Sonny Smith

Shannon and the Clams will release Gone by the Dawn on September 11. They recorded it with producer Sonny Smith (of Sonnny & the Sunsets) at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone studios in San Francisco, and you can check out smoky first single “Corvette” right now…

Sonny & the Sunsets will release Talent Night At The Ashram on February 17 via Polyvinyl. Sonny Smith has always been an excellent storyteller and the album actually started as a film project that never came to fruition…

San Francisco’s Cool Ghouls straddle a line between the present and the past. In tight with the current garage/psych scene, their sound also hearkens back to the days of Haight-Ashbury scene…

Sonny Smith is putting the finishing touches his and The Sunsets‘ new album which should be out early next year. In the meantime, he and the band are gearing up for a late summer tour, including a NYC stop at Death by Audio on September 5 with Cassie Ramone and The Whips…

DOWNLOAD: Sonny & the Sunsets – I See the Void (MP3) Sonny & the Sunsets are back with a new album, Longtime Companion, which will be their first for Polyvinyl…

Echo & The Bunnymen (more by Toby Tenenbaum) Echo & The Bunnymen will repeat themselves, sort of. The band will return to North America to focus on, like they did at Radio City, playing a full album (actually albums) for a tour that includes Irving Plaza on May 13 (the site of their last NYC appearance) and with Kelley Stoltz, who joined them at the venue in 2008 and on a UK tour in 2010…