garage rock

  • 2013

    Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Ty Segall collaborator Mikal Cronin drops a new track from this forthcoming album MCII, which is dropping in May via Merge Records. It’s a sweet, sentimental tune that’ll relentlessly tug as those heart strings.

  • The title track from what I believe is Warm Soda’s debut album. They’re a band that was formed pretty recently by Matthew Melton after the demise of his previous band, Bare Wires. Like Bare Wires, Warm Soda has a somewhat vintage garage rock sound, but there’s a

  • 7

    Little Metal Baby Fist by The Dirty Nil The Dirty Nil is bringing out some grungy garage rock that is hitting me in all the right ways. These three tracks, which can be bought in the form of a 7′, desire to be played louder than speakers could ever dream

  • ep

    Sealings S/T EP by Sealings London lo-fi garage rockers Sealings have a new self-titled EP out that’s got as much fuzz as it has lethargy. The vocals are absolutely deadpan and disconnected, but meet face-to-face with some pretty energetic guitar and drums. The solos blaze, too. Look for

  • 2012

    Meowtain by Meowtain <a href=”http://meowtain.bandcamp.com/album/meowtain”>Meowtain by Meowtain</a> Lo-fi pop and rock outfit Meowtain has some pretty noisy and eccentric tunes on their new, self-titled Bandcamp release, and “Species” is one of my favorite tracks from it. Over some

  • Back when Dum Dum Girls dropped their 2010 debut I Will Be, it would have been hard to predict that within two years, frontwoman Dee Dee would develop into a remarkably talented and mature singer/songwriter. Tracks like the devastating “Coming Down” from last year’s Only In Dreams established

  • Back when Dum Dum Girls dropped their 2010 debut I Will Be, it would have been hard to predict that within two years, frontwoman Dee Dee would develop into a remarkably talented and mature singer/songwriter. Tracks like the devastating “Coming Down” from last year’s Only In Dreams established

  • In a year when newcomers like Ty Segall and The Men are making cutting, aggressive garage rock records, it can be easy to forget about the band who led that revivalist charge in the first place. As if acutely aware of the current garage rock trends, the legendary Jon Spencer

  • Texas garage rock eccentrics Fergus & Geronimo have a new track out, and it doesn’t disappoint. Not at all. Nope. Well, maybe it’s a bit short, but the duo makes up for it with an extremely catchy hook and personality. The track opens up with a miss “Heather

  • Here’s a track, “DTV,” from the forthcoming Natural Child album, For the Love of the Game. I did an audio review of the album the band released last year on Infinity Cat, 1971. The 7″ they reissued last year was pretty boss, too. With this new track, like usual,