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Circle City

Summer Blood

Palm Springs live at the Wire

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Good Grief Live at The Wire 2010

Recorded in 2012 by Steen Kevett on tape in Corona, CA
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Stonewall Cassette

Stonewall

Stonewall - Acoustic on tape 2012

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Live At The Wire

Castle Pines Live at The Wire 2010

I Saw You on the Radio live at The Wire 2011

Held inside a tin-can van
no air to breathe in a barren land
Drive up to a painted shell
neon church on a sidewalk hell

Lets move to the desert
we can work it out!
Miles Stretched out before us
we can bring it down
bring it all back down

Bleak hills 
climbing up just to get outside
Soft kills
no air to breathe in a mountain sky
yeah yeah yeah yeah

Growing old and getting grey 
in a dried up place that doesn't age
I hear the desert screaming from a cage
I hear the desert scream from a cage


Lets move to the desert
we can work it out!
Miles Stretched out before us
we can bring it down
bring it all back down

Bleak hills 
climbing up just to get outside
Soft kills
no air to breathe in a mountain sky
yeah yeah yeah yeah

Bleak hills 
climbing up just to get outside
Soft kills
no air to breathe in a mountain sky

I woke up, with the mountain sky
with the moon held high

I woke up, with the mountain sky

Palm Springs

Wretched Life

“A visceral, high-energy, rock journey through the television set and media consumption with catchy and poignant lyrics about what apathy and self responsibility means in the age of unlimited information.”- from CDBaby publishing partners site. 

	Hollow Cause marks the return of Indie-Alt Rock Veterans Castle Pines, after a 2 year hiatus from music releases.  The song grabs the listener in a driving and abrupt guitar line that harkens back to early 90’s shoe-gaze and grunge with the accessibility and straight forwardness only Castle Pines can convey.  The music is a landscape of shrill and echoing rhythmic patterns that create a “setting-sun” backdrop to a lost generation caught amidst the “in between”.  A generation of wandering and scattered lives that met tragedy and heartbreak head on with the chaotic benchmarks of 9/11, Columbine, the Iraq War, the great Recession, and the revolution of the internet and social media.  The crescendo of the bands playing is a roller coaster of sound that soars through subtle melody and aggressive exhortation.  Hollow Cause is the first single from Castle Pines in 2016, and it stands as a testament to the bands own musical path and work with intertwining time signatures and pulsing playing.   
	Lyrically, Hollow Cause moves between pensive self examination in a narrative that is told through the collective thoughts of the world.  The lines “I’m alone in Everything” and “How do you feel” give the, seemingly, insurmountable feelings of apathy and indifference a sense of hope in the bleakness that individuals may face.  Hollow Cause is indeed a play on words, recollecting back to the historical events of World War II and the “Holocaust”, the title is a literal juxtaposition scheme between the evils of apartheid and the collective human experience of feeling alone and helpless to do anything.  Hollow Cause is a commentary on personal responsibility and the indemnification society partakes in, as a majority, when tragedy and calamity occur.  Hollow Cause by Castle Pines demonstrates a sound and songwriting style that is mature, thoughtful and seeking meaning through the questions the recording itself employ.  


Hollow Cause

Bless This House

I Saw You On The Radio

Bless This House - EP

Good Grief

MOONSHINE
Intro: 
Bless this house on a hill my love, 
on a hill my love,
on a hill 	X3
Verse 1:
When the sun is all arriving, I will be right there
In the time when you are mourning,
 even when your dead
Verse 2:
And these are things we say together, in all our time.  
Once you go, it’ll never be better
even in your mind.  
Pre-chorus:
I know, I know
I know it’s all in my mind
I know, I know
It’s one for the time
It’s time we leave our bodies again
Just one more time

Chorus:
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
It’s in my body, it’s in my mind
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
It’s in my body, it’s in my mind
Verse 3:
One to say, it’s all ok, it will be right there
Just put your arms around my waist 
We’ll figure out somehow 
And once you go, it’s all ok
I will be right there
All we see is all we are 
We’ll figure out somehow
Pre Chorus:
I know, I know
I know it’s all in my mind
I know, I know
It’s one for the time
It’s time we leave our bodies again
Just one more time
Chorus:
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
I can’t go cuz’ my feet to slow
didn't you mind?
It’s in my body, it’s in my mind

Moonshine

Stone Wall was recorded live in 2010 at the Wire Music and Arts Venue in Upland CA

Stone Wall

I'm a Volcano- Live from The Wire

The Jetty

A woeful and morose dirge-like musical ostinato that builds to a hazy fog of warmth and fond memories, Castle Pines is a sleepy opus from indie band Castle Pines. Based off the real street where the band began and took its name in Corona, CA, Castle Pines takes cues from Americana and folk traditions to paint a lavishly painful picture of American youth facing the immediacy of tragedy and heartache. Referencing events like 9-11, the death of siblings, a mothers depression, poverty and existential dread, the lyrics use concrete examples and vague simile to draw a shaky yet accurate portrait of coming of age in the turbulence of modern America. Bleak context is cathartically turned into melancholic acceptance as the narrative accepts the past cannot be changed and the future must be confronted through vindication from personal adversity. Castle Pines is a tribute, an ode to a time long past.

The band, throughout a decade of struggle, uses its titular song to convey their story with the powers of reflection and melancholy. 

Press Note from Band:

“We have been performing some version of this song live since we started back in 2009. It has taken similar iterations but has always held this hazy recollection of the street ‘Castle Pines’ and all the things that went down. Our drummer Sterling was homeless for period of time, and I livedon and off the street, out of my car for a 2 year period as well. The idea of home for both of us was shattered, and the name of the band and having a safe place like our house on Castle Pines was therapy. I had a couple legal issues happening during this period, I was drugged and woke up in a jail cell, and through that I had developed an unhealthy drinking habit to cope, and really the only constructive thing I had was music and this core group of people. Castle Pines is the capstone of our story as a band, and it is’ both a sad chronicle of suffering and a bright start to better times ahead.” 

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Lyrics:

﻿Castle Pines

 Dad got work in a factory, my siblings died, maybe three

Moved to a house on a hill

Mama bled out and we ate pills

Drank too much, pickled the brine

Numb the thought rat race line

Cutting our heads, hung by the spine

 Kosher kids, left behind. 

Simple life, hard to find,

folks don't die, neighbors are kind. 

Lost our home, bright bomb war

sewed our eyes by the door

We were taking ten naps, we were in the kind

Block party sleep, sleep all the time

We were in relapse, bright like a dime

Living in bliss, losing our minds 

Reading treasure maps, We were in our prime

Block party sleep, we would sleep all the time

In a potters field, they say Judas lost his mind

Jesus Christ, I wanna be just fine

wanna feel just fine

Reading treasure maps, We were out on the crime

of block party sleep, we would sleep all the time

In a potters field, they say Judas lost his mind

Oh Jesus Christ, I wanna be just fine

wanna feel just fine

We were reading God’s word, we were searching for the signs

You say your “Folks don't lie” we were spilling our wine

I miss my home, and I miss not lying

Castle Pines

The passage of time is an inevitable promise of existence, a manmade construct of measurement to comprehend the movement of the cosmos and the journey of life. With Time comes the experiences and memories that create the makeup of these moments. Castle Pines took a human approach to this big concept of passing time by relating it to seeing a city, home and environment change through looking back in contemplative melancholy. Where there once was orange groves and rolling hills are now a cookie cutter Southern California shopping mall and houses. Where once was the promise of a bright eyed future and big dreams remain the shell of a person that once was bitter and indifferent with the circumstances that Time has dealt.  

At the time of writing, the lyrics were an anthemic call urging the listener to move forward and beyond the tribulation. Lead singer Leandro Barrientos, after sitting through hospital visits with Castle Pines’ drummer Sterling Fairfield, learning of his uncles death and diagnosis of dementia of his grandmother, penned the first draft of the song. It was later in 2018 after recording the music that the lyrical content took a different meaning as Leandro’s other grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. 

The concept of time is 100% rooted in individual memory, and with the loss of memory does that perceived notion of Time exist?

Castle Pines was named after the street the band grew up on and met, and with different people and memories being made there, the past hauntings of the experiences shared there remain only in memory.  

Several promises of existence beyond the faultiness of memory remain, like the rising sun, and that is proclaimed in the chorus of ‘Change of Time’ with the words “We are the Western Sun”. 

Anthemic, morose and soaring instrumentals are grounded by a baritone singing style doubled up in the choruses by the ensemble of the band.  

“Change of Time” is a double entendre as the lyrical content explores time, but there is an actual time signature change in the music from a 4/4 meter to a triple 6/8 waltz like outro. 

“Change of Time” will be released on October 11th with a music video helmed by Steven Norris (producer BLNKT) with footage examining the deterioration of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.  

Lyrics:

Spill the wine

Of youth and time 

wait in pain 

For me to change again 

Agaaaain

Agaaaain

light the street

Where we grew blind

 shake the sigh

Within my mind again 

A fond farewell

 not goodbye

city sleeps

In a change of time 

Time 

tiiime 

never forget where we are from

we are the western sun 

when we lose our way again 

Say it was all for fun

Can we go back?

 up all night

lost our youth 

 ageless fright 

 bid ado

 not to do

All that’s left

memories of you 

You, Youuuu

never forget where we are from

we are the western sun 

when we lose our way again 

Say it was all for fun

Time changes us too soon

We’re all gone too soon 

Time changes us too soon

We’re all gone too soon 

Time changes us too soon

In an empty room

Time changes us too soon

We’re all gone too soon 

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Change of Time

Change Of Time

Corona, CA circa 2002, The Showcase Theater off of Main St. was the all ages mecca of live music, social groups and the pre-social media exchange of ideas and fights.  Scenester is a tribute to that time, not only aesthetically through a straightforward emo rock song, but lyrically reflecting a supposed romance turned sour.  An ode to bleached hair, mohawks, cheap beer, underage frivolity and the glory and heartache of teenage angst in suburban hell, Scenester highlights a promising past through the scope of Southern California youth, looking for personal vindication amidst tumult and tribulation.  The song is cathartic, morose and uplifting at the same time, the verse relies on personal and finite moments and struggles that can be universally applied to anyone, whereas the chorus takes on a larger questioning of the societal structure in which these narratives and lives live, where the story is propelled by the helpless feeling of being a product of exterior environments.  Scenester is the 3rd single release of the “Por Vida” by Castle Pines.  

We were born in a half built town, with stones and led in our eyes
I’m not concerned with what you think
you know we’re all gonna die
Mom and Dad did the best that they could
Raised up Caine, the pain, the glory and good

Drive me down to the beach, or meet me after the show
Don’t wanna meet your friends, hide it til’ it blows
Scenester kids trying hard to compose
Silence is the only thing anyone knows

Hows the paycheck
Hows the rat race
 you Hungry for more
Hows the paycheck
Hows the rat race
You looking to score

Your mama said he was gone, parade of dead ends and booze
Your names on his tattoo, it said we’re gonna lose
“Where’s the vow”, she said she wanted an end
Drain me down, until I’m empty again

Hows that paycheck
Hows the rat race
Are you Hungry for more
Hows that paycheck
Hows the rat race? Your all just looking to score

I’d rather pack it up

Scenester

Veteran Alternative Indie Rock Band Castle Pines releases “Swim Team Sucker”, a seemingly straightforward, foot thumping, satire of the genre examining the simplicity of live venue musical consumption, and rape culture. 
Written shortly after the news of millionaire college swimmer Brock Turner receiving a slap on the wrist after being caught in the act of violent sexual assault, the songs lyrical cues and meandering narrative contemplate the state of modern musics one sided stories of hyper-sexualization and objectification.  
On surface level the lyrics can be interpreted as a young protagonist determined to win the affection of the unnamed person of his/her desire.  On further study, the lyrics are blatantly satirizing the use of “said sexual desire” in the overused and dated tropes of the noble gentlemen fervently chasing the insatiable, crossing the line of ones own will and into the breech of another individuals boundaries, regardless of the consequence. 

Musically the song is rooted in the Laurel Canyon era of singer-songwriters of the late 60’s early 70’s, highlighting a feel good, major melody whose happiness seems to lie in a hypocritical dichotomy of the grim themes.  Tinges of “Dad rock”, chain food restaurants of the “best time in music” lie underneath the snarling and bursting at the seams song, where an entire generations musical influence was based on the exploration of sexual promiscuity without the fear of repercussion.

Swim Team Sucker

March Mellow by Castle Pines
In Collaboration with Cog Cinemas
Directed by Michael Arteaga-  camera, direction, editing
Actors: Natalie Baugh as the young lady and Johnny Reed as the young man


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Isolation and loneliness are the core themes of the new song ‘March Mellow’ by Castle Pines. Musically taking cues from Weezer Blue album era, samples and odd instruments like Pink Floyd, the song is straight forward bubble gum indie rock with instrumental breaks and cinematic builds that coalesce into its own world. The songs lyrics were written shortly after the bands drummer was hospitalized for 2 months with Roman god themes and abstract imagery. The song is a somber ode to loneliness.

March Mellow

Woo Hoo is absurdist realism in a conversational lyrical narrative. Relying mostly on the mundane or almost boring and banal, the song moves from the everyday to monumental events in a persons life in a satirical and comical way that is sometimes the best way to combat adversity. Partly inspired by "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, and partly based off of actual events that happened in the singer-lyricists life, the song breathes a sense of fatalistic optimism of not letting the exterior situations have affect on the promise that the sun will continue to rise.

Musically, the song takes cues from The Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and The War on Drugs, allowing the straightforward chordal compositions create hypnotic layering that culminate in a cathartic release in the chorus with multiple melody lines layered over each other. Compositionally the song never rests on a minor chord long enough for it to leave a lingering effect of sadness, but rather it plays between the tonic and dominant to create something that is new but also resoundingly similar to the verse.

I met with an old friend the other day, she said she hadn’t seen me in 13 long years
I looked down on the tarmac and I said, I haven't seen you in that long either
We exchanged smiles and heartbreak and stories by the parked vans with bumper stickers
And without words she said
My husband left me and I’m raising these kids on a minimum, 
Three part time jobs and shit
Well I hope your doing alright with your life, and I’m doing ok with mine, I guess
Well the last time I saw you we were thriving
Well we were doing just fine

I hope your doing just fine
I hope your doing alright
I guess I’m doing alright myself

I haven’t scene my uncle in a shit ton of years, and well you know his heart stopped and he died
And my grandmother, the one on my dads side, I have to remind her who I am every time I see her
But I hope that when his kids have Christmas dinner each year
They remember the way that I look and I said to things to them like, the fire has a good log on it, 
It's burning bright like grandmas eyes
And I told my mom I like the way she cooks
I hope she likes the way that I cook too 
And we have Christmas dinner each year
And we have Christmas dinner each year

And we’re just doing alright
I hope your alright too

Woo Hoo

Cassiopeia is an intentionally droll and sleepy sung lament of differing travelers viewpoints throughout history, partly inspired by nautical themes, including the Constellation and Greek Mythological character the song is named after. A narrative of loss, forgotten meaning and questioning the reality of the status quo, the song parallels the Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church and Modern day America as civilizations defeated by the internalization of simply not caring anymore.

Lyrics: 
I’m a River running near
To the banks of a better time my dear
Tempestuous Thunder rain
Flooding my fondest thoughts again
God Damn the damned up thoughts
Sinking my ship in tied up knots
Churning the harbor door
My passage never meets the shore
Dressed up for a dimmer shade of gray 
For a bed and a bottle  laid away
Paused a past on a pretty face
Crossed the aisles in Scarlet lace
Prayers to the pope wont save you now
We lived through the glory days
An empire defeated by malaise
As seasons pass me by
We lay forgotten wonder why
What were they saying through their teeth
We were taught to grin through our grief
Facades are meant to fade
Living inside the walls we made.  
Dressed up for a dimmer shade of gray 
For a bed and a bottle laid away
Paused a past on a pretty face
Crossed the aisles in Scarlet lace
Prayers to the pope won't save you now
Won't save you now

Castle Pines

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