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How Oakland's Wallpaper. Graduated to a Major Label

How Wallpaper. Got a Record Deal, Local Artists Tackle Nick Drake's Pink Moon, and More

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​Wallpaper. Gets a Record Deal: It was around 10 o'clock on a Friday night in December when Ricky Reed walked into a meeting at the Sony Music building in Beverly Hills with no idea what to expect. Less than 36 hours later, Reed -- the creative for ... More >>

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From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​Wallpaper. Gets a Record Deal: It was around 10 o'clock on a Friday night in December when Ricky Reed walked into a meeting at the Sony Music building in Beverly Hills with no idea what to expect. Less than 36 hours later, Reed -- the creative for ... More >>

Watch Wallpaper Perform 'Indian Summer' -- While Driving Through Nevada

Eric Frederic, singin' in the van.​People think being in a band is glamorous. And while it may be for a few brief moments of stage-diving and bathing in applause, being in a band also means countless hours of driving from show to show, far away from your friends and your family and your home.While ... More >>

Download Wallpaper's Latest Gyration-Inducing Single, 'Indian Summer'

Wallpaper's Ricky Reed and Arjun Singh​Maybe you were lucky enough to be at Treasure Island in the noon hour this past Saturday, when Oakland dance-pop outfit Wallpaper's Ricky Reed and Arjun Singh sent a loving midday crowd into a hip-shaking frenzy along with a battery of hand drummers. If you w ... More >>

How to Market Your Band, Wallpaper. Style

Besides the music, and the live shows, and the Bell Biv DeVoe covers, one of the best things about local electro funk duo Wallpaper. is its ability to make hilarious videos. The pair's clips usually get kinda out there, with frontman Ricky Reed (aka Eric Frederic) beaming down from another planet ... More >>

Track of the Day: Donwill & Wallpaper.'s "Love Junkie"

Wallpaper.​If you're waiting for the right season to crush out on someone, pop culture likes to lead young hearts into spring with songs fit for falling in love. Brooklyn's Donwill and SF's Wallpaper. and the Park got down for the remix of "Love Junkie." The lyrics are kinda funny--about being add ... More >>

Noise Pop Preview: Q&A w/ A B & The Sea

Helena Price​Guitarists Joe Spargur and Koley O'Brien of the new indie-pop quintet A B & The Sea moved out to San Francisco from Winneconne, Wisconsin at the end of 2008. They came at the suggestion of the Morning Benders to take a serious stab at the music business. It seems to be paying off. ... More >>

The decade in ideas: local artists, DJs, studio heads, and tech geeks discuss the past and present in music

Helena Price​Guitarists Joe Spargur and Koley O'Brien of the new indie-pop quintet A B & The Sea moved out to San Francisco from Winneconne, Wisconsin at the end of 2008. They came at the suggestion of the Morning Benders to take a serious stab at the music business. It seems to be paying off. ... More >>

Track of the Day: Wallpaper. Gives Mariah Fool's Gold

​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

Music Awards Program Guide Intro

​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

Track of the Day: Washed Out

​Washed Out's lo-fi cosmic disco has a tight rubber band bounce underneath airy washes of synth and, in one especially sweet summer jam, steel drum interludes. The music is made for slow swaying with a head full of stars, the vocals delivered swaddled in a soft melodic hush and fuzzy distortion. E ... More >>

Video(s) of the Day: Wallpaper.'s Pool Party, Lemonade's Rave

Two new videos to post here today. First off, our prolific local party anthem act, Wallpaper., has a funny new clip for the song "Pool Party." feat. Jacob Safari and Kid Static. The visuals show main man Eric Frederic wandering the city in flip flops and a towel, wishing "I was on top of the Standa ... More >>

Wallpaper. Calls It: Booty Tweet is the New Booty Call

Local producer/remixer/comedian Wallpaper. is on a roll. When he's not remixing KFC and Jay-Z, he's cracking wise with dance floor anthems like this one: "Booty Tweet (Is the New Booty Call)". It's pretty hard to resist Eric Frederic's smart ass lines: "Personal business on everyone's RSS feed" and ... More >>

Wallpaper. and Das Racist get the dancefloor munchies

Local producer/remixer/comedian Wallpaper. is on a roll. When he's not remixing KFC and Jay-Z, he's cracking wise with dance floor anthems like this one: "Booty Tweet (Is the New Booty Call)". It's pretty hard to resist Eric Frederic's smart ass lines: "Personal business on everyone's RSS feed" and ... More >>

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Local producer/remixer/comedian Wallpaper. is on a roll. When he's not remixing KFC and Jay-Z, he's cracking wise with dance floor anthems like this one: "Booty Tweet (Is the New Booty Call)". It's pretty hard to resist Eric Frederic's smart ass lines: "Personal business on everyone's RSS feed" and ... More >>

Wallpaper brings the ‘80s party as it spoofs a new decade of greed

Local producer/remixer/comedian Wallpaper. is on a roll. When he's not remixing KFC and Jay-Z, he's cracking wise with dance floor anthems like this one: "Booty Tweet (Is the New Booty Call)". It's pretty hard to resist Eric Frederic's smart ass lines: "Personal business on everyone's RSS feed" and ... More >>