Monthly Archives: November 2011

Vermillion Sands ‘Summer Melody’ 7″

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As quirky as it is catchy, “Summer Melody,” the title track to the forthcoming 7″ from Italy’s Vermillion Sands, has a certain carnivalesque quality to it that helps the band to stand out a bit from the current garage rock scene. Add to that a sound … Read More

Blackout Beach ‘Fuck Death’

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This album from Blackout Beach is called Fuck Death. Fuck Death is a pretty fuckin’ tough album title. The title comes from a painting by Leon Golub, according to the songwriter. The songwriter is Casey Mercer. Casey Mercer is the unhinged, frenetic frontman for Frog … Read More

J Mascis ‘Circle’

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Coming next week from Sub Pop is a new 7″ single from everybody’s favorite purple and green-clad guitar god, J Mascis. The a-side features a cover of Edie Brickell’s “Circle” that Mascis has been playing at shows, and the b-side is “I’ve Been Thinking,” a … Read More

Crooked Fingers ‘Breaks In The Armor’

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After a bit of a an extended hiatus, Eric Bachmann is back and in finer form than ever. First, he returned with the indie-rock angst of Archers of Loaf, and now comes Breaks In The Armor, the latest and greatest from his post-Archers project, Crooked … Read More

200 Years ’200 Years’

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Ben Chasny, perhaps most known for the psych-folk mysticism of his primary creative outlet, Six Organs of Admittance, is also no stranger to collaboration, and he’s lent his considerable talents to a number of other projects including the entrancing folk and drone of Badgerlore, the … Read More