The Sun Surrounds Me - Music
The Sun Surrounds Me by Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks
Artist Biography For Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks Is An American Psychedelic Country-Rock Band From Los Angeles. Formed In 1997 The Band Was On Hiatus From 2002-08 While Band Members Concentrated On Other Projects. While They Reunited In 2008 Most Members Joined Songwriter Cass McCombs In 2016 To Form The Skiffle Players. The Band Was Formed By Bassist Brent Rademaker And Guitarist Christopher Gunst Who Met In The 1990s When Both Were Members Of Los Angeles Indie-Rock Group Further. Guitarist Dave Scher And Drummer Jimi Hey Who Played With Gunst In Strictly Ballroom Were Recruited Before The Band's First Show In June 1997.
Hey Suggested The Band's Name By Combining Sparks Street Where Brent Rademaker Lived In Burbank With Beachwood Street Which Runs Parallel And Adjacent To Sparks. Hey Left After A Few Shows And Was Replaced By Tom Sanford. At Around The Same Time The Group Was Also Joined By Pete "Sleigher" Kinne On Percussion And Another Former Further Member Guitarist Josh Schwartz. They Released The "Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" Single On Bomp! In October 1998. Sanford Left And Was Replaced By Aaron Sperske Drummer With Lilys Whose First Recording With The Band Was On The Sub Pop Singles Club Release "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" Issued In April 1999. Kinne And Schwartz Left Shortly After. In Spring 2000 They Released Their First Album Beachwood Sparks. The "shimmering Twang-Pop Melodies And Gorgeous Harmonies" Drew Comparisons To The Late 1960s' Laurel Canyon Country-Rock Of The Byrds Buffalo Springfield And Gram Parsons As Well As To Contemporaries Elephant 6. The Single "Once We Were Trees" Featuring A Jangly Cover Of The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Suzie" On The B-Side Was Released On The Spanish Label Houston Party Records Previewing The Mellower Sound That Featured On The Band's Second Album Also Called Once We Were Trees Which Was Released In The Second Half Of 2001. A Single From The Album A Cover Of Sade's "By Your Side" Was Released In The United Kingdom And Enjoyed Some Chart Success. The Video Directed By Chad Misner Was Selected For The 2002 South By Southwest Film Festival And Featured Footage Of Aaron Sperske And Autumn De Wilde's Wedding. The Song Was Later Featured On The Soundtrack For The 2010 Feature Film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. For The 2002 EP Make The Cowboy Robots Cry Sperske Was Replaced On Drums By The Returning Jimi Hey. Strictly Ballroom's Jimmy Tamborello Aka Dntel Contributed To The EP. Tamborello Also Worked With Scher And Gunst At Loyola Marymount University's Radio Station KXLU. Since 2002 The Band Has Mostly Concentrated On Other Projects. Gunst Formed Mystic Chords Of Memory. Brent Rademaker Sometimes With Gunst And Scher Plays In The Tyde And Also In Frausdots. Hey And Scher Released An Album As All Night Radio. In March 2007 Scher Was Recruited As Touring Keyboard Player For New York Indie Rockers Interpol. Sperske Joined Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Beachwood Sparks Reunited In 2008 To Play At SB20 The Celebration Of Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary. A Small Number Of Dates Were Played On The West Coast And The East Coast Including July 19 At The Henry Miller Library In Big Sur California. The Reunion Line-Up Was Gunst Rademaker Sperske Ben Knight Jen Cohen And Dan Horne. Scher Also Played At Four Of The West Coast Shows. In 2012 Beachwood Sparks Released The Album The Tarnished Gold. In 2016 Neal Casal Farmer Dave Scher Dan Horne And Aaron Sperske Joined Songwriter Cass McCombs To Form The Skiffle Players. Band Co-Founder Josh Schwartz Died In September 2017 Discography Main Albums
Beachwood Sparks 2000 Sub Pop Once We Were Trees 2001 Sub Pop The Tarnished Gold 2012 Sub Pop Other Albums
Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP 2002 Sub Pop Desert Skies 2013 Recorded 1997 Alive Naturalsound Singles
"Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" 1998 Bomp Records "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" 1999 "Once We Were Trees"/"Wake Up Little Suzie" 2000 "Ballad Of Never Rider" W/ "Fishing Boat Song By Grandaddy And "Table Tennis Star" By Persil 2000 Devil In The Woods No. 38 "By Your Side"/"Sun Surrounds Me"/"Quietly Be"/"Close The Door Lightly When You Go" 2001 Sub Pop
50 Similar Tracks:
Beachwood Sparks - Confusion Is Nothing New Beachwood Sparks - Hearts Mend The Polyphonic Spree - Days Like This Keep Me Warm The Terrordactyls - I Can't Hear You The Color Bars - Marvee Miusov Goes To Pieces Karaocake - We're Not Scared Of Ghosts Jack Stauber - It's Alright Frontier Ruckus - I Do Need Saying Adam Green - I Never Found Out Jack Stauber - I Understand Adam Green - The Nighttime Stopped Bleeding Steve Earle - Goodbye's All We Got Left TV Girl - Baby You Were There TV Girl - It Evaporates Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining Minotaur Shock Mix New Ruins - Arrows New Ruins - Held Up By Sand Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain Badly Drawn Boy - What Is It Now Club 8 - This Is The Morning The Royal We - That Ain't My Sweet Love Billy Cobb - Hips Don't Lie Mystical Weapons - Gilbert Releases His Pet Salamander Into The Wild Bombay Laughing Club - You Want It All Mark Mulcahy - I Hate To Needy Need You Mark Mulcahy - I Just Shot Myself In The Foot Again Electric Würms - I Could Only See Clouds The Aliens - Caravan / She Don't Love Me No More Reprise Bongwater - I Wanna Talk About It Now Madder Rose - Lights Go Down Stephin Merritt - The World Is Not Made Of Flowers Texas Tornados - Baby! Heaven Sent Me You Stephin Merritt - It's Hard To Be The Emperor Jozef Van Wissem - The Day Is Coming Bongwater - You're Like Me Now Bleu - Somethin's Gotta Give Bleu - We'll Do It All Again Chimera - The Future Is Upon Us The Auteurs - The South Will Rise Again Del McCoury - I Know His Voice Del McCoury - I'm Lonely For My Only Tim O'Brien - He Lifts Me Tim O'Brien - That's How I Learned To Sing The Blues Lester Flatt - It Won't Be Long Jerry Jeff Walker - I Keep Changin' Terry Allen - There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunny Southern California Punch Brothers - It'll Happen The Country Gentlemen - I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow The Country Gentlemen - I Am A Pilgrim Lester Flatt - Your Love Is Like A Flower
POPULAR
TRACKS
MIXES
ALBUMS
Video 1 : 50
Music Tags for Beachwood Sparks:
Biography - Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks Is An American Psychedelic Country-Rock Band From Los Angeles. Formed In 1997 The Band Was On Hiatus From 2002-08 While Band Members Concentrated On Other Projects. While They Reunited In 2008 Most Members Joined Songwriter Cass McCombs In 2016 To Form The Skiffle Players. The Band Was Formed By Bassist Brent Rademaker And Guitarist Christopher Gunst Who Met In The 1990s When Both Were Members Of Los Angeles Indie-Rock Group Further. Guitarist Dave Scher And Drummer Jimi Hey Who Played With Gunst In Strictly Ballroom Were Recruited Before The Band's First Show In June 1997.
Hey Suggested The Band's Name By Combining Sparks Street Where Brent Rademaker Lived In Burbank With Beachwood Street Which Runs Parallel And Adjacent To Sparks. Hey Left After A Few Shows And Was Replaced By Tom Sanford. At Around The Same Time The Group Was Also Joined By Pete "Sleigher" Kinne On Percussion And Another Former Further Member Guitarist Josh Schwartz. They Released The "Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" Single On Bomp! In October 1998. Sanford Left And Was Replaced By Aaron Sperske Drummer With Lilys Whose First Recording With The Band Was On The Sub Pop Singles Club Release "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" Issued In April 1999. Kinne And Schwartz Left Shortly After. In Spring 2000 They Released Their First Album Beachwood Sparks. The "shimmering Twang-Pop Melodies And Gorgeous Harmonies" Drew Comparisons To The Late 1960s' Laurel Canyon Country-Rock Of The Byrds Buffalo Springfield And Gram Parsons As Well As To Contemporaries Elephant 6. The Single "Once We Were Trees" Featuring A Jangly Cover Of The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Suzie" On The B-Side Was Released On The Spanish Label Houston Party Records Previewing The Mellower Sound That Featured On The Band's Second Album Also Called Once We Were Trees Which Was Released In The Second Half Of 2001. A Single From The Album A Cover Of Sade's "By Your Side" Was Released In The United Kingdom And Enjoyed Some Chart Success. The Video Directed By Chad Misner Was Selected For The 2002 South By Southwest Film Festival And Featured Footage Of Aaron Sperske And Autumn De Wilde's Wedding. The Song Was Later Featured On The Soundtrack For The 2010 Feature Film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. For The 2002 EP Make The Cowboy Robots Cry Sperske Was Replaced On Drums By The Returning Jimi Hey. Strictly Ballroom's Jimmy Tamborello Aka Dntel Contributed To The EP. Tamborello Also Worked With Scher And Gunst At Loyola Marymount University's Radio Station KXLU. Since 2002 The Band Has Mostly Concentrated On Other Projects. Gunst Formed Mystic Chords Of Memory. Brent Rademaker Sometimes With Gunst And Scher Plays In The Tyde And Also In Frausdots. Hey And Scher Released An Album As All Night Radio. In March 2007 Scher Was Recruited As Touring Keyboard Player For New York Indie Rockers Interpol. Sperske Joined Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Beachwood Sparks Reunited In 2008 To Play At SB20 The Celebration Of Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary. A Small Number Of Dates Were Played On The West Coast And The East Coast Including July 19 At The Henry Miller Library In Big Sur California. The Reunion Line-Up Was Gunst Rademaker Sperske Ben Knight Jen Cohen And Dan Horne. Scher Also Played At Four Of The West Coast Shows. In 2012 Beachwood Sparks Released The Album The Tarnished Gold. In 2016 Neal Casal Farmer Dave Scher Dan Horne And Aaron Sperske Joined Songwriter Cass McCombs To Form The Skiffle Players. Band Co-Founder Josh Schwartz Died In September 2017 Discography Main Albums
Beachwood Sparks 2000 Sub Pop Once We Were Trees 2001 Sub Pop The Tarnished Gold 2012 Sub Pop Other Albums
Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP 2002 Sub Pop Desert Skies 2013 Recorded 1997 Alive Naturalsound Singles
"Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" 1998 Bomp Records "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" 1999 "Once We Were Trees"/"Wake Up Little Suzie" 2000 "Ballad Of Never Rider" W/ "Fishing Boat Song By Grandaddy And "Table Tennis Star" By Persil 2000 Devil In The Woods No. 38 "By Your Side"/"Sun Surrounds Me"/"Quietly Be"/"Close The Door Lightly When You Go" 2001 Sub Pop read less
read more
Hey Suggested The Band's Name By Combining Sparks Street Where Brent Rademaker Lived In Burbank With Beachwood Street Which Runs Parallel And Adjacent To Sparks. Hey Left After A Few Shows And Was Replaced By Tom Sanford. At Around The Same Time The Group Was Also Joined By Pete "Sleigher" Kinne On Percussion And Another Former Further Member Guitarist Josh Schwartz. They Released The "Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" Single On Bomp! In October 1998. Sanford Left And Was Replaced By Aaron Sperske Drummer With Lilys Whose First Recording With The Band Was On The Sub Pop Singles Club Release "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" Issued In April 1999. Kinne And Schwartz Left Shortly After. In Spring 2000 They Released Their First Album Beachwood Sparks. The "shimmering Twang-Pop Melodies And Gorgeous Harmonies" Drew Comparisons To The Late 1960s' Laurel Canyon Country-Rock Of The Byrds Buffalo Springfield And Gram Parsons As Well As To Contemporaries Elephant 6. The Single "Once We Were Trees" Featuring A Jangly Cover Of The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Suzie" On The B-Side Was Released On The Spanish Label Houston Party Records Previewing The Mellower Sound That Featured On The Band's Second Album Also Called Once We Were Trees Which Was Released In The Second Half Of 2001. A Single From The Album A Cover Of Sade's "By Your Side" Was Released In The United Kingdom And Enjoyed Some Chart Success. The Video Directed By Chad Misner Was Selected For The 2002 South By Southwest Film Festival And Featured Footage Of Aaron Sperske And Autumn De Wilde's Wedding. The Song Was Later Featured On The Soundtrack For The 2010 Feature Film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. For The 2002 EP Make The Cowboy Robots Cry Sperske Was Replaced On Drums By The Returning Jimi Hey. Strictly Ballroom's Jimmy Tamborello Aka Dntel Contributed To The EP. Tamborello Also Worked With Scher And Gunst At Loyola Marymount University's Radio Station KXLU. Since 2002 The Band Has Mostly Concentrated On Other Projects. Gunst Formed Mystic Chords Of Memory. Brent Rademaker Sometimes With Gunst And Scher Plays In The Tyde And Also In Frausdots. Hey And Scher Released An Album As All Night Radio. In March 2007 Scher Was Recruited As Touring Keyboard Player For New York Indie Rockers Interpol. Sperske Joined Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Beachwood Sparks Reunited In 2008 To Play At SB20 The Celebration Of Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary. A Small Number Of Dates Were Played On The West Coast And The East Coast Including July 19 At The Henry Miller Library In Big Sur California. The Reunion Line-Up Was Gunst Rademaker Sperske Ben Knight Jen Cohen And Dan Horne. Scher Also Played At Four Of The West Coast Shows. In 2012 Beachwood Sparks Released The Album The Tarnished Gold. In 2016 Neal Casal Farmer Dave Scher Dan Horne And Aaron Sperske Joined Songwriter Cass McCombs To Form The Skiffle Players. Band Co-Founder Josh Schwartz Died In September 2017 Discography Main Albums
Beachwood Sparks 2000 Sub Pop Once We Were Trees 2001 Sub Pop The Tarnished Gold 2012 Sub Pop Other Albums
Make The Cowboy Robots Cry EP 2002 Sub Pop Desert Skies 2013 Recorded 1997 Alive Naturalsound Singles
"Desert Skies"/"Make It Together" 1998 Bomp Records "Midsummer Daydream"/"Windows 65" 1999 "Once We Were Trees"/"Wake Up Little Suzie" 2000 "Ballad Of Never Rider" W/ "Fishing Boat Song By Grandaddy And "Table Tennis Star" By Persil 2000 Devil In The Woods No. 38 "By Your Side"/"Sun Surrounds Me"/"Quietly Be"/"Close The Door Lightly When You Go" 2001 Sub Pop read less
16 Similar Artists To Beachwood Sparks - Frogtoon Music
Plumtree The Flying Burrito Brothers Wilco Gram Parsons Calexico Lambchop The Jayhawks Billy Bragg & Wilco Uncle Tupelo Gene Clark Magnolia Electric Co. Neko Case The Apples In Stereo Hiss Golden Messenger Giant Sand Old 97's.