Love/Hendrix Acetate
Thrilled to get this one, lost my copy a while back.....Love from the "Four Sail" era with guest Jimi Hendrix in the studio (See "False Start" album for "Official" version of "Everlasting...
View ArticleClassic Fire
Fabio, today submits "Could You Understand Me", a 1973 classic from Fire from Yugoslavia......long a favorite of mine, again perhaps my favorite "unknown" ear/genre of rock, the "pre-stoner"/heavy...
View Article"Forever Changes" Mono Mixes!
"Forever Changes" by Love is alot of people's favorite album, my own included.....thusly, I am THRILLED that Fabio has sent the album in mono mixes that I have never heard! Â If you are not familiar...
View ArticleBrian Jonestown Massacre Tribute
Again from The Blog That Celebrates Itself, a tribute to a band that has been a fave around here for a while, The Brian Jonestown Massacre......nobody here I ever heard of, that is what makes it...
View ArticleBad Brains
One of the great hardcore punk albums of the early 1980's, came from Washington DC's Bad Brains......it would be worth it simply for "Pay to Cum", but that's about a tenth of it......their dense,...
View ArticleHoly Machine
Way cool dreamy shoegaze from Kentucky's Holy Machine.....the album "Fraction" is a good listen, also included here is the "No Man's Land Anthem", and a cover of The Church's "Under the Milky...
View ArticleTemptations Wings
From North Carolina we have Temptation's Wings, some loud Viking/doom/death/black metal......if that is your thing you landed in the right spot....
View ArticleCigarettes After Sex
El Paso Texas brings us Cigarettes After Sex, specializing in super slo-mo ambient pop......some good keyboard playing and some kind of strange vocals from founder Greg Gonzalez.01 K/02 Each Time You...
View ArticleThe Douglas Fir
"California Memory" from The Douglas Fir is a quite good collection of solid indie-alt-rock.....not spectacular but very enjoyable, some fine...
View ArticleUlrika Spacek
"Modern English Decoration" is album #2 from UK shoegaze/dream-poppers Ulrika Spacek.....here is a good (somewhat long) review of the...
View ArticleThe Wicked Ones
Fabio sends this Bandcamp link for The Wicked Ones, some way cool retro-psych from Mexico......a really cool EP, on which they cover Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" and turn in a good one with...
View ArticleSea Pinks
Some good jangly power pop from Belfast.......very pleasant, radio-ready in my...
View ArticleMonobrow
Up for some instrumental space/doom? Then Canada's Monobrow is for you.......I've said before that instro hard rock can be dicey sometimes IMO, but this one passed the carpet bomb test.THE NACARAT-01...
View ArticleOverlake
Here's a gem from 2014, Overlake's "Sighs" album.......nice indy-alt rock, somewhere between the dreamy sound and more standard mainstream pop.......a good effort.SIGHS-01 First/02 Disappearing/03 Not...
View ArticlePsychic Teens
An EP from Philadelphia post-punkers Psychic Teens......this is quite good, not at all what I was expecting, some unusual song structures, some solid guitar, distorted vocals.......five good tracks...
View ArticleInstitute
How about another post-punk EP, this time a demo 12" from Austin Texas' Institute....I am unfamiliar with them, but listening now, pretty energetic post-punk, reminds one of the classic post-punk...
View ArticleGreat send from Studkid!
A good submission, Studkid sends the link for the entire 14 volume Manchester Punk Festival......not sure who appears here, but 14 discs of free punk can't be bad......anyone have time to construct a...
View ArticleMt. Wolf
"Aetherlight" is the latest from UK electro-indie pop band Mt. Wolf.....here is a good and thorough review, I liked what I've heard of this...
View ArticleHerlights
Some very good Russian shoegaze, "Happiness is Now" from Herlights.......very tight musically, but with all the noisy/sloppy goodness of shoegaze rock at the same time. Very good one, find time for...
View ArticlePhafner
A Classic......Fabio sends this one along and asks my opinion of it, it's been a fave for a while, as you know I love that early 70's hard/heavy psych/rock.......this one, "Overdrive", turned up in...
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