New Releases

https://thesavageblush.bandcamp.com/album/the-savage-blush wrote:The Savage Blush is a band with a reverbated, dirty mix of Psychedelic, Garage, Surf, and elements. Imagine some Link Wray, Grace Slick, The Seeds, and Billy Childish making some musical baby in a basement bathtub.

https://massmediarecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-us-have-madness-openly wrote:Another great post punk band from Portland? BELIEVE IT. Lunch is a young band that has matured quickly and being among bands both locally and sonically such as ESTRANGED, ARCTIC FLOWERS, BELLICOSE MINDS, UNDERPASS, and SHADOWHOUSE has treated their brooding mixture of post punk and downtrodden garage well. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN and GUN CLUB are two of the most apparent influences as LUNCH don’t shy away from melody and a pounding mid tempo punk backbone, while retaining the austere tones of THE MOB and CHAMELEONS. Immediately catchy and well produced with lots of extra instrumentation (saxophone , synth, etc) to give this record a full sound worthy of their 80’s influences.

http://www.last.fm/music/Jess+Ribeiro/+wiki wrote:After finding critical and commercial success via her alt-country/folk outfit Jess Ribeiro and the Bone Collectors, Melbourne, Australia based singer-songwriter Jess Ribeiro has teamed up with the legendary Mick Harvey (Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey) for her solo debut, coming in mid-2015 via Barely Dressed/Remote Control.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/17/mercury-rev-the-light-in-you-review wrote:The Light in You’s title signals Mercury Rev’s intention: their first album for seven years appears to be about redemption, featuring as it does songs about shedding bad habits (Amelie) and confronting unhappiness (Central Park East). Sometimes the redemption is in the arrangements, such as the swell into the festival-sunset chorus of You’ve Gone With So Little for So Long. The lyrics might be clunky: Autumn in the Air sounds like it’s trying to be one of those beauteous, sad ballads Sinatra would sing in his 60s, but Frank would have thrown away a lyric sheet that asked him to compare the autumn skies to being in “Beatle George’s mind”. The two most apparently throwaway songs might actually be the ones that are most crucial here: Are You Ready? and Rainy Day Record are hymns to the power of pop itself, the former a celebration of dancing to the Rascals and the Pretty Things – “psychedelic rock and blue-eyed soul” – and the latter a reverie about buying an actual record for the first time in years and falling in love all over again. It sounds as if music has rescued Mercury Rev.

http://mellowlizard.bandcamp.com/album/some-kind-of-magic wrote:Mellow lizard is from greece born in 1994.Everything is recorded in a home studio.Guitars/Bass/Synth/Drums by Mellow Lizard

http://styrofoamdrone.com/2015/04/24/male-gaze-gale-maze/ wrote:This record has been a long time coming and the band has very little else released to their name, except for their debut 7″ on Mt. St. Mountain. Clearly, Gale Maze has been worth the wait, steeped in fuzz, distortion and downright dirty guitar hookage with a brooding goth vibe leaning heaviest on punk… followed by psych, pop and post-punk. Matt Jones and his crew have taken a different angle from his previous act Blasted Canyons, but fans of those old records will not be let down by this LP.

The record turns out to be seven tracks (or about 25 minutes) of marauding, pop-infused post-punk, as opposed to punk-infused pop. Gale Maze blitzes with a relentless attack fueled by buzzing, streamlined guitars and punching rhythms, displaying the rough-riding punk edge within their crushing and explosive formula. The buzz of guitar simultaneously screams with a screeching psychedelic tone and it’s all whipped around and thrown into a seemingly messy but calculated structure that makes tracks accessible, memorable and repetitive, exposing the underlying pop skeleton.