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A young US group formed to kick out the jams, following in the fine tradition that Britain’s The Damned, The Clash and America’s Dead Boys, and Dead Kennedys had earlier found success with. Set in […]

Once again a sense of tension and mild unease has been created around guitarist / vocalist Mike Murphy’s dramatic, slightly askew pop concoctions, and (collectively) the group’s oddly-alluring, decidedly left-of-centre melodies. This is perhaps not […]

Being on the verge of making it big after raving reviews of their 2006 debut, Sweden’s The Movements were put back due to singer David Henriksson’s health problem, and with that thankfully behind them now, […]

The most Texan sounding British band among ’60 garage punk revivalists on the transglobal scene these days, have just found a perfect home for their fuzzed out jangle. From Austin’s 13 O’Clock Records comes this […]

The German Beatschaffe label couldn’t have chosen a better debut. Feeling perfectly comfortable within the label’s concept of analogue live-in-the-studio-2-track-reel-to-reel-no-overdubs (mostly 1-take)recordings, the moderndaze Dutchbeatsters Waistcoats, deliver another set of mind-blowing mid-60’s-influenced sounds, with all […]

Described as “longhaired r’n’b from Spain”, it’s only the A-side that fits the formula, by way of the early(est) Kinky riffin’n’blues, Jaggeresque snarl and a harmonica solo thrown in just for the wail of it. […]

Continuing their joint jangly trip towards the higher spheres of mid’60s garage punk folkydelia, started out way back in the early ‘90s, while they were considered to be Mystreated, “from ‘round here” Martin and Mole […]

Hyped among the transglobal in-crowd as the next big Dutchbeat thing during the last couple of months, Mark & The Spies have entered the scene as appropriate for a mid’60s inspired beat band, which is […]