You Ain't No Picasso (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Well I’m going to need something to relax after the debates got my stress level up. Luckily the Ettes are here to make all those non-catchy thoughts go away… MP3: The Ettes - I Heard Tell The Ettes seem to be a really nice blend of distorted garage rock and catchy pop. I won’t be sexist by [...]
bag of songs (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
A couple photos from this past Monday night's incredible sold out three hour show by Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia. Detroit's The High Strung opened with a great set of their sixties tinged garage rock, showing that a three piece guitar, bass, drums combo can still bring the rock. Robert Pollard and band, including Tommy Keene on guitar took the stage at 10pm,...
Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A sweaty, awesome night of three Bay Area garage rock bands playing variations on a theme. And I do mean sweaty. I thought the last time I saw Sic Alps at Death by Audio would've been the hottest show of...
Raven Sings the Blues (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Ty Segall plays garage fuzzed up and dirty; just the way we like it around here. Sounding like it was recorded with an SM-58 that's seen far better days and blasted to tape, Segall's eponymous solo outing leaves aesthetics to the pros and grabs the garage rock flame with a gusto that's nothing if not admirable. Segall has the true heart of rock beating to his core and underneath the rough production...
95bFM - bCasts (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Slackers is a busy pup, often trading his noisy & trashy garage rock wares in a number of combos at any one time.. But when his colleagues in such ventures find their agendas already mapped out, their schedules filled with work and other daily chores, he must rely solely upon hisself to satisfy his regular needs to play a gig or three.. Out of such circumstances Mr. Slackjaw was born.. Beginning with...
Buzzin Music Blog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Modey Lemon - Season of Sweets is released on Birdman Records Modey Lemon are a loud, expansive mix of garage rock, post-punk aggression, spasmooodic moogs, fuzzy guitars, a good helping of psychedelia and synthesizer kraut-rock. The success is in the way that Modey Lemon seamless blend of all of these influences into one massive album. The album [...]
Spread the Good Word! (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Hey people, it's Dean Carter time ! Carter is a singer-guitarist with the heart and much of the sound of a '50s rockabilly wildman, yet recorded music that updated that rockabilly spirit with '60s garage rock and dashes of soul, and even a bit of psychedelia here and there. Carter didn't put out a whole lot of records in the '60s, and those he did put out were heard by few. Yet one of those singles...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
KS Art 73 Leonard Street, 212-219-9918 Tribeca / Downtown September 27 - October 29, 2008 Opening: Saturday, September 27, 7 - 9PM Web Site This group exhibition draws its inspiration from the psychedelic/garage rock hit from 1966, Count Five’s Psychotic Reaction, the often-covered song about depression and unrequited love. The song derives its disjunctive, angular, emotive power out of a hypnotic...
prefix (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
The Subways have had the unfortunate disadvantage of doing Brit-pop crossed with garage-rock at the same time as the Arctic Monkeys. Now that the Monkeys haven’t been around for a ...
Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Artist: Daily Noise Club Label: AMAdea Records Album: Next Level Genre: Garage Rock Buy CD ARTIST DESCRIPTION In 1998 four guys from Sofia, Bulgaria started a band and named it Daily Noise Club. Now, 10 years later, lot of club gigs and fest appearances, debut album - “Dirty Dress” (D.N.C./043) 2002, and a single - “Let Us” (D.N.C. music) 2004, they [...]
Faronheit (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Kings of Leon's 2003 debut album "Youth & Young Manhood" caught a lot of people's ears with it's rootsy Americana style and alt-country, garage rock charm. It was clear from the start that these bearded guys hailing out of Nashville were destined for bigger things- most notably arenas. Theirs was a sound that, while polarizing in many cases, contained the earnestness and attractiveness of many of the...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Although Paul Weller's caustic disdain classified the Jam as punk-rockers, the music was covertly traditionalist, looking as much to the concise harmonies of American soul as to the band's spike-haired contemporaries.
filmgurlland (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Friday : After a slightly more mellow week, had a quick sushi dinner with a friend after work and then hurried home to give mom a happy birthday phone call before zipping down to the Bistro de Paris for the B-Sides album launch party. After blowing $6 on a pint, realized that the half-pitchers were $7.50 and kissed my good intentions for the evening goodbye. Danced like a goof and put out my back...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Kings of Leon, Only by the Night Official Release Date: September 23 The Verdict: By now, you surely know what to expect from these guys: fuzzy, southern-tinged garage-rock songs about backstage coitus, excitedly crooned by a man with an imminent case of laryngitis. So, it's unlikely anyone will be disappointed by Only by the Night , the band's pretty great new fourth album (it hit the Internet yesterday),...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Past Lives' Jordan Blilie goes for the jugular at CHBP. Photo by Crickontour . To supplement Eric's post below, here's my own $.02 on this fine show. First impressions of Talbot Tagora : They seemed like a fusion of post-punk ramshackleness and youthful garage-rock rumbustiousness. Their brief songs bounce, romp, roar, and rumble in an efficient manner that suggests a fondness for early Fall (the...
