magic jake & the power crystals - s/t

MAGIC JAKE AND THE POWER CRYSTALS is just the shot of rock n roll adrenaline you need to speed through the week......

lead by MAGIC JAKE, the bass player of KING TUFF's awesome band, and joined by BOBBY HARLOW of THE GO and CONSPIRACY OF OWLS with a few other rowdy detroit rock n roll cohorts, MAGIC JAKE AND THE POWER CRYSTAL is a wild ride through sloppy fun power pop, garage rock antics and motor city punk rock chaos.......

their self titled album came out as a small pressing of cassettes last year on BURGER and the few people with tape decks were blown away......but now this riotous bunch of spastic catchy songs is available on vinyl for the first time...... and it's waaaaaayyyyyyyyyy recommended!  i was expecting much from this record when i threw it on the turntable, but holy shit every song is your new favorite jam.......  go buy MAGIC JAKE's s/t from BURGER now before it's out of print and you regret not having it for that next night of all night partying.........

LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM BELOW......

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR BRAINS OF RATS BELOW.....

up and comers: conspiracy of owls

Conspricary of Owls are one of the new indie/garage bands on Burger Records that you ought to pay attention to.....

dream/shoegaze/psych jams from detroit......

lost FM radio trasmissions from the kinda 70s rock station that we all wish existed. a world where todd rundgren and big star were chart toppers and not genesis and yes.......

CIty Beat had this to say "Conspiracy of Owls, a band with a name that screams Emo (it’s actually the title of a track from Robert Pollard’s Fiction Man album) but whose musical output couldn’t be more unexpected.

Fronted by Bobby Harlow, lead vocalist for The Go, the Detroit Garage Rock outfit that counted Jack White as a guitarist before his ascendance, Conspiracy of Owls dabbles in sounds befitting Detroit’s rich and varied history on its debut album, Ancient Robots. Incorporating everything from Space Rock atmospherics and ’60s bubblegum Pop sweetness to ’70s lysergic Rock swirl, Dub beat madness and Baroque Pop ambition, COO shimmers and sighs like an impossible focus group made up of the Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren, Spiritualized, Kula Shaker and Nada Surf trying to come up with a committee song that will faithfully represent every decade since the British Invasion.

With an astonishing passion and precision, Conspiracy of Owls accomplishes that and so much more on Ancient Robots; the album’s title cut sounds like a gorgeous Pop collaboration between Roy Wood and Brian Wilson, detailing the melancholy lives of the mechanized human drones that built and maintained Detroit until it fell into corporate disrepair and economic ruin. It’s a lofty musical and lyrical premise, but Conspiracy of Owls nails it with unerring accuracy and a beautiful Pop veneer, a simultaneous glance back at Detroit’s musical past and an exciting vision of its future."

download "ancient robots" off their debut lp here.