Showing posts with label garage rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garage rock. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

King Khan & the Shrines - Mr. Supernatural

You can now get this for free when you buy the "What Is?!" CD through ITunes. You can get the rest in YouTube if you check out the "Related Videos" section.
Here you go...

Monday, March 9, 2009

Radio Birdman - Radios Appear (1977)


FUCKING AMAZING ALBUM! This band just fucking rocks. Deniz Tek's guitar work really inspired and influenced me as a guitarist. Get this NOW!

"Early Australian punk band Radio Birdman formed in 1974 and began recording in 1976 when the single ”Burn My Eye” was released. They took their name from a misheard lyric in Stooges song, ”1970”. (The actual line is “Radio burnin’”) Their first LP, Radios Appear, showed diverse influences, including Detroit bands of the late 1960s, such as The MC5 and The Stooges. The album was totally ignored by commercial radio but was championed by Sydney station 2JJ (Double Jay) and became sufficiently successful in Australia to lead to a contract with Sire Records (US label, home of The Ramones), who released a different version of Radios Appear internationally. It took three years to record a follow-up, Living Eyes, and by then, the Australian punk scene had diversified and the band broke up before the LP was released.

The band’s lyrics reference US-born guitarist/main songwriter Deniz Tek’s home state of Michigan, with lyrics from tracks such as “Murder City Nights” referring to Woodward Avenue in Detroit:

“Cruising down Woodward gotta find me some action/Looking for a lover with a power reaction.”

Many of their other songs, such as “Hand Of Law” & “Descent Into The Maelstrom” deal in apocalyptic images of war and violence, but these are more than balanced by the lighter pop culture references of tunes such as “Aloha Steve & Danno”, an ode to the TV show Hawaii 5-0."

the hand of law is coming down

Monday, November 24, 2008

Rodan - Rusty


This band was known for sharing the same stage and musical scene with Slint. The Rodan quartet only recorded one album and its been an underground hit for more than a decade. Fucking rocking riffs, spoken words, beautiful string works, ambient cozy vocals with some bursts of screaming anger makes this album travel through a load of different musical ideas without repeating anything. If you're lucky you can score some underground live performance shit.

perdy album art too huh?

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee - Two Bands and a Legend (2007)



The second collaboration between garage rock band Cato Salsa Experience, power jazz trio The Thing and legendary free jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee. This equates to some crazy shit going down. These guys manage to outdo Black Fag's chaotic and psychotic version of "Louie Louie". Features covers of P.J. Harvey's "Who the Fuck", The Sonics' "The Witch", Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", Mongezi Feza's "You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me", Alva Melin's "The Nut" and James Blood Ulmer's "Baby Talk". This is an aural free-for-all and you better take shelter.

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