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Sleepy Sun Dates/Fever Out 6/1

April 29th, 2010 | No Comments

SLEEPY SUN ANNOUNCE MORE U.S. TOUR DATES

RECORD RELEASE PARTY ON JUNE 10 IN SAN FRANCISCO AT GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL

FEVER OUT JUNE 1

Sleepy Sun

Sleepy Sun is a California
band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, The San Francisco
Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland.
They came togetherÂ—young and garage strutting in the coastal Northern California crucible of Santa Cruz. And
there they birthed the Sleepy sound Â— dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and
dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging… California music of beautiful contrasts for
conflicted times.

Now, two records into a frighteningly fast-blossoming evolution, Sleepy Sun are a living machine of fire and focus. Their first release on ATP records Embrace illuminated the golden path to Sleepy land Â— hard-riffing, delicate, dreamy and cultivated. The latest ATP release, Fever, is arrival at the palace the path
promised.

The record release party for Fever is June 10 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Opening
acts include Fresh & Onlys, Moon Duo, and DJ Brit Govea from (((folk yeah))).

Fever is out June 1 on ATP/R and digitally May 18.

Track List:

01 Â“MarinaÂ”
02 Â“RigamarooÂ”
03 Â“Wild MachinesÂ”
04 Â“Ooh BoyÂ”
05 Â“Acid LoveÂ”
06 Â“Desert GodÂ”
07 Â“Open EyesÂ”
08 Â“Freedom LineÂ”
09 Â“Sandstorm WomanÂ”

Check below for additional summer North American tour dates.

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Sleepy Sun Album Details & New Tour Dates

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

SLEEP SUN TO RELEASE FEVER AND TOUR IN SUPPORT

Sleepy Sun

Sleepy Sun is a California
band from many Californias. They hail from the rolling oak and sage hills of Sierra Gold Country, the San Francisco
Peninsula, where Kesey raged and the Dead were once Warlocks, and the forever-sunshine climes of the Southland. They came together and birthed the Sleepy sound Â— dead blues shaken alive, razor sharp and ramblin’, soul, sonic science and dead-on pop surgery. Wooden, earthy, stratospheric, and swinging… California music of beautiful
contrasts for conflicted times.

Fever is the honey harmonies and danger wailing of Bret Constantino and Rachel
Williams pulled from a tender tangle into steel-strong braid; the wing-on-wing guitars of Matt
Holliman and Even Reiss in screaming dives and sweet ascending circles; the lowdown served up
tough and thundering from drum and bass authorities Brian Tice and Jack Allen.

ATP Recordings will be releasing a limited edition EP to celebrate Record Store Day on April 17 featuring
tracks from Built to Spill,
Apse, Sleepy Sun and
Fursaxa. Limited to just 1000 copies worldwide, the 10″ will feature tracks from recent and soon to be released
albums on ATP/R. Click here to for more on the sampler.

Fever Track Listing

1. Â“MarinaÂ”

2. Â“RigamarooÂ”

3. Â“Wild MachinesÂ”

4. Â“Ooh BoyÂ”

5. Â“Acid LoveÂ”

6. Â“Desert GodÂ”

7. Â“Open EyesÂ”

8. Â“Freedom LineÂ”

9. Â“Sandstorm WomanÂ”

Fever is due 05/17 in the U.K. and 06/01 in the U.S. via ATP Recordings.

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How siestas help memory: Sleepy heads

February 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learn

MAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning to five in the evening, if not longer. Much of the world, though, prefers to take a siesta. And research presented to the AAAS meeting in San Diego suggests it may be right to do so. It has already been established that those who siesta are less likely to die of heart disease. Now, Matthew Walker and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that they probably have better memory, too. A post-prandial snooze, Dr Walker has discovered, sets the brain up for learning.

The role of sleep in consolidating memories that have already been created has been understood for some time. Dr Walker has been trying to extend this understanding by looking at sleep’s role in preparing the brain for the formation of memories in the first place. He was particularly interested in a type of memory called episodic memory, which relates to specific events, places and times. This contrasts with procedural memory, of the skills required to perform some sort of mechanical task, such as driving. The theory he and his team wanted to test was that the ability to form new episodic memories deteriorates with accrued wakefulness, and that sleep thus restores the brain’s capacity for efficient learning. …

UNKLE: New Album w/ Lanegan Black Angels, Sleepy Sun & More

February 15th, 2010 | No Comments

UNKLE Announces New Full Length Album Where Did The Night Fall

UNKLE

London-based UNKLE announces the release of their fourth full-length record Where Did The Night Fall on their label Surrender All on May 11. The album will feature fourteen tracks recorded over the last year at various locations around the world including the band’s Surrender Sounds studio in London, Ibiza, Melbourne and Los Angeles.

To celebrate the release of Where Did The Night Fall, UNKLE’s new track “Natural Selection” (featuring The Black Angels) is available for free download at UNKLE.com.

The album’s influences range from psychedelic rock to Afrobeat and employs live drums, strings and percussion from The Heritage Orchestra. All this, coupled with UNKLE’s trademark electronica is expertly woven and layered to build rich soundscapes.

Once again we see UNKLE joined by a host of guest vocalists including gravelly-voiced legend Mark Lanegan, formerly of Queens of the Stone Age and Screaming Trees; San Francisco psych scene darlings Sleepy Sun; Texan-based drone rockers The Black Angels; and Katrina Ford of cabaret punk trio Celebration and long time TV On The Radio collaborator.

Also returning to the fold are tracks with Joel Cadbury, former South frontman; Gavin Clark, former Clayhill frontman; ELLE J of dark folk-rock group Dark Horses; and, Los Angeles-based art noise-pop trio Autolux.

UNKLE will return to the stage in 2010 starting with select shows.

Tour Dates:

5/21 Moscow, Russia – Forum Hall
5/22 St. Petersburg, Russia – Glav Club
5/25 London, UK – KoKo

Track List:
1. Nowhere
2. Follow Me Down (feat Sleepy Sun)
3. Natural Selection (feat The Black Angels)
4. Joy Factory (feat Autolux)
5. The Answer (feat Big In Japan (Baltimore)
6. On A Wire (feat ELLE J)
7. Falling Stars (feat Gavin Clark)
8. Heavy Drug
9. Caged Bird (feat Katrina Ford)
10.Ablivion
11.The Runaway (feat ELLE J)
12.Ever Rest (feat Joel Cadbury)
13.The Healing (feat Gavin Clark)
14.Another Night Out (feat Mark Lanegan)

Sleepy Sun: Tour Dates

February 4th, 2010 | No Comments

SLEEPY SUN SET FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH TOUR DATES

Sleepy Sun

Sleepy Sun – Brian Tice (drums), Jack Allen (bass), Rachael Williams (vocals, haberdashery & interpretive dancing) Bret Constantino (vocals & harmonica), Evan Reiss (guitars) and Matt Holliman (guitars) – have announced February and March tour dates, supporting their debut album Embrace, which is out now.

With all members 22 or 23 years old, the band met in the counter-cultural hub city of Santa Cruz, CA, citing “pizza, horticulture and Neil Percival Young,” as common interests. “With the forest and ocean as our back drop, we were drawn to each other as fellow musicians, friends, and lovers,” they say.

Drawing musical inspiration from Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Can and Creation records, Sleepy Sun forged their sound from intense jams; “free flowing, heady, ‘where am I?’ type jamming,” as the members describe.

Though they’re now in the one-time home of psychedelia, it’s not San Francisco that influences their sound. “It comes more from Northern California itself more than any scene or city,” they say. “There truly is nowhere on Earth like our little corner of the country where the redwoods smother the ocean.”

Sleepy Sun Tour Dates

02/07/10 Sun East End Portland, OR

02/08/10 Mon Neumos Seattle, WA

02/26/10 Fri The New Parish Music Hall Oakland, CA

03/09/10 Tue The Catalyst Atrium Santa Cruz, CA

03/12/10 Fri Echo Los Angeles, CA

03/13/10 Sat Bar Pink Elephant San Diego, CA

03/14/10 Sun J Dee’s Landing Palm Springs, CA

03/17/10 Wed Emo’s Annex Austin, TX

03/18/10 Thu Beauty Bar Austin, TX

03/20/10 Sat Peckerheads Austin, TX

03/21/10 Sun Double Wide Dallas, TX

03/23/10 Tue Hi Dive Denver, CO

03/24/10 Wed Corazon Santa Fe, NM

03/25/10 Thu Mia’s Lounge Flagstaff, AZ

03/26/10 Fri The Bunkhouse Las Vegas, NV

03/27/10 Sat Cellar Door Visalia, CA