UPCOMING: Ghost Guts & City Steps at BBT (PGH)
Though the band’s cryptic social media presence reveals little about its MO, Ghost Guts writes songs that cut straight. Punkified american rock and roll, twang, and garage all mix into a classic sound…
Album Review: Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Pop Press Pick)
I had no idea that the points of reference for Burn Your Fire For No Witness, the new album from Angel Olsen, would be Patsy Cline and Leonard Cohen. Simply put: I had no…
New Track: Burnt Ones – New Heroes of Subscription Services
If you spend your time keeping up with small garage and psych labels such as Castle Face and Burger Records, the San Francisco based band Burnt Ones may be old news to you….
La Luz Announces Full Length on Hardly Art
If a band is cool, there seems to be a high likelihood that Hardly Art will sign them. From Shannon and the Clams to Deep Time to hidden gems like Lost Animal, Hardly…
La Luz at Hotel Vegas with GALPALS Live Review
Last Friday night, all-girl garage pop band La Luz made a stop in Austin at Hotel Vegas to perform a show with GALPALS. Despite being only vaguely familiar with the band, I was…
New Track: Hunx and His Punx – “You Think You’re Tough”
Hardly Art Records garage punk rockers Hunx and His Punx have released a new track from the forthcoming album Street Punk, out July 23rd. The track delivers all the punk rock crunch we’ve come…
Kitten Forever Shares Video, Announces Album, Tours
Kitten Forever is a Minneapolis garage pop trio. The all-female band plans to release Pressure, their second full-length album in late July on Guilt Ridden Pop. The first single to emerge from the album,…
Album Review: Free Time – Free Time
The self-titled debut album from New York indie-garage group Free Time, headed by Melbourne transplant Dion Nania and out this week via Underwater Peoples, strives for an unhurried, unworried charm with easy melodies…
Mikal Cronin Releases Video for “Change”
If you read our review of MCII, you know that we are huge fans of Mikal Cronin’s recently released effort on Merge Records. The album is full of perfectly balanced and gorgeously distorted power…
