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After coming out of nowhere last year, BLASTED CANYONS are back a second time with their new EP 2nd Place on Castle Face Records. This new EP features the same discontented and noisy rage that characterized their debut. Continue reading “Blasted Canyons – 2nd Place EP”
NICK WATERHOUSE came back with a brand new single for Record Store Day last month. It’s a split release from Innovative Leisure on 8″ wax with the ALLAH-LAS on the B-side. Continue reading “Nick Waterhouse/ Allah-Las – Don’t You Forget It”
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from KING TUFF but his sophomore LP is just around the corner. Wild Desire is his latest effort coming from the Suicide Squeeze label and it’s an excellent indication of good things to come. Continue reading “King Tuff – Wild Desire 7″”
Benjamin Scott plays bass and sings in Chicago band Brain Idea. OUTSIDE WORLD is his side project which just released a brand new, self-titled cassette EP. Continue reading “Outside World – Outside World CS”
For nearly twenty years the The Empty Bottle has remained one of Chicago’s most enduring rock and Roll venues. Beginning in 2010 audio engineer Shimby McCreery has been recording select performances and streaming them online through Bandcamp. Chicago based Hozac Records has just released a compilation entitled Live at the Empty Bottle which collects 14 highlights from the live series onto one incredible vinyl disk. Continue reading “V/A – Live at the Empty Bottle”
When TY SEGALL and Tim Presley of WHITE FENCE team up for a record together, it’s kind of hard to expect anything less than epic. Sure enough, this duo leaves no stone unturned in their debut album together, titled Hair. Continue reading “Ty Segall & White Fence – Hair”
COUSINS are a four piece garage rock band that formed in Halifax in 2009 by Aaron Mangle. “The Palm at the End of the Mind” is the name of their sophomore LP on Saved By Vinyl, consisting of nine tracks of totally sharp and raucous garage-pop music that also manages to be quirky and highly energetic. Of the nine tracks, “Speech” just might be the most fitting example of this wildly frantic energy. This rowdy track starts out with a jangly bang and rarely ever settles back down afterward. The song is driven by crunchy guitars and a pounding, unpredictable drum pattern that will keep you guessing with each new pulsing measure, bringing the “manic energy and underlying calm” together in one strikingly memorable three-and-a-half minute track. You’d be a fool to miss it below – after the first 15 seconds you’ll see.
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Genre/ Tags: Pop, Garage Rock, Lo-Fi
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Here’s a brand new split cassette from the Sturdy Girls Records label in Nashville. NEW PLEASURE and JENSEN SERF CO. join forces and include five songs apiece which together add up to make quite a ripping cassette. Continue reading “New Pleasure/ Jensen Serf Co. – Sturdy Girls Split CS”
THE DELRELLAS hail from places all over the globe including London, Brighton and Portland to keep it simple. This is their brand new 7″ coming from the Dirty Water Records label based out of London. Continue reading “The DeRellas – Stick It To the Man 7″”
Sweet Heart Sweet Light is the latest offering and sacrament from Spirtualized. Throughout his career guitarist Jason Pierce (aka J. spacemen) has provided us with multicolored galaxy uppers, downers, screamers, and laughers. This album is definitely a downer. Like a potent mixture of Darvon and Valium this is the sort of rock & roll that would have killed Lester Bangs. Continue reading “Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light LP”
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