Originally released on cassette as part of Gnome Life 's beautifully designed Echomancy series, Little Wings ' Made It Rain LP is now out on limited-edition vinyl, with only 300 copies in existence, in partnership with People in a Position to Know Recordings . Each record comes in a cover hand-painted by Kyle Field himself, whose artistic talents rival his songwriting abilities. Recorded live in The Dream Yurt in Big Sur in the middle of a rain storm, [...]
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR #14 LITTLE WINGS - BLACK GRASS The almost-retired pseudonym for label owner, artist and musician Kyle Wilson is Little Wings, who released his first album in four years in February on his own label, RAD Records. 'Come Fall' is a good summation of the kind of sound 'Black Grass' was sold to me for; with a shuffling acoustic rhythm and thick, anguished yet gently elated vocal, polished Devendra Banhart-esque lo-fi recording style and similarly European tinges, I get the impression Kyle Wilson isn't going to stop churning out these simplistic, rural folk [...]
2011 zit er bijna op. Het is dus de hoogste tijd om de score van het muziekjaar 2011 op te maken. Wat zijn de albums die ons het afgelopen jaar kippenvel bezorgden? Het beste van 2011 volgens Peter 1. Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells - Everything's getting older MP3 Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells – Let's Stop Here 2. PJ Harvey - Let England shake MP3 PJ Harvey – Hanging In The Wire [...]
Mixtape: Twelve Bay Area Highlights from 2011 (Podcast #263) We might be biased, but, from this vantage point, 2011 reconfirmed that the Bay Area continues to have the most vibrant music community nationwide. The SF scene cranked out a ton of amazing albums this year, and our final podcast of 2011 highlights twelve great releases from Bay Area artists over the past twelve months. This isn't a "Best of" list per se, but these acts did create some of our favorite music in 2011. We'll be doing more year-in-review coverage over the next few [...]
30. Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide Coma Cinema - Business As Usual.mp3 29. The Antlers - Burst Apart The Antlers - I Dont Want Love.mp3 28. J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why.mp3 27. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost [...]
GNARCOTICS UNANIMOUS by GNAR TAPES Gnarcotics Unanimous is a new tape/digital comp from Portland's Gnar Tapes , which includes unreleased songs from 34 bands and artists. The comp's got a number of locals in the mix, including Little Wings , CCR Headcleaner , Brian Wavefield (of Melted Toys ), Speculator , and Sacramento's G. Green , who join Alex Bleeker, R. Stevie Moore and a few dozen others. Stream the whole comp above, and if you dig it, give them [...]
Our good friends over at High/Low Films put together a beautiful short about Little Wings
Regional Bias 2011 took place Saturday night, and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out. All four bands ruled, with the only bittersweet element being the knowledge that Royal Baths' electrified high-point-among-high-points set was their last in SF for the foreseeable future. If you came, thank you for your support! If you missed it, catch up with this photo set from Nicole Browner, Anna Gazdowicz, and Todd Wanerman. Thanks again to everyone involved in RB 2011: To our performers, Little Wings , [...]
Regional Bias 2011 took place Saturday night, and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out. All four bands ruled, with the only bittersweet element being the knowledge that Royal Baths' electrified high-point-among-high-points set was their last in SF for the foreseeable future. If you came, thank you for your support! If you missed it, catch up with this photo set from Nicole Browner, Anna Gazdowicz, and Todd Wanerman. Thanks again to everyone involved in RB 2011: To our performers, Little Wings , [...]
Little Wings - "Gold Teeth" Royal Baths - "Nikki Don't" This Saturday, August 6th, 2011, The Bay Bridged celebrates five years of championing the San Francisco Bay Area indie music scene with our annual Regional Bias fundraiser concert event. Like its predecessors, Regional Bias 2011 takes place at the historic Verdi Club in the Mission District, with a spectacular lineup of bands including co-headliners Little Wings and Royal Baths [...]
Live This Month: August 2011 (Podcast #254) 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. For us, August hits a high point early, as August 6th we're throwing our annual fundraiser, Regional Bias , at the Verdi Club . As we discuss on the podcast, with four great local bands on the bill - Little Wings , Royal Baths [...]
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This Saturday, San Francisco blog, The Bay Bridged , turns 5 years old and to celebrate have put together a pretty stacked lineup. Co-headlining the show will be Little Wings and Royal Baths (this will be their farewell show as the band will be relocating to New York). Also on the bill is the very talented Sea Of Bees and blog favorites White Cloud . DJs for the event will be Peter Arko (Ears of the Beholder / City Limits Records co-founder) and Kevin Meenan (Epicsauce). The event is a benefit show [...]
HALLOWEEN 2020 by LITTLE WINGS by Gnome Life Records "Halloween 20203 comes from Made It Rain , a new cassette from Little Wings , who is co-headlining our Regional Bias fundraiser/birthday party on August 6th. The new tape is out now on Gnome Life Records . Says the label: This tape is a direct transmission from the mind of Kyle Field (A.K.A. Little Wings)... brain waves reflected off a storm cloud and [...]
We're a little over one week away from our annual Regional Bias concert (and our fifth birthday party!), taking place on August 6th at the Verdi Club in San Francisco (7pm, $10-20, tickets on sale now !). As we've said before, even though Regional Bias is a fundraiser, our top priority is making it a really fun, special night for everyone who attends. To that end, we've got four great bands performing - Little Wings and Royal Baths , [...]
On August 6th, 2011, The Bay Bridged will celebrate five years of championing the San Francisco Bay Area indie music scene with the latest installment of our Regional Bias series of fundraiser events. Like its predecessors, Regional Bias 2011 takes place at the historic Verdi Club in the Mission District, with a spectacular lineup of bands including co-headliners Little Wings and Royal Baths , White Cloud , and Sea of Bees [...]
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 [...]
Evolutionary changes are supposed to happen over eons, not in a few weeks, so why have my feet begun to web together? Soon enough I'll look like Kevin Cosner in Waterworld. The day is 61° and it is damp from the pouring rain of last night, but I've decided to look on it all with great optimism. Everything got planted yesterday so the rain will help my new herbs and flowers feel more at home. I'm sure they're stretching their roots right now. My grass will stay, and here is that word again, lush. But when the sun does return, [...]
MP3: Little Wings - Sandy Babe I still plan on doing a post on Little Wings ' very, very great new album "Black Grass" that came out a few months back, but seeing as the day is just so goddamned beautiful I'm going to grace you with something else first. "Sandy Babe" was a digital single given away by his imprint Rad Records back in 2009. It always screams summertime to me.
Tweet Does a phenomenal roster of compilation contributors warrant donating to a cause? If so, here's your opportunity. Resume is a tri-volume, internationally curated compilation released to benefit victims of the March earthquake in Japan, and it is available on iTunes for $6.99 per volume. Resume's 43 contributing bands includes a handful of Olympia's noteworthy indie musicians: World Gang (feat. Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse), LAKE, Mount Eerie, and more. For local interest, Jason Lytle [...]
Tweet 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. Foxtails Brigade launches The Bread and the Bait Laura Weinbach and Anton Patzner are Foxtails Brigade , a duo [...]
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