Allah-Las – Worship the Sun (2014)
California’s Allah-Las seem to make music through a vintage lens, combining elements of ’60s surf, psychedelic, and garage rock into a more updated and accessible package. The band’s members first met...
View ArticlePort Of Saints – Volume I-III (2014)
Port Of Saints is a norwegian band formed by Erik Lindo (Vocals, Organ, Acoustic, Electric & 12 String Guitar, Bass, Glockenspiel, Percussion) and Thom Vigebo ( Acoustic, Electric, Slide & 12...
View ArticleBroken Arm – Life Is Short (2014)
Formed from the components of a number of Leeds-based punk /noise outfits, Broken Arm are a supergroup of sorts, involving former members of Sailors, Woman, Like A Kind Of Matador and the...
View ArticleMartyr Privates – Martyr Privates (2014)
Martyr Privates’ self-titled debut is a wash of grunge and slacker vibes filtered through the guitar and vocal of ex-Slug Guts member Cameron Hawes. With Luke Walsh of Blank Realm on board as producer,...
View ArticleCowbell – Skeleton Soul (2014)
Cowbell return with their second album Skeleton Soul in September 2014. Jack Sandham and Wednesday Lyle have been playing together as Cowbell since late 2009 when they got together for a late night...
View ArticleZig Zags – Zig Zags (2014)
Pounding out buzzy, doomstruck rock that lurks somewhere between metal, hardcore, stoner rock, and whatever else those kids in Gummo were into, the Zig Zags sound like the undisputed winners at a...
View ArticleBass Drum of Death – Rip This (2014)
Mississippi rock duo Bass Drum of Death have maintained a relentless work ethic over the last few years. So it’s no big surprise that following last year’s self-titled LP, the group have already...
View ArticleTomorrows Tulips – When (2014)
On their third release, Costa Mesa’s Tomorrows Tulips (led by singer Alex Knost, ex-pro surfer and former member of Japanese Motors) show their adoration of underground alternative of the past with...
View ArticleMeatbodies – Meatbodies (2014)
Mikal Cronin put on some killer live shows last year surrounding MCII, but while he was singing beautifully and strumming his 12-string, another longhair consistently threatened to steal the spotlight....
View ArticleSex Hands – Pleh (2014)
Having relocated to Manchester from North Wales the band combine both the grainy, northern soul aesthetic of their peers on the superb Icecapades label with the quirky songwriting of fellow Welsh...
View ArticleWhite Mystery – Dubble Dragon (2014)
It’s like clockwork: Every April 20, Chicago sister (Miss Alex White) and brother (Francis White) duo White Mystery put out a new record. This year, it’s the double LP Dubble Dragon — one half is a new...
View ArticleUseless Eaters – Bleeding Moon (2014)
With the 2013 album Hypertension, then-Nashville -based punk Seth Sutton took his lo-fi one-man band Useless Eaters out of the bedroom and into the studio, upping the production values at the same time...
View ArticleTy Segall – $INGLE$ 2 (2014)
If you were to look up the word prolific in the dictionary, you wouldn’t see a picture of Ty Segall there. He’d be way too busy making music to stop long enough to pose for one of those cool old...
View ArticleWax Witches – Center of Your Universe (2014)
On his previous work as Wax Witches, garage-punk mastermind Alex Wall (of Bleeding Knees fame) took the bratty sound of classic pop punk and gave it a thorough sonic shredding, resulting in brittle and...
View ArticleVic Godard & Subway Sect – 1979 Now! (2014)
The story of Vic Godard and the Subway Sect is a fascinating one, almost screenplay-worthy. Missed opportunity, iconoclasm at its finest, and a lot of good, good music would fill the pages, with Godard...
View ArticleStraight Arrows – Rising (2014)
Even on record, Sydney’s Straight Arrows sound like a band you want to party with. Semi-strict devotees of the original wave of ‘60s garage-rock they may be, but they’ve also got more than enough...
View ArticleThe Seeds – Singles A’s & B’s 1965-1970 (2014)
The Seeds were one of the most influential bands in the ’60s American garage rock scene; they delivered hypnotic, stripped-down tunes dominated by Daryl Hooper’s circular keyboard lines and the fuzzy,...
View ArticleEight Rounds Rapid – Lossleader (2014)
A fiery, volatile presence on the London and south coast live circuits for the last 18 months or so, Eight Rounds Rapid’s debut album is a rambunctious and raucous affair that does a great job of...
View ArticleThe Ukiah Drag – In the Reaper’s Quarters (2014)
If you’re going to partner up with death, you better make sure you struck a good bargain, and it sounds like the reaper lived up to his end of the deal on the first album from the Ukiah Drag. In the...
View ArticleCoachwhips – Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine (2003, Remastered 2014)
“This might be the earliest we’ve ever played, and the most complete as far as songcraft goes,” quipped John Dwyer, frontman of Coachwhips, during one of the band’s reunion shows this March. “So you...
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