stream: ooga boogas – archie & me
I can’t even begin to pretend to know whats going on in the Eddy Current Suppression Ring scene, but I do know that Mikey Young’s Ooga Boogas returning for their second album is a great thing. Joined...
View Articlemp3: TV Colours – Lost Highway
If you, like myself, have been waiting years and years for this TV Colours release, savoring over their split 7″s that were just never going to be enough, wondering when, why and how it would get into...
View Articlemp3: Charles Howl – Surf Trem
Formerly known as Jerry Tropicano, Danny Nellis’ newish incarnation, Charles Howl, has finally released his long awaited debut 7″, Surf Trem via Lo Recordings. Although I’ve written about this song...
View Articlemp3: Primitive Hearts – Killin’ Time
There’s no irony in the fact that it is difficult to be a successful band that so thoroughly channels the 50s & 60s to the point where journalists refuse to discuss anything else when talking...
View Articlemp3: Bazooka – Penny
Yesterday, I felt like blowing up the world. Today, I wax poetic about the perfect soundtrack for it. Greece’s Bazooka, famous for their anthemic love song I Wanna Fuck All The Girls In My School,...
View Articlemp3: Bitch Prefect – Bad Decisions
When I heard Adelaide, Australia’s Bitch Prefect‘s debut EP a while back, I fell in love with their cool, laid-back melancholia, their concern for Californian vacations and fallen American icons. With...
View Articlemp3: Straight Arrows – Can’t Stand It
Sydney, Australia’s Straight Arrows have long (in garage rock band years, of course) been making very straight-forward, frenetic and pleasing 60s referencing garage rock, and their brand new HoZaC...
View Articlemp3: eagulls – possessed
Leeds’ Eagulls have long since been NRBW favorites and are absolutely the first band I want to hear when I’m in a particularly fuck-you-mood. Their talent for audacious and brazen post-punk is being...
View Articlemp3: white ass – nothing
While I wasn’t blogging, my favorite release that I came across was a split co-release between French labels Frantic City & Inch Allah Records. Inch Allah has been releasing some of the best shit...
View Articlemp3: the herms – the organization
It’s been a long time since I’ve paid to see a band I’ve never heard. Full stop. It’s been even longer since I paid to see a band I’d never heard before and actually enjoyed myself. But seeing The...
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