The radio playlist has been updated.

Today we received the sad news that Pete “Sleigher” Kinne passed away last Friday. Kinne was a founding member of Beachwood Sparks and played on the Desert Skies/Make It Together and Midsummer Daydream/Windows ‘65 singles. Kinne was also the singer and songwriter in the band Gold Winter People.

Please follow this link to read Brent Rademaker’s words about the life and remembrance of Pete Kinne. We wish his family and friends all the best.

A new show has been added to the audio section.

Brent has recently posted up two new Beachwood Sparks songs on myspace.com/beachwoodsparks

From the latest Tyde myspace bulletin:

After three years, our new album, Three’s Co. will finally be out in N. America next Tuesday August 29th. We are celebrating its release with a party at Part Time Punks @ The Echo, in Echo Park (our ‘hood) this Sunday, August 27th, 10 pm. Juan Maclean is guest djing. It’s free, 18 & over. There will be some special guests playing with us and if you’re lucky, you might just get a Tyde beer cozy. They’re sick.

Before the record release party this Sunday, we’ll be ON-AIR, LIVE with Dave Adelson and Roy Trakin’s “Media Whores” on 97.1 FREE FM.

We’ll be going on the road up the West Coast the first week of September with The Brian Jonestown Massacre (see dates below).

Full US/Canada tour with the Black Angels in Oct/Nov. Dates to be announced soon.

Ann Tyde guest dj’ed at dublab.com last week. The session is now in rotation and can be downloaded as a podcast.

+ Pray for waves, share the spirit, enjoy the moment.+
The Tyde xxx

for e-card, go to:
www.roughtradeamerica.com/media/thetyde/threesco.html

On Monday 7/10 Blue Dolphin with drummer Aaron Sperske and bass player Brent Rademaker will be opening for Lilys at The Echo in LA.

Mystic Chords of Memory reports on their myspace page that they’re planning for a Europe trip together with Nobody in September. Before that, however, the band will start working on a new album.

After being pushed forward yet another week, The Tyde’s Three’s Co. was finally released last Monday and the album was well received by the press. Here’s what some critics thought of the album:

“Surf’s up and The Tyde is coming in with the soundtrack to your summer”
- The Sun

“The Tyde continue to carry the torch for sterling West Coast pop music with a cynical lyrical edge”
- Americana UK

“On ‘The Lamest Shows’, Darren puts down bands who put on empty shows to screaming teens while wondering “am I getting too old?” Not if ‘Three’s Co’ is any indication - this welcome return proves that Darren and crew are still riding that big wave. ”
- SoundsXP

“At heart, Three’s Co is a summer album, but it works surprisingly well set against a spring that’s struggling to emerge”
- The Sunday Times

“It’s an extremely bright listen that’s tailor-made for the arrival of our warmer weather”
- Inide London

From the the latest Frausdots myspace bulletin:

It’s true…two of us are moving back to our hometown of Tampa florida (brent and michelle) and we will be playing a Goodbye to LA show on Friday the 5th of may at the ECHO in echo park.
We will be back for shows and tours and the best news of all is that we are halfway done with A NEW RECORD and it features the band as you know it. Spidey, bobby, roger..guest *’s evan (parson red heads) Dan horne is Producing at the westcoast knitting studios…we will post some songs up soon..
/…/
we wanna thank everyone in LA and beyong fopr all their friendship and support…we will see you in the land of the manatees…and we will be back as this town is after all our adopted hometown..it’s been over 20 years…peace.
brent and michelle…frausdots

More info on the show can be found in the live section.

Tree Colored See has been in stores for about a week and has been greeted with generally positive reviews:

“An interesting and innovative dimension to add to the trade of acoustic singer-songwriting, Nobody & The Mystic Chords of Memory make for an end-product that is chilled to the point of taking leave of your senses altogether”
- seewhatyouhear.com

“Tree Colored See sounds like California-dreamin’ folkadelia smacked gently in the face with a percussive electronic backbone. Oh wait, it is!”
- XLR8R

“Delicate fog pop for water pipes, bubbling without ‘Memory’, an outgrowth of the spacey desert drift of ‘Coyote’s Song (When You Hear It Too)’ Tree Colored See ebbs and flows like Beachwood Sparks in dream state”
- Austin Chronicle

“Tree Colored See… songs about nothing or everything? Hmmm…”
- A Robot Cometh

“A steady beat peppered with ear candy harmonies never did a body wrong, especially in the elctro-folk ring. Here’s to sunny days ahead.”
- Musicisnotdead

“This is very beautiful refreshing music that should give jaded ears a new sense of innocence and wonder”
- Big Takeover

“Tree Colored See may make about as much sense to some as its odd, unlikely title. Others will find it as it was intended—a pleasant set of retro replays that’s lovely, lush and an apt background sound for stream of conscious, naval-gazing contemplation”
- Entertainment News

“Far from any standard pigeonholing, Tree Colored See is an enchanting album”
- Synthesis

“Sung with the bittersweetness of Elliott Smith, they’ll leave you lusting after spring afternoons and summer nights”
- Urb

“From the opening raga beats of The Seed to Gunst’s gentle, dreamy voice and nature-worshipping lyrics, to the acid-blotter cover art, Tree Colored See is high on summer-of-love grooviness”
- The Age

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.