Name: Grass Widow - To Where (Grass Widow) by taryninstereo
Duration: 2 min 34 s
Description: A dear friend, who scours Craigslist for a bicycle for me, turned 24 mid-October.

Yo La Tengo - Time Fades Away (Neil Young cover Live at Bell House)

Released on April 1, 2014. 

Digital: http://apple.co/1faFMrn
Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/salad-days

Mac DeMarco // Passing Out Pieces

from the album The Great Pretend by Should

SHOULD - Mistakes Are Mine

From his "Sunday Girls" EP - out December 4th on Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Peter Stringer-Hye - Throw Away The Day

Through the Lychgates
Written by Lake Ruth
Recorded and mixed by Gary Olson at Marlborough Farms, Fall 2017.
Keyboards by Kyle Forester.
Mastered by Ron Harrity at Peapod Records. 
Artwork by Frerik Jehl

From a limited edition split 7" single released by Kleine Underground Schallplatten (KUS 016), features Pale Lights' version of Lake Ruth's Through the Lychgates, and Lake Ruth's version of Pale Lights' Only an Ocean.

Through The Lychgates (Lake Ruth cover)

A dear friend, who scours Craigslist for a bicycle for me, turned 24 mid-October. 

Grass Widow - To Where (Grass Widow)

Las Robertas - Seconds Away

San Francisco/Oakland's The Mantles have been charting a unique path through the Bay Area's storied garage/pop scene since 2007. The early shows were loose & loud Velvets/'Nuggets'-bashing, always with weirdly catchy songs & oddball chord changes. Their first singles saw them honing their sound, building towards their excellent 2009 self-titled debut album (on Siltbreeze) and follow-up EP on Mexican Summer. Loosely aligning with artists like White Fence and Ty Segall, The Mantles thoroughly modernize and personalize the folk-rock tradition.

Now on "Long Enough To Leave," The Mantles still color outside the lines but dial a cleaner, more infectious sound. SF's Kelley Stoltz (Sub Pop) recorded the new album with enough savvy to make it pop while keeping the performances idiosyncratic & affecting. Sharp ears may spot bits of early Love, New Zealand's Flying Nun label and LA's Paisley Underground, but The Mantles are very far from revivalists and have more song-writing and arranging skill at their disposal than many bands could hope to have.

"Long Enough To Leave" is both impressionistic and psychedelic - guitar melodies evoke lyrical themes in equal measure to the plaintive words of vocalist Michael Olivares, whose frank and poetic take on ordinary reality strips familiar themes of their clichés. The band plays with a musical synchronicity and clarity that enlivens tunes like album opener "Marbled Birds" and the rocking "Reason's Run."

"Hello" is a tough, garagey stomp that contrasts nicely with the contemplative "Long Enough To Leave" which follows it. "Raspberry Thighs," originally released on a scarce French 7" single, is reprised and re-recorded with dreamy clarity. "Bad Design" is a great take on a long-time live favorite, while "Brown Balloon" joins "Don't Lie" and "Lily Never Married" in a long line of Mantles garage-pop classics.

By foregoing the theater of retro psychedelia, The Mantles end up innovating in an area of guitar music where many bands get lost fawning over fashions, styles and trends. "Long Enough To Leave" instead stakes their claim as writers and players of distinction, building a sturdy catalog of excellent songs and increasingly accomplished records.

Tour Dates:
Fri-Jul-5       Washington, DC -- Black Whiskey
Sat-Jul-6      Baltimore, MD --- Club K
Sun-Jul-7     Philadelphia, PA -- Kung Fu Neck Tie
Mon-Jul-8    Harrisburg, PA - MakeSpace
Tue-Jul-9     Brooklyn, NY - Shea Stadium
Wed-Jul-10  New Haven, CT -- BAR
Thu-Jul-11   Cambridge, MA --  Lilypad
Fri-Jul-12     New Bedford, MA -- No Problemo Taqueria
Sat-Jul-13    NYC, NY -- Cake Shop w/Piano Movers and Pale Lights

* all shows with Juan Wauters (http://juanwauters.bandcamp.com)


US Press:
Anton Hochheim
FORCE FIELD PR
anton@forcefieldpr.com
323-344-1602


The Mantles - Hello

Mutualism's three-hour all-vinyl set at Buddy Buddy on February 1, 2020.

Grass Widow - To Where (Grass Widow)

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