Recently discovered this resurgence of Surf Rock, 60’s inspired, nostalgia inducing genre and I love it!! As soon as I heard Summer Salt I was hooked! . These tracks have got some serious groove! Favorite track:
Summer Salt is a rock’n’roll threesome of best pals. With influences of bossa nova and oldies, we create the perfect soundtrack for chillaxin’ by the pool or the beach. Matt has the voice of an angel, Eugene has that in-the-pocket drummin’, and Phil’s bass is funny.
Summer Salt is a rock’n’roll three-o of best pals. With influences of bossa nova and oldies, we create the perfect soundtrack for chillaxin’ by the pool. Matt has the voice of an angel, Eugene has that in-the-pocket drummin’, and Phil’s bass is funny.
beautiful vocals, ridiculously catchy riffs and overwhelming waves of nostalgia. Summer Salt can do no wrong
So Polite is out July 28th via ATH (Austin Town Hall) Records.
After a winter of recording new music and a party last weekend at Old Settler’s Music Festival, I’ve got a new/old…limited double EP coming out as well as a tour later this summer.
First off, thank you all so much for participating in Shakey Graves Day each and every year. Due to your requests and the need to give some of my songs the life they deserve, I am releasing two of my previous albums out into the world for good and I chose the shortest title I could think of…Shakey Graves And The Horse He Rode In On (Nobody’s Fool & The Donor Blues EP). Yes, this is a double EP and only a limited amount will be pressed on a clear 180-gram double vinyl, first come, first serve. You can head over to shakeygraves.com or my bandcamp page right now to pre-order the double EP on physical or digi. Orders will begin shipping one week prior to release date (June 30, 2017).
Secondly, me and the boys are headed back on the road this August for a quick mission as we continue to write and record new music in between. We’ll be inside you Missouri, Iowa, Montana, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Canada, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Birmingham, Georgia and more…full dates are below and at shakeygraves.com. On this August run we are going to be accompanied by my homie and brilliant friend, David Ramirez!
just something dadaistic to share unreleased The Black Angels from their new record,Death Song, which is either one of the best things they’ve done or i’m simply really starved for this kind of wonderful noise..and voice..and mellotron..what a welcome aural libation in this drought of psychemagik, and an early frontrunner for album of the year.
The Record Store Day version of their album is on glow in the dark vinyl, black light cover, double LP, sticker, poster and download card. The Black Angels – Austin’s psych rock masters release their fifth album Death Song. This is the five-piece’s first full-length release in four years, and their debut for Partisan Records. Written and recorded in large part during the recent election cycle, the music on Death Song serves as part protest, part emotional catharsis in a climate dominated by division, anxiety and unease. Currency, a strong contender for the heaviest song the band has ever put to wax, meditates on the governing role the monetary system plays in our lives, while slow-building psychedelic earworm Half Believing questions the nature and confusing realities of devotion. Recorded between Seattle and Austin, Death Song features production from Phil Ek (Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, The Shins). The 11-track collection offers a sharply honed elaboration on their signature sound – menacing fuzz guitar and cutting wordplay, steeped in a murky hallucinatory dream.
The Black Angels are a psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas. This is their fifth studio album.
Produced by Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Father John Misty, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, The Shins).
Ambassadors of the current psych rock scene with not only their music, but as the founders and hosts of the annual Austin Psych Fest/Levitation Festival for the past 9 years . Their music has been used in numerous film, advertising and TV projects including HBO’s True Detective, Nashville, True Blood The Twilight Saga, Assassin’s Creed, etc.
The band has toured with Queens of the Stone Age, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Keys + more, and played festivals such as Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Primavera, Coachella and Bonnaroo. “Heavy psych rarely feels as fresh as it does with The Black Angels“ .
The band “Deliver insistent, neo-psychedelic drones, reaching back to the most ritualistic 1960s songs of the Velvet Underground, the Doors and their hometown forebears from Austin, the 13th Floor Elevators, along with a touch of 1970s krautrock”
“Some of the heaviest material of their career…blistering“ – Consequence Of Sound
This RSD version of their album is on glow in the dark vinyl, black light cover, double LP, sticker, poster, download card.
Limited to 500 copies for the UK and Eire.
TRACK LISTING;
Currency
I’d Kill For Her
Half Believing
Comanche Moon
Hunt Me Down
Grab As Much (As You
Can)
Estimate
I Dreamt
Medicine
Death March
Life Song
There’s a select group of live acts that I will see live at all costs, each time they tour. These artists would include Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard, among others, including the band White Denim.
I have had the pleasure of seeing White Denim play quite a few times now.
From White Denim’s last album Stiff, Seeing White Denim play live with James Petralli on the stage with a cigarette in his mouth and he got right down to business on the guitar. The Austin-based psych rock demigods played tracks off of their new album Stiff . Even without long-time guitarist Austin Jenkins and drummer Joshua Block—who helped produce Leon Bridges’ stellar debut and are now part of his touring band—Petralli and bassist Steve Terebecki comfortably lead a band that has been one of the most consistent live acts in psych.
White Denim have their seventh studio effort, Stiff, the follow-up to 2013’s impressive Corsicana Lemonade, the Austin natives called on Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Laura Marling), marking the first time they’d ever leaned on an outside producer.
Since releasing the album last January, the band have toured heavily ,we’ve heard a pair of promising singles in “Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)” and now this track “Holda You (I’m Psycho)”. the garage rockers have unboxed another preview with “Had 2 Know (Personal)”, a slice of progressive rock complete with blitzing riffs.
Holy Wave’s relaxed and psychedelic pop sound is the perfect accompaniment for most occasions, especially as a bright pick-me-up on a dull day. Sharp songwriting that rewards with numerous memorable melodies
On their third studio album, Freaks Of Nurture, the band combines elements of psych, Nuggets-era garage pop, and surf rock before slathering the whole package in the requisite coat of reverb. It’s the kind of dream that would be easy to get lost in, but there’s always a warm guitar riff to guide you out of your reverie, like a ray of sunlight shining on closed eyelids.
Freaks Of Nurture will be released via The Reverberation Appreciation Society last March . Recorded at Cacophony Recorders in Austin, the album is Holy Wave’s most sonically expansive to date. “We wanted to get heavier and louder, experiment with more songwriting styles and traditional pop elements,” the band explains. “We wanted to freely express different influences regardless of their relevance to each other.”
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From Austin, Texas, the nine piece Brownout are a Latin band formed by members of Grupo Fantasma. Following up their acclaimed 2014 tribute to Black Sabbath, Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath, the band are releasing Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath, Volume II, on October 28th.
Brownout’s Greg Gonzalez said how covering Black Sabbath came to be:
The idea started out as a half-joke. We were trying to brand the different nights of our weekly residency with different themes. We did James Brown’s classic album “Black Caesar” as “Brown Cesar”, we did a b-boy night and called it “Brownout 2: Electric Boogaloo” and in the process of brainstorming we mentioned “Brown Sabbath” as a night themed on Black Sabbath’s music. It sounded good, but the more we thought about it, the more the idea stuck. I think myself and the other guitarists were all Black Sabbath fans. It just kind of comes with the territory of playing electric guitars and such. We (the string players) all grew up on the border and Black Sabbath, Ozzy, and all things metal were all hugely popular back then.
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The first volume of Sabbath covers featured classics including “Iron Man,” “Into The Void,” “Black Sabbath,” and “Hand Of Doom.” Returning for round two, Brownout cover “Snowblind,” two songs (“Symptom Of The Universe,” and “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,”) featuring guest vocalist Aaron Behrens, lead singer of Ghostland Observatory, along with vocalist Alex Marerro, “Sweet Leaf,” and “Fairies Wear Boots” that appeared on their 1970 release Paranoid.
Brown Sabbath is the alter ego of Austin-based Brownout, delving into the catalog of the Hard Rock and Heavy Metal godfathers themselves Black Sabbath. “Hand Of Doom” featuring Black Angels singer Alex Maas on vocals is the lead-off single with “The Wizard” on the flip, pressed on limited colored splatter 10inch
Launched in April of this year Hovvdy’s ‘Taster’ album with the premiere of its stand-out track, “Problem”, way back in early 2016, little did we know then that this small, bruised, lo-fi gem would go on to rack-up over 75,000 plays on Soundcloud alone.
The album that followed was just as affecting; the languid approach to it all, the scratchy, dim-lit tone of the voice and the music, creeping out of the speakers with a dulled charm that takes a few listens to truly appreciate. A duo from Austin, Texas, Hovvdy’s skill lies in the ability to sneak utterly captivating hooks in to songs that seem too weather and unadorned to do so. Like the sudden jolt of a treasured memory on the most listless of days, ‘Taster’ is a truly beautiful collection of songs dressed up as something dull and indifferent. Seek and you will find alittle gem of an album that you will keep coming back to play .
The best crunchy lofi drum and synth sounds, bedroom acoustics and honest vocal deliveries. This really follows up my LVL UP and Mitski obsessions well. It’s got melodies and vibes that feel like a nice morning/afternoon/evening on the couch. Hovvdy is Charlie Martin and Will Taylor.
‘Taster’ recorded and mixed by Hovvdy,
bass on 2, 8, and 10 by Sam Jacobson,
A Giant Dog is raucous ear candy, culled from the hook-driven melodies of Slade, the glammy swagger of Marc Bolan, the morbid fantasy of Killer-era Alice Cooper, and the unpredictable wit of Sparks. Sabrina and Andrew’s lyrics, equal parts brutally honest, clever, and debased, have a knack for taking their idiosyncratic depravities and making them feel universal.These songs are by, for, and about the losers, freaks, and outcasts. The lonely. The terminally horny. Boozehounds and party animals. No band better speaks to the hearts of slackers, burnouts, rockers, sluts, and creeps everywhere than A Giant Dog.
Sabrina struts around the stage like Iggy Pop channeling Tina Turner. Andrew hurls himself from the summit of the speaker stack. Graham’s headbanging clobbers anything close to him. The audience rages, asses shake, and everyone leaves drenched in beer and bodily fluids.
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