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Here is a great new site to hear our music on!

The Sixty One Site Revival

Dear Music Fans,
Not sure if you've heard that The Sixty One site is back! The owners tried to upgrade the graphics a while back and the users protested by leaving the site in the dust. Thankfully they gave into user demand to bring the original site back! It's simple graphics and lack of smart phone application has not deterred anyone. The socially fun site inspired many to return and new users to appear. Favorite songs receive hearts and songs get bumped up by popularity of listeners, becoming a genuine way to see what listeners are truly jazzed, discovering new unheard of bands or well established indie bands. Users can feature music, heart, tip, climb levels to be on Leaderboard, download songs, join groups.
You must try it, and start on our home page:  Sentinel on T61
Here is a screen shot as of today!

Stork Club Show flyers!

Last show of 2015 for Sentinel. Join us for our CD release party in this classic Oakland dive bar & we are "headlining," but also playing with some other fabulous bands from the Bay Area! 

Stork Club Interactive Flyer

LIVE 105.3 FM LOVE

Getting FM play next to Weezer, Silversun Pickups, & Chvrches is just awesome! 

Thanks to Aaron Axelsen, music director at LIVE 105 for believing in our music! 

http://live105.cbslocal.com/2015/12/13/soundcheck-playlist-12-13-2015/

Charity Tuesday ~ I Love family Dog

Any & all new album sales will be donated to 

i love family dog, Dog+Human=Family 

POINTS OF LIGHT on CDBABY

:)))) #CharityTuesday

Swords to Plowshares - Charity Tuesday !

Today is Charity Tuesday
and all sales of our new album 

Points of Light go to this non-profit for Veterans - Swords to Plowshares ! 

http://www.swords-to-plowshares.org/support-vets/

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sentinel11

https://sentineldream.bandcamp.com/

KALX LIVE !

We had a such a great time performing live at KALX 90.7 FM!~ The DJ Sean and engineers Eric and Gina made us feel like part of family! 

Charity Tuesday !

Points of Light 

Our new full album of indie pop songs, 

in its Earth-friendly CD case, is in stock via CDBaby.com 

For Charity Tuesday all our sale proceeds will be donated to 
MEAL ON WHEELS SAN FRANCISCO chapter!

This organization helps feed the elderly and infirmed via home meal deliveries.

#charitytuesday #helloworld

Updated Band App for iPhone and Android Phones!

Download our updated Band App. Free in Apple stores or Google Play stores!
Here is your invite link :::
Sentinel Band App. Invite

Sample of Sentinel Band App.

EGH Radio Plays

Thanks to some stupendous DJ's in Northern UK, 

we are getting a lot of plays on EGH Radio ! 

Unsigned Madness with Stephen

Unsigned Pop Show with Niki 

AM With Amy  

Anne's Rock Show 

Listen via: http://www.eghradio.com/

Feeling part of the EHG Radio family: 

http://www.eghradio.com/artists/sentinel/




P.S.

How To Talk Geordie

Live on KALX November 7, 2015

We are playing 5 songs from our new album 

&

 some from our back catalogs

Sunset,

Jet Black, 

Diamond Bows, 

All That's Necessary! 

If you are not in the BAY AREA, stream our show from anywhere on the internet:

https://kalx.berkeley.edu/

Play on WoodyRadio !

"Twitch" with DJ Mac on WoodyRadio - is a

show dedicated to Post-punk, industrial & 

indie rock Tuesdays 8pm-10pm eastern, 5pm-

7pm pacific time.


http://www.woodyradio.com/


Here is the play list from this week: Featuring 

Smoke & Mirrors, from our new release right  

next to our idols Cocteau Twins..

CDBaby Player Streams Entire Album!

Philadelphia Web Mag Interview

Sentinel Interview

by Izzy Cihak

Like recently profiled Absinthe Rose, Sentinel are a band that I really wish I had been familiar with quite a bit sooner… although the two equally impressive bands differ in nearly every other way… Sentinel are a Bay Area dream pop trio, inspired by post-punk, ethereal wave, and shoegaze, who have been at it for close to two decades, and whose latest effort, Points of Light, dropped this June.  The album boasts songs that are a little more popularly accessible than, although not entirely dissimilar to, Dead Can Dance and Ride, who are admitted and obvious influences (They also cite The Police, Coldplay, and The Arcade Fire as influences… which would seem to bridge that gap.)  The album itself actually resembles a dreamier, more ethereal, and more subdued take on the aesthetic of the first two Garbage records (whom they also claim to be a big fan of.)

Sentinel is comprised of guitarist Dennis Bestafka, vocalist/bassist Tarabud, and drummer Bill Mowery.  I recently got a chance to chat with Dennis about Sentinel’s history, influences, and highlights.  I ask him about the highlights of the band so far and he tells me that the local music community has been incredibly supportive and inspiring and has also allowed them quite a few big opportunities.

“I’d say probably getting consistent airplay in the Bay Area has been a highlight, with stations like Live 105.3 FM.  Aaron Axelsen has a Sunday night show and he’s been playing us for the past 10 years or so. Almost every station has a local hour and it really gives a lot of courage and confidence to the bands to take things to the next level.  But we’ve also been on all kinds of podcasts in Europe, the UK, Japan, Latin America, which is so amazing.  Right now we’re on NPR in Hawaii, which is really cool.  We always do instrumental versions, as well as vocal versions, of the tracks, which has landed us in places like NPR and The History Channel. Our last show was at Great American Musical Hall and we played a sold out show there as the support, which was really great. And we’ve played some pretty big festivals.  The music and arts scene here is great.  I mean, I’ve lived all over as well, from Minnesota and I lived in Texas and I was on the East Coast for a while, but it’s really nice here in the Bay Area.  There’s a lot of tolerance and mixed ethnicities and it’s kind of small and there’s a lot going on for such a small space. The bands in the Bay Area stick together and huddle together and stay active.”

Dennis tells me about Sentinel’s progression and evolution of recent years and says that the experience has been quite positive, but that their latest output and their current state as a band would seem to encompass that whole experience.

“We’ve been a band for a while now and we’ve been in this current lineup for five years now, but people seem to like us, which is really encouraging.  We’re trying to be consistent and persistent, but people seem to like us. We have a really solid record this time, so it’s like, ‘Just go for it!’  This is the first time we’ve had a publicist, which is really nice, but I would say that we pretty much do everything ourselves. By trade, I’m a recording engineer. We love the process, we love recording.  Sometimes we write and record at the same time, sometimes to get something out of just jamming.  We took pretty much the whole year off last year to focus on these songs.”

In addition to their musical influences, Sentinel have a pretty wide array of life experiences and cultural influences that would seem to be influential to their process and aesthetic, whether directly or subconsciously.  I ask Dennis about the trio’s own personal backgrounds, careers, and interests, and he confirms that they are all involved in a variety of things.

“Tara, she’s a pretty interesting gal.  She’s from Colombia and she’s very artistic.  She does a lot of handcrafts and makes a lot of jewelry, she has chickens and she’s really into gardening and, by trade, she’s a therapist, which makes it natural for her to delve into the melancholy a little bit.  Our drummer, Billy, is an actor by trade and does web design.  I’m a music gear-head and I’m basically an EMT by day.  I’m a veteran.  I was in Iraq.”

Because Sentinel’s most obvious musical influences, which tend to come from the late-‘70s, ‘80s, and early-mid-‘90s (and those who have appropriated those golden eras of sonic subversions in the past decade and a half), I’m curious as to what music actually seems to most inspire Sentinel and what kinds of fans of music are most into their own sounds and Dennis tells me that their listeners do tend to have a similar amalgam of tastes to the three of them: “Foremost, people who probably have the same influences like us most: U2, Metric, The Cardigans, The Mondays… The band had a wide reach, in terms of influences.  I think that maybe our influences stretch across decades a bit: The Beatles, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Verve. They’re probably my biggest influences of all-time.”

Sentinel are currently still plotting out their future endeavors, which they’re hoping reach far and wide, but they do have a date scheduled to play at Eat Real Fest (at 2:30pm), a food festival, on September 19th, and are hoping to take the live show on the road in the near future, while also continuing to record some new sounds.

“We’re going to be at Eat Real Fest.  Our next show is a festival in Oakland, it’s a food festival, and we’re keeping our feelers out for a proper record release show and holding out for a really solid venue.  We’re trying to be business-minded and just get away from playing any club on the weekends.  We’d like to book a small, like two-week, West Coast tour, and we’re definitely putting our feelers out for an indie label.  We have tons of more material and tons of stuff to lay down.”

PHILTHY MAG / SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Eat Real Fest Show Pics

Photo by Quan Ta

Photos by Tristan Yates