Now, what I'm saying is....U.S. Girls is the solo project of Meghan Remy, who you might remember from her clobberin' drumwork for Hustler White. Now she's a leader of the current crop of "Crimson Wave", i.e. haunting/chilling 4-tracky bedroom psych recordings made by young ladies. This also includes Tickley Feather, Circuit des Yeux, Zola Jesus, and Sally Strobelight among dozens of others. KDVS played the hell outta her "Introducing..." demo CDR, and Tom Lax of Siltbreeze Records loved it so much, he put it out on vinyl LP. Now based in Chicago, she's been touring a lot back east and getting rave reviews for her live show. This is her first time playing in the Sacto area. She is a total peach of a gal, and I know you will love her unless there's something wrong with you.
From http://www.siltbreeze.com/
Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls' approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide's Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Prove It All Night," done in such an effortless, barbital lush you'd swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? It's not.
From http://20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk blog:
In her cover version of The Kinks melancholy anthem 'Days,' U.S. Girls sticks to Albert Einstein's wise maxim 'Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler.' The dirgey clatter of the drums brings to mind images of old steam machines advancing through vast fields where things grow slow and women sing folk songs which are eternal because they are sung from the heart and nothing else. U.S. Girls' voice does this, free from decoration, frills or pretense, mapping the country of the soul with a burning honesty strange in this reality, something we also find in the ballads of Acid Mothers Temple sorceress Cotton Casino.
Eternal Tapestry played a stellar show at Fort Douglass in Davis last year before hitting the KDVS studio the next day to lay down some serious scorchers. They're back down to a three-piece of psych rock with a proto-metal wallop during the groovey parts, and some shimmering beauty in the building parts. These guys include a couple Heavy Winged guys, plus Nick Bindeman who you might remember as the MVP of bands like Counterfeit Monsters, Alarmist, Hustler White, Malibu Falcon, and Jackie-O Motherfucker (pretty much all of JOMF's very best moments!).
About their newest release on Digitalis, the label website writes:
the boys are back in town, oh yes. back down to a threesome on "seas of silk," the bindeman bros. and dewey mahood have everything turned up to 11. thick slabs of dual psychedelic guitars crush the bones laid down by the bindeman #1, tearing off hunks of flesh at a time. heavy burners with a heavy dose of sprawl. just like jed bindeman's alter-ego group, heavy winged, once these concussion bombs hit you, there's only so much you can do to keep it all in check. but unlike the winged, instead of blowing your skull to bits, you'll just want to shake that ass.
From Apples & Heroin blog http://satanrulez.blogspot.com/ :
Eternal Tapestry kick spacey stoner rock with interplanetary sketches evolving into an ode to wind-battered biker hair birthed from full-out riffage. An exciting cross between Anthem of the Sun-era Grateful Dead and Hawkwind with touches of Can.
From Willamette Week:
Eternal Tapestry is seemingly adaptable to an infinite degree, moving from drifting psychedelic laze to crashing, shouting beautiful anarchy.
Sacto's own post-Asiatic desert-drifter psych rockers San Kazakgascar will get this started right!