Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Most Popular

Reader's Picks

Top Recommendations

A short list of San Francisco's most popular hot spots.
user content provided by: LikeMe.net & SF Weekly

National Features >

  • City Pages

    Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled

    You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.

    By Matt Snyders

  • Miami New Times

    Pimp Daddy

    The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.

    By Natalie O'Neill

  • Riverfront Times

    Babe 'n' Arms

    Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns--and then he became Rachel.

    By Nicholas Phillips

  • Dallas Observer

    The Fight for Texas

    Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a battle over the soul of the GOP. They're also running for governor.

    By Sam Merten

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

Share

  • rss

By Doug Wallen

Published on July 06, 2009 at 9:50am

Despite the trippy name — and having worked with Fucking Champs guru Tim Green — local ensemble Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound isn't quite as heavy as you might expect. Sure, on the group's third album, When Sweet Sleep Returned, "Two Birds" is all psych-curdled sprawl, complete with vocal harmonies from members of Sleepy Sun. And both "Clive and Lyre" and "Drunken Leaves" incorporate screeching waves of garage-y distortion. But in other places, the band summons the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas, taking a morning stroll through the dewiest of meadows. Something for everyone, then.