The group's dystopian jangle has a lot in common with the first Modern Lovers LP, '80s Flying Nun and the current crop of Australian bands that circle around Mikey Young.
Spiral Stairs' will play SXSW, then West Coast dates in April, and the rest of the country later in the year.
'Doris and the Daggers' features appearances by Matt Berninger of The National, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew and Justin Peroff, as well as Kelley Stoltz and Shudder To Think's Adam Wade.
"There's chaos everywhere, and chaos in the world, and chaos in his brain, and chaos in his pants." Such is the tale of "Well But Strangely Hung Man," the first single from Sonny & the Sunsets' new album Moods Baby Moods. Th...
San Francisco (via Memphis) art punks Useless Eaters released the Temporary Mutilation EP earlier this year via Slovenly, which was recorded by Kelley Stoltz and mastered by Total Control's Mikey Young...
Sonny Smith, of "and the Sunsets" notoriety, will release See All Knows All this Friday (1/15) via Empty Cellar. (Pre-order.) It started as "bohemian quarter-life crisis told in six parts by a man who never had anything to gamble with but his life" which Sonny also describes as "Sort of a Spalding Gray typa thing if Spalding Gray had a band and wasn't himself but was me...
San Francisco DIY pop king Kelley Stoltz is a very prolific artist though his releases tend to come in spurts. (His last album was 2013's Double Exposure...
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Kurt Vile in Austin in 2013 (more by Glen Brown)
South by Southwest. Maybe you've heard of it. Anyway, it starts in about a week, turning Austin, TX into one giant cacophonous concert where you can't swing a free canvas tote bag full of complimentary energy drinks without hitting a musician vying for your attention...
Kurt Vile in Austin in 2013 (more by Glen Brown)
There's already been three lineup announcements for SXSW 2014, and since we last spoke the music schedule was posted, which revealed more artist additions...
Kelley Stoltz is a busy man, he is an in-demand producer, having twiddled knobs recently for The Mantles, Tim Cohen and Sonny & the Sunsets, the latter of whom he's also an occasional band member...