Tour Dates – All dates with Strangers Family Band except 04/19

Thu Apr 19 – Los Angeles, CA- Club Los Globos with Gram Rabbit & SEXYWATERSPIDERS $10

Fri 04/20 PSYCHEDELIC TIKI ESCAPE! Huntington Beach, CA-Don the Beachcomber!!!! (Xemu Presents) w/ Dead Meadow, DJ Carlos Rossi

Sat Apr 21 Desert Hot Springs, CA-Moon Block (Desert Daze Festival) SPINDRIFT @7:30pm! w/DEAD MEADOW • CROOKED COWBOY • DAHGA BLOOM
STRANGERS FAMILY BAND • COSMONAUTS • JUJU
DIRT DRESS • JOY • SILVER CHORDS • POOR SONS
SLEEPY OWL • MYSTERIOUS EVERYTHING • BAREFOOT SHRUBS
+ guests to be announced

Mon Apr 23 – Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture with Dead Meadow

Tue Apr 24 – Marfa, TX – Padres with Dead Meadow

Sat Apr 28 – Austin, TX – Austin Psych Fest 6:30pm Main Stage

Tue May 1 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia

Wed May 2 – Tallahassee, FL – Retrofit Records

Thu May 3 – Sarasota, FL – New College

Fri May 4 – Orlando, FL – Wills Pub

Sat May 5 – Atlanta, GA – 529

Sun May 6 – Charlotte, NC – Tremont Music Hall

Mon May 7 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter

Tue May 8 – Norfolk, VA- The Jewish Mother Backstage w/ Last Remaining Pinnacle

Wed May 9 – Newark, DE- Mojo Main

Thu May 10 – Philadelphia, PA – North Star Bar

Fri May 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands(Perfect Prescription presents)

Sat May 12 – Manhattan, NY – LIT

Sun May 13 – Boston, MA – Church

Mon May 14 – Providence, RI – Firehouse 13

Wed May 16 – Toronto, ON – Lees Palace

Thu May 17 – Berkley, MI – The Berkley Front w/ The Slot Rods

Fri May 18 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen

Sat May 19- Rock Island, IL – Rozz-Tox w/ Mondo Drag

Mon May 21- Denver, CO – The Walnut Room w/ Overcasters

Tue May 22 – Salt Lake City, UT – Garage On Beck w/ Max Pain & the Groovies

Wed May 23 – Las Vegas, NV – Beauty Bar

Thu May 24 – Los Angeles, CA- TBA

Related show

• Artist: Spindrift
• Tour: Road to Psych Fest 2012
• Date: Saturday, April 21st 2012
• Time: 7:00pm
• City: Spindrift in Desert Hot Springs/Desert Daze Festival
• Venue: Dillon’s Roadhouse
• Country: United States
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: Sat 04/21 Desert Hot Springs, CA-Moon Block (Desert Daze Festival) w/DEAD MEADOW • CROOKED COWBOY • DAHGA BLOOM STRANGERS FAMILY BAND • COSMONAUTS • JUJU DIRT DRESS • JOY • SILVER CHORDS • POOR SONS SLEEPY OWL • MYSTERIOUS EVERYTHING • BAREFOOT SHRUBS + guests to be announced http://www.facebook.com/events/156922011084221/
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The New L.A. Folk Fest ESCAPE TO OJAI
with Spindrift, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Restavrant, Stone Darling, Tommy Santee Klaws, RT N’ The 44′s, and Silver Chords at the historic cowboy bar, DEER LODGE.

All ages welcome
Tickets: $12 advance/ $15 door
Buy Tickets: http://fla.vor.us/1119471-Escape-To-Ojai-tickets/Escape-To-Ojai-Ojai-Deer-Lodge-March-31-2012.html
(Tickets are limited!)

More info at the Folk Fest site: http://www.lafolkfest.com/
Co-presented with L.A. Record

http://www.larecord.com/

For advice on lodging and other weekend entertainment, contact lafolkfest@gmail.com

City Hall & Overcasters Presents
GATHERING OF THE CLOUDS 2012 FEATURING:

Spindrift, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, Overcasters, Twin Guns, Land Lines, Varlet, Hearts in Space, Munly, Rowboat Row, le divorce, Wire Faces, Glass Homes, double shadow, Spires, Boyhollow, DJ Tyler Jacobson, DJ Jake Ryan, DJ Julie Lizak, DJ Mondo Garage

WE PLAY SATURDAY FEB25 @ Midnight!

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Follow the link to see the video.

http://www.relix.com/video/live-at-relix/2012/01/19/spindrift-carry-me-back-to-the-lone-prairie

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“We bring a long running series of heavy videos from Spindrift’s ‘Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1′to a close with a light hearted “Round Up.” It’s the directorial debut of the band’s own Sasha Vallely who had such a riot working with the wild roster of directors on previous videos for the album that she decided to shoot one of her own. Vallely, who was also an extra in Ward Robert’s “Dust Up,” chose him to be the main character in this slapstick bar fight filmed at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, originally created in the 40′s as a living movie set.

‘Ward was perfect for the role, he made everyone laugh so much it was a really fun shoot,” Vallely beamed. “Using some of the cast and crew from ‘Dust Up,’ Shannon Hourigan as cinematographer, stuntman Al Burke and director Travis Betz made everything run really smoothly and I am very happy with the results. I hope you have as much fun watching this video as we all did making it!’”

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DENVER, COLORADO- PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: This show will now take place at
CERVANTE’S OTHER SIDE, and NOT at ROCK STAR LOUNGE (which is now closed for business).
SAME DATE (11/9/11), JUST A DIFFERENT PLACE.

Thanks Marquee!

“Psychedelic spaghetti-western rock and roll might be a difficult genre to grasp via words alone. But imagine, if you will, a character from a Quentin Tarantino film, or any Grindhouse-style film for that matter, walking down a dusty road in the desert; the music that you envision playing at that moment of the movie — with twangy baritone guitars, heavy pedal steel and rattlesnake-like percussion — that is psychedelic spaghetti-western rock and roll.

The band Spindrift are masters of this genre. The group was started on the East Coast by guitarist and vocalist Kirkpatrick Thomas as an experimental rock outfit in the early 1990s, but just before 2000 they moved to Los Angeles, changed their lineup and began writing material that evoked the spirit of the Old West.

Now, years later, with yet another lineup change under its gun belt, the band has contributed to multiple feature film soundtracks (including a Tarantino produced film Hell?Ride), inspired a motion picture — The Legend of God’s Gun — with their 2002 album of the same name, and most recently, recorded and released Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1 on Xemu Records. The album is a collection of theme songs written for various film scores by eight different directors who participated in the project which included film clips, music videos and movie trailers (for both real and imagined films).

“From the get-go, we started writing themes,” said Thomas amidst bad cell reception as he drove through the desert during a recent phone interview with The Marquee. “That pretty much developed into working with several different directors.”

Sometimes Spindrift is writing material for a film that has already been shot, and other times they’re writing songs that are later turned into films, or shorts. It’s a chicken and egg type of arrangement that almost makes the band feel more like an art collective than a rock group. “It’s definitely a band, but there is a formula to it and it’s quite a creative process,” Thomas said.

Part of that creative process for Thomas and company involved more than a few treks directly into an environment not considered very habitable by most, but one that welcomes and almost seems to breed Spindrift-style music — Joshua Tree National?Monument in southeastern California. In fact, some of the material that appears on Classic Soundtracks Volume 1 was written in the now infamous ‘Gram Parsons death room’ at the Joshua Tree Inn, where the famed country singer died from an overdose of morphine and alcohol in 1973. “In Joshua Tree you’re in a beautiful setting with no distractions and you kind of feel like you could have a Ouija board out, pointing you in this direction and that direction,” Thomas said. “You can’t help but think that maybe this place is haunted, or maybe there were Native Americans that had held rituals here, or who knows what kind of aliens might have landed out here. It’s definitely a magical place and I think it really kind of shows the level that we went to for this record to write a lot of these songs. A lot of these songs had already been written but we really flushed them out, out there.”

The band returned to the desert to record the album at an artists retreat/hotel called Hicksville Trailer Palace, which has themed trailers and is located far beyond the paved roads of the area, and Thomas credited that experience with “adding accents to the songs, in a lot of ways.”

While the lineup of Sprindrift has changed in recent years, Thomas explained that the organic nature of the metamorphosis made the changes easy to swallow. Luke Dawson, in fact, was the innkeeper at the Joshua Tree Inn when Spindrift visited. Turns out, that innkeeper also knew how to play pedal steel. In 2009 the band also added vocalist, organist and Native American flute player Sasha Vallely, who had previously expressed interest in the band back when most of those duties were handled by Julie Patterson. But it was the addition of autoharp and drummer James Acton that sounds like a script from a Spindrift-inspired film.

After a gig one night in Salt Lake City several years ago, Thomas was approached by Acton. “He came up to me and was like, ‘Get me out of here. Get me out of this city. I want to see the world.’ I told him that we weren’t looking for anyone right then, ‘unless you play the autoharp.’ Six months went by and we’d lost a few members and I end up getting an email from him that said, ‘You still need an autoharp player? ’Cause I bought one and I can play the shit out ot it,’” related Thomas. But he had stopped looking for an autoharp player by that time and told Acton what he really needed was a new drummer. Turns out, that newly trained autoharp player has been playing drums his whole life and with that, the band’s fan became a band member.

In 2012 two films that Spindrift has scored will be released, Treasure of the Black Jaguar, and Dust Up. The band will also score another feature film next year, titled The Legend of the Widower Colby Wallace, by Colorado filmmaker Burke Robert. The film includes scenes that were filmed in the Rocky Mountains.”

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Thank you Revolt Of The Apes!

“Just shy of a year has passed since we last checked in with Spindrift – we know this because it’s just shy of impossible to think of Spindrift without thinking of the past. There’s a strange, sweaty, sideways energy in their utter musical and cinematic commitment to reanimating and reverb-ing the ghosts of the conflicts of the West. But the latest confirmation of this commitment – the instant classic, “Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1” – doesn’t sound anything but timeless to us.

Because while we may think of the past when we think of Spindrift, there’s not a moment when the songs of “Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1,” in either note or spirit, are constrained to the cage of nostalgia. Spindrift’s sounds seems to inhabit that place where the past folds over top of us, the very weight of which propels us toward our inevitable future. Put more simply (perhaps even coherently): “Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1? is driving music par excellence, the quintessential score to the act of moving forward while keeping on eye on the rear-view.

We think about the past when we think of Spindrift. Indeed, we think about the hours we have passed wondering how the idea came to open this album in a way that so dramatically captures the relationship between the past and what it means to what comes next. Less than a minute long, the album opens with “Japexico,” heralding the arrival of an album made up of tribes and caravans, of scouts and squaws, of Arizona plains and God, of Bear Flaggers and the Great Spirit … and then follows immediately with “Space Vixens Theme.” It’s not just great – it’s perfect. And not merely because we don’t know how to make a guitar sound quite so awesome (few do!).

And so the album goes, past and future intertwined (a minute and twenty-five seconds into “Theme From Confusion Range,” we hesitantly dub the band the Hawkwind of the American West), themes turning to songs turning to anthems, guitars (and everything else) sounding consistently awesome (with the penultimate eight minutes and nineteen seconds of “Theme From Drifter’s Pass” making a strong run at “Riff of the Year” honors).

Time and time again, in the future and the past, we’re struck by the utter ambition of the music Spindrift create. But it’s more than that – it’s the potent, powerful execution of those ambitions. And “Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1” is perhaps the most successful execution since that of Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum, with an equal capacity to knock your head off.”

“The implications of this argument are many, but one important lesson to be drawn, I think, concerns the widespread popular ambivalence about the frontier in the late nineteenth century. For many years now, historians have explained the frontier myth … as an unswervingly triumphalist story. We live in an anxious age, and it would be foolish to assert that the nineteenth century was not more confident than our own in many respects. But if there is one thing that William Cody’s biography teaches us, it is that the nineteenth century was characterized by doubts about frontier conquest, racial degeneracy, the industrial order, and the failure of the Western farm landscape to generate the wealth and security that the story of progress had promised. To construe frontier expansion as a moment of supreme confidence untarnished by reflection or hesitation is to ignore all the dark fears that underlay it.”

- Louis S. Warren, “Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Sideshow”

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Friday September 23rd:
7PM Dave La Chance
8PM Tears Of The Moose Chaser
9PM RT N’ The 44′s
10PM Magic Mirror
11PM Morning After Girls
12AM The Country (Feat Members of Gram Rabbit)
1AM SPINDRIFT

Friday September 23rd, Acoustic Stage:
2AM Steve McBean (Of Black Mountain)
230AM Lou-is

Saturday September 24th:
2PM The Golden Ghosts
3PM Highway
4PM Lemon Sun
5PM Pink MountainTops
6PM The Warlocks
7PM The Black Ryder
8PM The Icarus Line
9PM Mark Gardener (Of RIDE)
10PM Adam Franklin & The Bolts Of Melody

Saturday September 24th, Acoustic Stage:
1115PM Miracle Falls (Feat Paul Dillon of Mercury Rev)
12AM Miranda Lee Richards
1230AM Rachel Fannan
1AM James Ambrose (Smallstone, Electromagnetic)
130AM Jason Simon (Of Dead Meadow)

Guest DJs:
Joel Gion (of Brian Jonestown Massacre)
DJ Plucky (Warlocks, The Upsidedown)
Carlos Colon
Paul Dillon (Perfect Prescription NYC)