I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz, California, but I think we all know that crepes are the world’s most perfect food. It’s like a pancake, a burrito and the best wrap you’ve ever had all put together. You can get a crepe for breakfast, you can get a crepe for lunch or dinner. The planet is worth keeping around as long as crepes exist on it.

Thus, it’s pretty obvious that San Francisco‘s Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound and Sleepy Sun are just using their upcoming string of five tour dates together (it’s a solar thing) as a way to justify getting everyone together and driving an hour and a half to Santa Cruz for crepes. I know for a fact crepes are available in San Francisco, but maybe The Crepe Place‘s are just that much better. Judging by their menu, and their name, it seems to be a specialty.

I salute Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound and Sleepy Sun for their initiative and their taste in casual European-style cuisine. Were I not on the opposite end of the country, I’d happily join them for a pre-show crepe brunch next month.

Here’s the PR wire info on the tour:

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound have announced a handful of California tour dates with fellow San Francisco natives Sleepy Sun. Assemble Head released their critically acclaimed third album When Sweet Sleep Returned in April 2009 on Tee Pee Records.

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound w/ Sleepy Sun
7/21 The Crepe Place – Santa Cruz, CA
7/22 The Cellar Door – Visalia, CA
7/23 Spaceland – Los Angeles, CA
7/24 Pappy and Harriet’s – Pioneerstown, CA
7/25 Casbah – San Diego, CA

Tee Pee Records head trip rockers The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound have teamed up with labelmates Weird Owl for a quick run of West Coast dates. Unfortunately, they haven’t named the tour AssOwl ’09, but even good looking Californians can’t get everything in life. I mean, you already got hoverboards. What more do you people need?

Here is the info as it showed up in the press release:

Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound and Weird Owl have mapped out a short West Coast tour for early July. The band is also premiering the track “By the Rippling Green” off of their recently released album When Sweet Sleep Returned [reviewed here].

TOUR DATES:
6/19 – The Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA*
6/20 – Lounge Underground – Monterey, CA**
7/06 – Comet Tavern – Seattle, WA
7/07 – The East End – Portland, OR
7/08 – The Stillwater – Ashland, OR
7/09 – The Hemlock – San Francisco, CA
7/10 – The Crepe Place – Santa Cruz, CA
* w/ Sleepy Sun & Spindrift
** w/ Spindrift

They’re the modern sound of San Francisco past, with sweet folky rock born of freewheeling blues jams and vintage mentality. The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound‘s second album for Tee Pee Records, When Sweet Sleep Returned, is hippie psych melody taken to echoing extremes. The music is springtime vibrant and organically grown and all the drugs are geared toward mind expansion rather than escape — which, I suppose, is a kind of escape in itself.

Hey man, did I just blow your mind?

If so, that’s nothing compared to the explosive potentiality packed into When Sweet Sleep Returned, which sets up a commune and gives each of its eight tracks a period of not more than three weeks to act as a sort of executive officer whose decisions must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the others. I’m willing to wager that all five of the band’s members were born at least 12 years after 1970, but just because they weren’t there the first time doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy it now.

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