resonars - the greatest songs of...

TROUBLE IN MIND is doing us all a great service by releasing a best of THE RESONARS, whose back catalog is almost all out of print and way difficult to track down.......and understandably so, cuz nobody writes such catchy psych tinged, power popped garage rock tunes like THE RESONARS do....... finally everyone can check out this killer tuscon, arizona band, as they should've long ago!!!!!!!!   

matt rendon has been soldiering on with a rotating cast of backing members, composing smash hit after smash hit, in relative obscurity as the RESONARS for over 15 years... (starting with a s/t debut album for STAR TIME in '98)... mixing a potent elixir of jangle pop, syrupy power chord melodies, psychedelic 60s rock and hazy AM pop, the RESONARS play some seriously earworming RnR that'll stick with you all day long.......  fans of BIG STAR, THE HOLLIES, THE DENTISTS, THE SHOES, THE CLEAN, THE BEACH BOYS and THE BYRDS (IE GREAT FUCKING POP MUSIC) need to hear the RESONARS now......

all the resonars albums are highly recommended, but if yer gonna start somewhere grab THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE RESONARS, and get ready to flip it over and over again.......

(for further listening, i'd suggest LUNAR KIT on GET HIP, or THAT EVIL DRONE on BURGER, but really any RESONARS you can get yer hands on will do!!!!!!)

seriously i can't get enough of these songs, 

ALL KILLER NO FILLER and that is no joke!!!!!

i might just have to put a best of comp on my year end list of top albums!!!!!!!!!!

stream GREATEST SONGS OF THE RESONARS below -
  and grab one direct from the source here !!!!!!!

the resonars - lunar kit

before every review of every decent band used the word GARAGE ROCK as a description, there was a band called THE RESONARS.....  they existed outside the media hype machine, breaking up and reforming constantly, releasing most of their output in the early 2000s via GET HIP records, which to me has always been an under-appreciated purveyor of garage and indie rock......

i thought THE RESONARS were just one of those lost footnotes in the anals of rock n roll history until i saw that they're playing TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS' SXSW party at the TRAILER SPACE in AUSTIN next month......  if you weren't enticed enough to attend by the line-up of MIKAL CRONIN, APACHE DROPOUT, WHEELS ON FIRE, NIGHT BEATS, MEAN JEANS, WRONG WORDS and the HEX DISPENSERS....a very exciting appearance by the RESONARS is just enough to send the bill over the top into that "i can't believe i'll ever see a show this awesome again" category.......

i highly suggest you check out THE RESONARS.......  their mix of psych pop, garage and indie rock ought to appeal to everyone, but especially anyone who's ever bought a CYNICS record or anything on TROUBLE IN MIND RECORDS or by an ELEPHANT SIX related band.......

click here to grab their excellent LUNAR KIT lp  from 2002

and stream a couple of tracks from their various albums below.....