I wouldn't mind a few opinions on this
Royal Headache record if you have the time. It's your standard lo-fi garage punk sound with a pop/soul infusion and the guy has what is described as an incredible AM/radio friendly voice. I'm torn between lame and taking over the world. Could be both.
Royal Headache - S/t
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Lets Get Bent Wrote:
Pop music with bite? Pop music with balls? Pop music infused with melodies so sweet, an energy so damn infectious, and a Rickenbacker to boot? Sign me up, please! Blown away by the invigorating style of newer Aussie bands like Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Golden Staph, I’m excited for more. So, with that being said, gimme this new Royal Headache LP.
Rather than the aforementioned bands’ more frantic or harder-edged styles, Royal Headache center around power pop, injecting a romantic side and (most importantly) hooks galore. Hot on the heels of last year’s 7” (which included the awesome “Eloise”), comes this year’s self-titled debut LP. The songs are all lo-fi, 100% catchy, and sloppy in that special lovable way. These guys exemplify how much of a racket a good band can make, while retaining an old-school rock ‘n’ roll style with sincerity, Buzzcocks-like hooks, and a distinctly punk spirit. Oh, and how about those soulful vocals? The guy can sing his heart out. There are a couple of great instrumentals mixed in, like “Two Kinds of Love” and “Wilson Street”. Other great tracks, like “Never Again”, “Down the Lane”, “Psychotic Episode”, and “Girls”, do what the band does best. Royal Headache’s music ignores complexity and difficulty, and instead relies heavily on those—yeah, I’ll say it again—hooks and immediate energy, all for a danceable, guaranteed good time ‘til the end. Really, it boils down to this: the Australians have invaded and I’m enjoying pretty much every second of it.
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This has just leaped into my top 5 of the year.
Night Beats -S/t
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TIM Wrote:
Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP also on Trouble In Mind, The Night Beats have expanded on the bedroom immediacy of their first recordings to create an LP that perfectly captures and modernizes the hallucinogenic and exhilaratingly demonic aura of bands like The 13th Floor Elevators and Golden Dawn. With blazing guitar work and a razor sharp rhythm section Danny Lee Blackwell and company mutate conventional chords & progressions into a mind-blowing sonic sprawl.
The record reels you in with 2-3 minute pop songs like ‘Ain’t Dumbo’ and ‘Dial 666', forging a landscape that then throws you into a chaotic journey of jams a’la ‘Dewayne’s Drone’ and ‘Little War in the Midwest’ that bend and meander but never overstay their welcome. Tune in, turn on, & drop that needle on this record! The first press of this LP is on randomly-mixed vinyl & includes a download code!
RIYL: Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, 13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes
Hmm that video is from enter the void.whatever.
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John Wesley Coleman III - Little Miss Keith Richards
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http://www.speedyshare.com/files/30251132/PepeJohn_Wesley_Coleman_III-_little_miss_keith_richards.rar
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John Wesley Coleman, much like that of his namesake, John Wesley Hardin, comes from a fugitive place of whiskey drinking, depravity and poor hygiene — and that’s no coincidence. Hailing from the bosom of football country, otherwise known as Irving, TX, and comprising one-fifth of Austin’s psych-country outfit the Golden Boys, Coleman is well on his way to becoming a Texas legend.
JWC has been a busy guy as of late. He’s been on the road with Rayon Beach, he just recently dropped a few splits and now released his 3rd LP called Little Miss Keith Richards (Daggerman Records). Oh, and if that’s not enough for you, I’ve also heard there’s a new Golden Boys record coming out soon. Let your brain drop back into your skull for a sec and enjoy it, playful sounding , some psych, some pop and a big dose of real rock’n'roll…
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DM Bob and the Deficits - They Called Us Country
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DM Bob is a Southerner from Louisiana who lives in Hamburg and who founded the garage band trio "DM Bob & The Deficits" with Susie Reinhardt (grandniece of Django) and Tank – Top in the year 1995. The band was active for more than seven years and released numerous records on labels like Crypt, Fanboy and Voodoo Rhythm Records in its unique mixture of Blues, Bluegrass, Hillbilly, Country, Cajun and Garage.
The BBC legend John Peel even dedicated two Peel Sessions to the band, and Deutschmark played one Andy Kershaw show in Amsterdam with a "Post Deficits" band.
Since the preliminary end of the "Deficits" Bob has busied himself as painter, producer and has been involved in various music projects: "Silky", "The Watzloves", "DM Bob" as one-man-band, "DM Bob & Jem Finer" (banjo player of the legendary "The Pogues"), ...
As if to answer my first – and probably your first – question, the press release opens with "Who on earth are DM Bob & The Deficits?". It would seem that DM Bob is an American who found himself dislocated into Germany and passed the time between 1995 and 2002 doing the swamp pop thing in downtown Hamburg with two like minded reprobates going by the names of Susie and Tank Top.
As the title of this album would suggest, this is what might be called country music, or at least it would if Nashville had never been invented. Raw and raucous, this is music to drink beer and fall over to and, fuelled with a wry sense of humour, this is the band to lead you down the road to the farm. "I`d Rather Be In Texas" is treated with the deadpan seriousness a traditional song deserves while the title track – written by the misfit cowboy himself Lee Hazelwood – just about falls off its chair on its way to inevitable chaos.
The title track isn`t the only cover here and Lou Reed`s "Satellite of Love" duly gets dragged right out of the city and thrown in a ditch. Better than the original? Actually, yes! More respect is shown to Buck Owens as the smiling insanity takes a short break for a tasteful version of "Yearn`n Burn`n Heart".
I`ve got a Stetson and a bottle of bourbon and now I`ve got a soundtrack to a drink fuelled barn dance. Whilst rough round the edges, this retrospective of DM Bob & The Deficits ticks all the right boxes. They called them country and they were right. (Bluesbunny/offlabelrecords.de)
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I think everyone here does. Don't even know why I posted it.