, a novel, and a stack of songs. Sonny's critically acclaimed "100 Records" project is itself a direct product of Sonny's fight with the sea. A novel he began, "Adelard the Drowned", broke into 100 pieces. Four of those pieces come as songs on this 7" e.p., each bound to the next by a twisted braid of water and death. Through the fog and the haze, however, there [...]
Via this isn't happiness > pkam MP3: Sonny & The Sandwitches - "Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die" Country has always seemed to possess this bold-faced, defiant spirit in one way or another. It's the soundtrack of man hardened by the isolation of the road, by the distance between two hearts. With those three chords and the truth, country has always been about tackling reality directly, showing no fear in telling it like it is. In [...]
Tweet Sonny + the Sandwitches - "Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die" Sonny Smith has a new 4-song 73 out December 11 on Empty Cellar Records , featuring more of the artwork from his 100 Records project . But there's a story behind the music here, too: Not long ago, Sonny Smith (Sonny & The Sunsets) survived a near-drowning off the coast of Northern California. The experience [...]
Tweet Sonny + the Sandwitches - "Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die" Sonny Smith has a new 4-song 73 out December 11 on Empty Cellar Records , featuring more of the artwork from his 100 Records project . But there's a story behind the music here, too: Not long ago, Sonny Smith (Sonny & The Sunsets) survived a near-drowning off the coast of Northern California. The experience affected [...]
Sonny ::: photo by Josh Lovseth Sonny and The Sandwitches = 1 part Sonny Smith, lead singer of Sonny & The Sunsets, a delightful San Francisco beach pop group. Smith nearly drowned last year which spun him in to a frenzy of creative output, including an art installation entitled "100 Records", a series of singles from 100 [...]
Sonny & the Sunsets recently played the Bluebird exceeding most of everybody's expectations that showed up early to the Best Coast show earlier this month. Sonny Smith from the band had a near death experience that has sent his creative juices into oveflow. As a result, Sonny & the Sandwitches have come together to create a new EP from the "100 Records" project that has him making music and writing a novel and play. The record will be available December 11th via Endless Nest , and can be pre-ordered here [...]
SINGLES Secret Knives - "The Northwest States" Affection is out now. Ghostface Killah - "Together Baby" From The Apollo Kids , due 12/10 via Def Jam Pogo - "Wishery" New Song from Pogo Tennis - "Take Me Somewhere" Cape Dory available 1/18 from Fat Possum . Birthmark - "Fossil Record" [...]
Great new collaboration from Sonny of Sonny & the Sunsets and Heidi from Sandwitches as well as a slew of other artists including infamous John Dwyer. Note that this idea was extracted from Sonny's 100 records art project. [ via ]
An intro to mysterious/fictional " nomadic psychedelic folksinger " Earth Girl Helen Brown , whose debut record features a "unique mix of country, girl group, R&B, and ghoulishness" created by Sonny Smith of Sonny & the Sunsets , with help from Heidi and Grace of the Sandwitches, John Dwyer of the Oh Sees, Kelly Stoltz , and others. More info/jams to come. Animation by Ben Montero + Sophie McInerney .
San Francisco's girl group The Sandwitches is releasing a new 7" called Summer Of Love out november 30th. via grvsb
Take a listen to both sides of the new Summer of Love 73 from San Francisco's the Sandwitches , out November 30 on 1-2-3-4 GO! Like their criminally underrated 2009 release , these two jams are utterly charming, slightly haunting girl-group throwbacks " wrapped in tender weird pop ." Summer of Love is limited to 500 copies (100 green/500 black). Pre-order here . The Sandwitches :: Summer of Love [...]
Don't you love it when the first band steals the show? I mean, of course we don't totally love it - we'd prefer to be knocked out by everyone on the bill. But there is something thrilling about the lesser-known, usually younger, usually greener openers getting up there, channeling their nerves and excitement into a great set and showing everyone how it's done. That's what The Splinters , a quartet from Berkeley, did at Bottom of the Hill Wednesday night, and they brought a bunch of their buddies with them [...]
It's that time of year again, when grilling meat, arm wrestling, and indie rock somehow end up together in awkward sentences (like this one). This weekend is the seventh annual Columbus Discount Records BBQ, where the local label shares the wealth and gives you a wealth of local/international talent to gaze upon for as free as possible. This year's version of the tradition entails two star-studded rock shows (Friday night at The Summit and Saturday night at Carabar) as well as a multi-faceted get-together Saturday afternoon at CDR HQ (corner of Oak and Parsons, just up [...]
Gorilla vs. Bear reports a duo of 73 single releases on Southpaw Records - The Sandwitches ' "Makes Me Sick" and the Splinters ' "Blood on my Hands." The Sandwitches - "Makes Me Sick" The Splinters - "Blood on my Hands" The releases are available for a limited time , with 500 total and the first 100 on color vinyl. The singles will also be available for purchase on Wednesday, August 18th [...]
I don't know about you but the last 15 days or so have been friggin' outstanding. Beaching it, camping it, hiking it, running it, pooling it, and flat out chilling it. What better way... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
This picture suggests so many things, shame, clowns? parties. I don't know, but it really makes me want to check out a Sandwitches show. I mentioned them a few months back, and lately I've been hearing their stuff everywhere. I don't know what it is, but I feel like we're entering the age of the nostalgic girl band. With acts like Best Coast and The Sandwitches I can slip into decades passed with just a few tracks and high waisted shorts. The Sandwitches are a trio from San Francisco, and their brand of California [...]
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