The Mumlers, The Soft White Sixties
Upside Drown
- When
- Fri Dec 2, 2011
- Where
- Rickshaw Stop
- Time
- Show @ 9pm
- Cost
- $10 - $12
- Tags
- Music
Description
The Mumlers are a group of misfit noisemakers from San Jose, CA corralled together by songwriter Will Sprott. In 2008 Galaxia Records released Thickets & Stitches, their first album. Dozens of people heard about it & liked it. In 2009 they released their second LP Don’t Throw Me Away, & toured the US with the Black Heart Procession, the Morning Benders and the Submarines. Word spread of their live performances & in 2010 they headlined a sold out show at San Francisco’s Noisepop festival & played the Treasure Island festival alongside Belle & Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, the Sea & Cake, She & Him, & the National. In 2011 they toured with the Dodos, the Tallest Man on Earth, Morcheeba & Two Gallants."Armed with their collection of vintage instruments, the seven members of the haphazard indie-folk collective feature every instrument under the sun: French horn, guitars, drums, upright bass, keyboards, trumpet, pedal steel and the tambourine, to name a few. They're well-known for their strong live shows, and are rumored to bust into spontaneous dance spasms while performing songs influenced by everything from Bob Dylan to Southern soul." --Noise Pop
San Francisco’s The Soft White Sixties are a hard-driving, original rock and roll band that delivers R&B grooves and pop hooks with the transformative power of raw soul. They have been described as "a perfect mix of on the side of a railroad track blues and early seventies psych-meets-arena-rock" (Owl Mag) and likened to "a feast of Hamm’s ale and cheap cigarettes on the porch with Duane Allman and Dan Auerbach" (Sacramento Press).
"Attendees who bump the seminal Nuggets garage rock compilations might suggest that a concoction of fun-loving, acid-tinged soul and bluesy guitar-rock co-indicates, on paper, gleefully chaotic and uneven musicianship. Perish the thought: the Sixties mold their muse into a modern soul-rock machine via a tight performance unencumbered by the large accompanying volumes of booze." --SF Weekly
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