garage rock

  • chicago

    Doomed Boys (previously Super Minotaur) is a Chicagoan collective of writers, illustrators, and musicians whose art tends to go in an alluringly scuzzy direction. This can be seen in the few drawings they’ve posted to their Facebook, as well as in these two most recent songs they’ve produced.

  • 2013

    Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen goes electric and heavy on this new track from her forthcoming record, which is set to drop via Jagjaguwar on February 18th! The title of this thing: Burn Your Fire For No Witness. While I’m not huge on this mid-paced, slightly lo-fi garage rock sound, Angel’

  • 2013

    Singer-songwriter Angel Olsen goes electric and heavy on this new track from her forthcoming record, which is set to drop via Jagjaguwar on February 18th! The title of this thing: Burn Your Fire For No Witness. While I’m not huge on this mid-paced, slightly lo-fi garage rock sound, Angel’

  • As Fuzz, Ty Segall and Charlie Moothart bring the incredibly high level of distortion and energy you’d expect from a Ty-affiliated album. However, there are a slew of different factors keeping this record from sticking out in Ty’s ever-growing discography: production, songwriting, vocals. All of these things keep

  • New York rock outfit Crystal Stilts come through with an album that shot for a prettier sound, but only delivers about half of the time.

  • 4ad

    Deerhunter has made a music video for the breezy Monomania cut “Back to the Middle.” The grainy, mostly black and white video features a drag-clad Durassie Kiangangu lip-syncing the song and dancing, only cutting briefly to color as we see Kiangangu getting ready in his dressing room. Monomania is out

  • 2013

    Considering how much I loved Crystal Stilts’ last album, of course I’m looking forward to their next LP, Nature Noir. The album is looking at a release on Sacred Bones records on September 17th, and this newly released cut titled “Future Folklore” comes off a lot clearer than most

  • 2013

    One of New York’s trippiest, strangest, and most surreal garage rock acts has announced a new album–title: Nature Noir–and you can stream the first track to drop from it via the embed above. While I wouldn’t exactly call it a “hit,” the band does manage deliver

  • anthem

    Eclectic Berlin-based garage rock outfit King Khan & the Shrines is making their return with the track “Born To Die”. The band has always had a great, raw sound that’s pretty comparable to The Black Lips and other contemporary underground rock acts. However, they usually mix it with own

  • Graves by HOODED FANG A fun, wild, garage-y track from Hooded Fang, which is actually the title track–uh, sorta–from the band’s latest full-length album, Gravez. The LP is currently released on Full Time Hobby in Canada, and I’m hoping for a U.S. release soon, eh?