Tag Archives: The Fresh and Onlys

listen: The Fresh & Onlys | “Presence of Mind”

Long Slow Dance is out September 4th on Mexican Summer.

What’s going on this week?

Tuesday
Kissing Party | Bam! Bam! | Party Owl @ Brick and Mortar Music Hall
Solid Attitude | CCR Headcleaner | Raw Nite | Molestations @ Thee Parkside
Glitz | The Vomettes | Teenage Burritos @ The Knockout

Wednesday
Peaking Lights @ The New Parish
Bleached | Diiv | Lenz @ Rickshaw Stop

Thursday
Lenz | Uzi Rash | City Deluxe @ Hemlock Tavern
Adventure Playground | Commissure @ Casa Sanchez (2778 24th St, San Francisco)

Friday
Lumerians @ The Uptown
Sauna | Cocktails @ The Make Out Room
Woods | Peaking Lights @ Great American Music Hall

Saturday
Woodsist Fest @ Henry Miller Library in Big Sur (Day 1)

Sunday
Woodsist Fest @ Henry Miller Library in Big Sur (Day 2)

Anything else?

listen: The Fresh and Onlys :: “Yes Or No”


Dig this new single from The Fresh and Onlys latest 7″, in before the band is scheduled to drop their next full length. Long Slow Dance is out 9/4 on Mexican Summer.

may 2012 mix


mp3:

Positive Destruction May 2012 mix (48 mb)



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01 Ty Segall :: Wave Goodbye 00:00
02 The Mallard :: Mansion 04:24
03 Wax Idols :: Schadenfreude 07:41
04 Lilac :: Shame 09:48
05 Wymond Miles :: Pale Moon 13:25
06 Ty Segall/White Fence :: I Am Not a Game 16:55
07 The Fresh and Onlys :: Do What I Came to Do 20:58
08 Kelley Stoltz :: Keeping the Flame 23:35
09 Lumerians :: Track 01 26:28
10 Cocktails :: Let it Come Down 31:38

[previous monthly mixes]

mp3: The Fresh and Onlys :: “Do What I Came to Do”

By now we know that the Fresh & Only’s forthcoming record will be released on Mexican Summer (current and former label-mates include Part Time, The Mantles, and others). Here’s a glimpse of the new record in the form of an outtake — though the track will not appear on the new LP, we think it’s a pretty solid tune that has us incredibly psyched for the band’s follow-up to Play it Strange.

Read our interview with The Fresh and Onlys here.

mp3:
The Fresh and Onlys :: “Do What I Came to Do”


What’s going on this week?

[The Mallard @ Hemlock Tavern]

Monday
Peter Case, Paul Collins, Summer Twins |
Red Devil Lounge, 8pm

Tuesday
Burnt Ones, Blasted Canyons, Soft Swells
| Brick and Mortar Music Hall, 9pm [free]
Thee Oh Sees, Magnetix, Pets with Pets, The Mallard | The Independent, 9pm

Wednesday
La Sera, Cold Showers, Swiftumz |
Rickshaw Stop, 8pm
Mean Jeans, Guantanamo Baywatch, Primitive Hearts, The Wrong Words | Thee Parkside, 8pm

Thursday
The Fresh and Onlys, The Mantles |
Makeout Room, 7:30pm
Vetiver, Dominant Legs, Simone Rubi | New Parish, 8pm

Friday
Barn Owl, Date Palms |
The LAB, 8pm [16th Street x South Van Ness]
Crocodiles, Bleeding Rainbow, Terry Malts |
Rickshaw Stop, 9pm

Saturday
Grave Babies, Permanent Collection, Chasms | Hemlock Tavern, 9pm
Hank IV, Electric Jellyfish, Mike Donovan, Carlton Melton |
El Rio, 9pm


Anything else?

The Fresh and Onlys, White Fence, TBA playing NYE show @ Brick and Mortar

The Fresh and Onlys @ The New Parish

The Fresh and Onlys are reigning in 2012 with a New Year’s Eve show at Brick and Mortar Music Hall with White Fence and a TBA act. Tickets are on sale now. In our interview with Shayde Sartin, he mentioned that the F&O wouldn’t be playing any shows until around New Years so the timing makes sense. According to the concert poster, the secret guest will be announced December 5th — which coincides with the day after another major Bay Area act/frequent surprise “guest” plays a homecoming show. RSVP over on the Facebook event page.

mp3:
The Fresh and Onlys // “I Would Not Know the Devil”


White Fence // “Mr. Adams”


What’s going on this week?

Monday
Built by Stereo, Simon and the Fire Breathers, Meat Market, Younger Lovers @
Bottom of the Hill, 8:30 pm

Tuesday
Deep Teens, No Babies, Uzi Rash, Whitman @ Jam City (1570 7th St., Oakland), 8pm
Switftumz Listening Party @
Casanova Lounge, 6pm
Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles, Colleen Green @
Great American Music Hall, 8pm

Wednesday
Zola Jesus @
Amoeba, 6pm (free)

Thursday
Switftumz, Little Mercury, Lenguas Largas @
The Knockout, 9pm

Friday
120 Minutes, Sleep ∞ Over @
Elbo Room, 10pm
Melted Toys, ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted @
1314 Grant Ave., (free)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Sister @
Slim’s, 9pm
The Fresh and Onlys, Tamaryn, Wax Idols @
Great American Music Hall, 9pm
Old Firm Casuals, Brassknuckle Boys, Young Offenders, Airfix Kits, Living Eyes @ Thee Parkside, 9pm

Saturday
Barn Owl, Date Palms, Danny Paul Grody @
San Francisco Zen Center, 6pm
Dead Meadow, Burnt Ones, POW! @
Cafe Du Nord, 9:30pm
Girls, Sonny and the Sunsets, PAPA @ Great American Music Hall, 9pm
Big Troubles, Young Prisms @ VITUS (201 Broadway), 9pm

Sunday
Japanther @
East Bay Rats MC Club House, 9pm
Girls @
Amoeba, 2pm $free
Girls, Sonny and the Sunsets, Carletta Sue Kay
@ Great American Music Hall, 8pm

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We’re giving away tickets to the Halloween weekend Ty Segall + Nobunny show at Brick and Mortar Music Hall. Read more details here.

interview: The Fresh and Onlys

[more by Louise Lynn]

After releasing the eminently enjoyable Play it Strange LP back in 2010, Amoeba‘s famously prolific employees Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin of The Fresh and Onlys brought their listeners to a lowered state with this year’s EP release Secret Walls back in April. Apart from contributions of two previously-unreleased tracks for the Castle Face Flexi Disc Book, the band recently released a new 7″ single via British DIY label SEXBEAT. ”I Would Not Know the Devil” was debuted shortly before the group left for a one-month long European tour. We caught up with Shayde for an update as the F&O wrap up their face-melting jaunt across the old continent.

Can you describe working with Pirate Press/Castle Face on the Group Flexi Disc? Who contacted you for your contributions? It’s such a beautiful piece.
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SS: John Dwyer contacted us directly, just as he did when he put out our first record The Fresh and Onlys. We just submitted two songs, we had no idea the thing was gonna come out so incredible. As far as the concept, the execution, [resident Castleface artist] William Keihn‘s artwork, it is a truly unique piece of musical history and we are honored to have been included.
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Can you talk about Woodsist Fest a little bit? We heard Tim was a fan of the White Fence set.
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SS: For me, White Fence and Thee Oh Sees absolutely dominated. The first band and the last band, wouldn’t you know it. Such a great festival, small and intimate, you can’t beat the natural reflection of a redwood forest. I would play every show in a redwood forest if I could.
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Does Europe love the Fresh and Onlys more than anyone else?
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Well we hope so. Whats more romantic than love, European style? Spain completely tore my brain apart, France was amazing, more to come. We are on our way to Scandinavia, where perhaps we are the secret fascination of a collection of very tall blonde women with amazing health care.
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Who are you playing with (in Europe)?
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Martin Rev (of Suicide!) for one show in Stockholm, we played two shows with Wooden Shjips. A bunch of other bands, whose names are not yet memorable to me.
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Please be wary of any rickety stage set-ups.
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Thanks. Wait, you mean don’t get too drunk, right?
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The Secret Walls EP represented a stylistic change from the “non-stop hit parade” that was Play It Strange. The newly released single “I Would Not Know the Devil” is a barnstormer. When you writes songs, how do personal events in the lives of band members shape the tonality of your records?
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Personal events have their way of insinuating themselves in art/music, but I think that process is beyond one’s control, and it’d be presumptuous to try and explain how songs necessarily come to exist, or how exactly something in the real world can translate into a melody, a rhythm, a composition, i.e. the “tonality” of a song. It may be easier to draw parallels between lyrical content and life experiences, but in some ways I like for lyrics to leave clues to understanding their origin, not necessarily follow a strict narrative.
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Two recently discovered bands you would like to share - maybe one from San Francisco and the other from anywhere.
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From San Francisco, Preteen is one of my new favorites. Weekend, too. From Bermeo Spain, Los Steaks are awesome.
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Your next show in San Francisco is at Great American Music Hall in October co-headlining with LA-via-SF transplant Tamaryn and Wax Idols. What else is on the horizon?
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We begin recording our next full length in October, and nothing else is really planned. Hopefully a New Year’s Eve show. But The Great American show may be our last show for quite some time.
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The Fresh and Onlys conclude their European tour 9/26 before heading back to the States — tickets for the GAMH show are on sale here. Pick up Secret Walls on vinyl here and the new single over here (limited to 300 pressings). I can testify that the Castle Face Flexi Disc book is fucking awesome. You can buy that up in person at Aquarius Records or online from InSound - purchase comes with a mp3 download code.
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mp3:
The Fresh and Onlys //
“I Would Not Know the Devil”


september 2011 mix

mp3:
Positive Destruction // september 2011 (29 mb)


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01 The Art Museums // “Other Times”
02 Ganglians // “Drop the Act”
03 Weekend // “Hazel”
04 The Fresh and Onlys // “I Would Not Know the Devil”
05 THEMAYS // “THEWORKS”
06 Seatraffic // “Beach Life”
07 Bare Wires // “Cheap Perfume”
08 The Art Museums // “What’s a Boy to Do?”
09 The Art Museums // “Hostile Street”
10 Mikal Cronin // “Gone”