Shamonica Magazine

Joseph Childress is a local folk musician who has played with folk/rock favorites  Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Vetiver and has toured with the Love Letter Band (Bad Weather California), Mariee Sioux, Messes, and Randazzo Robinson. What sets Childress apart is that his songs and lyrics have emotional honesty which cuts through much of the whimsical [...]

Imagine walking through a Scottish graveyard in the mid-morning, still slightly damp with rain, as you hold a vintage polaroid camera in one hand and a wicker picnic basket, circa 1972 in the other. That is the image that Spell evokes. The recipe for the Spell is one part cover band, two parts Vishti Bunyan [...]

I was DJing in a bar in San Francisco. Playing some post punk sounding, New Zealand-based, DFA Records band called Shocking Pinks. I’m sure I found them on one of my regular searches for new music online, on (cough) file share, or wherever one finds such things. I had been drawn to this track, “You Can Make Me Feel Bad,” that basically just repeats the line “you can make me feel bad, if you want to” for the majority of the song.