"Still Knocking At The Door," the lead single from Papercuts' forthcoming Easy Sound Recording Co. debut, Life Among The Savages.

Out 5/6/2014 in the US/Canada through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysoundrecordingcompany.com)

Out 5/12/2014 in EU through Memphis Industries (www.memphis-industries.com)

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Papercuts - Still Knocking At The Door

"Scissor Me Cigs", the lead single from the forthcoming The Donkeys - Easy Sound Recording Co. debut, Ride The Black Wave.

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The Donkeys - Scissor Me Cigs

"Life Among The Savages", the second single from Papercuts' forthcoming Easy Sound Recording Co. debut, Life Among The Savages.

Out 5/6/2014 in the US/Canada through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysoundrecordingcompany.com)

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Papercuts - Life Among The Savages

"Blues In The Afternoon", from the forthcoming The Donkeys - Easy Sound Recording Co. debut, Ride The Black Wave.

Out 6/3/2014 via Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysoundrecordingcompany.com)

The Donkeys - Blues In The Afternoon

'Lose It All, All The Time' is the lead single from EDJ's forthcoming self-titled debut.

Out 8/5/2014 through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysound.co)

EDJ - Lose It All, All The Time

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. 

11 Shines

07 Ride The Black Wave

01 Sunny Daze

06 Easter Morning

'A West County Girl' from EDJ's forthcoming self-titled debut.

Out 8/5/2014 on Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysound.co)

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EDJ - A West County Girl

"For the Boy Who Moved Away" is from EDJ's forthcoming self-titled debut.

Out 8/5/2014 through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysound.co)

Of the new record, Eric says:

In January of 2014 I decided to sit down and write an album’s worth of songs all over the course of a few weeks, which is something I had never done before.

Some were done at home during an unseasonably cold Portland winter, some in Boonville, California (a town in the wine-and-weed producing part of Mendocino County where they also have their own language,’Boontling’), and some in Joshua Tree, a place where people have always sought inspiration.

It had always taken a long time for me to write songs – and when one would finally come to me I’d put some broad concepts down on paper, find a nice melody, and then let the listener decide what they might be hearing.

Well, these new songs all mean something, from my life and from my brain. Even the lines that may be somewhat enigmatic or metaphorical sounding to you directly correlate to my life, and maybe yours, too.

The puzzle of existence on “Minor Miracles.” Rebuilding a life in “West County Girl” and “Lose It All, All the Time.” A quite literal story in “For The Boy Who Moved Away” about moving away from L.A. to an uncertain future, the San Gabriel Mountains engulfed in flames in our rearview.

And that’s to name but a few.

These are not the “happy” songs that I’ve come to be associated with – no fully major chords, and lots of suspended chords and major sevenths to make things kind of emotionally ambiguous. There was no stylistic dogma in making this record, and I was ready to fold in every type of music I was into at the moment – Joni Mitchell, new age, early 80′s McCartney, Another Green World, film scores, Talk Talk, British folk, and modern stuff that’s got me excited.

I had a bunch of my favorite people come and join me on this. Sam Cohen, Brian Kantor, and Josh Kaufman (all of Yellowbirds and a million other bands) made up the backbone of the band in the early part of the tracking. And then there were appearances by people from all the different chapters of my musical life – Andy Cabic from Vetiver and Tim Rutili from Califone dropped by to add stuff. James Mercer from The Shins sang some gorgeous high harmonies, and Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think (also my sometime film score collaborator) laid down some drone-y guitar vibes. And of course Thom Monahan, my usual studio co-conspirator, was there to make everything
come together.

These are simple stories, some about losses, a few about disappointment and regret, but also of hope and perseverance. I hope you like these melancholy grooves and existential make-out songs. These all mean something to me, I hope they will to you, too.

- Eric D. Johnson

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Howlin Rain
Big Red Moon
From the album Mansion Songs
Release Date: 1/27/15
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Howlin Rain - "Big Red Moon"

Howlin Rain
"Wild Bush"
From the album Mansion Songs
Release Date: 1/27/15
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Howlin Rain - "Wild Bush"

Live At Pickathon: Diarrhea Planet
ES014
As part of the limited edition 12"

Diarrhea Planet - Kids

Live At Pickathon: Those Darlins
ES014
*As part of the limited edition split 12", Live At Pickathon: Diarrhea Planet / Those Darlins

Those Darlins - Sweet Sweet Heart (The Vibrators cover)

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Howlin Rain - Coliseum

"Current Carry" from Complete Strangers -- In Stores 3.24.15 

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"Loose Ends" from Complete Strangers by Vetiver
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Vetiver -  "Loose Ends"

Vetiver is what I’ve been calling my songs and recordings since about 2003 or so. I live in San Francisco, have since 1998. My touring band and the musicians I’ve recorded with over the years are always changing, though many friends and players have stayed with me over albums and tours. The one constant has been Thom Monahan who has engineered and co-produced every Vetiver album. Thom lives in L.A., where most of Complete Strangers was recorded.

The album came together slowly over demos at my home in San Francisco and quick trips to L.A., continuing on with Thom at his studio. It moved in fits and starts for a couple years. Once we had the basic arrangements we jumped in the studio with Bart Davenport, Gabe Noel and Josh Adams for a few days to put down rhythm tracks. That’s when the album really took shape. Thom & I fleshed everything out with a few more musicians in San Francisco & L.A. and eventually Complete Strangers arrived.

The songs on Complete Strangers bear some resemblance to the album’s title. They share things in common but come from different places, different times. “Stranger Still” is an anthem for insomniacs, illuminating the hours when the world exceeds our grasp. “From Now On” rings out some emotional tinnitus, the moment a night runs away from you, when freedoms turn into responsibilities. The album builds around dualities, the way people pair at parties. “Current Carry” percolates with the confidence of love, while “Confiding” reveals how vulnerable we are chasing love. “Backwards Slowly” and “Edgar” are vignettes of transition, more ebb than flow. As with many of Vetiver’s better moments, sunshine is only a chord away from melancholy. An introspective lyric underlies an extroverted chorus. Subtlety tries to be outgoing, loneliness familiar, in an effort to connect the dots of life’s ellipsis.

I’m still figuring the album out. It feels like someone I’ve just met yet known for a long time.
- Andy Cabic


Last Hurrah

Loose Ends

Current Carry

Stranger Still

Ty Segall - Queen Lullabye (Live At Pickathon)

First track from Hotel Parties, by Futurebirds -- available 9/25/15.

Futurebirds - twentyseven

Hard As You Like

Let It All Loose

Deadbeat Hits

Slow Talkerz

Paper Tongues

Rodeo

Xmas Drags

New album from The Donkeys, release date 1st Qtr 2016.

Down The Line

Vetiver - Stranger Still (Daniel T Remix)

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Vetiver - Stranger Still (Daniel T remix)

The Donkeys - "Theme From The Endless Summer" (Cover)

The Glory Of Fruit Bats

Fruit Bats - The Rock Doc

What Is Left To Solve - Dan Deacon Remix

Easy Sound Recording Company is a Los Angeles-based record label and home for Vetiver, Rogue Wave, Fruit Bats, Futurebirds, Howlin Rain, Isobel Campbell, Marianne Faithfull, Papercuts, the Donkeys, Rodrigo Amarante, and EDJ.

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