The Seeds were an American Psychedelia Rock Band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock
This Los Angeles band stretched the pummeling minimalism of its signature mantra “Pushin’ Too Hard” — cut in September of ’65, issued twice on 45, finally a Top 40 single in February, 1967 — over nearly a dozen hot, terse singles. The group made uneven albums but excelled in the concise, magnetic repetition of “Out of the Question” (1965) and “Satisfy You” (1968). This set follows singer-leader Sky Saxon as he loses more and more of the plot, along with the Seeds‘ original lineup, while cutting odd, harder rock like 1969’s “Wild Blood,” which sounds like the kind of crusty mischief Iggy Pop would later get up to on Kill City.
Want to follow a band on tour but don’t feel like sleeping in a van?
With our debut of July Talk’s six-part video series, From the Road, you can party onstage, backstage, and en route without actually leaving home.
Live vicariously through the gritty-yet-polished July Talk, a Toronto-based garage rock/alt-blues group whose current tour is being intimately documented by filmmaker Jared Raab via high-contrast, monochrome footage.
The first chapter trails the five-piece outfit as their high-energy act makes waves through North America. “This is a song about losing your goddamn mind!” shouts Leah Fay, one half of the group’s lead vocals, as they start in with their rock n’ roll theatrics once again.
Over the past year, our lives have been repeatedly turned upside down, as we’ve crisscrossed the globe in a tour van. July Talk – From the Road was born out of a necessity to share some of these experiences. We convinced our talented friend, filmmaker Jared Raab, to come with us and direct, shoot and edit a video series in the backseat of the van as we drive.
Chapter One follows us through the first leg of our North American tour. Detroit gets messy. Chicago is Leah’s kind of town and 1st Avenue, Minneapolis lives up to its name.
A follow-up to the series debut, the second of July Talk’s cathartically entertaining six-chapter video From the Road follows the band back to their homeland of Canada where they perform five shows, each to a sold-out crowd.
The band’s guitarist and vocalist Peter Dreimanis tells us more about playing various stages across the Canadian Prairies:
My birthday is the first in Winnipeg, which got nice and messy with one of our favorite tour parties to date. We head to my hometown of Edmonton for two shows at The Starlite and the best/worst pizza in the country. We head through Calgary and over the mountains to finish at the incredible Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver!
Filmmaker Jared Raab had this to say about the second installment:
Remember in Grosse Pointe Blank when John Cusack returns to his hometown for a high-school reunion and ends up having to save the father of his long lost love? Well, this chapter is exactly like that, only it’s a huge party in Winnipeg for Pete’s birthday. Everyone goes a little nuts and it leads to some deep introspection as the band crosses the prairies.
London psychedelic act Fat White Family have kept their clothes on long enough to make the new “Is It Raining In Your Mouth” video. The heavily-saturated and colorful video comes from the band’s Champagne Holocaust LP, out now via Fat Possum Records. Check it out above, and look for the band on the road for the NME Awards tour. Be prepared to see lots of skin.
Memphis-based band Ex-Cult make the kind of aggressive rock tracks that I want to listen to while walking through a crowded subway station, along with the Jesus Lizard and the Stooges. That is not to say that Ex-Cult sound like a throwback, but they do echo a similar sentiment. “Cigarette Machine,” the title track from Ex-Cult’s upcoming EP, boasts a kind of punctual cacophony, its sludgy garage sound parting momentarily to make space for spitting lyrical streams.
Most modern-day garage rock bands aim to sound as hard as possible, but The Young Sinclairs from Roanoke, Virginia, USA, in the Blue Ridge Mountains are a ’60s-influenced group who’ve sworn allegiance to the jingle jangle sound of classic folk-rock and early stirrings of psychedelia. The Young Sinclairs emerged from the Magic Twig Community, like-minded musicians operating their own recording studio, deep in the woods where they have produced and engineered all their own recordings.
With the new Album out this Monday Lola Colt and an acoustic version of “Boom Boom” Taking their name from a 60s spaghetti western, The Band Lola Colt are a powerful and imposing six-piece making some mind-bending psychedelia. These guys are already making a name for themselves as a much sought-after and anticipated new band through their sublime live performances which twist through their slow grooving, moody and spiraling sounds. A sound that turns the smallest of venues into a intensely-hypnotic psyche experience. A trait that they proved with ferocity on Thursday night in Bermuda Triangle.
The Fat Angel Sings 