Woods is sharing the B-side of the recently released 7″ single for “Cali In a Cup,”. The band has also added even more dates to their Fall tour. Two weeks ago, the band premiered the first video from the album , the Adarsha Benjamin-directed “Cali In a Cup,” filmed on Super 8 at and around this year’s Woodsist Festival in Big Sur, CA. The band launches a national tour in Atlanta on Sept. 26 where they will team up at various points with White Fence, Widowspeak, Purling Hiss and The Walkmen.

Woods with a new single, recorded in the winter of 2011 at Buttermilk Falls in Warwick, NY

as a companion piece to their new full length, Sun and Shade,

With a title like At Echo Lake, the fifth album from New York’s Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007′s At Rear House and 2010′s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing.
Woods’ secret weapon is the quality of Earl’s voice, osmosing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions from the past, it’s the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake.
-David Keenan/Glasgow/March 2010
Listen to I was gone

WOODS
05/13 – New York, NY – Abrons Art Center / Joshua Light Festival
06/07 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern #
06/08 – Vancouver, BC – Media Club #
06/09 – Portland, OR – Holocene #
06/10 – Arcata, CA – Jambalaya #
06/11 – San Francisco, CA – Slims #$
06/12 – Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library / Woodsist Festival #$%
06/14 – Santa Barbara, CA – Jensen’s $%
06/15 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex / Woodsist Festival #$%
06/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (Northside Fest / Woodsist Showcase) %^
# = w/ Art Museums, The Mantles
$ = w/ Kurt Vile
% = w/ Real Estate
^ = w/ The Fresh and Onlys, Moon Duo and Sic Alps

Woodsist, a record label based on the East Coast, (Warwick, New York, to be exact), has decided to bring some of its good vibes to the West Coast for a pair of miniature festivals this June.  The first of the two fests will be held in Big Sur at the Henry Miller Library from 3pm to 11pm – full line-up is below – you can buy tickets here.  There are also several camping options in Big Sur for anyone attending from out of town – see details below. The second fest happens in Los Angeles a few days later on June 15 where Woodsist will take over both The Echo and Echoplex stages for a night with a total of ten bands ranging from the universally loved Real Estate, to LA’s own Abe Vigoda, to All Saints Day, the new project from members of Vivian Girls and Cat Power. Buy tickets for the LA fest here.
WOODSIST FEST LA – JUNE 15TH, ECHO & ECHOPLEX
REAL ESTATE
WOODS
KURT VILE
ABE VIGODA
THE ART MUSEUMS
THE MANTLES
NODZZZ
SUN ARAW
ALL SAINTS DAY
THE BATHS

With a title like At Echo Lake, the fifth album from New York’s Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007′s At Rear House and 2010′s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing.

Over the past few years Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outré company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully-constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics. Listen to ‘I was gone’

WOODSIST RECORDS OFFICIAL SXSW SHOWCASE:

REAL ESTATE

WOODS

THE FRESH & ONLYS

MOON DUO

THE BITTERS

FERGUS & GERONIMO