garage rock
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Idiana’s Sleeping Bag is gearing up to drop its first LP in August. In the meantime, the band has dropped two tracks, and “Ben” is one of them. Here, the band shoots for a tight and close sound that gets in the listener’s face, but still executes the
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For the price of an e-mail address, Ganglians is giving away another track from its forthcoming album: Still Living. On “Sleep,” the vocals seem to be taking a significant step past all the effects and reverb to perform a pretty strong vocal. It’s like the band has decided to
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Sleeping Bag by Sleeping Bag Despite a somewhat sloppy presentation, the songwriting and melodies behind Sleeping Bag’s debut LP are sturdy enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. On “Slime,” the drums set a steady pace against a deadpan vocal and downstroke’d guitar. The verses sound almost sleepy, but the
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Denver’s Vitamins create a long and winding road of psychedelic rock and atmospheric instrumentation on “the Disappearance of David Lee Powell,” which comes off the band’s latest 7″ via Hot Congress. Haunting vocals, harpsichord, and some heavy guitars try desperately to make it to the end of the
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On the band’s sixth album, Black Lips clean up their sound with Mark Ronson at the mixing board. And even though things are coming in cleaner and clearer, the band hasn’t lost any of their energy and attitude in the process–which is what makes Black Lips records
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Cali’s Al Lover takes on a track from the latest Oh Sees album, Castlemania. For as long as I’ve known about the guy, he’s loved taking fuzzed-out garage rock and throwing a healthy dose of hip hop behind it. He’s still singing the same song, but
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Cali’s Al Lover takes on a track from the latest Oh Sees album, Castlemania. For as long as I’ve known about the guy, he’s loved taking fuzzed-out garage rock and throwing a healthy dose of hip hop behind it. He’s still singing the same song, but
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New video for the Ganglians track “Jungle,” which will be on the band’s forthcoming album. The title is Still Living, and the release date is August 23rd via Lefse. It’s OK to feel creeped out by the video. I am, too.
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New video for the Ganglians track “Jungle,” which will be on the band’s forthcoming album. The title is Still Living, and the release date is August 23rd via Lefse. It’s OK to feel creeped out by the video. I am, too.
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If my son had made this album, I’d say this: “This is a strong debut, son. Strong debut.” WATCH THE REVIEW
