California places a distinct sonic stamp upon the music born with in its boundaries.
Owens had his Bakersfield, Parsons his Joshua Tree, and Malkmus his Stockton, and in their tunes you can hear dust, desert highways, and skateboards gliding over suburbia. The Donkeys have San Diego, and from that environment have woven a fundamental ease in their music – a rock, a roll, a sway, a slide – you could even call it a breeze. On Ride the Black Wave, The Donkeys continue their easy rolling, classic vibrations, but add a mystery and tension that make this record their most lyrically and instrumentally compelling. Ride the Black Wave embodies what Jack Kerouac described of California’s coast Recorded at San Diego’s Singing Serpent and mixed by LA’s Thom Monahan, So, it is with Ride the Black Wave that The Donkeys add their own stratum to THE DONKEYS
07/16 – Brooklyn, NY – The Knitting Factory
07/17 – Pittsburgh, PA – Smiling Moose 07/18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland 07/19 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout 07/20 – Kansas City, MO – The recordBar 07/21 – Denver, CO – Hi-Dive 07/22 – Salt Lake City – Urban Lounge 07/23 – Boise, ID – Neurolux 07/24 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios 07/25 – Victoria, BC – Continental Square 07/26 – Duncan, BC – Rock of the Woods Music Festival 07/27 – Vancouver, BC – Electric Owl 07/28 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown 07/29 – Seattle, WA – The Sunset Tavern 07/30 – Eugene, OR – Cozmic Pizza 08/01 – 08/03 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon Festival 08/16 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel 09/05 – San Diego, CA – Casbah The Donkeys Ride The Black Wave (Easy Sound) Street Date: June 3, 2014 Buy it here
1. Sunny Daze
2. The Manx 3. Nothing 4. I Heart Alabama 5. Scissor Me Cigs 6. Imperial Beach 7. Ride The Black Wave 8. Brown Eyed Lady 9. Blues In The Afternoon 10. Bahamas 11. Shines THE DONKEYS LINKS: |