Caveman

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CAVEMAN

Caveman was born in New York in January of 2010, when a group of friends decided it was time to put aside their boyhood ways and start being men. The sound they crafted in that large, dark room is equal parts chamber pop, dreamscape, and horror film score. At a Caveman show you will hear four-part harmonies, spaced-out guitars, synths, and, yes, much drumming. This has been a gallant year for the band, as since their first birthday they have shared the stage with bands such as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, White Rabbits, Here We Go Magic, Cursive, Amazing Baby, and Blue Oyster Cult. They recently went into the Loveboat studio with Nick Stumpf (French Kicks) to commit their songs to record.


HENRY WOLFE

Los Angeles songwriter Henry Wolfe lives in the past. His assuredly understated debut LP "Linda Vista" looks back to pop music of bygone days for inspiration, from Tin Pan Alley to the 1970s heyday of the singer-songwriter. Produced by Nico Aglietti and Aaron Older (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes) the album was mostly recorded in live takes with Wolfe and his backing band playing together in the studio. The result is a loose dressed-down affair, a mash-up of Chet Baker and Neil Young that My Old Kentucky Blog calls "...the perfect confection of Broadway sass and breezy California folk." Released in 2011, Linda Vista has garnered enthusiastic reviews from Rolling Stone (3.5 stars), American Songwriter and Nylon, among others, and led Wolfe to tour extensively across the US for the first time. Recently a track from the record called "Someone Else" was featured in the ATO Pictures film "Terri, starring John C. Reilly.


"On the surface, the melodies Wolfe performs with his five piece could pass for the slightly unorthodox methods of a young Randy Newman... his words are pungent, with the smarts to charm a middle-aged lady into convincing him to drive her up to Margaritaville. This is middle-of-the-road seventies pop of the highest order with a wink of nostalgia thrown into the mix. But the music is anything but ironic - Wolfe's slick strums and pacific rhetoric are just a way to communicate the pains of unrequited love." -LA Deli

"3.5 Stars… Though Wolfe’s songs are classically pop Linda Vista is situated in one of Tin Pan Alley’s darker corners. There’s a sense of perpetual defeat in Wolfe’s parched tenor, adding a layer of pathos to his brittle pop." -Rolling Stone


THE TAMBO RAYS

"What started this year as a bedroom side project of multi-instrumentalist Brian DaMert, has quickly grown into one of the most exciting new acts to in San Francisco. Keeping it all in the family, DaMert has recruited his younger sister, local dj @SaraSoGnar, along with local instrumentalists Greg Sellin and Bob Jakubs to create The Tambo Rays. Sfweekly calls the garage psych-pop quartet, "dreamy and effortlessly hip." Recently coming off a Noisepop 2012 performance, the six month old Tambo Rays now look to further solidify themselves by performing their first ever headlining hometown set.