It looks like The Sparks are heading to the East Coast! Here’s the dates.

Photos from the shows in Redmond and Big Sur can now be found in the photo album.

We’re very excited to bring to you two new and exclusive Beachwood Sparks live video clips. Click here to watch them!

This wonderful footage of the band circa ‘98 was brought to us from The Pete Kinne Page by Cloyce on Myspace. We would like to send our big thanks to Jackie Hager for letting us distribute these videos and by that making them available to the Beachwood Sparks fan community. That’s you guys.

The first clip is a performance of Midsummer Daydream and Watery Moonlight (a song that was recorded for the band’s unreleased debut album) from Old Town Pub in Pasadena in March 1998. The second clip shows Beachwood Sparks live at Spaceland in August 1998 performing (the 7″ version of) Desert Skies.

We are also very happy to be able to present a clip with Beachwood Sparks percussionist Pete “Sleigher” Kinne and his friends (playing as Gold Winter People) performing one of Pete’s songs at The Chorus Club in September 1998. Watch it here!

If anyone has any other information about the videos or something visible in them, don’t hesitate to speak up in the forums and we’ll post the info so everyone interested will be able to get to it.

We have added added a page for Aaron Sperske’s new band Blue Circle Magic to the related bands section.

The radio playlist has been updated.

A new show has been added to the audio section.

Frausdots:
May 5 - The Echo, Echo Park, CA

Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory:
April 22 - Gaja, Shizuka, Japan

From now on all new shows will be posted in the new live section.

From us to you: The very last BWS show of the very last BWS tour! Head over to the audio/video section right now!

Another gig is now available for download. The show is from Boston in October 2001 and features two great covers of The Byrds and Neil Young! More gigs will be up soon. Big thanks to Jon for helping us out with these shows.

The related bands section has been expanded with pages on another three bands: Bridgess, Lilys and Strictly Ballroom.

Curious of Brent Rademaker and his music? If so, we suggest you go here to read an, for thecalmingseas.com exclusive, interview.

New press section added to the site. Go there to read four informative pieces on BWS and one brand new and exclusive interview with Darren Rademaker and Ann Do Rademaker of The Tyde!