Wooden Shjips' "Lazy Bones" rides on a combustible riff and rattle-and-roll percussion. Wooden Shjips' members aren't the type to shift gears between records, but they're willing to venture outside ...

When Erik “Ripley” Johnson pitched his Wooden Shjips bandmates on recording their first album in five years, he did so gently. “What I proposed to them was the minimum commitment possible,” Johnson ...

California’s Desert Daze festival has been announcing its lineup in stages. Now they have announced the fourth round of artists, including Slowdive (who join previously announced fellow shoegazing ...

This Sunday Wooden Shjips will perform their first ever D.C. gig at the Red and the Black. And I’m at a loss for words—mostly because I’ve typed them all already. Well, all of the hippy-dippy ones, at ...

“Lazy Bones” rides a single, relentless riff all the way through its four minutes, a distorted bass, drum and guitar mantra that suggests other such rock meditations: the Velvet Underground’s “Sister ...

Wooden Shjips aptly add an extra shush to their name, with their love of fuzzy tones and hazy effects. The San Fran-based modern psychedelic rock outfit’s tunes are kind of like wind storms, with ...

Wooden Shjips’ West, released in September on Thrill Jockey, is a sprawling, fuzzy psychedelic jam fest that adds a laid-back California vibe to the Krautrock formula. If front man Ripley Johnson, ...

Portland, Oregon-based Ripley Johnson has been the prime singer-songwriter in popular groups such as Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo and, appearing at the Richmond Music Hall on Monday, July 21, Rose City ...

Numb.er leader Jeff Fribourg has a day job in photography and graphic design, and the gray-hued post-punk he creates has a similarly artful construction and artificial remove. All the right aesthetic ...

It isn't that hard to make music that sounds hallucinatory, but it's hard to do it as well as the San Francisco quartet Wooden Shjips, who fall on the more compact, song-oriented side of ...