Greater California

Long Seaside, CA, quintet Greater California combines the psychedelic sounds of Odessey & Oracle-era Zombies using the late-night atmospherics of contemporaries like Culture of Rockets and Low. Shaped in the summertime of 2000, the music group includes multi-instrumentalists Terry Prine, Nick Benich, Chris Berens, Kari Prine, and Paul Sakry. Their 1st album, 2002’s Small Pacific, debuted in the CMJ Best 200, leading to much essential adulation and a string of tour times with notable rings like the Kingsbury Manx, Jesse Sykes, and Calexico. The warm and melancholic Somber Wurlitzer, documented between your hours of midnight and 5 a.m. with an focus on their lately acquired piano from the same name, adopted in March 2005.