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Awesome Mix Vol. 3

Tracks we've tweeted over the past month or so.

Musos' Guide Underexposed 20141024

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2014's best records

jan. 26

Curated by Sonny Smith (Sonny & The Sunsets), I Need You Bad documents the influential San Francisco garage rock scene (and a little bit beyond) as it exists here and now.

Order limited edition "slime green" LP (out now) here - http://polyvinylrecords.com/ineedyoubad
Check out the full tracklist / read about each band / stream new songs each week - http://ineedyoubad.com

Cassette available through Burger Records - www.burgerrecords.org/

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Pre-Order at Polyvinyl

Cool Ghouls - Hot Summer

Following his acclaimed full-length, Anything In Return, Chaz Bundick's latest 2013 entry as Toro Y Moi is the "Campo" 7-inch, available exclusively on his fall North American tour.

http://www.toroymoi.com
https://www.facebook.com/toroymoi
https://twitter.com/ToroyMoi

Buy "Campo" Here

Toro Y Moi - Campo

His third single out NOW on Trouble In Mind Records!
www.troubleinmindrecs.com

Jacco Gardner - The End Of August

www.waltermartinmusic.com 

DEBUT SOLO ALBUM from SONGWRITER,
WALTER MARTIN (of THE WALKMEN)
instagram: instagram.com/waltermartinmusic
twitter: twitter.com/WaltRMartin
website: www.waltermartinmusic.com
facebook: facebook.com/waltermartinmusic

Fully Illustrated album packaging by illustrator/ musician Marcellus Hall. http://www.marcellushall.com

ALBUM TRACK LISTING:

1. WE'RE ALL YOUNG TOGETHER (FEAT. ALEC OUNSWORTH)
2. WE LIKE THE ZOO (CAUSE WE'RE ANIMALS TOO) (FEAT. MATT BERNINGER)
3. I-M-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N (FEAT. KAT EDMONSON)
4. RATTLESNAKES (FEAT. KAREN O & NICK ZINNER)
5. SING TO ME (FEAT. KAREN O)
6. THE BEATLES (WHEN RINGO SHOOK HIS MOP) (FEAT HAMILTON LEITHAUSER, NICK STUMPF, JOSH WISE & MATT IWANUSA)
7. IF I WERE A TIGER (FEAT MILAN MCALEVEY & NINA DONGHIA)
8. COSTA RICA
9. HEY SISTER  (FEAT KAT EDMONSON)
10. IT'S A DREAM

Sing To Me feat. Karen O

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/cocktails.the.band">Cocktails</a> sound more like a frosty, cheap beer on a sweaty summer day than some pretentious potion stirred up by a mixologist, a badge of honor the San Francisco quintet proudly sports. With their debut long player in hand (Adult Life out June 17th), Cocktails return with a mature attitude and a refined version of their no-frills blue collar power-pop. Recorded with Warm Soda’s Rob Good at his Oakland, CA Fuzz City studio, Adult Life rides an ebullient harmonic wave with twists of garage simplicity and Moog flourishes, hinting at traces of effortlessly cool outfits like The Rentals and Big Star. Adult Life will be available on two different vinyl color configurations - <a href="http://fatherdaughterrecords.bigcartel.com/product/cocktails-adult-life">Virgin Black or Creamsicle Haze</a>, the later limited to only 100 copies.

May 12 - Make-Out Room - San Francisco, CA

Cocktails - Tough Love

Rivergazer is the nom de plume of London-born, New York-bred songwriter, Kevin Farrant. Since 2011 he has quietly self-released demos and and played in a variety of bands including guitar with childhood friend Aaron Maines’ Porches. (Exploding In Sound). On Random Nostalgia, Rivergazer’s first full length studio album, Farrant teamed up with producer Hunter Davidsohn and longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist, Kolson Pickard to achieve a bigger conceptual sound. The album tells a tale of modern sadness -- growing up in the suburbs, getting married and divorced, having no money, being in debt, driving mom’s car, friends, isolation, wanting a dog, finding zen, and making memories.

https://www.facebook.com/rivergazer
http://rivergazer.bandcamp.com/

Rivergazer - Safari Jack

Pre-order the new album -  Just Enough Hip To Be Woman -  at http://geni.us/BRONCHO
 and receive "Class Historian" instantly!

Class Historian

Earl Boykins
New EP "Everybody Likes Dogs" Out September 30, 2014
Released by Forged Artifacts

Buy Tape/Free DL

Earl Boykins - Bookstore

“San Francisco’s Doomed” ...or so they say. There are, however, four Cool Ghouls who will have none of that. Born and raised in Fog Nation’s stripmall suburbs, these boys dreamed of the day when they would move to Shaky City.  San Francisco - the town so many of their electric heroes (Creedence, Thee Oh Sees, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Flamin’ Groovies etc.) call(ed) home - was their destiny.  So they moved to SF, formed a band, packed themselves into crowded apartments, found lousy jobs serving beer and coffee to Bay Area glassholes (alongside counter culture legends), and they have no plans of leaving. Thank the gods their dreams came true! Cool Ghouls are the perfect antidote for San Francisco’s current mess.  They are providing the real-life soundtrack to a new generation of young, loud and gritty San Franciscans that wake up everyday with a beautiful feeling just knowing that these guys won’t let this city’s culture burn to the ground. Their loud guitars, acid riffs, party screams, and stacked-as-f*ck three-part vocal harmonies are echoing down the alleys and shaking foundations. A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rye is their sophomore full-length album, and it rules.  Recorded live to tape by San Francisco’s Sonny Smith (Sonny and the Sunsets) and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring), this record elevates Cool Ghouls psychedelic garage jams to a whole new level.  So it is, that Empty Cellar Records is very stoked to present to you ten new delectable Cool Ghouls songs brimming with infectious creative energy. With the vocals on top (did we mention the great harmonies), the drum fills tight, and guitar tones dialed in, this record is an excellent complement to the neverending nights of a neverending summer.  If you don’t believe us, then attend one of their local shows and watch San Francisco’s colorful underbelly dance its cares away. Cool Ghouls definitely knows what’s going on. The band is not oblivious. Just listen to tracks like “The Mile” or “Reelin’” to know that they too are trying to wrap their mind around the swirling fire burning through their town. San Francisco is still doomed... it always has been and always will be.  At least these Cool Ghouls are here to help it go down with just a little bit of true class.  Available this fall - featuring photography of one of their wild house shows by Michael Lucero - on Vinyl and CD from Empty Cellar Records and cassette from Burger Records.  300 limited edition lps will be available in deluxe swirling fire colored vinyl.


Cool Ghouls - And It Grows

From Happy Diving's debut album, Big World, out October 21, 2014. Recorded at The Atomic Garden in East Palo Alto, CA, with producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Joyce Manor, Whirr).

PRE-ORDER: fatherdaughterrecords.bigcartel.com/product…g-world

www.facebook.com/Happydivingca
http://happydiving.bandcamp.com

LIVE DATES
Saturday, Sept 27th @ Thee Parkside (San Francisco, CA) - Bay Area Record Fair
Saturday, October 4th @ Chromatic Coffee (San Jose, CA) w/ The Exquisites 
Wednesday, October 22nd @ 1-2-3-4 Go! (Oakland, CA) - Record release show with w/ Big Ups, Lvl Up, Fish Breath

Happy Diving - Sad Planet

Jane

http://www.freaksvillerec.com
Produced, Composed By Benjamin Schoos for Freaksville Inc.
Lyrics: Jacques Duvall
Artcover: http://www.thomato.com


Benjamin Schoos & April March J'ai essayé de t'aimer

http://bcoredisc.com/ING/discoBD.php?id_disco=331

Jupiter Lion to release ‘Brighter’ the highly anticipated follow-up to ‘Silver Mouth’ this September.

Originating from the Mediterranean coast, the trio of Jupiter Lion appears to be an outlander in the city of Valencia. Washing ashore on a wave of ethereal melody and tidal drones, the band is a noticeably different presence from the dance floor fare that is omnipresent on the sandy beaches of Spain.

2013’s ‘Silver Mouth’ (Bcore) was a hypnotic chronicle of kraut rock influences and experimental pop, and the upcoming ‘Brighter’ takes psychedelia into a realm of analog electronics that few bands could ever follow. But Jupiter is not about repeating themselves, which is why they bravely pilot a reinvented sound where jazz, techno, and post punk collide on a timeline still not requiring computer instrumentation.

On ‘Brighter’ Jupiter Lion’s analog keyboards forsake presets, and defy convention with a zapping pulse or shimmering brilliance that makes other synth bands seem lazy for their impersonate sound. The elongated track length of the single, “Your God Is A Human” draws comparisons that bridge both past and future in an affect that is utterly phantasmagoric. Featuring a progression that is as musically adventurous as France’s Magma in the 1970s, the single in addition presents an present-day aesthetic as updated as Portland’s Copy.

After a brief hiatus, Jupiter returned this past summer to share the stage with Neutral Milk Hotel, and Godspeed You Black Emperor at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound. Completed tour runs with Spectrum and Dead Skeletons are indicative of the band’s cross-over potential, assuring their station in the pantheon of futurist rock where allies will be in great supply.

With the release of ‘Brighter,’ Jupiter Lion have taken a surreal trajectory of lucid synths, agile jazz rhythm and cinematic poise. Proving that when something is instantly destined to be a classic, it still has one foot firmly planted in the future.


Jupiter Lion Lost Cannibal

Taken from the EP 'Dancing With The Stars', released March 4 2016.

Ambitions

Written by The Yetis
Produced by Kyle "Slick" Johnson

Recorded on August 4, 2014

Christian - lead guitar, vocals
Nick - rhythm guitar, vocals
Stefan - bass guitar
Patrick - drums


Photograph by Walter Pierson Palmer IV
Logo by Freddy Kempel

Little Surfer Girl

Lyrics:

There's nothing but monsters at the bottom of the sea, 
There's nothing in the waves I'm convinced that I need, 
I tried to, 
But I'm not going to the beach, 
I tried to, 
You'll have to swim without me 

When I was a child there was a shark inside my dreams, 
He ate everyone and now there's only just me, 
And I'm nervous, 
Cause i've got nothing left to feed him, 
I'm nervous, 
I don't want bites out of me 

But what if all my friends wanna go to the beach? 

Wanna go to the beach? 

I'll just stay in the sun, 
I'll be fine on my own 

Wanna go to the beach? 

One day I went to the beach, 
And got dragged down under the surface of the sea, 
And I was down there for the longest time, 
And I truly thought I was gonna die 

Wanna go to the beach?

Seapunk

Debut album ~ Away From The Water ~ released 27th Oct '14

Pre-order CDs / Vinyl from Fuzz Club Records here: http://fuzzclubrecords.com/webshop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=93

Pre-order Digital release here: http://shop.lolacolt.com/album/away-from-the-water

Produced by Jim Sclavunos

Lola Colt ~ Driving Mr Johnny

Vitesse Constante EP

Robber

Produced by Danny K & Parker Ighile
Written by Jay Lekat & Danny K
Mixed by Matt Gio (RADA Stuidos)
Mastered by William Bowden at King willy Sound


Dare

Sound Space Exploration by Jutta Pryor and Bruno Gussoni -
Picture by Jutta Pryor

Jutta Pryor & Bruno Gussoni  E V O L U T I O N

White Fence, "Swagger Vets and Double Moon"

Appears on The Hearse 7". Available here: http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/hearse

Original song by Kraftwerk.


Wampire - Das Modell

Saltwater

How the Ranks Was Won

Brazos - "How the Ranks Was Won" (Official Audio)

Celestial Shore - "Valerie"
From the album '10x'
Out now on Hometapes & Local Singles Records

Physical: bit.ly/10xisarecord
iTunes: smarturl.it/10x-iTunes
Amazon: smarturl.it/10x-Amazon

www.facebook.com/celestialshore
www.home-tapes.com
www.localsinglesrecords.com

Celestial Shore - "Valerie"

Dead Ghosts - Roky Said

from Free Time's upcoming "S/T" LP (2013, Underwater Peoples)

Out 5.28.13

Pre-Order Here: http://underwaterpeoples.com/2013/03/12/pre-orderfree-time-free-time-lpuplp023/

Free Time - Nothin But Nice

Wave Forms

Albums from Cool Ghouls, The She's, The Cairo Gang, Grace Sings Sludge, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Tim Cohen / Magic Trick, The Sandwitches, Frank Ene, Joseph Childress, Sonny Smith, Dylan Shearer, Ryan Wong, Pat Thomas, Pillars & Tongues, Charles Sharp 6, Sword + Sandals, and more... Distributed by Revolver/Midheaven.