Tim Cohen

Magic Trick Takes an Eerie Trip to the Wax Musuem for "Weird Memory"

Has anyone ever gone to a wax museum and not left feeling creeped out? Seems unlikely, and even more so after this gorgeous -- if somewhat unsettling -- new clip from Magic Trick, the solo project of Fresh & Onlys frontman Tim Cohen. Directed by Ryan Browne, "Weird Memory" casts Cohen as a baseballe ... More >>

The 10 Best San Francisco Indie Rock Records of 2012

Well, it was another solid year for loud guitar music from the Bay Area. And out of the dozens of worthy releases this year, we've culled these 10 picks for the best rock albums from San Francisco in 2012. Here they are, in no particular order: Two Gallants The Bloom and the Blight [ATO] After a br ... More >>

The Fresh & Onlys' Tim Cohen on How Love Can't Fill All the Cracks in Your Soul

Tim Cohen, frontman of prolific and amorphous S.F. rock group The Fresh & Onlys, is not hesitant to wax poetic on the intricacies of writing love songs or his group's ascension. So as a companion to this week's print feature on The Fresh & Onlys, we've shared a bit more of the enlightening conversat ... More >>

Love Like Fire: The Fresh & Onlys find the thorny side of romance on "Long Slow Dance"

In A Cloud II Comp to Feature Unreleased Songs From Ty Segall, Chuck Prophet, Papercuts, and More

Released in 2010, the In a Cloud: New Sounds of San Francisco compilation captured a particularly strong moment for some the city's best indie artists, including Sonny & the Sunsets, the Fresh & Onlys, Ty Segall, Kelley Stoltz, and more. Now, Secret Seven Records is planning to put out a follow-up ... More >>

Saturday: Sonny Smith Debuts New Live Show 'Sees All Knows All' at the Lost Church

Sonny Smith Alexi Glickman Jan. 14, 2012 The Lost Church Better than: That paranoid monologue that finally convinces the man to lock you up forever. Between issuing unadorned pop-rock with his band, Sonny & the Sunsets, assigning himself sprawling art projects, and putting out low-key comic books, ... More >>

Sonny Smith's 'Sees All Knows All' Project: Live Storytelling, With a Band

It often seems that San Francisco's Sonny Smith is on a quest to leave his creative mark on as many different mediums as possible. Best known as the leader of Fat Possum-signed rock band Sonny and the Sunsets, Smith is also a writer, visual artist, and sometime creator of comic books. Two years ago, ... More >>

Friday: The Fresh & Onlys and Woods Bring the Noise at the Independent

The Fresh & Onlys at the Independent on Friday.​ The Fresh & Onlys Woods The Mantles July 29, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Anything on 30-year-old MTV. Shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, the line outside the ticket window at the Independent stretched beyond the venue's second exit door, ... More >>

City Limits Records Offers Local Sounds Live and on Record Tonight

​ Local music bloggers Peter Arko (Ears of the Beholder) and Robert Khoury (See The Leaves) had an idea: Put out a series of compilations of the best bands from various cities. Naturally, they started with home -- San Francisco -- for the first release on City Limits Records. The comp, which y ... More >>

City Limits Records Releases a Mix Perfect for San Francisco

Yet another ode to the city by the bay, this time courtesy of City Limits Records, dropped yesterday. Featuring tracks by such S.F. kids as Young Prisms, Tim Cohen, Magic Bullets, Melted Toys, and Maus Haus, among others, City Limits Presents: San Francisco, the (mostly) breezy mix is the perfect lo ... More >>

SXSW So Far: The Highlights and Lowlights of Two Days in Austin

The Dodos​Far more occurs in the maelstrom of South-By than bears retelling -- even in just two music-packed days. So in lieu of lengthiness, here's a drive-by roundup of the highlights and lowlights from our last two days in Austin. HighlightsSqueezing onto a tiny, cramped balcony at 1 a.m. ... More >>

Fresh & Onlys Announce Secret Walls EP, Deliver Lush New Song, 'Do You Believe in Destiny?'

The Fresh & Onlys​Never ones to let you go too long without a new release, today S.F. garage-psych wizards the Fresh & Onlys announced a new EP, Secret Walls, which is out on the Sacred Bones label April 26. This follows swiftly behind Play It Strange, the band's deservedly acclaimed full- ... More >>

Exray's Jon Bernson: Any Musician Who Can Survive in SF is a Magician

Exray's reppin' SFO.​Jon Bernson puts it pretty plainly (and enthusiastically) when discussing the emerging lo-fi scene in the Mission: "There's a real collaborative spirit!" In case you haven't heard, a new crop of bands in the neighborhood is getting weird. One of them is Bernson's Exray's, a ... More >>

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Check Out A Sample From the Latest Installment of Sonny Smith's 100 Records Project

​Last year, local songwriter/cool guy Sonny Smith started an art project you may have heard a thing or two about: He invented 100 fake bands, wrote 100 different singles from each one (with an A side and B side!), and made art for those 100 singles. Yeah, the guy's ambitious.But then, Smith and a ... More >>

My Top 10 Tracks of 2010, Apparently a Good Year in S.F. Rock

All hail the Fresh & Onlys, local proprietors of one of my favorite songs of 2010.​No, this isn't some not-so-sly effort at hometown boosterism. Three of my favorite songs from this year just happen to come from artists who nominally call S.F. home. Seriously. Anyway, some of the others on her ... More >>

Tim Cohen, S.F. Musicians Featured in New Art Show

Tim Cohen​There's long been an interesting overlap between the worlds of music and visual art. Countless rock bands (see, for starters, the 'Stones) assembled in art school, and many musicians, after their recording lives settle down, hit the gallery circuit. So it perhaps didn't take a wild ... More >>

The Fresh & Onlys Announce New Album, 'Play It Strange,' Out Oct. 12

​San Francisco psych-pop outfit the Fresh & Onlys today announced that its third album, Play it Strange, will come out on the In The Red label October 12. Unlike previous F&O albums, Play It Strange was recorded outside the band's home-side recording space, at San Francisco's Louder Studio ... More >>

McCartney's Set List, Amazing Rock Posters, and How To Do the Moonwalk

Jason MunnPoster artist Jason Munn will present works at Flatstock in Golden Gate Park on Saturday​Paul McCartney's set list for Saturday should be heavy on Beatles songs. [SF Gate]New video from Birds & Batteries: Concept much cooler than the result. [The Bay Bridged]Eye-grabbing works by som ... More >>

Last Night: King Khan (Shrines) vs. King Khan (Almighty Defenders)

King Khan in his King Khan & BBQ Show guise​King Khan, the tall, brown, and pot-bellied leader of various garage rock 'n' soul acts, was in the curious position of performing three times, in three different acts, in San Francisco over the last week. On Thursday, he headlined Bimbo's with his b ... More >>

'In a Cloud' Captures SF's Best Folk Pop Freaks. We Q&A its Mastermind.

​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

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