Month: February 2006

Considering the past she had spent “makin’ time”, my expectations regarding this one might’ve been set a bit too high, but then again, I couldn’t really expect her Hammond-organisation to be accompanied with a Marriott-like […]

– 26 Rare ‘60s Teen-punk Artyfacts – After revolving around 33 and 45 RPM exclusively, the Electro Harmonix label decided to catch up with the moderndaze adapting themselves to the pocket-size format. Compiling some of […]

After three “lost 45s”, here they are all, finally gathered on a “new-found” long-playing format, with some additional recordings, making a strong debut album by this Leeds based bunch of modernists. According to the actual […]

Though arriving a bit later, saying that The Thanes are to the British/European moderndaze garage beat scene what The Chesterfield Kings are to the American one, would be a pretty safe bet. As for this […]

Besides the “foreword” by Batlord himself, as well as an additional “warning” in the liners that The Preachers shouldn’t be taken for Fuzztones-clones, it’s really “preaching” the gospel of fuzz that they’re the best at. […]

Though more than two thirds of The Rookies debut longplayer consists of covers, these Italian retro garage punkers make such a cool choice that you can’t help but forgive it all. However, the four originals […]

According to their own origin, this Italian bunch of mop-topped beatsters, usually finds themselves halfway between Euro-freakbeat and a tad rawer American garage punk, throwing around pebbles’n’rubbles’n’grains. Alternatively, with the resulting sound mostly being reminiscent […]

When it comes to the contemporary beat scene, being lead by a pair of Indikation-related members (one ex and one still with them) might be as good a reference for a band as any, if […]