City Limits Records Treats us to another San Francisco Compilation

Geography breeds and cultivates its own particular sound. In our case, a slew of local bands transmit San Francisco’s foggy charm into catchy, dazed melodies. Inspired in part by the Secret Seven Records compilation, In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco (recently profiled on pitchfork), the bloggers behind Ears of the Beholder and See the Leaves have compiled 14 Bay Area tracks as their first installment in their City Limits Presents project, which aims to showcase and invigorate music from varying regional scenes. Featured on this release are songs by Empty Cellar family artists The Sandwitches, Tim Cohen, and Joseph Childress, along with a bunch of other buzzworthy artists. You can preorder the 12″ (on orange vinyl, no less) or download the tunes instantly from their bandcamp . The release party for the comp will be June 17th at Milk Bar. Support our scene!!

Listen to “Sirens and Bells” by the Sandwitches:
Sirens and Bells

Track listing:

1. Young Prisms – Weekends & Treehouses (Acoustic)
2. Tim Cohen – Wake Up In Another Dream
3. Exray’s – Paper Bag ft. Heidi Alexander
4. Magic Bullets – No Longer There
5. Fiveng – Meant To Be
6. The Sandwitches – Sirens & Bells
7. Joseph Childress – Last Days
8. Sunbeam RD. – Prismatic Surface
9. Melted Toys – Lost Connection (Demo)
10. Phantom Kicks – Cut From A Different Clay
11. Maus Haus – You Made My Radar
12. The Soft Moon – Bones
13. Skeletal System – Cue To Remind
14. Kites Sail High – Trip

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The Sandwitches Play with Michael Yonkers Tuesday

June 14th, The Sandwitches will be playing with the quietly legendary Michael Yonkers at Amnesia. It will be Yonkers’ first performance in San Francisco in his evolutionary 40 year career. Yonkers’ foundational stylings ignited the origin of fuzzy “garage rock” and corresponding psych-folk endeavors.

Secret Seven Records reissued his early 70s album “Goodby Sunball” last summer. As you may recall, Grace Sings Sludge (Grace Cooper of The Sandwitches) recorded a beautiful cover of his song “Oh Can You Tell Me”. You can listen to that track here. Michael Yonkers with the sonic support of The Sandwitches and Bronze this coming Tuesday will certainly be a show not to miss!

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Support Dublab with Empty Cellar Flashpacks

Stretching through genres with the malleable medium of radio, dublab is a nonprofit web radio station that couldn’t operate without you, its listeners. With 12 years of inventive and continuous programming, the world’s best eclectic djs are devoted to engagement with an expansive range of sounds. Currently in the final legs of its Spring 2011 donation-based fundraiser, Turning on Tomorrow Proton Drive, dublab is just now wrapping up a 24 Hour “No Sleep Session”, an insomniac marathon of notable DJs and artists spinning. Another way to help out is by purchasing flashpacks, a prize bundle of albums for a great price. Empty Cellar Records is offering two sets of these flashpacks spanning our entire discography – you don’t want to miss out!

(( Click on the images to Support Dublab with Empty Cellar Flashpacks ))

Pillars and Tongues also recorded a stellar live session for dublab last year – check it out here !

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Serious show to support serious local causes!

This will be an epic show, and you should go to support SF institutions KUSF and The Eagle Tavern, but don’t take our word for it… Read more at The Bay Bridged and 7×7 Magazine.

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Record Store Day! Record Store Day! Record Store Day!

“There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store. When I recently played Amoeba in LA, I realised what fantastic memories such a collection of music brings back when you see it all in one place. This is why I’m more than happy to support Record Store Day and I hope that these kinds of stores will be there for us all for many years to come. Cheers!”
– Paul McCartney

“Folks who work here are professors. Don’t replace all the knowers with guessors keep’em open they’re the ears of the town”
– Tom Waits

I spent last week in Mexico City for a cousin’s wedding. I was there with my sister and Frosty from Dublab. We stopped every time we saw a street vendor with a pile of records, hoping to find a long sought-after classic cumbia or nueva canción LP. I felt like one of the dudes at Sublime Frequencies looking for some long-forgotten or geographically isolated musical genius. The morning I left, they were headed to an outdoor market – guided by their local DJ friend – that is a well kept secret amongst record collectors. The last hold-out for used vinyl in Mexico City… a fast-disappearing land of ultimate scores. After that, I have to say that I am incredibly grateful for all of the amazing record stores left in San Francisco and the good ole USofA.

The sad truth is that american record stores are fast-disappearing too. So tomorrow (Record Store Day), or the next day, or whenever… make your way to your local record store and dig, dig, dig and find yourself some long-forgotten genius or pick up a copy of whatever album you are currently digging online. Forget that it is record store day, because any day can be record store day.

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