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The Mantles

The Mantles — a sweet yet gritty San Francisco-based indie pop outfit rooted in 1960s garage rock, paisley underground, as well as the C-86 sound — began being a three-piece comprising frontman Michael Olivares, drummer Virginia Weatherby, and a bassist named Jermaine. The last mentioned still left the group in …

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Sonny & the Sunsets

The Sunsets coalesced in 2007 around prolific Bay Area songwriter, author, filmmaker, and visual artist Sonny Smith. Using a spinning lineup composed of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA regulars, including multi-instrumentalist Kelley Stoltz, Tahlia Harbour (the Dry out Spells), John Dwyer (Thee Oh Views), Tim Cohen, and Shayde Sartin (Skygreen Leopards), …

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Sonny Smith

A vivid and idiosyncratic storyteller within the grand narrative custom of Tom Waits and Randy Newman, indie folk singer/songwriter Sonny Smith emerged from obscurity in 2003 using the cult favourite THAT IS My Story, THAT IS My Song. Given birth to in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1972, Smith relocated …

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H. Hawkline

Based away of Cardiff, mercurial Welsh indie rocker Huw Gwynfryn Evans, better known with the nom de plume H. Hawkline, which he appropriated from writer Richard Brautigan’s 1974 gothic Traditional western The Hawkline Monster, crafts melodic, somewhat surrealist pop confections that fall somewhere within post-punk and psych-pop. Evans’ initial assortment …

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Sonny & the Sandwitches

This year 2010, soon after liberating an album as frontman of Sonny & the Sunsets, Bay Area songwriter Sonny Smith started making rustic Americana music privately with Elegance Cooper and Heidi Alexander from the Sandwitches. Sonny & the Sandwitches’ self-titled EP premiered by Endless Nest past due that yr, and …

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Hunx & His Punx

Before it became synonymous with speedy rock and roll songs, the word “punk” began as prison slang for a person who was homosexual. Either description functions for Hunx & His Punx. In 2008, after fronting the theatrical electro group Gravy Teach!!!!, flamboyant locks stylist Seth Bogart (Hunx) continued to front …

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