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Sleepy Sun Announce MORE US Tour Dates / On Tour Now With Arctic Monkeys
Premiere Fever Details On Stereogum, Unveil Cover Art & Tracklisting
Sophomore LP Out June 1st On ATP/R (Digitally May 18th)
Sleepy Sun Will Be Releasing An Early Digital Only Three Song Teaser EP That Includes Their First Single “Open Eyes” TOMORROW, April 13th
Click Here To View Fever Details
Click Here To View ATP/R Sampler Featuring Sleepy Sun, Apse, Built To Spill, Etc
Sleepy Sun Play LOS ANGELES At The Echo On 3.12
Play South By Southwest & Bro Fest 2010
Embrace Out NOW On ATP Records
Rolling Stone : “This San Francisco sextet are like a history-detective version of Wilco, juggling an amalgam of dynamics: rumbling garage metal, iridescent-meadow country rock, bargain-synth whoop, the pensive-ballad Pink Floyd.”
Sleepy Sun Announce US Tour
Play South By Southwest & Bro Fest
Embrace Out NOW On ATP Records
Rolling Stone : “This San Francisco sextet are like a history-detective version of Wilco, juggling an amalgam of dynamics: rumbling garage metal, iridescent-meadow country rock, bargain-synth whoop, the pensive-ballad Pink Floyd.”
Bridezilla Premiere Debut Single “Brown Paper Bag”
On Filter Magazine.com
Play ATP Festival / Play Bowery Ballroom With Sleepy Sun + LA Dates
Self Titled Digital EP Out This Fall / Look Out For Debut LP Early 2010
Click Here To Download “Brown Paper Bag” From Filter Magazine.com
Rolling Stone
“… This five piece from Sydney slide through dark grooves and stunning instrumental flourishes to create one of the coolest debuts you’ll hear this year, a blend of desperately addictive songwriting and Dirty Three-like crescendos”
Yen Magazine
“Sydney’s best kept secret have married a number of genres to create enthralling, spacey pop”
Time Out Sydney
“The pop rock quintet play dark, nonchalant rock by weaving saxophone and violin to create a sexy, grunge aesthetic with distinct undertones reminiscent of our colonial past.” -
Cream Magazine
“Bridezilla bridge that gap between artistic integrity and nonchalant pop nicely, both in image and in sound.”
Beat Magazine
“With a lineup that includes a saxophonist and a violinist, and a refreshingly indefinable, lush, sound that sits employs the dense arrangements of classical music and the jabbing right-hand hooks of pop, Bridezilla are, frankly, in a league of their own.”
Release 10″ Sleepy Son On ATP Recordings Out Sept 8th
ATP Festival Sept 12th Monticello, NY & ATP Festival 10 Year Anniversary Betlins, UK
Embrace Out NOW On ATP Records
Rolling Stone 3 1/2 Stars: “This San Francisco sextet are like a history-detective version of Wilco, juggling an amalgam of dynamics: rumbling garage metal, iridescent-meadow country rock, bargain-synth whoop, the pensive-ballad Pink Floyd.”
ATP Festival Sept 12th Monticello, NY & ATP Festival 10 Year Anniversary Betlins, UK
Daytrotter Sessions Out Now / Embrace Out NOW On ATP Records
July European Tour / ATP Festival Sept 12th Monticello, New York
Daytrotter Session : http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/sleepy-sun-haunts-of-acid-rains-and-lush-orangeness-concert/20030692-3737898.html
Pitchfork (7.5) : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13098-embrace/
Spooonful : http://www.spooonful.com/rock/sleepy-sun
San Francisco Chronicle : http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/17/DDIJ187M97.DTL
Las Vegas Weekly : http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jun/04/sleepy-sun/
KEXP : http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2009/05/03/live-review-sleepy-sun-the-sunset-430/
Amplifier Magazine : http://www.amplifiermagazine.com/amplified/sleepy_sun.php
Jun 19 2009 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, California
Jul 5 2009 – Eurockéennes Festival – Belfort, France
Jul 7 2009 – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen – London, UK
Jul 8 2009 – Seven Live – Nottingham, UK
Jul 9 2009 – The Cumberland Arms – Newcastle, UK
Jul 10 2009 – The Deaf Institute – Manchester, UK
Jul 11 2009 – Buffulo Bar – Cardiff, UK
Jul 12 2009 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK
Jul 13 2009 – Captains Rest – Glasgow, UK
Jul 17 2009 – Garden Nef – Angouleme, France
Jul 18 2009 – Nouvaeu Casino – Paris, France
Jul 19 2009 – Dour Festival – Dour, Belgium
Jul 19 2009 – Boomtown Festival – Ghent, Belgium
Jul 20 2009 – Valkhof Affaire – Nijmegen, Netherlands
Jul 22 2009 – Parklife Festival – Milan, Italy
Jul 23 2009 – Hana Bi – Marina Di Ravenna, Italy
Jul 24 2009 – Waesherei P – Hall in Tirol, Austria
Jul 25 2009 – Stonehill Festival – Alterswill, Switzerland
Sep 12 2009 – ATP New York – Monticello, New York
Rolling Stone SXSW Top 3 Band Video
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/25/new-music-report-silversun-pickups-juliette-lewis-live-at-sxsw/
Self-Titled Magazine Premieres “New Age” 10″ Single
http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2009/03/06/from-the-stacks-sleepy-sun
Esquire Magazine
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/sxsw-2009-best-bands-031009
The Tripwire
http://www.thetripwire.com/tag/sleepy-sun/
Creative Loafing
“Best Hype Band That Didn’t Disappoint: San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun topped a lot of the “best new bands to watch” lists leading up to SXSW, and they made good on the promise. Cranking out heavy, soulful pysch riffs from behind a cloud of fog, they left the crowd at Emo’s with goosebumps.”
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/03/23/creative-loafings-best-of-sxsw-09/
Daytrotter Session Premieres May 15th
Play ATP Festival May 8th, Minehead UK
Self-Titled Magazine Premieres “New Age” 10″ Single
http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2009/03/06/from-the-stacks-sleepy-sun
Esquire Magazine
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/sxsw-2009-best-bands-031009
The Tripwire
http://www.thetripwire.com/tag/sleepy-sun/
Creative Loafing
“Best Hype Band That Didn’t Disappoint: San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun topped a lot of the “best new bands to watch” lists leading up to SXSW, and they made good on the promise. Cranking out heavy, soulful pysch riffs from behind a cloud of fog, they left the crowd at Emo’s with goosebumps.”
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/03/23/creative-loafings-best-of-sxsw-09/
Tour Dates After The Jump…
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“New Age” NME Top 10 Tracks / Debut LP Embrace Out June 16th On ATP/R
On US Tour Now / Play ATP Festival May 8th, Minehead UK
SXSW Faves
Rolling Stone SXSW Top 3 Band Video
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/25/new-music-report-silversun-pickups-juliette-lewis-live-at-sxsw/
SXSW Dates, On Tour Now/ Debut LP “Embrace” Out May 26th On ATP/R/
Esquire Magazine’s Top Ten Band To See In TX
Self-Titled Magazine Premieres “New Age” 10” Single
http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2009/03/06/from-the-stacks-sleepy-sun/
Sleepy Sun : Ten Bands Set to Break Out at 2009′s SXSW Festival Buzz up! : Every March, thousands descend on Austin for the South By Southwest music conference to find the next big thing. We pick ten so you don’t have to fly to Texas.
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/music/sxsw-2009-best-bands-031009
Sleepy Sun
TUESDAY, March 17th
Emo’s Main Room (603 Red River)
WEDNESDAY, March 18th
3PM – Scoot Inn Day Party, Outside Stage (1308 East 4th Street)
11PM – Leafy Green SXSW Showcase at Emo’s Inside Room (603 Red River)
FRIDAY, March 20th
3PM – SFxSW Party at Wave on 6th St (408 E Sixth St)
SATURDAY, March 21st
12:20PM – Mess With Texas Festival at Waterloo Park (403 E 15th St)
8:45PM – Trailor Space Records (1401 Rosewood Ave)
SXSW Dates To Come
Play ATP Festival May 8th
Debut LP “Embrace” Out May 26th On ATP/R
“San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun is one of those every-so-often bands that absorbs, processes, and spits out its influences in such a way as to make pee run down the pants legs of music reviewers everywhere…They are designed to explode the most expanded of frontal lobes…” -SF Weekly
“…Comfortable, a high drenched in fog, floating inland on ocean wind. Compositionally, things feel natural and free. Each instrument as integral as the rest. Breathing, moving…” -Aquarius Records
“Sleepy Sun’s songs, mellifluously flowing between bittersweet balladry and paranoid, hazy atmospherics, are like a 2am car ride — not going somewhere, not coming back, but taking an unexpected detour through uncertain terrain. A sublime fog, the mood is both assured and undefined, leaving me to drift, to slither, through a spectrum that ranges from the nostalgic to the anxious, from the freewheeling to the claustrophobic….” -Naturalismo
“…This collective of young longbeards has become one of the town’s most beloved bands in a very short period of time, laying down lumbering servings of heavy psychedelic freakadelia and dusted Northern Californian psych-folk. Williams’ angelic voice weaves in-between a sublimely mind-rattling cacophony reminiscent of Santa Cruz psych-rock alumni Comets on Fire at their headiest…If rapturous local buzz is any indication, Sleepy Sun might be the best bet of the next Santa Cruz band to break big…” -Metro Santa Cruz
Sleepy Sun have an honest, high-energy show that ranges from hard, early Sabbath-level rock to a genuine gospel/spiritual vibe, all making Sleepy Sun a really tough act to follow. Their discipline, dynamics, dominance over tempo (the subtlest and most commonly overlooked musical device), and brooding nature evokes comparisons as disparate as Black Sabbath, George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”, Pink Floyd and Bjork . . . and we still haven’t heard the record. -The Deli Magazine SF
Play Hometown Noise Pop Festival Bottom Of The Hill Wednesday Feb. 25th, ATP Festival May 8th
Debut LP “Embrace” Out May 26th On ATP/R
“San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun is one of those every-so-often bands that absorbs, processes, and spits out its influences in such a way as to make pee run down the pants legs of music reviewers everywhere…They are designed to explode the most expanded of frontal lobes…” -SF Weekly
“…Comfortable, a high drenched in fog, floating inland on ocean wind. Compositionally, things feel natural and free. Each instrument as integral as the rest. Breathing, moving…” -Aquarius Records
“Sleepy Sun’s songs, mellifluously flowing between bittersweet balladry and paranoid, hazy atmospherics, are like a 2am car ride — not going somewhere, not coming back, but taking an unexpected detour through uncertain terrain. A sublime fog, the mood is both assured and undefined, leaving me to drift, to slither, through a spectrum that ranges from the nostalgic to the anxious, from the freewheeling to the claustrophobic….” -Naturalismo
“…This collective of young longbeards has become one of the town’s most beloved bands in a very short period of time, laying down lumbering servings of heavy psychedelic freakadelia and dusted Northern Californian psych-folk. Williams’ angelic voice weaves in-between a sublimely mind-rattling cacophony reminiscent of Santa Cruz psych-rock alumni Comets on Fire at their headiest…If rapturous local buzz is any indication, Sleepy Sun might be the best bet of the next Santa Cruz band to break big…” -Metro Santa Cruz
Sleepy Sun have an honest, high-energy show that ranges from hard, early Sabbath-level rock to a genuine gospel/spiritual vibe, all making Sleepy Sun a really tough act to follow. Their discipline, dynamics, dominance over tempo (the subtlest and most commonly overlooked musical device), and brooding nature evokes comparisons as disparate as Black Sabbath, George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”, Pink Floyd and Bjork . . . and we still haven’t heard the record. -The Deli Magazine SF
Play Hometown Noise Pop Festival Bottom Of The Hill Wednesday Feb. 25th.
US Spring Tour To Come
“San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun is one of those every-so-often bands that absorbs, processes, and spits out its influences in such a way as to make pee run down the pants legs of music reviewers everywhere…They are designed to explode the most expanded of frontal lobes…” -SF Weekly
“…Comfortable, a high drenched in fog, floating inland on ocean wind. Compositionally, things feel natural and free. Each instrument as integral as the rest. Breathing, moving…” -Aquarius Records
“Sleepy Sun’s songs, mellifluously flowing between bittersweet balladry and paranoid, hazy atmospherics, are like a 2am car ride — not going somewhere, not coming back, but taking an unexpected detour through uncertain terrain. A sublime fog, the mood is both assured and undefined, leaving me to drift, to slither, through a spectrum that ranges from the nostalgic to the anxious, from the freewheeling to the claustrophobic….” -Naturalismo
“…This collective of young longbeards has become one of the town’s most beloved bands in a very short period of time, laying down lumbering servings of heavy psychedelic freakadelia and dusted Northern Californian psych-folk. Williams’ angelic voice weaves in-between a sublimely mind-rattling cacophony reminiscent of Santa Cruz psych-rock alumni Comets on Fire at their headiest…If rapturous local buzz is any indication, Sleepy Sun might be the best bet of the next Santa Cruz band to break big…” -Metro Santa Cruz
Sleepy Sun have an honest, high-energy show that ranges from hard, early Sabbath-level rock to a genuine gospel/spiritual vibe, all making Sleepy Sun a really tough act to follow. Their discipline, dynamics, dominance over tempo (the subtlest and most commonly overlooked musical device), and brooding nature evokes comparisons as disparate as Black Sabbath, George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”, Pink Floyd and Bjork . . . and we still haven’t heard the record. -The Deli Magazine SF
11 Things You Need To Know… After The Jump!
NOISE POP 2009 FESTIVAL NEW ARTIST CONFIRMATIONS,
EXCLUSIVE TICKET PRESALE & INITIAL EVENT SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
New Confirmations Include : Bob Mould, Thao, The Ohsees, Sleepy Sun,
Ra Ra Riot, Sholi and From Monument To Masses
