A joint effort to promote off-centre music and independent art.

Since 2003....  
24K Gold
Aa
Agent Side Grinder
AXIS:SOVA
Baby’s Breath
Bad Dudes
Bipolar Bear
Blue Silk Sutures
Bomber Jackets
Books on Tape
BRANKO!
Cantus Firmus
Cheveu
Crash Normal
Crime in Choir
The Days End
The Dictaphone
Die Princess Die
Expo 70
Factums
The Feeling of Love
Flight
Gowns
Hiroshima Rocks Around
Holy Kiss
Mikal Cronin
Landed
Love Tan
The Manifolds
Matt Hill
Megafuckers
Dan Melchior
Metal Marty King
The Moles
The Movie Star Junkies
Nerve City
Net Shaker
Night Control
Novy Svet
Thee Oh Sees
Pink Noise
The Pope
RAHDUNES
The Rebel
Rodent Plague
Ty Segall
Sharp Ends
Silver Daggers
Smalts
Swann Danger
SXBRS
Uphill Gardeners
Russell Walker
Watts Ensemble
Watusi Zombie
White Suits Brown Boots
Yikes!
Yves Son Ace


The Mallard are an inside-out-echo-laser-garage-psych-rock four-piece from San Francisco. Their home fried songs harness the naked abandon of 60's punk (think earliest syd barrett era pink floyd), but inject the form with a deranged spirit all their own. Close attention to texture and dynamics allow the band to explore unusual terrain – to grant access into unexpected realms of beauty and terror. . .with dessert.

In 2009, songwriter Greer McGettrick (guitar/vocals/drums) moved to San Francisco and began performing as The Mallard, self-recording an initial eight-song cassette tape (which would later catch the ear of one John Dwyer), and fronting the group through several incarnations, including a stint playing solo and drumming with her feet. In early 2011, she invited her friend Dylan Tidyman-Jones (guitars/keys/backing vox) to drum. They played shows for a while as a duo, including a west-coast tour. Their first full-length LP, Yes On Blood – again self-recorded by Greer – was released on Castle Face Records in February, 2012. Multi-instrumentalist Dylan Edrich (bass/guitar) came aboard, and as a three-piece they toured with Thee Oh Sees, including shows at SXSW, and recorded a video with Hannah Lew (Grass Widow). Miles Luttrell (drums) is the groups most recent addition. The Mallard perform frequently in the bay area, are soon to embark on full US tour, and have a host of record releases in the works. Hold onto your ears holes....

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Touch Illusions is a recording project by Patrick Smith. The music of Touch Illusions combines psychedelic sounds, guitar based song structures and musical influences. "Yes!" - Sir Francis Cobblestonesonferg

All songs written, produced and performed by Patrick Smith 


Drummer and songwriter. All parts are written and recorded by me at Pandacake Studios, unless stated otherwise. 

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