Sonny & The Sunsets
Tomorrow Is Alright

Sonny Smith is the Sonny in question here. He's a singer, songwriter, playwright, author and onetime troubadour piano man who is now the captain of th...

Sonny Smith’s band name is a self-conscious throwback to an innocent time of joyously primitive pop, and his album follows suit, sounding like a music...

Sonny Smith writes songs so catchy they sound familiar on the first listen. He's displayed this skill in the past on a series of albums that featured ...

To some people, Sonny and his cohorts probably sound vaguely"retro." They might feel that Sonny Smith's laid-back, perhaps depressant-induced,vocals w...

If The Velvet Underground had come up through San Francisco—with all the mellow, psychedelic floweriness that implies—it might’ve sounded something li...

Sonny Smith’s ‘Tomorrow is Alright’ had a limited vinyl release last year, and now Fat Possum have picked it up just in time for the lazy end of late ...

Sonny Smith has been kicking around the Bay Area music scene for over a decade, playing blues piano here, touring with Neko Case there, and releasing ...

Fanciful whimsy and weary self-deprecation should be at odds, but Sonny Smith invokes them both with a shrug on his band's low-key garage-pop debut. O...

You've got your throwback acts-- content to fix a backwards gaze, work on their period-appropriate outfits, and match new words to old riffs-- and the...

Während alle Welt von Portland oder Williamsburg erzählt, blühen abseits unentdeckte Landschaften. In San Francisco hat sich still und heimlich eine I...