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.

Former Beachwood Sparks drummer and All Night Radio member Jimi Hey will be performing with psychedelic performance art group My Barbarian at Red Cat, LA in April. Also included in the project is groovy Ann Do-Rademaker from lovely, lovely The Tyde. For more info and sound samples check out mybarbarian.com!

Beachwood Sparks has made two unreleased songs available for download on their myspace profile. The songs, Time and (a different version of) Canyon Ride, hails “from the 1st and as of yet unreleased beachwood sparks lp” that were recorded at The Space Shed in Sierra Madre, CA in 1998-1999.

New gigs:

Mystic Chords of Memory
April 7 - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
April 21 - Tokyo Shibuya O-NEST, Tokyo, Japan
April 23 - Osaka SUNSUI, Osaka, Japan

Frausdots
Mar 27 - The Silverlake Lounge, Silverlake, CA

The new video for the song Brock Landers, from The Tyde’s new album, can now be seen at thetyde.com. The video was shot at San Onofre and Cardiff, CA and directed by S. Tobin Kirk.

The release date for Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory’s Tree Colored See has been set to April 25. The Broaden a New Sound EP will be out one month later on May 23. For more detailed release information go here.Both The Tyde and Mystic Chords of Memory as well as Farmer Dave have some new shows planned for the next couple of weeks! MCoM also reports on their myspace that they’re “planning a few shows in march and going abroad in april…..these will all be with our friend nobody”.

The Tyde:
Mar 4 - Avalon Bar/Mower Shop, Costa Mesa, CA
Mar 5 - Darren acoustic solo, Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
Mar 16 - Buffalo Billards, SXSW: Big Shot Touring Artists showcase, Austin, TX
Mar 17 - Peacock Austin, SXSW: Rough Trade/ Spin Art showcase, Austin, TX

Mystic Chords of Memory (with Nobody):
Mar 3 - “Silent show” at Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA
Mar 16 - Zero Degrees, SXSW: Mush Records showcase, Austin, TX
Farmer Dave:
Mar 3 - “Silent show” at Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA

The release date for the new The Tyde album has been moved back yet another month to April 17

Both The Tyde and Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory has been confirmed to play SXSW on March 16 and 17, respectively. Visit the bands myspace profiles for detailed info:
myspace.com/thetyde | myspace.com/mysticchordsofmemory

The song Broaden a New Sound from the new Mystic Chords of Memory album can now be heard on MCoM’s myspace and on The Calming Seas web radio!