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Secret Colours

This is a dandy, "Dream Dream" from Secret Colours.....swirling dreamy psychedelic shoegaze, really caught my ear the first time.  Really, really a good one.01. Another World (03:38)02. Dream Dream...

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The Gluts

Here is another really good one, from Italy,  "Estasi" from The Gluts....."THE" (IMO) modern sounds of rock: noisy, distorted, semi-psych........quite a good effort.ESTASI-01 Colline Bianchi/02...

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Major Leagues

Australlian girl/garage group stuff, really cool........reminiscent of perhaps Nikki & the Corvettes.......quite a good and innocent rock album.GOOD LOVE-01 Swimming Out/02 Mess up/03 Jaimee and...

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Reduction Plan

From Connecticut USA come the very dark, cold, shoegaze/post punk of Reduction Plan.......this is a good one I will listen to again today, kind of a rarity!SOMEWHERE-01 Without an End/02 In the...

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Clustersun

From Catania Italy comes this fab piece of noisy shoegaze/post punk.........good album, attaching a review to this...

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ptsd

Here's a cool demo disc from New York's ptsd, entitled "If You See Something Say Something".......four tracks, some good three-piece post new-wave/power pop........recommend this, if simply as a...

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Mothership

Fabio sends us this hard rocking slab from Dallas' Mothership, "High Strangeness". This is the trio's third album, I think that we've featured the early ones as well......some hard rocking shit, no...

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The Popguns

Really did like this album of jangly alt-pop from The Popguns, "Sugar Kisses". From Brighton, they feature some strong radio-ready pop songs with Tom Petty-like guitar and some wonderful chick...

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Electric Mountain

Sludgy power trio heavy rock from Mexico......another "name your price" Bandcamp link.....I always appreciate those, so take advantage and if you like it, be certain and support the bands.Electric...

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Cable Ties

Wonderful album from Melbourne's Cable Ties........some strong retro 70's punk noises here, with a great female singer (hints of Sleater-Kinney?), strong songs, excellent playin'.......a real surprise,...

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Pristine

A good straight up hard rocking album, "Ninja", from Pristine.......a brief review:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Starting in North...

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Fall of an Empire

From South Carolina come Fall of an Empire with" Croweater2 The Last Wishes of Kings".........as you might guess, this has some heavy stoner overtones, and you'd be 1000% right. This is a good one,...

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High Preist

Haven't heard this yet but all reviews point to a doom-ier Alice in Chains.......Fabio submits and also points to the AIC comparison. I'll be checking...

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Mega Sons of Garage Fuzz, Part 20

Next to last installment of this great torrent, letter "W" today.......again, this material is not duplicated on the FIRST "Garage Fuzz" torrent/series.......once again, thanks to James for creating...

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New From Waxahatchee

I've featured this band many times on this site, just checked this new release......"Out in the Storm" is as good as their previous efforts, IMHO.......Katy Crutchfield is truly developing as an...

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Male Gaze

Good hard edged rock n roll from Male Gaze.......here is a good review if you want to read...

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The Ratboys

Reminds me somewhat of some of the early 90's alt-rock female bands......really quite good with clever lyrics and vocals. Thumbs Up!GN-01 Molly/02 Elvis is in the Freezer/03 Westside/04 Control/05...

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Agent Bla

From Fabio, he calls it "A good one....poppy but good"........carpet bomb test passed........here's a review:Gothenburg’s Agent Blå call their jangly, moody music “death-pop,” but the drama they bring...

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Neil Young-Self Titled-Mono Rip

This also comes to us by way of Fabio, who seems to be utilizing the "Stoned Professor" some oaf his submissions of late.......LOVE vinyl rips (esp. mono) and I'll post damn near any of em......FABIO:...

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Electric Prunes

This is a 1967 mono rip from Fabio/Professor stoned of some cool 1967 Electric Prunes.....no track list as I haven't opened this (flac) file yet, we'll all find out together.Password : profstonedLink:...

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Wrapping up Sons of Garage Fuzz, and a hiatus

Well, here's what's left of the Sons of Garage Fuzz torrent, x-y-z.......that will do it for BOTH fuzz torrents, thanks 100000000 x over to James for doing the work of creating them. Please share them...

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Holy Shit! An update!

Hey, everybody. Brian here. Been awhile, huh?  Don't know how many remember me. I've been quiet blogging-wise the last 12 months or so. Just couldn't think up any interesting compilations, and frankly,...

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New Cover Project!

This is my first new cover project in a long time. This group has had several tribute albums dedicated to them, but for me they've always been kinda lopsided. Using them as a resource, as well as...

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A Few Words On Things

Ok, I think a little explaining is in order..I'm not here to be the boss of anything. I'm not here to highjack Scott's blog. He trusts me with the Blogger pass, so that's good enough for me (and most...

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Eighties Covers Redux!

I took my Eighties covers project from last year, expanded it, shuffled the order, and replaced some weak tracks. I think it's pretty killer. If you downloaded it last year, definitely replace the old...

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