CASTLE FACE RECORDSis back with the sequel to their awesome GROUP FLEX comp, this time aptly named SON OF FLEX.......with all the heavy hitters present and bound as a psychedelic flexi disc story book, SON OF FLEX is a MUST HAVE rock n roll collection........
featuring exclusive new tracks from Warm Soda, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, The Mallard, Running, The Fresh & Onlys, Kelley Stoltz, White Fence, Blasted Canyons, Sic Alps, and Burnt Ones, this SON OF FLEX is a fucking keeper..... all these bands are worth checking out on their own, and the fact that castle face got them all to commit to one of the most visually pleasing garage/psych comps around is nothing short of awesome..... i need not say more.
as recommended as they come. so grab your copy here. and LISTEN BELOW TO SELECTED TRACKS FROM SON OF FLEX.....
TY SEGALL - FUCKED UP MOTHERFUCKER
THE OH SEES - ALWAYS FLYING BURNT ONES - STRAWBERRY TOMB
I always have to ask myself where and how Slovenly
finds such awesome completely unknown European bands on a constant
basis (Acid Baby Jesus and JC Satan for example). Who knows, really?
But they've done it again, this time with a too fast to live, too young
to die blast of scuzzy punk rawwk from Italy's THEE OOPS. Hardcore
punk at its pure essence, this double shot double 7 inch, HAPPY CHARLIE, is raging fucking
speed addled mayhem I haven't heard since Black Flag and
Minor Threat.
Holy shit, this one's a keeper. This one's even more in your face than their previous album, Taste of Zimbabwe.
With a punk so furious, you'll be flipping this record over
and over and over again non stop, shotgunning PBRs in between sides, and
maybe even forming your own mosh pit if you have too.
This is a punk
rock party boiled down to four sides of LOUD RIOTOUS PUNK ROCK just like
it should be. (there's even an early beastie boys cover to keep the riot going.)
Thee Oops might just be the lost delinquent child of the
early 80s west coast punk scene. If you have albums from the Germs,
Fear, JFA or Negative Approach, grab this Happy Charlie EP now.
Punk
rock is still alive and frothing at the mouth. thank god......
seems like there's never enough time to listen to all the good music that comes out.....every day there's a new lp, single or music video from old favorites to young upstart new bands all vying for my attention.....and in this musical overload, sometimes good albums get overlooked..... this was the case with the new WHITE WIRES lp WWIII out late last summer on DIRTNAP RECORDS...... if you've been reading tiny grooves for any amount of time, you know the white wires' power popped garage punk is some of the catchiest and most addicting rock n roll being played either side of the us/canadian border......so it's more than a shame that it took me so very long to post on the new album....
these ottawa kids just won't slow down or back down, and their third lp is chock full of more sugary sweet punk anthems to sing along to at the top of yer lungs....... taking their cues from bouncy punks heroes such as the undertones, adverts, ramones and the jam as well as the classic power poppers like the shoes, the records, the knack, the speedies and the romantics, white wires craft garage punk equivalent to cocaine for yer ears.......try not to pogo around while listening to this new album......
highly recommended, just like everything else the white wires have released........
and super suggested for those infatuated with the mean jeans, steve adamyk band, bad sports, needles//pins, mind spiders, barreracudas, games, carbonas and jay reatard.......
ie, anyone who needs their punk over caffeinated, melodic and fun......
outta the ashes of BRAIN IDEA has risen the newest must hear band from the chicago scene, OUTSIDE WORLD..... who play a scuzzed-up jangle-popped indie rock that'll get you humming almost instantaneously...... NIGHT PEOPLE has just released OUTSIDE WORLD's second tape, SEASIDE NOWHERE, and man oh man does yr boombox need this ep now......
i haven't heard a noisy infectiousindie rock killers like this in quite some time..... indebted to kiwi pop, 80s college jangle and 90s slacker rock, this tape just won't leave my stereo..... and i expect nothing but good things from OUTSIDE WORLD down the road....so totally crossing my fingers for a proper debut long player sometime this year.....
if you could take husker du, the clean, sebadoh, pavement, soft boys, gbv, the bats and superchunk and smash them into one band, you'd get OUTSIDE WORLD....... fuzzed up basement indie rock jams like the old days before the arcade fire's of the world made "indie" go mainstream, soundtrack car commercials and bore you to death.....(sorry but that's my feeling about most indie rock bands these days.....)
recommended for those into fresh and onlys,boomgates, woods, the bitters, heavy times, kurt vile, sic alps, the mantles and radar eyes......ie, anyone who needs a dose of unbridled lo-fi anthemic rock n roll in their lives....
listen to a few tracks off the new tape, SEASIDE NOWHERE, below...
and check OUTSIDE WORLD out in a town near you....
Jan 15 - Milwaukee @ Quarters Rock 'n Roll Palace Jan 16 - Madison @ Good Style Shop Jan 17 - Kansas City @ Front/Space Jan 18 - St. Louis @ Chromozone Jan 20 - Atlanta? (details to come!) Jan 21 - Tampa @ "some biker bar" Jan 22 - Miami maybe? Jan 24 - Chapel Hill hopefully? Jan 25 - Baltimore @ Golden West Cafe Jan 26 - Philadelphia @ Kung Fu Necktie Jan 27 - NYC @ CAKE SHOP NYC Jan 28 - Brooklyn @ Death By Audio Jan 29 - Northampton @ Jackson's house Jan 30 - Pittsburgh @ Howlers Coyote Cafe Jan 31 - Cleveland @ The Happy Dog Feb 1 - Detroit @ Donovan's Pub
THE UNDERTONES wrote what are perhaps two of the best rock songs of all time, TEENAGE KICKS and HERE COMES THE SUMMER...both from their self titled debut record from 1979... a record that's hands down a punk rock classic, if not one of the best two minute three chord chainsaw pop lps of all time.....
the undertones didn't stick around for very long, but they left in their wakea slew of power popped punk singles that not only i can't ever get enough of but remain fresh as they day they were written......
if you don't know about the undertones yet, now is the time to introduce yerself......
watch the BBC documentary HERE COMES THE SUMMER: THE STORY OF THE UNDERTONES below in its entirety -
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.....
rising from the dilapidated warehouse spaces and dark alleys of chicago's house show scene is a forceful new monster of a band that you must check out now, UNMANNED SHIP..... they play stoner noise caked space rock like you've never heard before, super mesmerizing, all instrumental, genre bending, creepy and loud as fuck....... and their new lp FOR WHOM THE BOWL TOLLS out on ROTTED TOOTH is one of the best lps birthed from the unruly chicago noise scene in quite some time.....
sharing members with fellow scenesters OOZING WOUND, you'd be right to expect an unholy racket emanating from UNMANNED SHIP....... similar to the feedback laced sonic explorations of chicago's other noise makers, CACAW, MAKO SICA, RUNNING, NONES and MAYOR DALEY, UNMANNED SHIP teeter on the knife edge of psych blowouts, stoner metal, prog pyrotechnics and noisy post rock....swirling together quite the heavy riffing groove that you'll wanna spin over and over again.....
need more words to get you to check out UNMANNED SHIP....???
read what lance from permanent records has to say about
the newest banger from ROTTED TOOTH.......
"Unmanned Ship are active stoners. The difference between
active stoners and lazy stoners is obvious. The active ones do cool
shit while they’re baked and the lazy ones do lame shit. Unmanned Ship
stay busy as bees in Chicago. One of the rad things the Unmanned Ship
dudes do is make fucking killer instrumental rock jams. The three of
‘em concoct quite a hypnotic brew. It’s the kind of bubbly, dark, sweet
porter I bee nectar fermenting into at the end of summer under less
honey-friendly conditions. Coincidentally, their brand of stoner rock
has the geometric and psychedelic qualities of a honeycomb. These
grooves are repetitive and technical, but never too flashy and by no
means boring. A grounded rhythm section is nicely complemented by
hydrodynamic guitar lines and extraterrestrial effects. Not exactly
what I’d deem space rock, but a bit arthropodic to be sure. In fact,
this whole record would score an Apoidean documentary quite nicely.
With the majority of the footage shot within the hive and featuring a
substantial amount of bee carnage of course, this would make the PERFECT
soundtrack to a Planet Earth chapter on bee fights. I’d buy that for a
dollar! This hyper limited, hand-screened, hand-numbered LP full of
heavy, buzzing, intoxicating rock is HIGH-ly recommended for stoned
drones. The Queen would never approve, but fuck that bitch – she’s
fucking all of us."
fans of lightning bolt, sunn o))), unholy two, sleep, pelican, spacemen 3, boris, don cabellero, the melvins and liquorball will find something to get excited about in UNMANNED SHIP's new lp.......
yes....it's another highly recommended release from ROTTED TOOTH........
