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“When Screaming Females hit the main stage with their full-throttle fuzz rock, the New Brunswick, NJ, power trio proved why they’ve spent the past year touring with The Dead Weather, Arctic Monkeys, and Ted Leo. Best known for the epic shredding and shrieking skills of pint-sized frontwoman Marissa Paternoster—the band’s throaty sole female, clad in a knee-length red army trench despite the blistering heat—Screaming Females had troves of fans headbanging by 2 p.m. Packed with massive in-your-face solos, songs like “Bell” and “Lights Out” from 2009′s Power Move garnered the most passionate crowd response. But “I Don’t Mind It” off the band’s upcoming album Castle Talk presented a clean and accessible vocal-heavy sound, with slimmer guitar riffs—not a bad thing. The fierce set ended with Paternoster curled up in a ball, screeching her loudest and shoving her mic in her mouth, before producing a psychedelic wall of guitar noise with an array of nobs and pedals.” – SPIN

Direct Link: www.spin.com/articles/5-best-moments-coney-islands-siren-fest

Download the new song “I Don’t Mind It” from the upcoming “Castle Talk” that will be released on Don Giovanni in September: www.dongiovannirecords.com/sf-idontmindit.mp3

And here are the current EU/UK dates, more shows will be added in the next couple days!

Barn Owl are available for special events/festivals from late Fall on and will tour Europe/UK in Spring 2011.

Bio:

Hailing from San Francisco, Barn Owl formed in 2006 and have been carving a path through the extended drone landscape ever since. Comprised of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras, the duo use mainly effected guitars to create their sounds but often augment their sonic palette with synth, voice, and harmonium. So far they have two full-lengths and a large handful of much more highly limited releases. Their latest album, “The Conjurer” was released on LP/CD in 2009/2010 by Root Strata.

A new album will be out on Thrill Jockey in the Fall 2010!

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“Elegant, minimalist and deeply spectral, The Conjurer is the sound of post-Takoma folk dropped into an abyss of Western frontier violence and then slowed to the speed of tectonic realignment. Put simply, this is deeply elemental music, inexorably tied to the awe and paranoia engendered by the endless American horizon, and with it Porras and Caminiti – two of the most expressive guitarists to have emerged from the US underground in recent memory – have produced nothing short of a masterpiece.” - Drowned In Sound

” Today, Wolf Eyes and Sun O))) use drones similar to Barn Owl’s, signifying the death and destruction wrought by western civilization with heavy white noise and amplified, low tone feed back that feels, at times to register seismographically. Some might label this as garden variety stoner rock, but it transcends those genre misgivings. Barn Owl’s ultimate value lies within the subtlety of their approach, reminiscent almost of Indian classical music.” - Cokemachineglow

“It’s as though the first layer of American settlers has been reactivated through the music and Barn Owl are transmitters.” – Julian Cope

“Touching on everything from Tibetan chanting to sludgy doom riffs, Barn Owl never produced a sound they couldn’t stretch out like taffy” – Rolling Stone

The Lucky Dragons concerts-as-workshop style happenings have generated considerable interest in both the art and music worlds. With a basic set-up of laptop, homemade electronics and folk instruments the pair – often with collaborators – encourage audience participation with offbeat premises. They have performed at moers festival (DE), club transmediale (DE), Off (PL), Steirischer Herbst/Musikprotokoll (AT), Printemps en Septembre (FR), La Terra Tremma (FR), De Affaire (NL), Impakt (NL), Todays Art (NL), Dissonanze (IT), GEA Festival (SE), AV festival (UK) and more.