The Fresh & Onlys are a US indie rock band. They were formed in San Francisco in 2008 by Tim Cohen of Black Fiction and bassist Shayde Sartin. The pair were later joined by Kyle Gibson, Wymond Miles, and Heidi Alexander. They are a key band in what has been described as San Francisco's "new garage rock" movement.
File Under: Ragged, guitar-based indie pop; jangle-'n'-reverb forever! Flagship Acts: Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, the Fresh & Onlys, the Girls At Dawn Based In: Brooklyn, New York When I first meet Mike Sniper, he's drinking Patron Silver at an Oyster Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. From any other record executive, the scene would be typical to the point of almost seeming mundane. But Sniper is the founder of the tiny, ragged Brooklyn indie Captured Tracks, a label that prizes… more »
