psych punk rockers: rabble rabble

rabble rabble played last night at the empty bottle and are off to SxSW to prove to the indie kids that CHICAGO really might be more hip than portland or brooklyn......

they play infectious psych influenced punked out garage..... yes some blue cheer, some stones, a bit of 80s post punk/college rock and a whole lotta of nuggets box set listening....

rabble rabble should be put in the record bins next to the black lips, wooden shjips and the oh sees.... though this is not some cookie cutter garage psych bullshit....this is great high energy fuckin rock n roll.

....check these guys out when they play their next show in chicago.....(or if you happen to by in austin.....)

click here to grab three of their releases (via bandcamp). and enjoy.....

and you can buy their cassette release from plus tapes here.

Rabble Rabble - "Lady" - Music Video from High Frequency Media on Vimeo.

Wild Card @ The CHIRP Radio Launch Party (Empty Bottle)

rabblerabble | Myspace Music Videos

tapes, tapes, tapes, i mean who listens to cds

tapes really aren't anymore antiquated than cds, if you ask me.

easier for labels to produce in small quantities than vinyl or cds, analog, almost impossible to destroy (unless you play them a thousand times, like i did with the pixies' doolitte), great for yr car, and cheap to buy and press (compared to vinyl)....and cassettes hold some sorta cultural aura, almost as much as records.....

so i love that in certain DIY circles, the indie kids are making tapes again.

with that said, tiny grooves wants you to check out two awesome cassette labels.....

BURGER RECORDS (based out of california) has been releasing tape versions of awesome albums by the likes of black lips, moonhearts, bare wires, nobunny, clorox girls, bad sports, television personalities, king tuff, jacuzzi boys, harlem, ty segall and the oh sees....pretty much sums up the garage punk scene in one list..... click on the link and buy their shit.........

PLUS TAPES has just released their 50th cassette and the plan is to keep the analog love kicking.....based out of chicago and with releases by such bands as disappears, black math, outer minds, radar eyes, rabble rabble, mannequin men and the hollows.....plustapes is the cassette brother to hozac and trouble in mind records in the chicago scene. all releases are less than 200 copies and fucking great......

and just remember mp3s aren't as real as actually owning the music yerself, whether its a record or cassette (and possibly cd).......