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July 12 2013 9:30PM -- doors at 8:30PM ••• 21 AND OVER $12 Glaciers soundofglaciers.com/HOME.html (Record release) instrumental post-rock - experimental indie Beware Of Safety www.bewareofsafety.com/ instrumental post-rock Winfred E. Eye www.winfredeeye.com/ indie folk rock Glaciers GLACIERS is a four-piece, instrumental rock band from San Francisco and Oakland, California. Though the band has only been together for two years, they have developed a strong following with their loud, climactic live performances and their first album. Three of the four members of GLACIERS previously played in very loud, hardcore bands when they were younger, but with this Bay Area quartet, they have achieved a much more varied approach to music. In the Fall of 2009, the band released their debut "And The Sea Won The Battle" on their own label, Sound of Glaciers. The album includes 6 songs and clocks in at just over 40 minutes. Recorded in Oakland, California with Jeremy Goody, the album was self-produced and focuses on the best elements of their live show: loud guitars, reverb, space echo, tape loops, pounding drums, and throbbing bass. A lot of reviews of the record have compared the band to the likes of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, but more of the bands roots can be found in local Bay Area artists Neurosis. Much of the material was written on late, cold nights while the fog was settling, and this aesthetic strangely finds its way into their sound. GLACIERS continues to move forward with repeated live performances and song writing. The recording of their second album is complete and is set be released summer of 2013. Beware Of Safety Beware of Safety, commonly abbreviated as BoS, is an instrumental post-rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band plays sprawling, instrumental rock that could be classified as post-metal, post-rock, and even math rock at some points. - Winfred E. Eye Oakland, California Winfred E. Eye is the ten-years-running collaboration between singer/guitarist Aaron Calvert and bassist/guitarist Mikel Garmendia, who operate at the core of an ever-evolving lineup that has crested and receded over the years like the tides. The band, named after Calvert’s grandfather, plays a rusty, shuffling Americana that pays tribute to wayfaring strangers, dreams mislaid, family and love torn asunder. A well travelled road, to be sure, but Calvert’s songwriting and emotionally raw vocals bring a depth and meaning to sentiments that might quickly turn maudlin in less capable hands. With Til I Prune, the band’s fourth full length and their first for Oakland’s Antenna Farm Records, Winfred E. Eye have delivered their most mature set of songs to date. Following a band hiatus during which Calvert, an early childhood educator, released a solo album of children’s songs, W.E.E. has returned to the dark highways that they know so well, but with an expanded vision and songwriting chops that have fully come into their own. Drawing upon a sonic palette that ranges from Beefheart-inspired stompers to dark drones with repeated guitar lines and impassioned cries, and even including a couple of solemn lullabies, Til I Prune balances a boozy melancholy with a strong dose of dark humor and even, at times, a sense of satisfaction with loves found, and not yet lost. Calvert and Garmendia first came together in the SF Bay Area in 1999, after cutting their teeth in L.A.’s cult favorites Evergreen and Oakland’s Cars Get Crushed respectively. Originally formed as a home recording duo embracing found sounds, ancient tape machines, and deliberate sonic artifacts, Winfred E. Eye soon developed into a full live band, eventually sharing stages with kindred sprits Smog, Will Oldham, Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse, Sam Jayne, Mia Doi Todd, Jesse Sykes, the Long Winters, and many more. Past W.E.E. members include Dax Pearson, Chandan Narayan, and Josh Kilbourne and the current lineup features Craig Adams on guitars and Rich Douthit on drums with friend Eric Torborg contributing additional guitars to the recording. - |
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