shockwave riderz - s/t 12in

from the ashes of garage thumpers MODEY LEMON comes pittsburgh, pa's newest sensation SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ......... not some crazed cough syrup drunk hiphop act, though that's kinda what their name makes me think, SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ are a synth / effects laden psych rock trio of warped pop experimentalists....

on their brand new self titled and self released three song (and one sided) 12 inch, SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ concoct some hazy and mesmerizing krautrock inspired warped psych burners....... a little bit of THE OH SEES if they were more hopped up on cocaine and NEU! or kinda like ONEIDA or CAVE high as hell doing synth punk covers..........   not sure where to file this one in my collection, other than right next to my turntable cuz i'm gonna play the shit outta this 12 inch til the grooves melt.......

anyone who reads this blog more than occasionally will know that SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ hit the sweet spot for me cuz they mix in the motorik pulse of krautrock, the fierce stomp of proto punk, the lysergic solos of psych and a touch of the avant with yer layers of noisy stretched out jams......and i'm totally sold.

these three songs barely extend past ten minutes, but that my friend is the only short coming with this 12 inch - the brevity.  i need a full length from SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ now........

totally fucking recommended.   this is gonna seep into yer ears and make you hit repeat.......

LISTEN TO THE 12" BELOW...... 

WATCH SHOCKWAVE RIDERZ'S VIDEO FOR CRUISIN THE NIGHT BELOW........

velvet underground & nico by castle face and friends

only CASTLE FACE RECORDS could assemble enough awesome psych / garage bands together in one place to cover such a classic album as VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO.....

with reinterpretations by Kelley Stoltz, Warm Soda, Ty Segall, Blasted Canyons (featuring Jeremy Cox of Royal Baths), White Fence, The Fresh & Onlys, Burnt Ones, The Mallard, Here Comes the Here Comes, K Dylan Edrich, and Thee Oh Sees, CASTLE FACE AND FRIENDS have put together one helluva catchy never-gonna-leave-your-turntable cover album of the band all these bands are obviously way way indebted to.....  

a project like this wouldn't usually be my thing, but VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO BY CASTLE FACE AND FRIENDS is chock full of essential covers from the best of the best right now in the american garage scene........ and getting bands like the oh sees and white fence to cover velvet underground songs? yeah well of course i'm gonna be into it.....

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......to say the least

LISTEN BELOW TO A FEW OF THE BEST CUTS 
FROM THE ALBUM BELOW.....
    and grab yer copy from castle face here.....

FEMME FATALE by TY SEGALL

 
 I'M WAITING FOR MY MAN by WARM SODA


EUROPEAN SON BY THE OH SEES

blackout fest recap - fungi girls

one of my favorite bands on HOZAC RECORDS right now has gotta be the FUNGI GIRLS.... fuzzed out psych / angular garage rock like none else...... they most certainly keep the 13th floor elevators / texas psych flag flying high... 


FUNGI GIRLS melted many faces at BLACKOUT FEST including mine....their set was a crowd fave for sure... i rushed in from drinking whiskey with TELEDROME and KETAMINES at their tour van so i wouldn't miss any note of their set..... so fucking awesome...... 


if you don't know FUNGI GIRLS yet, 
get to know them real well below.......(thanks to sadly panda)

ketamines - spaced out lp

KETAMINES rose from the ashes of a couple of awesome under the radar punk bands, THE MYELIN SHEATHS and ENDANGERED APE.....and are perhaps CALGARY's if not all of canada's best new band...... HOZAC records released their debut 7 inch awhile ago and that portended good things... i mean it was quite the killer fuzz pop single..... but now finally we get to have a full length from KETAMINES......

their SPACED OUT lp, co released by SOUTHPAW and MAMMOTH CAVE records is chock full of acid tinged bubble gummed jangled up garage rockers..... not many bands can write songs this insanely catchy and weird at the same time..... KETAMINES play a super melodic and fuzzed out blend of garage punk thats so far left of the formula the other bands are playing i just wanna call it something else.... maybe sun burnt twee psych post punked garage......  hum, i dunno know, but you need to listen to the KETAMINES right now.......

recommended if you like the oh sees, the hussy, outer minds and dead ghosts....

listen below to the excellent SPACED OUT lp... 





watch some KETAMINES in action here......

bad indians - the path home 7 inch

BAD INDIANS are a noisy psychedelic garage rock band from Michigan.... and these up-and-comers are one of my favorite newly discovered bands....

with only handful of singles, tapes and records out, i hope someone offers to put out a new long player from them soon (hozac perhaps?)......their new 7 inch, THE PATH HOME, is just too short to satisfy me....three very catchy fun songs is just not enough from BAD INDIANS....

they remind me of the NIGHT BEATS, the BLACK LIPS, WRONG WORDS and the 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS.......so it's just the kind of great dirty lo-fi psych garage that i love..... i already want to hear more from them......

which if you live near chicago, you can......
BAD INDIANS are playing on Saturday Feb. 4th with HEAVY TIMES and MOONRISES at a secret loft show....(1542 n milwaukee)....

everyone needs to check out this single...
it's very highly recommended......  

stream it below...  
and buy it from GINKO RECORDS here.....

watch BAD INDIANS live below.....

the king khan experience - s/t ep

KING KHAN is back.....

nope it's not with another king khan & bbq record, not yet at least.

nope, it's not another king khan & the shrines lp.... which will hopefully be soon.....

and nope there's no the spaceshits or the black jaspers reunions....KING KHAN has a brand new exciting and mysterious group of garage rock destroyers aptly named, THE KING KHAN EXPERIENCE..... 

maybe his summer of jamming with GRIS GRIS was the inspiration, but this is nine songs of rowdy, soulful garage psych that you need to have right now.....and thanks to scion, you can grab it for free, legitimately...

SO CLICK HERE TO GRAB THE NEW KING KHAN EXPERIENCE EP for FREE

and if yer not sure, listen below via SOUNDCLOUD.....

  Scion A/V Presents: The King Khan Experience by ScionAV