Serious show to support serious local causes!


This will be an epic show, and you should go to support SF institutions KUSF and The Eagle Tavern, but don’t take our word for it… Read more at The Bay Bridged and 7×7 Magazine.


Record Store Day! Record Store Day! Record Store Day!


“There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store. When I recently played Amoeba in LA, I realised what fantastic memories such a collection of music brings back when you see it all in one place. This is why I’m more than happy to support Record Store Day and I hope that these kinds of stores will be there for us all for many years to come. Cheers!”
– Paul McCartney

“Folks who work here are professors. Don’t replace all the knowers with guessors keep’em open they’re the ears of the town”
– Tom Waits

I spent last week in Mexico City for a cousin’s wedding. I was there with my sister and Frosty from Dublab. We stopped every time we saw a street vendor with a pile of records, hoping to find a long sought-after classic cumbia or nueva canción LP. I felt like one of the dudes at Sublime Frequencies looking for some long-forgotten or geographically isolated musical genius. The morning I left, they were headed to an outdoor market – guided by their local DJ friend – that is a well kept secret amongst record collectors. The last hold-out for used vinyl in Mexico City… a fast-disappearing land of ultimate scores. After that, I have to say that I am incredibly grateful for all of the amazing record stores left in San Francisco and the good ole USofA.

The sad truth is that american record stores are fast-disappearing too. So tomorrow (Record Store Day), or the next day, or whenever… make your way to your local record store and dig, dig, dig and find yourself some long-forgotten genius or pick up a copy of whatever album you are currently digging online. Forget that it is record store day, because any day can be record store day.


Live Videos of The Sandwitches & Pillars and Tongues

A couple weeks before SxSW, The Sandwitches played a show at the Shattuck Down Low in Berkeley where they performed an exclusive acoustic set in the venue’s bathroom for Echolocale. The result is an intimate and beautiful video document featuring selections from Mrs. Jones’ Cookies and Duck, Duck, Goose!. Check out The Sandwitches performing “Summer of Love” below and visit Echolocale for videos of two more radical tunes:

The Sandwitches – “Summer Of Love” from Echolocale on Vimeo.

Meanwhile, Pillars and Tongues stopped by The Cake Shop with Dark Dark Dark after appearing at Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival to perform an entrancing set with a fully realized arrangement of the band (including Jonathan Kaiser of Dark Dark Dark). Watch below an unreleased track, “The Palms to Tell”, off of their forthcoming album The Pass and Crossings on Empty Cellar.

Pillars and Tongues- “Palms to Tell” from CakeIn15 on Vimeo.