Sons of Hippies

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Sons of Hippies
Origin Sarasota, Florida, United States
Genres Alternative, post space rock, post shoegaze, indie psych
Years active2008–present
Labels Cleopatra Records [1]
MembersKatherine Kelly
Jonas Canales

Sons of Hippies [2] is an American indie/neo-psych rock band from Sarasota, Florida, founded by Katherine Kelly and Jonas Canales.

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History

High in the mountains of Tennessee, Sons of Hippies was conceived at a festival on a 700-acre farm on a sunny June afternoon, after Kelly, agreed to marry Canales simply to secure his US citizenship. Their album, Warriors of the Light, [3] received the critic’s choice award from Tampa’s popular Creative Loafing publication for “Best Modern-Sounding Record” of 2009.

While on tour throughout the East Coast, Sons of Hippies wrote their sophomore album, A-Morph [4] (also produced by Klimchuck,) which was released in September 2010 and was accompanied by a journal Kelly kept detailing the recording sessions. During this year the group also recorded but never released an EP, Invisible Personalities, titled after a rogue AM radio transmission that was captured in their studio on Kelly's loop station.[ citation needed ]

In the summer of 2011, the band released a 5-song space rock concept album called Fade to White, which was distributed with a typewritten lyric book.[ citation needed ]

Bassist Morgan Soltes joined the Hippies in the balmiest December 2013 had ever seen.[ citation needed ]

Michael Murphy was asked to play Keys, Synth, Kaos Pad, and Electronic percussion in June 2014. In December 2012 the band signed with Cleopatra Records and released a full length album, Griffons at the Gates of Heaven, in 2013.[ citation needed ]

Griffons at the Gates of Heaven

The album was mixed by Jack Endino ( Nirvana, L7, Mudhoney ) and mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Andy Walter (Radiohead, David Bowie, U2). "besides including the main trio, also includes a few guest artists. One is prog rock's multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood. Billy Sherwood is behind the keyboard playing sounds you'd ever want to hear. Andy Walter at Abbey Road Studios in London, England, mastered Sons of Hippies: The Griffons at the Gates of Heaven. The same walls hearing the sounds of old psychedelia of the day. Fits the whole package here very well". [5]

Discography

Studio albums

YearAlbum
2009Warriors of the Light [6]
2013Griffons at the Gates of Heaven [7]

EPs

YearEP
2010Invisible Personalities
2012Fade to White
2013Mirror Ball - Blackburner Remix
2013Blood in the Water - The Raveonettes Remix

Other appearances

"Time of the Season" (Zombies cover) on Psych-Out Christmas (Cleopatra Records, 2013)
"The Soft Parade" (Doors cover) on A Psych Tribute To The Doors (Cleopatra Records, 2014)
"Gimme Shelter" (Rolling Stones cover) on Stoned - A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones (Cleopatra Records, 2015)

References

  1. ↑ Sons of Hippies - Discography, AllMusic , Retrieved October 30, 2017
  2. ↑ "Sons of Hippies | HARVEY MILK FESTIVAL". Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sons of Hippies: Sexy psychedelia from south of the Skyway". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Album Review: Sons of Hippies". Archived from the original on August 2, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Classic Rock Radio Dot EU - NEW Bands WORTH Checking Out Spotlight: Sons of Hippies – Griffons at the Gates of Heaven (Cleopatra 2013)". Classicrockradioeu.blogspot.com. August 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ "INTERVIEW: Sons of Hippies | Sarasota Music Scene". Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ "MTV Music". MTV . Archived from the original on June 15, 2013.
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