Video: Mansion

Happy Sunday: ► Jamie XX headlines Drai's in Hollywood where Jacques Greene will also be playing. ► Rapper Talib Kweli takes on the Observatory down in Orange County. ► San Francisco's The Mallard (formed by ex-Rademacher bassist Greer McGettrick) headline Bootleg Bar with their garage psych-rock. [That's their video for "Mansion" above.] Also on tonight's bill: Magic Trash and the Vivids . ► Power pop hero Matthew Sweet does an in-store at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. ► [...]

Contributed by Nathan Hetherington "Father Look" is a delicately foreboding album track lifted from Sparrow and the Workshop's 2011 release, Spitting Daggers . The video features the trio's obliging parents in what appears to be the behavioural attributes of a mid life crisis. Given the lyrical content I say fair play, especially when set to this blend folk-rock topped with Jill O’Sullivan's alluring and plangent vocals. Sparrow [...]

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Following the release of their stellar Castle Face debut Yes On Blood, The Mallard's little star has been rising, well, quickly to say the least. A tour with Thee Oh Sees, a recent show with The Fresh & Onlys, and an upcoming slate of live gigs a mile long - it's nice to see [...]

Below, we're excited to the premiere of the new video from SF's The Mallard . "Mansion" comes from Yes on Blood , the band's recent Castle Face full length, and the video was directed by Hannah Lew (Grass Widow). The clip is another 16mm winner from Lew, who has also done recent videos for Hunx , Shannon and the Clams , Rat Columns and others. As you'll see, "Mansion" finds The Mallard hanging out and playing on Mare Island , and the song's insistent melody is visually accented [...]