
Featuring Kendrick Lamar, The Castillians, Violent Femmes, and more
Categories: listen, playlists, podcast, podcasts | Tags: Charlie Hilton, fruit bats, Kendrick Lamar, Marlon Williams, Mr. Silla, Nadia Reed, Night Beats, Sunflower Bean, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, The Castillians, the suffers, The Wealthy West, Tiny Deaths, Violent Femmes, yuck
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Makin’ my way back to blue
Categories: listen, podcast, podcasts, san diego | Tags: Allman Brothers Band, beck, bob dylan, bobby bare jr, brian eno, Captain Beefheart, david grisman, doc watson, fruit bats, Grizzly Bear, Mrs. Magician, rolling stones, steve earle, t. rex, the beatles, wilco
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Here’s your damn love song
Categories: listen, podcast, podcasts, san diego | Tags: amy lavere, belly up, Dum Dum Girls, fruit bats, grand ole party, james & evander, james vincent mcmorrow, Jay-Z, kanye west, mister heavenly, nena anderson, odd shapes, other lives, stephen malkmus, the glossines, theophilus london, wilco, Wild Flag
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All you get is a mouthful of blood
Categories: listen, podcast, podcasts, san diego | Tags: califone, chains of love, cults, decemberists, Dum Dum Girls, frightened rabbit, fruit bats, Gun Runner, mates of state, metronomy, mister heavenly, Stephin Merritt, the father costume, the national, the new kinetics, unknown mortal orchestra, villanelles
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The San Diego band gives us the first look at its latest video
Categories: music news, san diego, video | Tags: Dave Matthews Band, devotchka, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, fruit bats, Gogol Bordello, josh ritter, SDMAs, The Roots, the silent comedy
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I’ll say a final prayer for those I care for, who kept my company
Categories: listen, podcast, podcasts, san diego | Tags: Beirut, belly up, colour music, D/Wolves, fruit bats, kelley stoltz, madeleine peyroux, nick diamonds, Obits, other lives, peter bjorn and john, the anatomy of frank, the forgotten coast, the new kinetics, the skygreen leopards, the wilderness of manitoba, tv girl, unknown mortal orchestra
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Grant Widmer of Generationals took some time to send us a list of his influences.
Categories: interviews | Tags: 4-Non-Blondes, Aerosmith, axl rose, bruce springsteen, daniel black, Dick Dale, Enigma, fruit bats, Gary Numan, generationals, genesis, Grant Widmer, guided by voices, iron and wine, kurt cobain, Let's Active, michael gondry, Nick Lowe, nirvana, paula abdul, Pauly Shore, Peter Holsapple, phil collins, r.e.m., roman kuebler, Steven Tyler, ted leo, The dB's, the jam, the oranges band, XTC
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The gang gets hyperbolic.
Categories: listen, reviews | Tags: ac newman, animal collective, avett brothers, best of year, black heart procession, black moth super rainbow, Bowerbirds, califone, Camera Obscura, carl newman, dan bejar, Dirty Projectors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Fanfarlo, fruit bats, Girls, Grizzly Bear, Immaculate Machine, Jason Lytle, Lady Gaga, marissa nadler, mayer hawthorne, Mew, neko case, new pornographers, phoenix, smith westerns, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, the gentlemen losers, tortoise, vic chesnutt, woods
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Eric D. Johnson’s most influential 1990s records
Categories: interviews | Tags: Art Garfunkel, beachwood sparks, beta band, califone, eric d. johnson, fruit bats, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, gram parsons, Grandaddy, guided by voices, Happy Mondays, Incredible String Band, jay farrar, jeff tweedy, jim o'rourke, little feat, pavement, pink floyd, red red meat, skid row, souled american, steve miller band, the grateful dead, The Kingsbury Manx, the replacements, the smiths, uncle tupelo, warrant
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It’s been 4 years since Fruit Bats put out a new record (not including an excellent tour-only LP), so it’s with open arms that we embrace (how else do you do it?) the latest offering from Eric D. Johnson and Co. The Ruminant Band will be released on August 4 in both CD and gatefold […]
Categories: listen, music news | Tags: fruit bats
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