such a luscious groove and important message, melody moves like silk over the chords.

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The Donkeys - Bio
Ride the Black Wave
California places a distinct sonic stamp upon the m
usic born with in its boundaries.
Owens had his Bakersfield, Parsons his Joshua Tree,
and Malkmus his Stockton, and
in their tunes you can hear dust, desert highways,
and skateboards gliding over
suburbia. The Donkeys have San Diego, and from tha
t environment have woven a
fundamental ease in their music - a rock, a roll, a
sway, a slide - you could even call it
a breeze. On
Ride the Black Wave
The Donkeys continue their easy rolling, classic
vibrations
,
but add a mystery and tension that make this recor
d their most lyrically
and instrumentally compelling.
Ride the Black Wave
embodies what Jack Kerouac described of California
’s coast as
having an “end of the land sadness.” The Donkeys st
are out at the ocean in a
“fantastic drowse” - a kind of pensiveness towards
their environs that summons the
elements of sound and style that belong only to the
m. In “Blues In The Afternoon”,
a collective mantra, the band runs out of land and
asks of the ocean to offer
suggestions about their fate. It is songs like the
se that prove the Donkeys are a band
in the true sense of the word, sharing each other’s
worry and wonder. With
RTBW,
The Donkeys have further caged their craft and have
accomplished the delicate and
artful challenge of taming the captured, while also
letting it be wild.
Recorded at San Diego’s Singing Serpent and mixed b
y LA’s Thom Monahan, the
Telecasters have a golden shimmer, the drums seem t
o echo with a regional
reverberation. The notes coming off the Rhodes flo
at on like beer-buzzed
afternoons, but just when you get lost in the hypno
tic swirl of “Sunny Daze” the
churning guitars begin to circle like sharks, remin
ding us of the realities beneath all
beautiful surfaces. Ten tracks deep, Adrianne Verh
oeven of San Francisco’s Extra
Classic appears like the mythic Calafia herself, de
livering a vocal that would bring
Cortez to his knees.
So, it is with
Ride the Black Wave
that The Donkeys add their own stratum to
California’s ever expanding musical frontier, while
maintaining their golden “shine”
as well as interjecting a tension with the sun and
beauty. The record hypnotizes as
much as it awakens; it poetically puts us at ease w
hile we sit in traffic, peck at our
keyboards in cubicles, or conversely, it accompanie
s us as we ride along desert
highways, or sway with our lovers. It is about hom
e; it is about waves, and
surrendering to their movements, trusting that they
will take us to where we truly
belong. 

07 Ride The Black Wave

From the album Tomorrow Is My Turn

The landscape of American music is littered with the ghosts of the unknowable and mysterious blues musician, scratchy voices on a 78 conjuring up an era and an energy long gone. No one represents this better, perhaps, than Geeshie Wiley, who, along with equally unknown L.V. Thomas, recorded a handful of sides for Paramount Records in 1930–31. “Last Kind Word Blues” calls to me in a way that I can’t really explain, but when producer T Bone Burnett suggested it for the record, I knew instantly it was the way to begin.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Last Kind Words


You arrive in a fit of hysteria
All lit up on bubbly and buzz
You appear on the scene
Looking hungry and mean
And you do what you do
Just because . . .

I am tight with the night man at Mamasan’s
There’s a drink named for me at the bar
Charisma and clout
Are what I’m all about
And it’s our time to outshine the stars

Everybody’s looking for the next great thing
A dance that we can dance
A song that we can sing
We’ll be making out like bandits
And living like kings
Sooner or later
We’ll be movers and shakers
Yeah, baby
Bad ass heart breakers
Movers and shakers

We will light up this end of the galaxy
And banish the dark from the night
Mention our name
And the world will acclaim
We are shamelessly awesome and bright

Everybody’s looking for the next great thing
A dance that we can dance
A song that we can sing
We’ll be making out like bandits
And living like kings
Sooner or later
We’ll be movers and shakers
Yeah, baby
Bad ass heart breakers
Movers and shakers
Givers and takers
Builders and shapers
Wizards and fakers
Movers and shakers
Movers and shakers
Bad ass heart breakers
Movers and shakers

Movers and Shakers

What Will We Be

Last Song for B



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Written and Produced by Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz 
Piano and Organ - Lionel Holoman Jr
Bass Guitar - Cornelius Mims
Guitar - Masa Kohama
Additional Guitar - Xavier Dphrepaulezz
All vocals - Xavier Dphrepaulezz 
Sound Engineering - Miguel Maloles, Jabari Tawiah
Mixed by Matt Winegar
Mastered by Dave McNair
Publishing by Angry Ant Publishing
Art by Nick Francis

Hump Thru The Winter - Single

The Wood Brothers perform in Studio Z on Feb. 4th, 2017

The Wood Brothers - I Got Loaded

Cat Clyde & @JeremieAlbinoMusic perform "Girl From The North Country"

Watch On VEVO - https://youtu.be/PuMM2C9HatM

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Watch!

Girl From The North Country Feat. Jeremie Albino

Which Side Are you On?

J - Ani DiFranco

Continuing an enormous year to date, with appearances at Golden Plains & Falls Festival, supports for Earth, Wind & Fire, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Maceo Parker, on top of over-flowing residencies at Cherry Bar’s Soul Thursdays; Saskwatch are proud to announce two very special shows in celebration of their third 7” Single, ‘Your Love’. The opening show will go down at the newly renovated Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne on July 20 followed by a smashing headline launch at Sydney’s Beresford on July 28.

‘Your Love’ is the second single to be lifted from Saskwatch’s upcoming debut long-player Leave It All Behind due out this August. Recorded with friend Cam Trewin in late 2011/early 2012; the LP is to be released through Northside Records (Fitzroy’s finest soul for 10 years now) and Shock Records. With a video soon to be released as well, ‘Your Love’ is now available on 7” and digitally at www.saskwatch.com.au.

Single Launch dates:
July 20 – Ding Dong, Melbourne
July 28 – Beresford, Sydney

Your Love

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Angry Birds Theme

Achin Heart

I'll Be There in a Minute by Pomplamoose

Reach It

Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her most recent album is the June 2023 25th Anniversary Edition reissue of her seminal album 'Little Plastic Castle' on Righteous Babe Records.  Her memoir 'No Walls and the Recurring Dream' was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book 'The Knowing' is out now.

J - Ani DiFranco

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