The Fresh and Onlys

the breezy, enjoyable new album from The Coral; Brooklyn scuzz-punks Brandy (they're a fine band); a new Field Music side project; shouty UK indie-punks Sauna Youth; a lost record from high-concept subversives PFFR; and Fresh & Onlys frontman Tim Cohen.

San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys released Wolf Lie Down today (8/25), their first album in three years. It's a bit different than what they've done before, a little more sonically ambitious, with arrangements that rise to match Tim Cohen's baritone howl...

Watch the video for EGHB's "Earth Elevator" and stream the whole tape.

It's been three years since we've heard from the San Francisco band.

In 2009, Castle Face released The Fresh & Onlys' debut album, one of two they'd release that year. It was culled from dozens of songs Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin recorded (with help from Wymond Miles) in off-hours from their jobs at Amoeba Records in San Francisco...

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...

As mentioned, Glasslands will be closing out their time on Kent Ave with a New Year's Eve Party featuring four "special, secret" guests, all of whom have history with the venue...

Vancouver band The Shilohs make classic guitar pop. Beatlesque is an overused term but there are some clear nods to John, Paul and, especially, George on their new self-titled album which came out last month via Light Organ...

Christines is the new band from Andrew Burr, who moved to NYC when his old band Woven Bones were sputtering out. Where that band was fuzzed-out 8mm garage, Christines are most definitely widescreen...

The Fresh & Onlys' fifth album, House of Spirits, will be out June 10 via Mexican Summer. (Pre-order yours.) You may have already heard the fuzz-and-harmonied "Bells of Paonia" but the San Francisco quartet have shared a couple more since...