Phantom Kicks [Better Days Of, Glass Box Records]

San Francisco's Phantom Kicks have recently completed their EP titled Tectonics due out April 5th on Glass Box Records (label of band member Tanner). Phantom Kicks specialize in speedy guitar riffs and electro-beats with wonderfully sounding vocals which combine to form the melodies that characterize this band. The buzz around this band here in SF has been made strictly through their live shows. Always enthusiastic and eager to play, this will be the band's first physical release, one in which I'm sure many of their enduring fans will embrace whole heartedly.

Better Days Of

Phantom Kicks / Holy Spirits / Mutual Benefit / Steffaloo [Milk Bar, San Francisco 01.20.2011]

Event: Holy Spirits / Phantom Kicks / Mutual Benefit / Steffaloo [Milk Bar, San Francisco 01.20.2011]

Today marks my 500th post and I couldn't be more excited than to have Holy Spirits and Think or Smile as the subject. Several months back I first debuted the band's EP, The Afternoon's Blood, on this site and since then the band has formed a collaborative relationship with visual artist Nathaniel Whitcomb. Nathaniel runs Think or Smile and has made a series of motion collages for each song on the EP. Below is the brand new collage for "Contain"; all his other work can be found here. The collage was made from 40 year old National Geographic magazines that were hand cut and digitally assembled. All of these videos will be projected over Holy Spirits as they perform for the first time on the West Coast (dates below).

Holy Spirits - Contain

Phantom Kicks - Eyes Familiar

Mutual Benefit - Moonville Tunnel

Steffaloo - My Heart Beats

See The Leaves and Father / Daughter Records are proud to present the SF leg of the tour. The show will be held at Milk Bar on January 20th along with Phantom Kicks, Mutual Benefit and Steffaloo

West Coast Tour

01.19.2011 - Lot 1, Los Angeles with Jeans Wilder

01.20.2011 - Milk Bar, San Francisco with Phantom Kicks

01.21.2011 - Metavinyl, Santa Cruz

Phantom Kicks / The Actors / Sunbeam Rd [Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco 12.01.2010]

Phantom Kicks

Event: Phantom Kicks / Sunbeam Rd / The Actors [Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco 12.01.2010]

My good friends at Ears of the Beholder and Kata Rokkar will be presenting the above show in San Francisco at the Rickshaw Stop on December 01 2010 with some of my favorite young local bands performing that night. Below for details