Oceanography Named One of The Bay Bridged's Best of 2012!

"The album kicks off with this soaring and emotionally-gripping track that calls to mind early U2, and which is the best track you’ll hear all year about a collections agent who uses the name of a Hall of Fame baseball player as an alias." Read the full list now over on The Bay Bridged!

The Bay Bridged Talks With Oceanography's Brian Kelly

"Loud Americana seemed like the best way to describe our sound. While we do share many aspects of the Americana genre, the tonal aspects of that genre didn’t seem to work. I don’t play clean roots/blues guitar all the time. I do play a lot of flat picking a la American hillbilly, but I tend to jostle things tonally with distortion and delay swashes that can be a bit cacophonous. So that’s where the “loud” comes into play." Read the full interview now on The Bay Bridged!

Oceanography's 'Napoleon Holiday" Premiered On Lo-Pie!

"“Napoleon Holiday”, the second track release from Bay Area band Oceanography, takes you on a stop motion journey through the vast lands of vintage magazines. As the song builds to its climax, an avalanche of Wite-Out creeps over the mountains and bursts into an inked out scene in unison with the guitars." Watch the video now on Lo-Pie.

Oceanography's Latest EP "Parachutes of Plenty" Reviewed On Music on the Goe!

"“I guess what I’m trying to do is avoid folk,” Kelly says. “I’m not just some dude playing a guitar.” Much like America, “Parachutes of Plenty,” is a tapestry of different styles. Yes it’s guitar heavy, but it’s also epic, free-roaming gloom-pop." Keep on reading over on Music on the Goe! 

This is Book's Music Reviews Oceanography's "Parachutes of Plenty!"

"Oceanography could be described as the best of what rock has offered in the last 20 to 40 years, which might sound a cheap way to say this is as good as anything out there, but what exactly is it that they do? Their style of pop is aggressive in a rock fashion, and while distinctively American with hints of surf music, country and rockabilly twang, and Bruce Springsteen-like optimism..." Read the full review on This is Book's Music.

Oceanography's "American Cars" Named The "Music To Start The Week With" On The Wild Magazine

"Brian Kelly is the man behind Oceanography, a rock project from Oakland that dabbles on the sonic excesses of gothic Americana. Avoiding folk at all costs, Kelly has included musicians like drummer Kathleen Richards and organist (and engineer) Scott Barwick into the recording of his new EPParachutes of Plenty. The collaborative spirit shows on strong cuts “American Cars,” which showcases the melodic aspect of Kelly’s voice and the tight arrangement behind it." Listen now on The Wild Magazine.

Watch Oceanography's New Video On This Is Book's Music!

"The music merges different raw styles of rock’n'roll throughout the decades, sometimes with a bit of garage rock passion, sometimes with the fierce intensity of punk, so at times it may sound like alterna- this or alterna- that, or indie hoo haa whatever, until you realize this is just brutal rock’n'roll that continues on the true spirit of the music." Read on at This is Book's Music!