“Sidewave is the real deal, with something to show and tell everyone,” says music review site Audio Eclectica. What began as the brainchild of San Francisco-based Singer/Guitarist/Graphic Artist Phil Golyshko quickly morphed into the multi-textural project Sidewave is today. At once heavy and light, hard-driving and airy, Sidewave has used lush chords and honeyed melodies to develop a sound that’s familiar, yet all their own. The swirling anthemic vocals and cliffs of guitars are the culmination of years of writing, recording, and artistic exploration. In late 2013, Phil enlisted the help of his cohorts from Chicago, now based in LA – guitarist William Collins, and drummer Brandon Dickert to help define the band’s forward-thinking, yet tradition-rooted sound. Bassist and composer Matt Russell joined the lineup in early 2014 to max out Sidewave’s wall of sound. While they take cues from some of the most revered and often unsung alternative icons of the past 20 years (bands like Hum, Failure, Shiner, and the Smashing Pumpkins), Sidewave is taking their legacy to the next level, reinventing a sound, and defining what it means to be Space-Rock. Sidewave is an LA band that blends elements of shoegaze and alternative rock. Soothing melodies, crushing guitars & monster beats.