Watch the new Akron/Family for Sand Talk, a track from their Sub Verses album. The clip was directed by Los Angeles conceptual artist Ali Beletic. The experimental folk rockers will be playing in Monterey later this month.
Live date:Watch the Akron/Family perform Sand Talk on a parking lot in Austin. TX:
Akron/Family pulled up in their van in a North Austin shopping mall parking lot and unloaded their gear. Running power from the van's cigarette lighter into a single Fender amp, the boys plugged in and ripped through a version of "Sand Talk," a cut off their brand new record Sub Verses, which is out now on Dead Oceans.
Watch the new Akron/Family video for Until the Morning, from the upcoming new record Sub Verses. The video was directed by Brian Sowell and shot .
North American tour dates:
Music geeks favorites Akron/Family are releasing a limited edition live double cd:
We have been hiding out for months now in volcanic caves in the middle of snow storms, pecan ranches along west Texas border towns, borrowing kids rehearsal spaces in Athens Georgia, and writing on top of our friends guitar shop in Montreal.
It's amazing how time has passed so quickly dreaming up a new vision record for 2013 and we are almost there.
In order to finish funding the record we decided to create a special, hand made, hand stamped (by us!) limited edition double cd. This is an edition of 1,000 and when it's gone, it's gone. It's available here.
In a way, it is a nice snapshot of the last year. One half is a live recording from the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta from early 2012. A wavy wild showcase from the tail end of our Shinju touring. vibez introduce shards of songs both recent and old, exploding from Happy Birthday and disintegrating into songs old and new. It was a wild and youthful show and we are excited to share it with you.
Left-field indie band Akron/Family are selling a handmade limited CD on their current tour. All copies of Live Sound Fields hand painted, hand numbered and totally unique. The tracks were recorded during the 2009/2010 tours. It is released on their own label Family Tree Records.
The band returns to Europe in November. An American Winter tour kicks off in Washington, DC, on January 6. Support act is Denver band Bad Weather California, who will release their Sunkissed album on Family Tree Records on February 21.
European live dates:Watch the new video Cast A Net, from their latest studio album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT. The clip was directed by Brian Ziffer.
Watch the new Akron/Family video for Light Emerges, a track off their S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT album. The video was directed by Kelsey Harris and J Logan Corcoran.
Watch the Akron/Family video for Silly Bears. It's a track off of their new album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT.
Akron/Family have unveiled a video for So It Goes and are offering this track off their forthcoming album S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT as a free download.
Watch the trailer for the new Akron/Family album S/T II:The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT. The album is stores in the USA on February 8, and March 14 in the UK. The trio from Williamsport, PA, embarks on an extensive North American tour in February. Support act for the whole tour is Delicate Steve.
Live dates:HCTF review of Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free.
Akron/Family quickly established a name for themselves with their 2005 self-titled debut album. The band from Williamsport, PA, kept releasing new material maintaining the high standard of the first one. And now there is Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, a grab bag of songs exploring new grounds and beaten paths.
The band is all over the place, but all tracks can be huddled together under the neo-psychedelic rock banner. From the rhythmic assault of opener Everyone Is Guilty until the last notes of the short piano ballad Last Year the trio seems to have overcome the defection of fourth member Ryan Vanderhoof. They might be overcompensating at times in their determination to add even more odd sounds than before, but Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is an interesting chapter in their saga.
Akron/Family:
Dana Janssen: drums
Seth Olinsky: vocal, guitar
Miles Seaton: bass
Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free is released on Dead Oceans (USA) and Crammed Discs (Europe).
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