Sky Saxon, founder of the incredible 60′s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David’s Hospital. His influence on psychedelic rock was huge and he will be missed.
I like posting this amazing/slightly nutty video any chance I get of them preforming on some cheesy TV show in 1966
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In September of 2008, the San Francisco and Los Angeles scenes converged under the ancient redwoods of Big Sur to make music, make merry, and make love. Performers included local favorites Megapuss, Entrance Band, Fool’s Gold, The Parson Redheads, as well as fantastic sets from Port O’Brien, Beach House, Sleepy Sun, Sam Flax Kenner and more, all capped by a grand send-off from The Silver Jews [the brilliant, brooding presence of David Berman in one of the band's final performances was worth the price of admission alone]. With attendance for this Big Sur Fire Brigade benefit capped at a mere 400(!) campers, the event retained a remarkable purity and intimacy. Festival In The Forest captures this soon-to-be-legendary (((folkYeah!)))-curated show, and the zeitgeist of the California folk/rock scenes, much as Celebration at Big Sur did some 29 years prior. A true gem of a film, Festival in the Forest is not to be missed by music lovers or documentary enthusiasts.
The Silent Movie Theatre, TONIGHT 8pm
$14
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Devendra Banhart has completed work on his sixth full length album. The album was co-produced by Banhart and Paul Butler (of UK outfit Band Of Bees). Devendra and company moved into a house in Bolinas, CA (North of San Francisco), and set up a recording facility with the help of Tape Op Magazine’s John Baccigaluppi.
Original LP pressings of Ya Ho Wha 13 are very rare and valued highly by beards everywhere – some sell for 1,000 bucks a pop! Fortunately, the original pressing of Magnificence in the Memory comes relatively cheap. This is because it’s a brand new release of never-before-heard material from the heyday of Ya Ho Wha 13, featuring the legendary Father Yod and his sons playing improvisational, psychedelic spirit music recorded in the wee hours of morning meditation. Father was a wealthy man, with a rich inner life, a family of disciples that loved him, many, many women and seemingly unlimited power. So why at the height of his success, did he choose to spend his time playing rock and roll? Having a band in residency at Father House provided him and all his children with another path to travel in their never-ending search for experience and wisdom. Taking time out from their busy schedule as Father’s students and spiritual seekers in the Source Family, Sunflower, Octavius, Pythias and Djin took instruments in hand and, at a mere gesture from Father, turned up the amps and began tapping into the cosmos.
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Magnifience in the Memory is being released on June 23 via Drag City.
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From Ben:
“I want to mention that I am currently making a Six Organs guitar TAB book. I’m not really sure how big it is going to end up but I am thinking about 15 songs from the whole catalogue. What I am wondering is, are there any requests for any particular songs for me to TAB? So far I have already done Hallow Light Severed Sun, Words For Two, Elk River and Home. i was thinking i would probably do School of The Flower as well. After that, I am not sure. So basically I am taking requests. Any jams anyone might be interested in having me TAB? If not, it’s all gonna be basically what’s easiest for me to do!”
Head to the Six Organs MySpace and send a request via message!
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Castanets is set to release Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts on Asthmatic Kitty September 22nd. Ray Raposa has consistently put out great records that would defy any description or tag that I could attempt to place upon them. However, there is something to be said about a rich textural backdrop that allows the song-written core of an album to blossom. A sonic environment, be it sparse or dense, wherein a song reveals itself in its fullest glory.
You can catch Castanets on tour this summer. Dates and download after the jump…
Summer days turn into summer evenings and, as this summer sits nigh, Marc Brierly’s self-titled EP has been tickling me just the right way. Released in 1966, the EP bristles with deftly plucked acoustic guitar in a way that early Jansch and Donovan would certainly appreciate. There’s that British-isles cloudy day melancholy streaked all over this work, and what a finer time to soak up the sound than on these benign, slate-skied days that Los Angeles likes to call “June Gloom.” Brierly went on to record a few more records with an increasing level of instrumentation and psychedelia, but for me, this EP stands the test of time as a forthright, honest collection of songs that speak for themselves.
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Video by Sam Falls
Video/Music by Matteah Baim, Julien Langendorff, and Jason Glasser
Be sure to check out Matteah’s website.
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The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
This elaborate New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration. Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, and cosponsored by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), this undertaking was one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in one region of the United States.
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- Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fresno, California on April 23, 1939.
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