Tiny Mix Tapes notes that a split 7″ release on Woodsist featuring kindred spirits Woods and Kurt Vile is being sold on Kurt Vile’s current tour.
Rock
Chris Robinson has called High Sierra his favorite music festival and after the way The Black Crowes were received at last year’s 20th annual High Sierra have inviting Chris back and was a fitting encore.
Legendary New Jersey hard rock band The Atomic Bitchwax are returning with their latest album called The Local Fuzz, release at April 26th from Tee Pee Records.
Dang, can you believe how fast the time flies? It seems like only yesterday that we were launching the career of beloved Austin-based rockers The Black Angels and their self described “Electrified Native American Drone ‘n’ Roll.”
Arctic Monkeys new single, ‘The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala’ is released at monday 15th August.
KEXP has been championing The Black Angels for so long, they think of them as family. In fact, when we visit the KEXP offices, we’re greeted by an enormous mounted steer skull that the Austin, Texas, band autographed and shipped to KEXP.
Currently my most treasured psychedelic band, The Black Angels released this years Record Store Day an limited edition white vinyl pressing of the 10″ Phosgene Nightmare EP.
Indians Wars are a 5 piece band from Vancouver, Canada, and Indian Wars is another name to stick it up in a high place .
“Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special.”
Trouble In Mind Records
Gingers music is a fine blend of funky rhythms, rocky riffs and wailing guitars. The young fourpiece heading from Zurich, Switzerland, is influenced by the free floating and experimental music of the late sixties and the early seventies.
An eastern European-styled name, herky-jerky and – sigh, open up the vocabulary vaults – angular guitar lines, shreddy, second-album Strokes-ish guitar… WHAT YEAR IS THIS? WHO’S THE PRESIDENT? The passing whims of fashion shouldn’t stand in the way of a good tune, though, and Balkans have the likes of the jittering, antsy ‘Edita V’ and ‘Dressed In Black’.
If this debut had come out five years ago, they’d probably have been carried aloft through the streets, such is the subtle, well-structured blend of post-punk and psychy, garagey touches (they are stage-mates of Black Lips and King Khan, after all) , but sadly it just all comes off a bit heard-it-all-before.
Duncan Gillespie
NME
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