cover art by richard colman


TRUST A ROBOT (Video premiered by Echolocale)

"There was this surreal night last summer, when the guys of SF group Exray's invited us out to Bayview. They set up in the middle of a big warehouse studio, owned by local artist Cedric Wentworth. The bizarre, beautiful, industral, and at times apocalyptic pieces crowded the well-used working space, but at nighttime it was a bit icy for a band -- and that was before we turned off the lights. Nonetheless it was the perfect venue for a brand new single, the tale of a few lonely robots at the end of the world, about as yelling-into-the-void as it gets." -Echolocale

'Waiting For Godot' is the story of two thieves waiting in a void for a mysterious stranger. Their days are spent by the side of a road, concocting rituals spun from their own consciousness. Part play, part poem, part dream, Beckett's masterpiece remains one of the most fiercely funny and profound allegories of our time.

Read what the SF Weeekly has to say.



Written by: Samuel Beckett
Director: Jennifer Welch
Assistant Director: Cary Cronholm Rose

Featuring: Keith Burkland*, Jack Halton, Duane Lawrence,
Renzo Ampuero* and Caleb Alexander
*Members of Actors' Equity Association

Soundscape: Jon Bernson
Set Design: Richard Colman

Location: Royce Gallery 2901 Mariposa
Thurs, Fri & Sat 8pm (doors open at 7:30)
Contact: 415-336-3522
Tickets available at www.tidestheatre.org

Watch the Trailer here:

City Limits San Francisco vinyl comp drops Friday 6.17 at Milk Bar! Unreleased Exray's song features Heidi Alexander from The Sandwitches.

Terrorbird/ForceField SXSW Showcase @ Red 7
- March 16th - Austin TX

SFitall SXSW Showcase @ The Vortex & Butterfly Bar
- March 16th - Austin TX

Wiretap Music SXSW Showcase @ The Liberty
- March 17th - Austin TX

San Francisco-based duo Exray's broke out last year when an instrumental version of their slow-building electro-pop anthem "Hesitation" was featured in David Fincher's Oscar-nominated movie The Social Network. Now the California electro-pop band — who were hand-picked by Fincher when the movie's sound designer Ren Klyce passed along their music to the director — have prepped a video of their own, which you can watch below.

"Hesitation" is one amazing mind-flip of a video: The clip lays out trippy, intergalactic visual effects on top of footage of Cold War-era PSAs, when American fears about nuclear attack were at a fever pitch.

Exray's member Michael Falsetto-Mapp (who directed and edited the video) says that sort of cultural paranoia still has resonance in today's era of constant social networking. "I started thinking about the whole idea of societal pressure and I gravitated toward a '50s theme with the found footage I was collecting," he says. "In my opinion, that era has a kind of absurd beauty that fits the song well. The expressions and mannerisms of people from that time were ripe with opportunity. Also, the video could play like a surreal news broadcast about a day in the life of our own indecision and hesitation."

- By Vann Alexandra, SPIN.com

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... with Tim Cohen's Magick Trick, Fiveng and Cyclyst.
Preview the entire album this week on Spinner

Colin Held strikes again with Technicolor!

See Full sized version here:

Name ring a bell? Colin directed Exray's 'You Forgot' which debuted on Pitchfork back in December.

Jeanne Applegate finds 'Ways to Stop Time'

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Great news this week! Pitchfork debuted Colin Held's first video from Exray's upcoming LP!



For those of you who want to grab the straight audio,
Impose Magazine gave some good props right HERE

The Exray's run of silkscreened vinyl will sell out quickly;
we recommend pre-ordering from our own Emporium

Put on your lead vest and see through glasses

Pitchfork premieres the vocal version of Exray's 'Hesitation' on Forkast!

Hear the instrumental version in David Fincher's Facebook film 'The Social Network.'

Featuring two magical mystery tours from our very own
Charles Atlas.

Their full albums can be purchased right here at the
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