The She’s (Empty Cellar Records) are here to contribute to the soundtrack of your summer daydreams with sun-dazed beach-pop harmonies, catchy hooks and captivating emotional honesty.
SWIFTUMZ (Melters Records): Seriously the best pop band you've never heard... unless of course you heard them. As gorgeous, eclectic, catchy, and stoned as they come. Incubated in various studios, beds, and hotel rooms around the Bay Area, Swiftumz brings Chris McVicker's beautifully fucked pop vision into clear focus, letting the rest of us unworthy souls bask in the glow of truly weird indie-pop euphoria. Taste the grey!
Smiles (Melters / Death): Smiles, one of the bay areas newest bands, writes solid tracks. Growing up in isolated rural Washington during the 90s and early 00s, a musical climate where there seemed to be no limits, heavier bands like the Melvins, alongside power pop acts like The Posies, and the different projects of artists like Calvin Johnson and Phil Elvrum, served as a huge source of inspiration to draw from. Smiles owes it’s sound as much to the music of the Northwest, as it does to traditional American folk music, and Britpop.
Air Surgeon (Death Records)
Jarrod W.
Ty Lyman
Tate Dannemiller
Taylor Giffin
Poured over ice, garnish with orange peel