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After a string of high-quality 7″ records and cassettes, Los Angeles trio ZIG ZAGS return with their long-awaited self-titled debut from In The Red Records. A handful of songs are culled from their Burger Records cassette, but they’re entirely re-recorded for maximum impact. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: Zig Zags – s/t LP”
It’s Easter Sunday, April 4th 1999. My friend and I had just driven two hours to see a show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey in my brown 1980 Dodge Diplomat. The group who I had just braved the drive for in my ancient battlewagon was the Olivia Tremor Control.
Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: The Always Red Society – Talkin’ Giant Chocolate Think Tank Blues”
PROTOMARTYR’s Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art) isn’t an opaque record; singer Joe Casey is forward with his hatred (for the other, the self and the whatever else) even when he tries to cover it with obscuring references. Continue reading “Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right”
St. Louis garage rockers THE BRAINSTEMS just released their latest cassette tape Cold Sweatin’ on their own label Peacebath Records. Continue reading “The Brainstems – Cold Sweatin’ CS”
It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon, it’s late May and I’m driving back from New Jersey with my wife and two-and-a-half year old daughter to our home state of Pennsylvania. We’re driving back from a christening. Were it twenty or so odd years ago, we might have been driving back from a GUIDED BY VOICES show, instead. My daughter fell asleep on the long ride home and I ask my wife if we can check out this tribute record. She acquiesces, we hit play and the memories come flooding back. Begin obligatory history lesson here… Continue reading “An Unmarketed Product – Guided By Voices Songs By Other People”
THE EVERYWHERES have just self-released a new cassette tape entitled Habitualism. It follows hot on the heels of their 2013 debut for Father/Daughter Records, adding eight fresh tracks of blues flavored psych-pop to their growing discography. Continue reading “Friday’s Find: The Everywheres – Habitualism CS”
The TV FREAKS have a new 7″ to share from Hosehead Records in Canada. Leeches comes with three sloppy cuts of belligerent punk rock from the bowels of Hamilton, Ontario. Continue reading “TV Freaks – Leeches 7″”
Eric Schlitter writes and operates his own blog The 13th Track. Throwback Thursday is his bi-weekly installment for the Styrofoam Drone, where Eric focuses on reissues of old albums and archival material from the depths of the vinyl underground.
Landing somewhere between mid period Jandek, Scott Walker’s reading of Tennessee Williams’ Blanket Roll Blues, and the soundtrack to a David Lynch film is the mysterious artist known as LEWIS and the album he christened, L’Amour. Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: Lewis – The Man Who Fell To Earth?”
For those of you unfamiliar with France, they speak French. However these guys do not, at least not on this record. It is sometimes tough to get into music when you can’t identify with the lyrics despite how good the tracks are. For our English ears, LES RIVALS, who are from Paris, present their debut record and take us a little deeper into their musical realm. Continue reading “Les Rivals – s/t LP”
Brighton, England’s THE TEEN VELVETTES craft music that effortlessly elicits a pseudo-50’s nostalgia. Each assemblage to date has represented an evolving style within a singular genre. Continue reading “The Teen Velvettes – The Teen Sound EP”
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