Every once in a while something so off the wall and out of the ordinary comes across to my attention and such is the case with Gangsta Rabbi’s thrash metal cover of The Who’s Quadrophenia album. Gangsta Rabbi is multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Steve Lieberman who’s terminal leukemia has given him a year or less to […]
Space Legs by Uncle Outrage
Space Legs is probably the catchiest, punkiest, funkiest, dingiest, lo-fi{est}, profoundest, garage rock record I have had the pleasure of enjoying since I started reviewing music as a blogger. When Nils Rasmussen started Uncle Outrage as a joke/hobby in 1999, he had no clue how serious his creative spirit could become. Space Legs is in-your-face […]
Sunflower Bean shares new Single via Interview Mag
Sunflower Bean just released their new single “Tame Impala”, a blistering sun drenched single with sharp hooks and incandescent guitar riffs. They’ve recently been featured in i-D, Rookie, BK Mag, and Pretext. Last week Sunflower Bean opened for Foxygen at the Constellation Room in LA and played a sold out show with Cherry Glazerr at Baby’s […]
BOYS – Summer of Love
BOYS are a lo-fi dream pop band from West London who formed in 2013 to pass some time on a rainy day, but something happened when Ross Pearce (vocals/synth), Mike Stothard (guitar/production) and Daniel Heffernon (bass) began to play together. Despite being without a drummer, or anywhere to write and practice other than one of […]
Waves and Spikes – Lunar Pulse is Radiating by Plastic Willow
Right. So, this cat sends me a record to check out but, says that I’m not going to like it. Plastic Willow is a one-man-show, but a lot more (even a one-mic record)! In the introduction to Lunar Pulse, I was told, “people love it or hate it.” And that he really didn’t care if […]