A runaway of the vibrant music scene of Tel Aviv, songwriter Tomer-David Rapaport (aka STITCX) arrived in the U.S. ten years ago, and cut his teeth in America as he toured relentlessly with his bands MOTHER’S ANGER (Dionysus Records) and REIGNWOLF. There have been endless miracles on his journey: His debut album was produced by Mike Davis of the legendary MC5. The sophomore, “Sniper” by Seattle mastermind Jack Endino (Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Nirvana) and Dan Hoal (Rancid). Ben Shepherd from Soundgarden was a guest bassist on MOTHER’S ANGER’s third release, “Escaping Revolution,” which is based on a book written by Rapaport.

In the last three years David, along with drummer Joseph Braley (who joined MOTHER’S ANGER in 2007), took on world tours, opening for BLACK SABBATH and THE PIXIES as well as playing major festivals and shows all over the world with their subsequent band, REIGNWOLF. Inspired by those years of musical excitement, David spent six months in his studio writing over a hundred songs in preparation for the next musical adventure. 

Teaming up with longtime friend and captivating Seattle-based singer Kate Blackstock, the trio dubbed themselves MASZER.  « “I met the boys a few years ago through mutual friends in the Seattle music scene,” says Blackstock. “I was quickly a big fan of them as musicians & as people. After only knowing me a few months, Mothers Anger agreed to play a benefit show I was having for my sick father. They've had a big space in my heart ever since.” 

The band name means 'tithing' in Hebrew (מְעַשֵּׂר), and is far from a cast-off name; it’s a principle for the band’s operation as a creative entity. The band is committed to donating at least 10% of its profits to an organization that has helped many a musician (Rapaport included), MusiCares.

"Engrossing and mysterious, heightened and hypnotic" - MOJO magazine
"Songs to dig into" - Mark Matos (Os Beaches; Family Folk Explosion)
 
Annie Girl was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. When she was 17, she left home for the streets of San Francisco. Less than two years later she was in the legendary Hyde Street Studio, making her first record with a band whose resumés include Nina Natasia, Victoria Williams and Jolie Holland.  Self-titled record Annie Girl and the Flight, released in February 2013, was named MOJO magazine's album of the month.
 
Annie started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and at nine was in a punk band, inspired by Denver's punk scene. In her early teens, when she started playing guitar, she began to write songs and never stopped. Splitting for San Francisco, she was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco's SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs. The next few months were a whirlwind. She joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them - because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
 
First though she toured the North West with Os Beaches, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his for his cross-pollinated "anti-band" collectives featuring members of the Bay Area's rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, she put together her own band, and with Matos as her "spiritual adviser", recorded her first album, with more that followed.
 
Since then, Annie has relocated to Los Angeles. She spends her time writing more great songs, and playing live - most recently with her new psychedelic garage act Dooms Virginia. But after a spiritual experience, she has brought back The Flight. She's played over seas, as well as toured North America and Canada, and she isn't stopping anytime soon.

Formed in upstate New York, now based in San Francisco, YASSOU is a six piece art pop band that makes tightly composed  music with integrity. Anchored by the mesmerizing stage presence of  lead-singer Lilie Hoy, YASSOU employs unconventional song structures, shifting time signatures, and stunning video storylines.

Compared to the likes of Radiohead and FKA twigs, Billboard has recently named YASSOU a band that “should to be on your radar”, while Delusions of Adequacy called them “what the people want.”
 
Their 2013 EP “In Fits In Dreams” garnered widespread press attention. A striking collection of songs, it features the vocals of former Smashing Pumpkins’ bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur. In 2015, they released an untitled Video EP, a six song project crafted around a singular story and emotional experience. Released in an “album cycle” of single videos, NYLON pronounced the EP as “redefining the album” in our current era of digital democracy. The videos were created and co-directed by Hoy, alongside various Bay Area artists and exemplifies YASSOU’s creative allure. 
 
YASSOU premiered their first full-length composition at the Louisville Ballet this September to standing ovations. Alongside the works of Tchaikovsky and Philip Glass, their performance is part of the 2016-17 season and was accompanied by the Louisville Symphony and the ballet’s original choreography. YASSOU began 2016 opening for The National and is now filming their next video project.
 
“You fall in love with their sound, their image, and their message all at the same time” wrote Apes on Tape in a 2015 interview. Dark yet ethereal, YASSOU embodies an art that is bold, emotional, and immediate.

Party Boyz is a music podcast produced by two women in Portland, OR. The premise is simple: we invite a band over for a meal, and the band brings ten tracks of their choosing to curate the episode. We discuss their song selection and in between tracks conduct regular segments: “Killing the Game” (who, what, anything is really interesting right now), “Highs & Lows” (recent good and bad events in the lives of the band members), and “Secret Lover” (fan mail solicited from Twitter, Facebook, etc.) At the end of the podcast, the band performs an acoustic track. The result is an hour-long podcast that is genuine, entertaining, and highlights what you want to hear from a band.


New album:
https://perhapsy.bandcamp.com/album/a-carpenters-market

Perhapsy is the solo project of musician/graphic-artist Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of Oakland-based groups Bells Atlas, Salami Rose Joe Louis' live band, and former contributor to Curls (Christopher Owens of Girls), Madeline Kenney, and Astronauts, etc.

A Carpenter's Market is the upcoming and fourth full-length release from Barber's project — out on cassette and digital platforms March 5th, 2021. The album features his most personal songs to date as well as his most texturally-experimental sounds. There are songs about slowly-splintering relationships, the difficulties of recollecting family history, the blurry line between religion and drugs, and how an experience where one grows up can influence where one ends up living. 

Barber, who's been an active illustrator and cartoonist, recently took up animation in the last year. His work includes animations for Salami Rose Joe Louis, NIIKA, Glockabelle, Yolanda, Moonrun, Chris Alarie, and Bells Atlas. The self-animated music video for A Carpenter's Market song "Lake Erie (Whispering)" is his most detailed and ambitious animation work to date. 

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MGMT
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