Blasted Canyons

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BLASTED CANYONS
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Drag race music for mutants featuring MATT JONES aka MUSTACHE, HEATHER FEDEWA aka HETHER FORTUNE (Wax Idols), and ADAM FINKEN aka FINKMEISTER.

"Blasted Canyons seem to have this notion of importance that comes along with their batshit complexion. The truth is, these guys are important whether they think it or not. No band but Blasted Canyons could take such obnoxious sounds and spin them into this totally relentless realm of noisy post-punk and actually make it work. Was this album just a one time deal? Let’s hope not." --styrofoamdrone.com


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Sunbeam Rd., a Bay Area four piece, craft a tense and expansive sound via psychedelic guitars, purposeful melodies, and restraint. Willing to fall apart completely exploring the margins of harmonic rock, their live shows can toe the edge of cacophony. At their best they reach into hook-laden, fuzz-saturated trance states.

The band juxtaposes the concerns of three distinct songwriters, all hailing from the same small town, and all recent art school graduates: Trevor Hacker and his layered guitar anthems, brother Clive Hacker’s minimal chamber rock, and Harrison Pollock’s angular feedback work-outs. Filling out the lineup is art librarian and guitar bender, Cody Hennesy. The band carves new spaces out of old friendships, striving to document strange new dialogues in sound.

"Entrancingly spaced-out song structures and whiffs of reverb and fuzz mingle with three-part vocals that at times harmonize with startling talkiness and dissonance. But unlike lots of local psych bands, there's a detectable deliberateness to what goes on here -- the noisy parts feel like they truly belong, the minimalist parts really do haunt, and several songs ramble with a charming, jacked-up pop sensibility." --SF Weekly


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5 boys from Sacramento, playing some pop songs. Something that started in the bedroom with lots of room to grow. In 2011, Julian formed a band. Then they recorded a record, Boy's Co., and it's coming out in a late spring 2012.