Posted in 1 on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sky Saxon, founder of the incredible 60’s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David’s Hospital. His influence on psychedelic rock was huge and he will be missed.
I like posting this amazing/slightly nutty video any chance I get of them preforming on some cheesy TV show in 1966
Devin
Posted in folkyeah, tagged Beach House, festival in the forest, folkyeah, megapuss, silver jews, sleepy sun on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In September of 2008, the San Francisco and Los Angeles scenes converged under the ancient redwoods of Big Sur to make music, make merry, and make love. Performers included local favorites Megapuss, Entrance Band, Fool’s Gold, The Parson Redheads, as well as fantastic sets from Port O’Brien, Beach House, Sleepy Sun, Sam Flax Kenner and [...]
Posted in devendra banhart, tagged devendra banhart, greg rogove, Luckey Remington, noah georgeson, rodrigo amarante on June 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Devendra Banhart has completed work on his sixth full length album. The album was co-produced by Banhart and Paul Butler (of UK outfit Band Of Bees). Devendra and company moved into a house in Bolinas, CA (North of San Francisco), and set up a recording facility with the help of Tape [...]
Posted in 1, tagged drag city, father yod, magnificence of memory, yahowa13 on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Original LP pressings of Ya Ho Wha 13 are very rare and valued highly by beards everywhere – some sell for 1,000 bucks a pop! Fortunately, the original pressing of Magnificence in the Memory comes relatively cheap. This is because it’s a brand new release of never-before-heard material from the heyday of Ya Ho Wha [...]
Posted in ben chasny, tagged ben chasny, Six Organs of Admittance on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Ben:
“I want to mention that I am currently making a Six Organs guitar TAB book. I’m not really sure how big it is going to end up but I am thinking about 15 songs from the whole catalogue. What I am wondering is, are there any requests for any particular songs for me to [...]
Posted in castanets, tagged castanets, texas rose, the thaw & the beasts on June 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Castanets is set to release Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts on Asthmatic Kitty September 22nd. Ray Raposa has consistently put out great records that would defy any description or tag that I could attempt to place upon them. However, there is something to be said about a rich textural backdrop that allows the [...]
Posted in 1, tagged bert jansch, Donovan, marc brierly on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Summer days turn into summer evenings and, as this summer sits nigh, Marc Brierly’s self-titled EP has been tickling me just the right way. Released in 1966, the EP bristles with deftly plucked acoustic guitar in a way that early Jansch and Donovan would certainly appreciate. There’s that British-isles cloudy day melancholy streaked all over [...]
Posted in Matteah Baim, tagged Matteah Baim, pagoda, pillars of fire on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Video by Sam Falls
Video/Music by Matteah Baim, Julien Langendorff, and Jason Glasser
Be sure to check out Matteah’s website.
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Posted in Manimal Vinyl on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Posted in 1, tagged california folk music project on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
This [...]
Posted in Arthur Magazine, tagged Arthur Magazine, doug paisley, Espers, greg weeks, silver summit, sondra sun-odeon, willie lane on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Posted in Jana Hunter, tagged Jana Hunter, metro gallery on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photo © Kristin Beck
Jason Mewbourn from The Baltimore Taper blog captured an excellent, high-fidelity live performance by Jana Hunter and her band playing live at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, MD on June 2. The set is available in its entirety for download and stream over at his site and, trust me, this is an [...]
Posted in 1, tagged dead mellotron, dum dum girls, night control on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago at a Deerhunter show Bradford Cox took the stage after a set by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and announced, “It looks like 1991 up here.” It wasn’t clear whether or not he meant their attire or their sound but to me it seemed to lean more towards the [...]
Posted in 1, tagged death, pretty things, s.f. sorrow on June 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Allow me to go out on a limb for a moment and say that I think The Pretty Things album S.F. Sorrow is the best psychedelic album of the 60’s. If you dig Grizzly Bear, I think they took a page or two from many of the innovations the Pretty Things created.
Exhibit A
The Pretty Things [...]
Posted in 1, tagged Alela Diane, arborea, devendra banhart, fern knight, larkin grimm, mariee sioux, mi & l'au, Rio en Medio, silver summit on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Define ‘folk’ as you will. The term, with its divergent meanings and connotations and applications, has lost its ability to capture a contemporary “genre” in the strictest sense of the word. But as an essence, a philosophy, an outlook, it is still vital. It is still alive when musicians (or anybody, for that matter) share [...]
Posted in folkyeah, tagged entrance band, folkyeah, henry miller library, stephen malkmus on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in mi & l'au, tagged borne recordings, dance on my skin, good morning jokers, mi & l'au on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m happy to present the last in our series of new videos by Mi & L’au. Their forthcoming album of new material, Good Morning Jokers, is out now in Spain and Italy; the international release date is set for September 1. Many thanks to Mi & L’au for coming to naturalismo [...]
Posted in 1, tagged one nation underground, pearls before swine, tom rapp on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pearls Before Swine, an umbrella moniker for songwriter Tom Rapp and various friends, is one of those bands both slipped under the radar and didn’t. By that I mean, its status in the canon of 60’s folk rock is that of demigod to some and to others a mere curiousity or, worse, a nonentity. When [...]
