D.D Dumbo - i woke up covered in sand

February

2014 Full Length debut from Terraplane Sun

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The Donkeys - Bio
Ride the Black Wave
California places a distinct sonic stamp upon the m
usic born with in its boundaries.
Owens had his Bakersfield, Parsons his Joshua Tree,
and Malkmus his Stockton, and
in their tunes you can hear dust, desert highways,
and skateboards gliding over
suburbia. The Donkeys have San Diego, and from tha
t environment have woven a
fundamental ease in their music - a rock, a roll, a
sway, a slide - you could even call it
a breeze. On
Ride the Black Wave
The Donkeys continue their easy rolling, classic
vibrations
,
but add a mystery and tension that make this recor
d their most lyrically
and instrumentally compelling.
Ride the Black Wave
embodies what Jack Kerouac described of California
’s coast as
having an “end of the land sadness.” The Donkeys st
are out at the ocean in a
“fantastic drowse” - a kind of pensiveness towards
their environs that summons the
elements of sound and style that belong only to the
m. In “Blues In The Afternoon”,
a collective mantra, the band runs out of land and
asks of the ocean to offer
suggestions about their fate. It is songs like the
se that prove the Donkeys are a band
in the true sense of the word, sharing each other’s
worry and wonder. With
RTBW,
The Donkeys have further caged their craft and have
accomplished the delicate and
artful challenge of taming the captured, while also
letting it be wild.
Recorded at San Diego’s Singing Serpent and mixed b
y LA’s Thom Monahan, the
Telecasters have a golden shimmer, the drums seem t
o echo with a regional
reverberation. The notes coming off the Rhodes flo
at on like beer-buzzed
afternoons, but just when you get lost in the hypno
tic swirl of “Sunny Daze” the
churning guitars begin to circle like sharks, remin
ding us of the realities beneath all
beautiful surfaces. Ten tracks deep, Adrianne Verh
oeven of San Francisco’s Extra
Classic appears like the mythic Calafia herself, de
livering a vocal that would bring
Cortez to his knees.
So, it is with
Ride the Black Wave
that The Donkeys add their own stratum to
California’s ever expanding musical frontier, while
maintaining their golden “shine”
as well as interjecting a tension with the sun and
beauty. The record hypnotizes as
much as it awakens; it poetically puts us at ease w
hile we sit in traffic, peck at our
keyboards in cubicles, or conversely, it accompanie
s us as we ride along desert
highways, or sway with our lovers. It is about hom
e; it is about waves, and
surrendering to their movements, trusting that they
will take us to where we truly
belong. 

07 Ride The Black Wave

Lyrics-Let’s get this done quick
There’s something I wanna see
So take a drag light the match 
Yet I just wanna breathe

I remember that aroma 
I’ve been givin that so long ahh

Red striking dress that I can’t forget 
Dead body back givin trees a rest 
Led to yo chest with a pinky vest 

They want it so flaunt it 
Don’t u let it out 
Your army my army 
Kill don’t the music down
Hillside on the country never make a sound 
They on what we on so don’t u make a frown

He Gone in wind who got em 
It’s on in the fog who fighting 
It’s all cause the world so tired 
My lungs pray I save my life 
My gun pray I save my life 
In a town where fields on fire and the sun don’t pay no bill
Heard the fight is what keeps on lighting onto what we love that’s real

Cherry revolver

BNQT is the new indie super-group conceived and led by Eric Pulido of Midlake and featuring Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Fran Healy of Travis, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy with backing from other Midlake members McKenzie Smith (drums), Joey McClellan (guitar) and Jesse Chandler (keys).

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BNQT - Restart

Taken from "Sandgrown", the debut solo album from Ultimate Painting's Jack Cooper. Released August 25th, 2017 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Jack Cooper "North Of Anywhere" (Trouble In Mind Records)

We Use To

From the album, Antenna to the Afterworld, out now on CD, LP, cassette, and digital. http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/antenna

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Sonny & The Sunsets - palmreader

From the album MCII, out May 7 (US) and May 13 (Europe) on Merge Records.
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MCII

Mikal Cronin "Shout It Out"

The new Fanfarlo album Let's Go Extinct is out on February 10th (in the US February 11th). Official video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xHq1kdxes

Limited pre-order version - http://www.fanfarlo.com
Pre-order on iTunes - http://bit.ly/letsgoextinct

On tour in Europe and North America throughout spring 2014:
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Jack Cooper "North Of Anywhere" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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