Castle Face

Los Angeles musician Sean Smith makes ambient music under the name LFZ, using primarily guitar but he feeds it through a plethora of analog and digital effects. The result: gorgeous, otherworldly soundscapes not unlike Brian Eno or Wendy Carlos.

The band will play Desert Daze in Joshua Tree, CA this weekend.

This is the 20th Oh Sees album in 20 years, and it’s the 100th release on main man John Dwyer’s Castle Face label.

San Francisco’s trio Male Gaze released their third album for Castle Face, Miss Takes, earlier this summer. If you like your punk (or post punk) with a wash of gothy glamour and just a touch of surf, you will most certainly dig this…

Manchester quartet Duds’ wiry, clattering sound draws comparisons to postpunk upstarts The Fire Engines and Joseph K, and they bring a real urgency to their music. The band’s new album, Of A Nature or Degree, will be out September 22 via Castle Face…

Matthew Melton trades in garagey power-pop for heavy, organ-fueled psych and prog with his new project.

Low fi powerpop practitioners Warm Soda, who last year relocated from San Francisco to Austin, will release their third album, Symbolic Dream, on May 4 via Castle Face…

San Francisco’s Male Gaze is the new band from Matt Jones of Blasted Canyons. He’s got a strong melodramatic delivery, which gives them a gothy slant, but their music definitely leans on the “punk” in post-punk…

Indie labels Castle Face, Famous Class and In the Red (which have all released records and Ty Segall) are teaming up to auction off rare vinyl test pressings to raise money for charity…