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Metro Times Music Blahg (Free subscription) | yesterday
May is the month that the music performing right organizations BMI and ASCAP host various annual songwriting award banquets in Los Angeles. The dinners are always a blast -- and Detroit "garage rock" made a strong showing at the BMI Film & TV Awards last Tuesday, May 6th at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills when our own Jason Stollsteimer of the Von Bondies (whoever comprises that...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Straight from a little town called Noid, The Heavy brought their filthy brand British garage rock to the Bordello last week for Rock the Rabbit. With their recent release of Great Vengeance and the Furious Fire, The Heavy has been on a whirlwind tour of the US. Led by the soulful vocals of Kelvin Swaby, and the gritty sampled guitar work of Dan T, The Heavy brought about a different...
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MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The boys of Foxboro Hot Tubs (aka You Know Who) are touring all May, and you can only get tickets day of at the venue box office. $20, two tickets per person. End of story. Live Nation this is not! You'll be treated to some loud garage rock, and who knows what else? [...]
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The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
by Rachel LeBlanc Escaping the burgeoning garage-rock scene of Detroit, the four guys of Panther Attack headed west, their expansive, jazz tinged instrumental music packed in their suitcases. Although their arrival to Seattle didn't equal instant success, with their first year spent starting anew in basements, they had left a mark back in Michigan. “We were [...]
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Fl color promo a img fl color promo (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
The Ponderosa Stomp is an oldies marathon as dreamed up by record collectors: the kind of music fans who prize soul veterans’ rare B-sides and limited-edition garage-rock singles, the wilder the better.
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Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Guy-girl garage rock duo-- not the White Stripes-- undertake their most ambitious album yet, a sprawling 21-song opus about Marie Antoinette.
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RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Led by former school teacher Robert Pollard, Dayton, OH’s Guided By Voices pursued an aesthetic marked by structural brevity, lo-fi sound, bizarre lyrics, and a preference for early to mid-period Who and other primal pop-rock. GBV’s work shows influence from post-British Invasion garage rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, punk rock and post-punk. They...
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the martini shaker* (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
I’ve been hearing songs by the Foxboro Hot Tubs on XM for a month or so now and have really been digging their style. It's good stuff - a new take on garage rock, although reminiscent of a number of bands that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Yesterday I heard [...]
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B12 Partners Solipsism (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
It's an album where a fire breathing, rootsy, garage rock band creates a soundtrack to modern fun house life: where the stakes are high, the odds are hopelessly stacked, and there is little left to do but laugh at its dreadful irony. ... > Review ))) ] Many, many more reviews, mostly positive, of the album at Metacritic if my word isn't enough. such as Pitchfork playing up Nick Cave's...
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psychedelicatessen (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
I went to see Tomorrow Is Another Day at the noir festival at The Egyptian last week. These old films noir are like 60's garage rock records. Every time you think you've seen all the good ones, you find out about another. They're not all great, but most of them are pretty enjoyable, and you just know that there's always another great one buried at the bottom of the barrel somewhere. Tommorrow...
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Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Fans waiting for a new Green Day record are about to get one. Sort of: The Bay Area punks have just revealed that the rowdy garage-rock band called Foxboro Hot Tubs — who posted six tunes online in December — is in fact the rock superstars working under a pseudonym. And just as two of [...]
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prefix (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
The flipside to Jay Reatard's first Matador single "See/Saw" has a surprisingly vulnerable center inside its thudding garage rock shell. ...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
The latest iteration has been recorded by The 50 Kaitenz, a young Osaka garage-rock band who could never be accused of taking themselves too seriously. Stepping into a room with guitar/vocalist Danny, bassist Dory and drummer Bogie is like blundering into a high-tension comedy-troupe rehearsal. The... Read the full story.
