the sandwitches

Grace Cooper, formerly of beloved San Francisco band The Sandwitches, shares a stunning and eerie piano ballad from her new album as Grace Sings Sludge....

We've been huge fans of everything Heidi Alexander's done since we fell in love with that classic debut from her former band the Sandwitches almost a decade ago, and the latest transmission from her shapeshifting alter-ego Earth Girl Helen Brown is no exception...

San Francisco band the Sandwitches have been one of our favorite (and as far as I'm concerned, one of the most vastly underappreciated) bands of the last 5 years or so. So it's with bittersweet sentiment that we share the news that the group will return this summer with their aptly-titled third and final album, Our Toast...

The ladies from our favorite SF band the Sandwitches get down in director Ryan Browne's delightfully Lynchian new video for "In the Garden," taken from the band's latest excellent full-length, Mrs. Jones' Cookies. The perfect visual accompaniment for the song's dark, bewitching vibes. The girls also released this charming animated clip for "Benny's Memory Palace," taken from th

Our beloved San Francisco "self senterd sad pop" girl-group The Sandwitches return with a lovely new 7" single, due next month on Sub Pop sister label Hardly Art. Both sides find the girls sounding as haunting and heartsick as ever; check the dusty, darkly lilting yearning of a-side "The Pearl" below: The Sandwitches :: The Pearl The Pearl 7" is out November 8 on Har

The music bloggers behind Ears of the Beholder and See The Leaves have founded a new label called City Limits, with the noble goal of producing "collectable time capsules that highlight the best of local music scenes." The first installment features artists from their hometown of San Francisco, with contributions coming from Tim Cohen, Young Prisms, Fiveng, The Soft Moon and more, inclu

The Sandwitches played a few songs in a Berkeley ladies' room recently for Bay Area blog EchoLocale, including their cover of the heartbreaking Disney classic "Baby Mine," and new song "My Heart Does Swell" from their forthcoming full-length...

We are extremely psyched to premiere a couple of absolute gems from the long-awaited, soul-piercing new long-player from one of our favorite new bands of the last few years, San Francisco's The Sandwitches. The new record finds former Fresh & Onlys Heidi & Grace at the height of their powers, a perfect marriage of the group's genre-spanning debut and their darker, haunting/heartbreaking D

The next release on our Forest Family imprint is the debut record from the soulful, "nomadic psychedelic folksinger" Earth Girl Helen Brown: a “unique mix of country, girl group, R&B, and ghoulishness,” brought to life by Sonny Smith of Sonny & the Sunsets, with help from Heidi Alexander + Grace Cooper of the Sandwitches, John Dwyer of the Oh Sees, Kelly Stoltz, and others... Re