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Bloodbeat interviews The Sandwitches On How To Make Ambeint Sad Cake

TheBloodbeat recently caught up with the Sandwitches over a few drinks to hear what’s been going on since their record, How to Make Ambient Sad Cake, and get a little more sense of how these Bay Area suburbanites came to make their rustic jams.

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Posted: June 4th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: The Sandwitches | No Comments »

“100 Records” must get to New York in August!

Sonny Smith is trying to bring “100 records” New York in August!  The only way he can afford airfare and shipping of the art is to funds-raise.  So Sonny is selling Home-Made CD’s with songs from the project for $12.

  Give money here:



Posted: May 18th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: 100 Records, Sonny Smith | No Comments »

Pitchfork Checks Out 100 Records

Inside Gallery16

Sonny Smith's 100 Records at Gallery16 in San Francisco

Sonny & the Sunsets Frontman Launches Crazy Art Project

Sonny Smith, frontman for the starry-eyed Bay Area garage-pop group Sonny & the Sunsets, has put an ungodly amount of work into an art project called 100 Records that’s currently running at San Francisco’s Gallery 16. He made up names and song titles for 100 fictitious bands, then sent them out to 100 different visual artists, who made up fake record covers for all the fake artists. Then Smith recorded 200 different songs (A-sides and B-sides) for each of these fake artists. Which is nuts.

The 100 Records exhibit, which runs through May 28 at Gallery 16, features all the original artwork, as well as a jukebox with all 200 songs. Smith recruited people like Ty Segall and Bart Davenport to help him record the songs. Artists behind the record covers include William T. Wiley, Mingering Mike, Chris Johanson, Reed Anderson, Jo Jackson, Harrell Fletcher, Chris Duncan, Tucker Nichols, and Paul Wackers.

http://pitchfork.com/news/38723-sonny-the-sunsets-frontman-launches-crazy-art-project/

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Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: 100 Records, Sonny Smith | No Comments »

Kiss Your Feet Video


Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: Videos | Tags: The Sandwitches, Video | No Comments »

KQED checks Out The 100 Records Show at Gallery 16


Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: Videos | Tags: 100 Records, Sonny Smith, Video | No Comments »

Kiss Your Feet Live

The Sandwitches As filmed in Brooklyn!

The Sandwitches // Kiss Your Feet [Part 1 of 2] from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.


Posted: March 8th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: Videos | No Comments »

Land Otters Uncovered!

S.E. Land Otter Champs 7 on 100 Records Blog

S.E. Land Otter Champs 7" on 100 Records Blog

Check out this post on the 100 Records Blog where they’ve discovered a 7″ from one of the great white north’s lost classic bands “S.E. Land Otter Champs”.  Sonny Smith tells me that this little 7″ is a gem of a record.  I can’t wait to check it out.


Posted: January 19th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: 100 Records, Sonny Smith | No Comments »

Jonesin’ for a Love Triangle

Gravel and Gold loves Jonesin’. Turn Up loves Gravel and Gold. Here’s a nice post from our good buddies over at Gravel and Gold:

Summer in Winter, Winter in Summer

This balmy January afternoon has me thinking of a most delightful new song.

From their recent album, Jonesin’, loving duo Matt & Jenny Jones have it down with their tune “Bummer Summer”. Thanks be for something to rival the too oft’ used Twain-ism. I suggest vigorous jumping around the room to this sweet, addictive, track as it creeps into your happy recesses to stay.

Jonesin

Jonesin


Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: Jonesin | No Comments »

Happy Hollidays?

James Finch Jr. capures the spirit of the Holidays

James Finch Jr. capures the spirit of the Holidays

James Finch Jr. (one of our, dare i say, “staff” musicians) has created this haunting version of Silent Night with the help of our great San Francisco talented buddies including Sandwitch Heidi Alexander.  Beautiful!


Posted: December 27th, 2009 | Author: marc | Filed under: Trax | Tags: James Finch Jr., The Sandwitches | No Comments »

The Guardian Talks To Sonny About 100 Records

Sonny Smith Singin in the Hit Pit

Sonny Smith Singin in the Hit Pit

Solar flair

The sun rises on songsmith Sonny Smith and Sonny and the Sunsets

By Johnny Ray Huston

Sonny Smith knows how to write a song. He better, because he’s writing a lot of them. The Oakland resident is currently shoulders-deep in a mammoth project titled “100 Records” that combines music he’s composed and recorded with cover visuals by a not-small army of Bay Area artists. Anyone who has heard Smith’s 2006 album Fruitvale (Belle Sound) or read his column for the Examiner is aware that he has a direct, colorful way with words. Anyone who has found a copy of Tomorrow is Alright (Soft Abuse/Secret Seven), the new album by Smith’s group Sonny and the Sunsets, realizes he has a gift for classic melody: “Too Young to Burn” is worthy of Ronnie Spector; “Death Cream” is a balm; and “Planet of Women” is the kind of music that will give you that summer feeling on Christmas Day. In the immediate wake of Tomorrow, I asked Smith some questions.

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Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: marc | Filed under: News | Tags: 100 Records, Sonny Smith | No Comments »
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