Peter WoodburnThere has been a recent surge of drummer/guitarist combos playing a brash brand of lo-fi rock with punk influences. Throughout all the hype — both positive and negative — these various acts have been garnering across the nation, No Age...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Nuclear Power Pants came off create synth-heavy, spazzy, lo-fi garage rock with an interplay between lethargic male and hi-energy female vocals. It’s certainly entertaining, to a degree, with tracks like “Uh Oh” starting off with...
The lyrical content is questionable a little bit, but here’s a little banger of a song from the female-fronted This Is Versailles. They make pretty sassy garage rock that really just reminds me of bands I miss, like Controller.Controller. Cool...
Follow this garage rock band through stop-motion animation and backdrops created from paper and clay. The best part: claymation Birds-style eye-pecking. The worst part: terrorism.
Grass Widow primarily play an anonymous brand of surf-tinged garage rock, and the ten tracks that make up Past Time do not stray far from that foundation. However, the group is adept at adding just enough textural variance to keep the songs from...
Now the obvious critique I’m sure most people would offer in regards to a band like Chicago’s Secret Colours would be: lack of originality, plain and simple. But since this is tasty psych/garage stuff, I’m not even going to waste...
When your band name is Golden Triangle, you’ve gotta find ways to work the triangles into your music videos. Golden Triangle have done just that with this rambunctuous video for “Prize Fighter.” It’s not the newest video, but...
mayyors No MySpace or self-created online presence? Noise rock spread by word of mouth? Featuring some people fairly notably involved in the scene? Do it. christmas Olympia-based K Records signees who will make a lot of other SMMR BMMR bands seem...