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Mike Donovan – “B.O.C. Rate Applied” Video

2042 days ago

Stereogum — Mike Donovan is the mind behind skuzzy San Francisco garage-psych greats Sic Alps and the more placid (but still slightly skewed) offshoot project Peacers. He's following up last year's solo album How To Get Your Record Played In Shops with a new o... more info

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Mike Donovan – “Cold Shine” Video

2448 days ago

Stereogum — Mike Donovan, he of Peacers and Sic Alps, has a new solo album dropping on 4/20. It's called How To Get Your Record Played In Shops, and Donovan would know. His far-ranging approach to psych has certainly engendered him with the record-store clerks o... more info

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The Peacers – “Staying Home” Video

2748 days ago

Stereogum — Back in 2015, Sic Alps leader Mike Donovan told us about Peacers, his new band, which also features people who have played in fellow Bay Area psych-rock bands like Thee Oh Sees and the Fresh And Onlys. Later this week, the Peacers will release Introd... more info

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The Peacers – “Jurgen’s Layout”

2826 days ago

Stereogum — Back in 2015 we talked to Sic Alps leader Mike Donovan about his new band Peacers, who had just released a solid and intriguing self-titled debut. The folksy garage psych project is all set to return with a second album called Introducing The Crimsme... more info

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Heron Oblivion – “Oriar” (Stereogum Premiere)

3295 days ago

Stereogum — Heron Oblivion entirely comprises musicians with an established pedigree in West Coast psychedelic music, and their combined efforts couldn’t sound more sublime and exemplary. The San Francisco-based quartet includes members from Comets On Fire, Es... more info

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Mike Donovan (ex-Sic Alps) forms Peacers, announces debut album produced by Ty Segall (song stream / video)

3453 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis Mike Donovan, late of Sic Alps, has a new band called Peacers. Not quite as covered in sludge as Sic Alps, it is nonetheless still in the Mike Donovan style of lysergic '60s pop. Peacers' eponymous debut... more info

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Q&A: Sic Alps’ Mike Donovan On His New Band Peacers + “Laze It” Video (Stereogum Premiere)

3454 days ago

Stereogum — When Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman founded Sic Alps in 2004, San Francisco’s storied modern-day garage-psych community was still bubbling below the radar. Prolific scene fixtures like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees were just beginning to build zealous ... more info

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Mike Donovan Readies Wot

4115 days ago

Silent Uproar — Following Sic Alps break-up earlier this year, Mike Donovan is set to release a solo album, Wot, through Drag City on October 15th. Stream "New Fieldhand Bop" on SoundCloud. [dragcity.com] more info

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