garage rock
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On their sophomore album, Australia’s the UV Race brings garage rock to a dirtier and grimier level than most. The band’s loose song structures and loose playing bring a lot of, well, “character” to these recordings. There are flubbed notes everywhere, and it’s all for the sake
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MP3 I was lurking one of my favorite blogs for some positive tunage, and I got what I was looking for: A new track from King Tuff–a.k.a. Kyle Thomas, a.k.a. the frontman of Happy Birthday. On “Hands,” rides a wave of flanged guitars into a
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At the beginning of April, I blogged a video from an up-and-coming psych rock outfit from my neck of the woods. These guys like to keep things instrumental and slightly anonymous. There’s not much to know about the group at this point–outside of the fact that their members
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On Times New Viking’s latest album, Dancer Equired, the band steps out from behind the veil of lo-fi, and comes together with an actual studio recording. Of course, the clarity that brings to this album is only relative. It’s definitely easier to parse the instruments on this album,
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Natural Child’s 1971 is an attitude-heavy set of rock tunes that emulate everything from power pop to the kind of classic rock they play on the AM band. Stylistically, this LP is all over the place, which is kind of surprising since the 7” EP I reviewed of theirs
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MP3 A track from Homo: The 2nd album from Aussie garage rock outfit the UV Race. These guys tip the scales at six members, and bring on keys and brass to make their noisy, strung out jams sound a little more refined–you know, like finely aged toilet wine. That’
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MP3 Since their debut full-length dropped, I’ve considered Ganglians to be one of the most interesting groups to take pop to a psychedelic, messy, and lo-fi level. There’s an atmosphere around their music similar to that of Woods, but I find their songs to be what really keeps
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MP3 Unfortunately, albums from the garage rock outfit Thee Oh Sees have always been hit or miss for me. But when they hit, they really hit. The first track to drop from their forthcoming LP on In the Red is incredibly fun. If we all knew the words, it would
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Every time a Kills album comes on, I feel a bunch of involuntary reflexes coming on: my eyes squint, my lips tighten, and my shoulders start to shrug. I’m just unsure of why this music should appeal to me. I could certainly see myself latching onto the noisy distortion,
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If there’s any residue of sunshine in your soul, this stark single by Michigan gloom-garage rockers the People’s Temple, appropriately titled “Jim Jones,” will chill it down. Lead singer William Young manages to elevate this heroin-soaked street walk into something darkly charismatic. In the background, meanwhile, a dark
