Lindsay Clark, a guitarist and folk singer based in Portland, OR, was born and raised in a small California mountain town in the foothills of the Sierras, to a forest ranger father, and a mother who teaches languages. She began writing poetry as a child and spent years studying classical piano and violin, but was always drawn toward folk and traditional music, eventually coming to find her place as a songwriter. 

Come hear Lindsay play on Sunday May 15th at the SeaweedSway Showcase! WInnie Byrd and Ed Masuga play too, plus we're premiering Brass Menazeri's Chasing the Moon episode. http://bit.ly/may15rsvp

Lindsay Clark - "Go To Heaven"

Come see Indianna Hale on Tuesday May 24th at Amnesia w/ Panic is Perfect, Dina Maccabee, & Ava Mendoza!

http://bit.ly/may24rsvp

http://www.myspace.com/indiannahale
http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com/2009/01/indianna_hale
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indianna-Hale/175069794639

While her greatest influence is a good friend Matt McCluer, Indianna’s writing style developed with notable inspiration from Hank Williams, the Staple Singers, and the Magnetic Fields. She now plays with a supporting band and takes inspiration mostly from “…Sunshine, riding bikes and the salty wind of the beach. It’s California rock, filtered through a ‘lonesome gospel pedal', with a little country swing and a splash of rain.” 

“…a sweet caress of a voice that sounds like something from another era. The way she warbles a tune is beautiful and mesmerizing, a soft creation you want to crawl inside and dream the day away with” Rich Kane, OC Weekly. 

Photo by Dominic Santos.

Indianna Hale "Ophelia"

Masuga playing on Sunday July 17th at the SeaweedSway Showcase! 
with Miwa & Moomaw!

http://bit.ly/july17rsvp

MASUGA (folk, blues, country, alternative)
Ed Masuga is a finger-picking maniac; a one man folk and blues orchestra of beautiful clanks and calls.

Ed Masuga is the youngest of ten siblings. After bringing him home as a newborn with the birth tag "Boy Masuga" on his wrist, his parents ended up calling him "Boy" for the first few years of his life. When they started calling him "Danny," a shortened version of his given name, he refused, preferring to go by his middle name. So struck was he by a popular country star of the time, young Ed Masuga would reply to those calling him "Danny" by saying, "I'm not Danny. I'm Eddie. Eddie Rabbit."

His drifting family was never satisfied in any one place for too long, and he grew up wandering between shacks, motels, casinos, trailers, forests, and barroom kitchens. At two years old he saw his dad compete on the game show "Name That Tune," and though the appearance netted just a juke box and a trip to Puerto Rico, Ed's future as a traveling musician had been fully inspired. 

http://edmasuga.com
http://facebook.com/edmasuga
http://myspace.com/edmasuga

Ed Masuga "When I Was Young" (Make-Out Room Sunday July 17th)

On Thursday 7-7, we will be celebrating 7 years of SeaweedSway's existence at Amnesia! With some of SeaweedSway's very favorite people & bands: The Blank Tapes, Collin Ludlow-Mattson & the Folks, & the Beehavers - yes!!

http://on.fb.me/amnesia7-7

THE BEEHAVERS
The Beehavers are a gypsy voodoo folk n' rock n' roll band led by singer/songwriter Bryant Denison. With roots in Sacramento, Bryant took his darker '80s new wave leanings down to San Francisco where he has absorbed more of the laid back folk and pop of his friends in fellow SF Bay bands like The Blank Tapes, fpodbpod and Ash Reiter, topped off with a hint of Johnny Cash's rockabilly drawl, a splash of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' kicked-up blues, and the roving gypsy vibe of bands like Devotchka and Beirut. After finally solidifying a regular core band in December of 2010 (Jake Nochimow on drums, Zach Rubin-Rattet on guitar and Mike Fortes on bass, along with a rotating cast of string, brass and keyboard players when they're available), The Beehavers went straight to work in 2011 playing a string of exciting Bay Area shows, winning The Deli Magazine's San Francisco "artist of the month" poll this past June in the process.

http://thebeehavers.com
http://www.facebook.com/thebeehavers
Parlour to Parlour interview/video: http://popdose.com/parlour-to-parlour-episode-28-the-beehavers
"Dream Life": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG45DpWBriU
"To Your Freedom" SF pillow fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXyKqKFra9c

Photo of the Beehavers in North Beach by Garrett Eaton

The Beehavers "The Fairgrounds" at Amnesia Thursday 7-7-11

The Beehavers "Run Away With Me" at Amnesia Thursday 7-7-11

Song is off the new album, Under Covers, being released this Saturday!

Saturday July 16th
SeaweedSway Presents:
Quinn DeVeaux's CD Release Party
with the Mumlers
at the Independent

Address: 628 Divisadero St. @ Hayes, SF
Time: 8:30 doors / 9pm show
Tix: $15 http://ticketf.ly/quinntix
RSVP: http://on.fb.me/july16quinn
http://quinndeveaux.com
http://themumlers.com
http://independentsf.com

We'd like to invite you to Quinn's CD Release Party at The Independent on Saturday, July 16th. Local favorites The Mumlers will open the night with their indie-pop-folk-dance tunes. 

"Under Covers" is the debut album by Quinn DeVeauxand the Blue Beat Review. The sound is "blue beat" – music that stems from the R&B, New Orleans soul, and gospel that form the roots of rock and roll.

Quinn puts on a dynamic show with his 7-piece band, which includes piano, bass, drums, and three gospel-tinged female background singers.  For the past two years he's been getting young crowds moving to his classic sounds, and is stirring up interest in roots music in the Bay Area.  Quinn has already headlined The Independent, has performed at Outside Lands, and will be opening up for Aaron Neville at Stern Grove on August 7.

His debut CD is a tribute to his influences entitled "Under Covers".  It's a very cool contemporary take on the roots of rock and R&B, with songs by Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, The Meters, Chris Kenner and the Soul Stirrers.

The first video for the album is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkQT0Pt00w

SF Chronicle Interview:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F06%2F30%2FPKAA1K28B8.DTL

Quinn DeVeaux "They All Asked For You" at the Independent Saturday July 16th

Quinn DeVeaux "Tiger In Your Tank" at the Independent Saturday July 16th

Song is off the new album, Under Covers, being released this Saturday!

Saturday July 16th 
SeaweedSway Presents: 
Quinn DeVeaux's CD Release Party 
with the Mumlers 
at the Independent

Address: 628 Divisadero St. @ Hayes, SF 
Time: 8:30 doors / 9pm show 
Tix: $15 http://ticketf.ly/quinntix 
RSVP: http://on.fb.me/july16quinn 
http://quinndeveaux.com 
http://themumlers.com 
http://independentsf.com

We'd like to invite you to Quinn's CD Release Party at The Independent on Saturday, July 16th. Local favorites The Mumlers will open the night with their indie-pop-folk-dance tunes.

"Under Covers" is the debut album by Quinn DeVeauxand the Blue Beat Review. The sound is "blue beat" – music that stems from the R&B, New Orleans soul, and gospel that form the roots of rock and roll.

Quinn puts on a dynamic show with his 7-piece band, which includes piano, bass, drums, and three gospel-tinged female background singers. For the past two years he's been getting young crowds moving to his classic sounds, and is stirring up interest in roots music in the Bay Area. Quinn has already headlined The Independent, has performed at Outside Lands, and will be opening up for Aaron Neville at Stern Grove on August 7.

His debut CD is a tribute to his influences entitled "Under Covers". It's a very cool contemporary take on the roots of rock and R&B, with songs by Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, The Meters, Chris Kenner and the Soul Stirrers.

The first video for the album is here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkQT0Pt00w

SF Chronicle Interview: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F06%2F30%2FPKAA1K28B8.DTL

Quinn DeVeaux "Packin' Up" at the Independent Saturday July 16th

Quinn DeVeaux "Come and Go" at the Independent Saturday July 16th

The Mumlers are co-headlining at the Independent in SF, Saturday July 16th!
Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review's CD Release Party!
http://bit.ly/quinntix

The Mumlers are a group of misfit noisemakers from San Jose, CA corralled together by songwriter Will Sprott. In 2008 Galaxia Records released Thickets & Stitches, their first album. Dozens of people heard about it & liked it. In 2009 they released their second LP Don’t Throw Me Away, & toured the US with the Black Heart Procession, the Morning Benders and the Submarines.  Word spread of their live performances & in 2010 they headlined a sold out show at San Francisco’s Noisepop festival & played the Treasure Island festival alongside Belle & Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, the Sea & Cake, She & Him, & the National. In 2011 they toured with the Dodos, the Tallest Man on Earth, Morcheeba & Two Gallants. Some other people they played with along the way are Booker T. Jones, Yo La Tengo, Vetiver, the Entrance Band, Kelley Stoltz, Matmos, Papercuts and Clinic as well as underground heros such as the Legendary Stardust Cowboy & Darondo.

Critic Dennis Cook, of Jambase, has called them a, “bobbing, beautiful iceberg” and noted in a review of their most recent LP, “One is starting to get a feel for what constitutes a Mumlers tune but woe to anyone who thinks that notion has any real parameters. As they grow and extend their own listening and playing there’s really no telling what might get pulled into their gravity, which makes for really exciting music. With The Mumlers a crazy range of music appears to be fair game to be enthusiastically engaged and manipulated to their ends. And one of the best overriding aspects is the dust and rust in their machinery. Nothing’s too tidy on Don’t Throw Me Away, where soft and low dewy-eyed testaments to love alternate with saucy lines (and the music to match them). Playful and heartfelt, The Mumlers sophomore effort confirms the floating promise of the boffo debut and builds on it in a way that makes one salivate quietly for record number three, four, etc.”

http://themumlers.com
http://www.galaxiarecords.com/artist/the-mumlers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oaWJN2doRk

Photo of the Mumlers by Ryan Wilke

The Mumlers "Tangled Up With You" Saturday 7-16 at the Independent!

Moomaw's opening the night Sunday July 17th!
Masuga, Miwa, & Moomaw @ the SeaweedSway Showcase!

http://bit.ly/july17rsvp

7:30 doors, 8pm show. $7.

Moomaw (psychadelic country)

"Crafted from old bones and new hardware, Moomaw builds shaky songs that remain intimate while drifting and charging off in to masked territory, the sound of waves on the beach bleeding into the hissing of the highway. With the love of lyric and the joy of risk, Moomaw finds those places where delicate folk meets heedless disco, stumbling out into avant noise and ambience before returning home to heartbreaks and vision quests. Hear synthesizers and hand percussion, drum machines and ukelele, vocal loops and musical saw join in chorus with grace and humility. Listen to Moomaw."

Channeling the psychedelic sounds of 60s pop music through nostalgic folk and Western, Moomaw sountracks the moment that one starts to feel oneself dreaming. Using a plethora of insruments, from ukuleles to dulcimer to singing saw, Moomaw cascades jangly loops of sound and harmonizes over them.

http://moomaw.info
https://www.facebook.com/MoomawMusic
http://vimeo.com/24475028 (awesome live performance)

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