In continuing our Tour Tuesday series, we have tons of new dates for you guys to check out. Today we feature dates from OFF!, Bass Drum Of Death, Dum Dum Girls, Gentleman Jesse and His Men, The Zoltars and MMOSS. You can always scope out the latest dates here.
By Burgers Rana
“Floating in Blue,” is the opening track and the first of new material we get from San Francisco’s Young Prisms. They are set to release a their sophomore album on Kanine Records (who also released their debut album Friends For Now) titled, In Between. Live, the now quintet, band are an arsenal of spacey-noise while still making you feel like you are floating in space. However, on this new track they seem to channel Angelo Badalamenti fronting My Bloody Valentine, with lead singer Stef Hodapp wearing Julie Cruz’s shoe (gaze).
Catch the Prisms while they tour most of the states and hit up SXSW, and look out for the new album when it hits record stores March 27.
Young Prisms arrived on a wave of reverb in 2009 and joined a throng of Bay Area psych-rockers who all seemed to share an affinity for dreamy surf-pop. But through a slew of twelve-inches and EPs put out on labels like Southpaw and Mexican Summer, this quartet (née quintet) have managed to carve out a sound of their own. Their latest offering, Demos, Etc., is a collection of demos and acoustic recordings (though they take some liberty with the meaning of the latter) that highlight the more ethereal side of the group. The 7-track EP is bookended by two versions of the song “Weekends and Treehouses”. The opener is one of those electro-acoustic numbers, and gives Young Prisms’s wavy pop a real chance to take the lead. The demo version adds a bit more rhythm and instrumental texture, which beefs up the overall sound without losing the noisy haze of its mellower twin.
Portland’s Gnar Tapes is the imprint putting out the Demos, Etc. release. You can grab the tape here and stream and buy the digital at the label’s Bandcamp. For a sampling of one of the more chilled out songs, listen to the acoustic version of “Weekends and Treehouses” below.
Seattle’s Grave Babies just dropped a track from their upcoming 7” on Sub Pop subsidiary Hardly Art. “Pleasures”, the A-side of the 7”, plays like an early Jesus & Mary Chain track if were resurrected from the dead by some witches standing around a bubbling pot. The hooks are laden in 80’s pop for sure, but there’s something underneath the surface that gives “Pleasures” this creepy vibe making it immensely intriguing.
In addition to the upcoming 7”, out August 16th, Grave Babies will be heading out on a huge tour playing with the likes of IceAge, Young Prisms and Xray Eyeballs. Peep the dates after the track.
The guys behind See The Leaves and Ears of the Beholder have started a label called City Limits. The idea behind the label is to highlight a specific music scene and feature some of their favored artists in the area on a compilation release. First up is their hometown San Francisco, in which they’ve chosen Young Prisms, Melted Toys, Fresh & Onlys’ frontman Tim Cohen, The Sandwitches and many more.
Listen to the track The Sandwitches contributed to the compilation below and pre-order the LP here.
