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.
From the minute The White Stripes exploded into public consciousness via a legendary gig at London’s 100 Club (which even the Daily Mirror called “as exciting as Hendrix”), it was clear Jack White a star.
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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.
BED PEACE is FREE to watch exclusively on YouTube for ONE WEEK ONLY, ending at midnight (NY time) on Sunday 21st August 2011…
Vodpod videos no longer available.
BED PEACE starring John Lennon & Yoko Ono , posted with vodpod
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
The first taste of Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds arrived the morning of 25 July when the video for The Death Of You And Me was posted on http://www.noelgallagher.com and YouTube.
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