Austin, Texas, group White Denim, on stage at the Horseshoe tonight, are known for take several influences of garage rock, dub, soul, alternative rock, country, post-punk, blues and psychedelic rock. Mix in some bellowing, male voices and a few confounding prog-rock excursions, and you've got the recipe for something weird enough to be vanguard and smart enough not to wear out its welcome. One constant...
King Khan & The BBQ Show just dropped a new collection of garage rock classics called Invisible Girl . Chuck Berry meets Circle Jerks? The Seeds meet MC5? Otis Redding meets the Sex Pistols? Here's some tunes from the past to get you acquainted if you aren't already. Desert Mile - King Khan I'll Never Belong - The King Khan & BBQ Show Blow My Top - King Khan & BBQ Show Hold Me Tight - King...
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There’s no secret to the rise of Twisted Wheel, “We just make good honest rock ’n’ roll music that people clock on to,” says bassist Richard Lee, who prefers to be known as Ricky. Only his mum calls him Richard. And hasn’t Mrs Lee’s son done his mum proud? The Mancunian three-piece, Lee, drummer Adam Clarke and front man Jonny Brown, are on a headline tour...
'But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone of all the languages unites the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge' (Claude...
The Features are a treat to go see around here and yes our local heroes. I have seen them sooo many times that I forget how lucky we are to be able to see them as much as we do. They recently signed to the Kings Of Leon label 429 with Bug Records for their newest album "Some Kind Of Salvation" , which is by far one of the best albums of the year. This band is everything pure and amazing...
Typically I try not to describe a band's sound by listing every obvious influence and antecedent. But when it comes to Wolfmother , the exercise is almost impossible to avoid. Their sound is a skein of '70s rock tropes. Songs contain blatant borrowings from Steppenwolf, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, and Black Sabbath, taking everything from little riffs to entire melodies to more esoteric thematic...
You wouldn't really know this because I don't really ever bring it up, but I'm quite a big fan of The Strokes. Both "Is This It" and "Room On Fire" got an exceptionally high number of plays from start to finish back in the day, and I still return to them on a regular basis when I need something a little fun and summery. Whether we want to admit it or not, The Strokes really did...
The Electric Prunes With Agent 99 on drums. Got to meet her at Chiller Con this past weekend :) The Electric Prunes On The Mike Douglas Show.mov The Electric Prunes On The Mike Douglas Show.mov.m4v
Capgun Coup - Maudlin The sophomore album from Omaha, NE's Capgun Coup is frenetic collision of 60's garage rock and 70's punk spirit. Recorded live in the studio, it documents the madhouse atmosphere of the house shows the band is known for in their hometown. Frontman Sam Martin delivers his biting lyrics with a Dylan-esque delivery, conjuring up images of what Mr. Zimmerman might have sounded like...
Michael Fortes heads to northern California for this week's edition of Parlour to Parlour, where he catches up with former Stratford 4 frontman Chris Streng.
King Khan. Photo by Amanda Mattos From the first time I heard the music these guys make, whether together as the King Khan and BBQ Show, or in any of their other many incarnations ( King Khan & The Shrines , Mark Sultan's unbelievably good solo album The Sultanic Verses , and so on,), I was in love. The nexus of garage rock, punk, and doo-wop could not be farther up my alley. In a world of electro-this...
The Lion and the Cardinal has a super-interesting post on the origins of the Danse Macabre. The most interesting point is that originally, the folks were not shown dancing with Death himself (la Mort), but with the dead version of themselves (le mort). That’s a considerably more intimate dance, eh? There’s even a creepy medieval version of [...]
Over the last few days there has been lot of discussion about music in 2009 and, I have to admit, I've been involved in some of it whether that be in person or, as this evening on the likes of MySpace and perpetuating that, right here right now. That fine, in so far as it goes, but why draw a line under 2009 in music when there are still two months to go? I know that the few weeks before Christmas...
When Devo first appeared on the scene in 1978 (1977, if you were hip enough to be at a punk show where their independent film/ music video “The Truth About De-Evolution” was screened in between bands), there was nothing remotely like them under the sun. In a heavily macho scene, they offered a stiff, robotic alternative. Highly conceptual, wickedly funny, and possessed with a knack for...
In The Red Records Local heroes and In The Red -signees The Strange Boys will bring their 60s pastiche and summer fun party vibe to Fun Fun Fun Fest’s yellow stage on Sunday afternoon. While The Strange Boys do seem to fit into the lately omnipresent, and as some may argue, moribund lo-fi garage pop genre, they also manage to transcend many of their contemporaries. Taking cues from influences...
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