Friday night at the Independent saw and infusion of fuzzed out low fi, 60’s garage rock revival with New Yorkers, Woods and San Francisco’s own The Fresh & Onlys. This common bond of lo fi revivalism is about where the comparisons end with these two bands however. While Woods is known for their spaced out [...]
The Fresh & Onlys Play the Echoplex on Tuesday After a great calendar last week, this week's a little slow... Monday 8/1/11 [Pick of the Night] Stone Darling / SNEAKPEEK / J. Tillman / Baby’s On Acid @ The Satellite (Free) – Stone Darling’s the residency band. J. Tillman’s a member of Fleet Foxes. [Recommended] Active Child / Therapies Son / Letting Up Despite Great Faults [...]
Kurt Vile at the 2011 Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, WA (07/22/11) Words and Photos : Drake Lelane Capitol Hill Block Party: Day One (July 22, 2011) It's been a fairly cool Summer so far in Seattle, so when the clouds gave way to the sun this past weekend, there were both audible sighs of relief and a clamoring to make the most of the temperature. That fact that the first fully sunny Summer weekend coincided with the Capitol Hill Block [...]
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. Post-punk at Thee Parkside: Grass Widow, Dunes, Cold Showers and Petals Thee Parkside hosts a night of jangly lo-fi and post-punk bands on Wednesday, July 27th (8pm, $8), headlined by locals [...]
If you've been reading these pages for some time, then you undoubtedly are aware of my man love for Tim Cohen . While he gets more press for his role in Fresh & Onlys , he's definitely got other great things going on, such as his Magic Trick project. He just released a song from The Glad Birth of Love , which will see a full release on August 23rd. While there are hints of psych folk, that seems to live primarily in the trickling [...]
Tim Cohen, like his Bay Area bretheren Sonny Smith and John Dwyer, is one hell of a prodigious dude. Just this year, he's already put out a solo LP and EP on Captured Tracks and an EP with his band The Fresh & Onlys via Sacred Bones . Now, in celebration of his birthday this past Tuesday, Empty Cellar Records has released a limited edition version of the new album, The Glad Birth of Love —a 45-minute LP comprised of just four epic tracks. Credited to Cohen's four-piece group Magic Trick, the record [...]
Besides Cut Copy we captured a few other bands on the live stream at last weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
During Fleet Foxes' headlining set on Saturday night, I looked up from the crowd to the jumbo-tron on the left and noticed the boom camera was high in the air shooting the audience. It was an endless sea of faces made orange by the stage's flood light and a surprisingly powerful street-light that hung over the main stage. Eighteen thousand people watching Fleet Foxes - if you would have told me three years ago that this Seattle collective would be playing for 18,000 people I would have pushed you down a hill. It's a testament to the spirit [...]
Photo Credit: Craig Shimala - craigshimala.com And that's a wrap on Pitchfork Music Festival 2011! Below is a recap of the day three acts we had a chance to catch. Sunday's winners? Definitely Kylesa, Cut Copy and TV On The Radio. So sit back, relax and catch up on what went down on the third and final day of Pitchfork Musical Festival 2011. 1:00 p.m.: The Fresh & Onlys It [...]
Tom Pilcher It was a night of 1960s-influenced tunes at the Entry on Monday night as Pitchfork darlings Woods and the Fresh & Onlys took the stage together. Reflecting their coastal divide (Wood
Here's this week's Monday Music - extended to seven songs as there's so much audio finery out there right now: Kreayshawn - Bumpin' Bumpin' Kreayshawn is a potty-mouthed, potty-smoking, super-aggressive female California MC. The way her songs are turbo-charged by bass and angry samples renders her like a cross between GoldieLocks and The Fast & The Furious. But Bumpin' Bumpin' does even more: it concludes with a serene, giddily beautiful electro finale, quite unlike the thrust and angst that went before. [There is [...]
It takes guts to record a song called “Summer Of Love,” make it sound like it could have been written during the Summer Of Love, and not laugh while doing so. Not only do The Fresh & Onlys accomplish this feat, they open their third full-length, Play It Strange, with the song. But calling “Summer Of Love”—or, indeed, any track off Play—a “statement of intent” would be overlooking the disc’s
I don't write too many album reviews any more (life!), but that don't mean I haven't been listening to some cool shit so far in 2011. If you, like me, are wondering just where in the hell this year has gone, then maybe you can take solace in the fact that the glass is half empty. There's still 6 months to go! THUSLY, here are some albums that you should at least slightly consider listening to, based on my esteemed, well-worn historical opinions. Kinda organized in descending fashion, and, no, I didn't think the list would [...]
It's already been a month since our hearts and minds rested down by the Mediterranean Sea at Barcelona's Parc del Fòrum for this year's edition of the mighty Primavera Sound , but for all those who still haven't found a way back into their everyday lives, the beautiful folks over at Jersey's WFMU have set up a section at their famous Free Music Archive for all their live recordings they've done during the three days in their capacity as the festival's official radio station. Below, we've selected four pieces of concerts we've enjoyed [...]
The Fresh & Onlys made a mixtape for Italian Vice to help promote their recent tour stop in Milan. Here's a clip from the Vice article, rather hilariously translated by Google: "Each of the four wretched of the Tenderloin has chosen three songs. Three: as the Father, the Son and that other stuff that you salt when you take MDMA. So if you thought Sunday night to stay at home with the / your partner or just to get drunk in front of the TV with a bowl of orange Listerine taste the [...]
There are times when you know you'll like a band before you even hear them. Maybe it's their name, something you read about them, or the album cover. When you actually do listen to them, they're just giving you more reason to like them. They're not even confirming what you thought, they're just adding to it. I've fallen for this week's band of the week like that. And the band of the week is... WHITE FANG!!! If you read this blog you know I like weird, lo-fi stuff. You also might know that a band with [...]
Distracted In The Waiting Room This trio is out of San Francisco and they have a new 3-track single, I'm Neurotic , out on Slumberland Records . For some reason, the trio maintains a low profile and don't play up the fact that all three of them are from another band ( Magic Bullets ). They play a speedy style of pop that reminds me of Weekend with the grime and haze cleared away from the vocals and melodies for a [...]
Nokia Theatre LA Live 10/19/11: Roger Daltrey performs The Who’s Tommy (Friday at 10 AM) The Music Box 7/22/11: Fitz and the Tantrums (Saturday at 10 AM) El Rey 6/28/11: Warren Haynes Band (Thursday at 10 AM) 10/3/11: Toro y Moi (Saturday at 10 AM) The Satellite Mondays in June: The Californian (Free) [...]
Fresh & Onlys, "Keep Telling Everybody Lies"
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By Jennifer Graciano The bay area has undoubtedly become the Mecca of psychedelic garage acts. Listen to a track that puts you in a dazed state with layered guitars and hazy vocals and the band is more than likely from the San Francisco area. In this onslaught of similar sounds, The Fresh & Onlys manage to stand out from the pack on their latest “Secret Walls” EP. By now we should expect the Fresh & Onlys to veer from the sounds of their previous release with ease, [...]
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