The Orwells strike back ... the Elmhurst garage sensation kids after a stunning album last year show some of their awesome skills and a unveil a new video, they were one of biggest revelations from last year.
Check out this super cool podcast with soundzzzz from the American garage rock/surf/punk scene by Graciela Arteaga from the Spanish blog No Toques Más Sam
1.Jacuzzi Boys - Bricks Or Coconuts 2.The Hex Dispensers - Doomsday Romantic 3.Wavves - King Of The Beach 4.Charlie & The Moonhearts - Drop In Drop Out 5.Nobunny - I Am A Girlfriend 6.Thee Oh Sees - Enemy Destruct 7.Bass Drum Of Death - Nerver Jamming 8.So Cow - Casablanca 9.Clone Defects - I Rock I Ran 10.The Okmoniks - Teenage Timebomb 11.Ty Segall - Standing At The Station 12.Coachwhips - You gonna Get It 13.Demon´s Claws - Last Time At The Pool 14.Hunx And His Punx - You Don´t Like Rock And Roll 15.Cheap Time - Over Again 16.No Age - Skinned 17.Harlem - Spray Paint 18. Jay Reatard - My Shadow
Two French psychedelic garage rock bands are landing in the Maloe Melo Amsterdam on the 12 of July, Strange Hands are from Bordeaux and released their first 7" on the Dutch label A Fistful or Records and its sound all pretty awesome. Regal are from Lyon and are touring with The Strange Hands, can't find much info but their songs on myspace sound cool also
"Of all the garage bands that made a glorious racket in the 1960s, few if any were louder, wilder, or more raw than the Sonics, a Tacoma, WA quintet whose over-the-top style, complete with roaring guitars, pounding drums, and the fevered howls of lead singer Gerry Roslie, anticipated the mania of punk and pushed rock & roll deep into the red zone during their 1963-1966 heyday. The Sonics were stars in Washington, but it took a while for the rest of the world to catch on, and in time they would become one of the most fabled bands on the Pacific Northwest rock scene." Vh1
Amazing pictures from last year's Bruise Cruise by Roger Kisby , amoung many where, Ty Segall, Black Lips, Thee oh Sees, Vivian Girls, Jacuzzi Boys, Strange Boys etc ...
New single from the L.A. dark wave Russian American with a stunning voice Zola Jesus, the tribal and almost apocalyptic "Vessel" is taken from the upcoming new album "Conatus".
The sounds from the upcoming Sleazefest on the 15 of July in Amsterdam ADM, im really excited about this cause is one of my favorite party's of the whole year.
Sleazefest its a yearly congregation of rock n rollers and the spirit of dirty blues, rockabillies, trash surfers, punkers and mega hot devilish women, tattoo heaven, pin ups and go-go gals. this sleaze night is brought to you by the super Amsterdam own Organ Punk duo the zZz, to bad they aren't playing :(
I can't remember a year that i've said so many times in just a few weeks this is probably one of the best records you will be lucky to listen this year. J.C. Satan's debut is filled with garage bangers, early progressive rock mixed with gorgeous melodies and surf sleazy beats, dark lo-fi vibes and bit's of glam fuzz drowned in dreamy echoes of psych pleasures in the midst of catchy guitars and cracking sonic bass lines, just stunning !!!!!! J.C Satan are three guys from Bordeaux and two gals from Turin that collided in Bordeaux and the record "Sick of Love" was born. This release marks the Reno/ Amsterdam record label Slovenly 100th release and for sure will please the lo-fi garage fans as much as the noisy shoegazers guitars addicts.
"Scenes From The Suburbs" the highly anticipated collaboration between Arcade Fire and the super Director Spike Jonze is now available at MUBI to watch on full.
Arcade Fire music video "Suburbs" came out last year as promo.
New music video from Indie French Electro Poppers The Shoes, "Wastin Time" is taken from the debut album "Crack my Bones" out on Southern Fried Records
Stunning abstract paintings from the Seattle artist Michael Schultheis , in his paintings are Mathematical notations and drawings layered that describe form and motion of the tree dimensional geometrical shapes.
Public Dims is a two-piece from San Juan Capistrano in California, In the middle of this Lo-Fi insanity is still possible to find true wonders, Public Dims make dirty and painful lo-fi bluesy singed in a drunk troubadour way with a swinging garage rock and rock n roll aesthetic, its all very minimal but all really cool and FREE !!!!
Gorgeous track and video from the Londoners dream poppers, Still Corners is one the newest 4AD signings and "cuckoo" is taken from the upcoming album “Creatures Of An Hour”
"Inside the third edition of the Scion Garage Zine, we talk with Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound/Oblivians, give a roundup of some of the best remaining fanzines, talk to King Khan about performing with Gino Washington, learn about the Black Lips’ approach to remixing, find out what’s happening in Detroit from the Dirtbombs’ Ko Melina, and much more."
"Blank City tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. In the late 1970's and mid 80's, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these directors crafted daring works that would go on to profoundly influence the development of independent film as we know it today.
Directed by French newcomer Céline Danhier, Blank City weaves together an oral history of the “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of Transgression” movements through compelling interviews with the luminaries who began it all. Featured players include acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch and John Waters, actor-writer-director Steve Buscemi, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, Hip Hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, photographer Richard Kern as well as Amos Poe, James Nares, Eric Mitchell, Susan Seidelman, Beth B, Scott B, Charlie Ahearn and Nick Zedd. Fittingly, the soundtrack includes: Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Contortions, The Bush Tetras, Sonic Youth and many more."
Freak Folk and found vintage footage seems to be the wining ticket, "By Song Through The Americas" is the first single taken from the LP "From the Mouths of the Middle Class" out September 20th via Listening Party.
Les Bellas are a French freakbeat with layered fuzzness quartet featuring Lionel and Marie Liminana from the garage beat band The Liminanas. The irresistible "You Got my Soul", "Its a Crying Shame" are two bangers taken from the mid 60s garage books and the Wanda Jackson classic "Funnel of Love" cover are the banners on this Les Disques Steak release.
New music video from Dutch Cosmo Luhulima Utrecht based dream pop with touches of tribal and doses of lo-fi psychedelic innocence one girl project Cosmo V , "Desire will bring you sorrow" its a renewed dreamy and evocative song with footage taken from Red Desert (1964).
"Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."
New songs and music videos coming for the Split 12" by Ela Orleans and Dirty Beaches. "Double feature" was released with the collaboration between La Station Radar and Atelier Ciseaux.
"Resonance is the vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers / studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.
Animators and Audio Designers were paired up at the beginning of the project and were given the guidelines to create a piece between 12 and 20 seconds and in HD quality, the rest was up to them."
