Wake up! Thee Oh Sees' rattle along ramalama will shake all cobwebs from your earholes in good time for the weekend. San Francisco's garage capitan John Dwyer has packed his latest release - Help! - full of tracks like this, strutting, old-fashioned and fucking weird: "Enemy Destruct" lurching from one minute to the next in a grin-dizzy haze of male-female vocals and valve amp guitar burn. Help's out now, through the heroes at In The Red.
Sounds Like: early Black Lips, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Hunches
Thee Oh Sees - Enemy Destruct
Previously:
Thee Oh Sees - Ghost In The Trees
Thee Oh Sees - Graveyard Drug Party
Thee Oh Sees' RCRD LBL Page
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It may come and go in an instant, but Women's "Group Transport Hall" contains echoes of decades; the Calgary quartet combining scabrous post-punk textures with '60s psych cadence to great effect, landing somewhere between a sober Velvet Underground and The Shins' sharper, younger brothers. "Black Rice", posted on RCRD LBL a little while back, stretches that play between drug burns and heartfelt whimsy to its outer limits, until they pretty much have you convinced that music like this is one of the coolest things about being able to get up in the morning. Women will be touring the UK after their self-titled debut album gets its full and proper there through Jagjaguwar on January 19.
Sounds Like: Grizzly Bear, Swell Maps, Electric Prunes
Women - Group Transport Hall
Previously:
Women - Black Rice
Women's RCRD LBL Page
"Bottle Up And Go" is born and bred to go with Jack Daniels from the bottle (and a gun shoved down one's sock.) It's the most enticing mix of blues mixed with garage band punk we've heard in a while. Singer/guitarist Keenan Mitchell and fierce drummer Fareed Sajan ain't afraid to make a scene- especially in dark basements- mixing "chain-gang blues, slave-song howls, murder ballads and bootleg whiskey." With a voice similar to Cold War Kids' Nathan Willett on various tracks, Mitchell's voice meanders from screaming to whisky-slurred whispers- while he frets about losing his baby and waking up with a gun in his hand. They're playing CMJ; I'd bring air plugs and a flask.
Bottle Up and Go CMJ Shows:
10/23 - Brooklyn, NY - Europa (Brookyln By Hand Unofficial CMJ Showcase)
10/23 - Manhattan NY - Fontana's (Rebel Group OFFICIAL CMJ Showcase)
10/25 Manhattan NY - Club Rehab (Pull-Out Method Unofficial CMJ Daytime Showcase)
Sound Like: Kings of Leon, Cold War Kids, Butch Walker
Download: Bottle_Up_and_Go - Wayward_Son
Bottle Up and Go @ Myspace
Bottle Up And Go @ RCRD LBL
The San Francisco garage rockers, The Blacks, who remind us of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Gossip (for serious), are treating New Yorkers to three nights of musical experimentation at Pianos, called The Tambourine Experiment. They are arming the crowd with 100 tambourines this Saturday, Sunday and Monday, (May 10-12) and letting the night take lead as they perform. We don’t know what to expect but we’re going because we love their energy. Bonus is they promise to credit everyone and they have extended the invite to you all to partake in something epic arise from drunken hipster jingles.......
SOUNDS LIKE: The Gossip, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Download: The Blacks - Raincoat
The Blacks @ Myspace
The Blacks' Website
