Maybird, Sam Kogon, The Colorines

Maybird came together in 2013 around the recording of their debut album Down & Under. Previously, singer/songwriter Josh Netsky had recorded a few albums as a solo artist with fellow members Sam Snyder (guitar) and brother Adam Netsky (drums). Upon the joining of Kurt Johnson (pedal steel/guitar) and Mike Schuler (bass) the group found themselves moving toward a psychedelic, rootsy, eclectic sound that would set the tone for the album that followed.


Rochester City Newspaper's Frank Deblase describes the record as "a carefully constructed wash of singer-songwriter insight and pop-psychedlia. It's the sound of the beautiful and the weird sharing a slow dance - or a joint." Recently the Netsky brothers have relocated to Brooklyn and the group has maintained a state-wide recording and performing agenda. They are currently in the midst of recording their follow up album, Things I Remember From Earth, set to be released later this year.


Sam Kogon is a Brooklyn based musician and "Before You Knew Me" is his debut album.
This debut album encompasses everything from baroque pop stylings to lo-fi pop tracks reminiscent of Elvis Costello. Sam is already a very prolific musician in the New York circuit, even playing with 60's Baroque/psych legends The Left Banke, and also stepping out with his own band to play material from this album over the last few years. "Before You Knew Me" is fresh, creative and down-right striking. For fans of artists such as Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman and Al Stewart.


Formed in January 2014, the Colorines are a four-piece dream punk band. Half the members are from upstate New York, the other half from the city. Originally beginning as a garage music collective, they have since evolved into a fully-fledged band and their backyard jams will be a great way to ring in your summer.

Their discography began with Paleontology, a five-song EP released March of this year. The most recent release, however, is the new single "Peach Tree" which came out just a few days ago. The music video for "Peach Tree" is currently premiering on Noisey (http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-colorines-peach-tree-video-premiere).

Lyrically and musically, the Colorines tear a jagged path through your typical, topical psychedelic canon with backhanded and dry humor. With songs about childhood reminiscence, faking one's own death, dream sequences, self-depreciation, scholastic embarrassment, and fossil fuels, they (quote) "weave a sophisticated air of effortless psychodrama and grade-school inelegance."

"...sounds like a less-good Velvet (Pizza?) Underground... sounds like Beck meets The Beta Band... sounds like the Kinks with computers." Now that sounds like a show you're gonna love.