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“There’s a cold winter coming for us”, cantano gli Allo Darlin’ nella canzone che apre la scaletta di questa sera, e nel bel mezzo di questa afosa estate è facile far finta di credere che non si tratti di una metafora. Se anche voi sentite qualche brivido, riscaldatevi con i prossimi sessanta minuti pieni di belle novità indiepop e indie rock, senza tralasciare i doverosi brindisi, nella nuova…

First Christmas of my life that I spent away from Alabama. In California, Bay Area, with G’s family. We had an ideal setup, house/cat sitting for friends of friends in San Rafael (pronounces Raf-fell). We ate delicious food, rollerskated at the Church of Eight Wheels, cooked all day on Christmas, had raclette at Luke and Mirelle’s, and saw Ikaika’s band, Flamango Bay, at the Berkeley Art House. Time well-spent, but too short.

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Flamango Bay share new single ‘Fishing for the Sun’

San Francisco band Flamango Bay sign to 0800-MOSHI-MOSHI and share new single ‘Fishing For The Sun’.

Ikaika Gunderson, Dash Goss Post, and Georgia Manou formed in high school, and ‘Fishing For The Sun’ is about Ikaika's gender identity. They say it was the supportive environment cultivated by the prominent genderqueer and transgender element of the Bay Area music scene that allowed them to explore feelings they suggest they may have pushed away for a long time otherwise.

The band say: "In the case of Ikaika, their gender identity was the thing they were ignoring and fishing for the sun was how they began to look at it head on and unpack it. They wrote this song during a very isolated part of quarantine, when a lot of people including themself were questioning and contemplating their identity. In astrology your sun sign represents your identity, so fishing for the sun could mean trying to figure out who you are."