Author Archives: the OCMD

Andy Clockwise – “Cocaine & Champagne”

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Andy Clockwise – “Cocaine & Champagne”

We love Andy Clockwise.  One of my favorite performances of SXSW this year, these guys are as much fun off stage as they are on it. The LA (by way of Australia)-based band is fresh off an Australian tour with Julian Casablancas and is back in SoCal celebrating the release of their new EP “Are You Well” tonight at the Troubador. They also released a new single today, “Remember Love”. Check out the video for it and enjoy this yummy track I just got, “Cocaine & Champagne.”  One day we’ll get them up here in SF, I promise.

The Delta Mirror – “He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You”

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The Delta Mirror – “He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You”

Writing about music is a difficult and sometimes futile proposition. I once heard someone describe it akin to writing about architecture. You just know what you like when you see it.  Same with music.  You know what you like when you hear it. However, there are a few exceptions and I thought LA-based The Delta Mirror’s artist statement was both meaningful and relevant. I actually got it before I heard it. Which is no small task.  So why mess with a good thing? Indeed. Here’s how they described themselves and the sound of their debut LP, Machines that Listen. They’ll be stopping by San Francisco’s The Rickshaw Stop on July 27.

The Delta Mirror is a cocktail of all your past loves, the ones you wish had stuck around, and check up on from time to time even though you’ve moved on. They were made from the sprained fingers and broken records of mid 90’s hip hop. They were made from the bent circuits of electronica, dead IDM lap tops and broken shoegaze strings. They were made from the injured spirit of a folk singer’s broken heart. Alongside bands like The Big Pink and The Fuck Buttons, The Delta Mirror see’s the things that made our past relationships work and brings them together creating the ideal love.

The OCMD Mixtape: Done

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the OCMD Mixtape: “Done”

  1. The National, “Terrible Love”
  2. Future Islands, “As I Fall”
  3. Tame Impala, “It’s Not Meant to Be”
  4. Built to Spill, “Done”
  5. The Besnard Lakes, “And This is What We Call Progress”
  6. Heartless Bastards, “Blue Day”
  7. The Veils, “It Hits Deep”
  8. Alberta Cross, “The Devil’s All You Ever Had”
  9. The Vision of a Dying World, “Mantra/What Is and What is Not”
  10. The Helio Sequence, “Lately”

The Rumble SF Tonight: AB & The Sea, What Laura Says, So Many Wizards

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AB & The Sea – “Bone Dry”

What Laura Says – “Training”

So Many Wizards – “Nico”

FutureSound’s monthly Rumble just keeps getting better and better. This month Cafe du Nord plays host to a future-star line up featuring San Francisco surf pop group, AB & The Sea; Phoenix-based psych rockers, What Laura Says; and LA-based dream rockers, So Many Wizards.  Another fine evening of music you can get for cheap or for free by RSVP’ing at SonicLiving.

SF Spotlight: Stripmall Architecture on LCD – “Drunk Girls”

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Stripmall Architecture covering LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls”

“Radium Girls”

San Francisco’s Stripmall Architecture is a group I fell in love with the first time I laid ears on them. Their dreamy, downtempo beats hook you instantly. The duo turned foursome was created by founding members Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom of the late Halou. Reincarnated in their next musical life as Stripmall Architecture, the group has just released their latest EP, Feathersongs For Factory Girls (Part One), which is out now. The beauty of this release is that it was completely self -funded by their fans. Love that. “Radium Girls” is a track from the release in tune with their tempo. They also released a freebie remix of LCD Soundsystem’s “Drunk Girls” for shits and grins that was likely inspired by their recent visti to SF. Drunk Girls…Radium Girls…it’s all good.

Download the album now and look for them live July 17 at Milk Bar.

Atlas Sound Fans: Meet UNDO

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UNDO – “The Hollow Backdrop”

Welcome to the world of Indie electronica.  I first heard this track and thought Bradford Cox is at it again.  But alas, it is not. This comes by way of the LA-based indie electronic duo Ory Hodis and Mike Jerugim, working under the moniker UNDO. Their sound has a similar aesthetic though. Ambient, sultry, hypnotic, atmospheric and a little sad. The pair is getting ready to self-release their debut album, “As Always but Never Before” on August 3rd. Take note.

SF Spotlight: Geographer

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Geographer – “Kites”

In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, Geographer is the next ‘ need to know’ SF band. Synth-y, orchestral, moody and melodic, they make a beautiful cocktail of music.  The recipe? Take two parts Grizzly Bear and one part New Order, mix well and you’ve got yourself a heady concoction of sound perfect for after hour, late night sessions of…whatever. They’re set to release their next album, Animal Shapes,on August 17 on Tricycle Records.  Now you know.

Buke & Gass – “Medulla Oblongata”

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Buke & Gass – “Medulla Oblongata”

Brooklyn-based Buke & Gass (pronounced byook & gace) are Arone Dyer on the “buke” (a self-modified six-string former baritone ukulele) and Aron Sanchez on the “gass” (a guitar-bass hybrid of his own creation). Rumor has it that Brassland (their current label) co-founders Aaron and Bryce Dessner discovered Buke & Gass when they played Sycamore, the basement venue down the street from The National’s home studio in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. They were so blown away that their self-produced the full-length record, Riposte, is now due out on the label September 14th. “Medulla Oblongata” is the first track from that album. Expect to hear more from this duo.

New Music: Black Lips – “Before You Judge Me”

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Black Lips – “Before You Judge Me”

“Before you judge me/Better find somebody else. Before you judge me, take look at yourself.” That’s right, gosh darn it. The tyranny of judgement. Has anyone escaped it in life? We’ve all experienced the condemnation of judgement at some point in time.  Or perhaps have been the perpetrator ourselves. But as a wise woman once said “if you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

So judge not, my friends.  Unless it’s music, of course.  For I do believe that one can accurately judge a man’s character by the music he keeps. But rest assured, adding this Black Lips track to your collection will surely save you from the purgatory of bad music taste. The single was released this week as part of The Adult Swim series of 8 tracks released over 8 weeks. Check it out.

Folkin’ Monday: Peggie Sue, todayokay, Pepper Rabbit

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Peggie Sue – “Watchman”

Pepper Rabbit – “None Shall Sleep”

todayokay – “HT Sandwich”

We all hate Mondays, but hopefully this trio of folky new artists set to hit Bottom of the Hill tonight in San Francisco will brighten your day. Peggie Sue is a UK-based trio on tour in the US to support their debut album “Fossils and Other Phantoms”, which was produced by members of Mumford and Sons. Preceding their headline act will be Silverlake’s Pepper Rabbit and San Francisco’s very own todayokay whose performance will mark their debut.  Folk out.